Royal and society notes from early summer events
Queen Victoria travels to Balmoral while the Duke and Duchess of Connaught arrive in Victoria aboard the Abyssinia. Clarence Halstead, son of Murat Halstead, set to wed Harriet De Ford of Baltimore on June 4. Halstead a Princeton graduate and AP journalist. Herman Velrichs plans a San Francisco trip to marry heiress Tessie Fair, with a $5,000,000 dowry and Paris-trousseau. General Alger in New York on Grand Army business denies political links with Platt. Walter Webb of the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad suffers sudden blindness, travels to Europe seeking recovery.
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Queen Victoria
Balmoral
Duke and Duchess of Connaught
Victoria
Canadian Pacific
Abyssinia
Clarence Halstead
Murat Halstead
Harriet de Ford
Baltimore
Halstead
Princeton
Associated Press
Herman Velrichs
San Francisco
Tessie Fair
California
South
Walter Webb
New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Company
Europe
Virginia debts and New Jersey ballot reform shift in 1890s
The Boston Globe notes the Supreme Court ruling affecting Virginia debt payments and predicts strained state finances. It covers New Jersey adopting a secret ballot system, details ballot design, early voting, and secrecy measures. It also critiques James M. Olmstead's defense of caucus reform and urges nonpartisan reform aims.
Census Questions That Challenge Complying Citizens
The census will ask two questions that will cause embarrassment and may force reluctant responses. Enumerators face pressure as these items probe sensitive details, likely affecting how people answer and cooperate with the nationwide tally.
Medical inquiry on disease and disability faces opposition
The discussion centers on questions about illness type duration and mental or physical defects in population statistics. Medical journals condemn the probe as impertinent and outrageous, arguing it intrudes into physicians' work and serves only to reveal family misfortunes without aiding medical statistics.
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Medical Journal
New York
Mr. Porter
Walker Defends Gun Duty Policy Against Protective Theory
Congressman Walker clashes with Republicans over shotgun duties as the Ways and Means Committee shifts from a $2 to $4 specific duty then to no specific tax. He warns the change will crush American gunmakers, urges retention of original rates, and cites local industry in his district. Brings Breckinridge into question and argues protective policy is being betrayed.
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Associated Press
Mr. McKinley
New England
Massachusetts
House
Ways and Means Committee
Congressional Record
McKinley
Committee On Ways and Means
Europe
Committee On
Mr. Walker
McKintney
United States
McKinley Tariff Pressure on Gun Industry Revealed
A passage discusses pressure from gun dealers on McKinley and a committee to reduce shotgun industry protections after offering a bounty above current levels. It notes Speaker Walker’s time constraints limited further revelations on the Republican tariff mystery.
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McKinley
Walker
Stanley’s plea for humanity in Africa hazards and hopes
Leeched with extracts from Stanley’s forthcoming Scribner piece, the report stresses his humane stance toward Africans and his critique of slave trade cruelty. It warns that imperial greed may overshadow mercy and urges united European action against gunpowder and illicit ivory while praising Stanley’s moral lens amid grim exploration.
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Mr. Stanley
Scribner’s Magazine
New York Herald
Africa
Stanley
Cardinal Lavigerig
Central Africa
England
Germany
France
Portugal
South and East Africa
Congo
Virginia Court Allows Character Evidence In Damages
Virginia Court of Appeals recently allowed character evidence about a wife killed in a railroad accident to aid juries in calculating damages for her husband. The judge noted that a wife’s love, dutiful conduct, thrift and prudence can raise the damages awarded, while a less favorable character would lessen them.
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Virginia Court of Appeals
Obituary for General Edward Fransecky and others
Obituary notes the death at Wiesbaden of General Edward Frederick Fransecky of the Prussian army. It details his 1848 Wrangel campaign, 1870 Second Army Corps command, Gravelotte and Cham pigny battles, 1871 pursuit of Bourbaki, later 15th Army Corps command, Strasbourg headquarters, and 1879 Governor of Berlin. Also reports death of historian William Goold in Windham Maine at eighty one, and obituary of Hannah Allen of Newton who died after typhoid fever. she ran a boarding house and school and was active in charity and woman suffrage.
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Wiesbaden
Wrangel
Militaer-Wochenblatt
Second
Gravelotte
Bazaine
Champigny
Bourbaki
Ponarlier
Fifteenth
Strasbourg
Berlin
William Goold
Windham
Hannah Alen
Newton
Vernon Street
Julia
Allen
Grace Church
Medford Votes to Accept Park Layout Act and Improve High School
Medford officials at a special meeting approved the act allowing towns and cities to lay out public parks within their limits. The business session at the Opera House approved enlarging and improving the High School building with an appropriation of 16,000 dollars.
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Medford
MrpFord
Opera House
Street cleaning reforms urged by Medical Society in Boston
In Boston the Medical Society plans to press city government for street cleaning reforms after detailing causes and consequences of the current filth. They call for organized action with civic leaders, better sweeping and night-work, and sufficient funds to fix infrastructure, arguing Boston lags behind other cities.
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Vincent Y. Bowditch
Boylston Street
Warren
Knight
Washington
John A. Jeffries
Berlin
Boston
Back Bay
Wigglesworth
The Last Cecilia Concert Delights With Fine Singing
A vigorous recital praised for balanced programming and strong solos. Miss Edmands and Miss Edwards stood out with superb alto and soprano contributions, the Mendelssohn psalm and Lasso madrigal underscoring strong club performance and refined accompaniment by Lang Foote and Nevin.
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Hiindel
Franz Middenlied
Seseeees Raff
William J. Vant Barcarole
E. A. MacDowell
Mendelssohn
B. J. Lang
Fritz Giese
Matona
Lovely Maiden
Orlando di Lasso
Nixie
Rubinstein
Gertrude Edmands
Isabel Dodd
Giese
Miss Edwards
Messrs
Lang
Foote
Nevin
Arthur Weld
Nationalism and Art by Henry Holiday in Boston
English artist Henry Holiday spoke on Nationalism and Art to the First National Club of Boston. He condemned violent Socialists yet praised thoughtful reform, warned that profit focused life degrades art, and urged leisure and brotherhood to raise society and art toward harmony.
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Henry Holiday
Women’s Educational Association
First National Club of
Boston
Holiday
England
Paul Veronese
Cann
Earth
Twilight Club Discusses Bible In Public Schools
A New York Twilight Club meeting debates The Bible in Public Schools, while a Beatrice revival opens in Florence with an Italian Vita Nuova talk by Signora Bramonti. Chatter covers Hopper’s operatic ventures, slang trends, and the era’s favorite words across cities.
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Frye
Maine
Twilight Club of
New York
Ordination Of Priests At Ascension Church Waltham
In Waltham at the Church of the Ascension three priests were ordained by Bishop Paddock who preached from Corinthians. The candidates were A B Shields of Waltham William G Thayer of Groton and Lillingwell of Hingham. Assisting clergy included T F Faies Parker and the Ascension boy choir provided music.
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Waltham
Church of the Ascension
Episcopal
Paddock
Corinthians
A. B. Shields
William G. Thayer
Groton
Lillingwell
Hingham
Disappearance Taints Austin Co Clerk with $20,000
Kansas City report says Elzo Allan, confidential clerk for the Austin Investment Company, vanished with twenty thousand dollars of the firm’s funds from its local offices. The company is headquartered in Kansas City and police are investigating the suspected embezzlement.
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Kansas City
Elzo Allan
Austin Investment Company
Miss Acres as Juliet in Salem Romeo and Juliet
In Mechanic Hall Salem a company led by Miss Agnes Acres performed Romeo and Juliet. The review faulted her acting as Juliet citing a lackadaisical and amateurish delivery, especially in the balcony scene, while praising Walter Thomas as Romeo, Charles Hanford as Mercutio, and Nurse Lizzie Anderson for a stronger showing.
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Salem
Mechanic Hall
Agnes Acres
Miss Acres
Shakspeace
Juliet
Romeo
Charles b.Hanford
Mercutio
Lizzie Anderson
Brockton Shoe Troubles at Rockland Factory
In Brockton on May 22, the Rockland Shoe Company faces union-backed industrial tension over a March plan to introduce a fifth grade of work with a 25 percent pay cut and a switch from piece to day work. Stitchers demand equal pay for fifth grade and fourth grade and refuse the new wage scheme. The union has ordered men to quit if an agreement isn’t reached.
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India
Lower Broadway
Maine
N. Y. Tribune
de Wolf Hopper
Broadway
Fletcher
Hletcher
Mr. Hopper
New York Tribune
Brockton
Srpecrau
Rockland Shoe Company
K. E. J. Skeffington
Florida election cases postponed to December
In Jacksonville on May 22 Judge Swayne postponed the alleged election fraud cases in the United States Court. The defence argued the current term is adjourned and has no legal status, a ruling seen as a Democratic victory.
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Florida
Jacksonville
Fla
United States
Swayne
Rhode Island picks World’s Fair commissioners
Governor Ladd names Rhode Island delegates to the World’s Fair with Lyman B. Goff of Pawtucket and Gardiner C. Sims of Providence as main appointees, Republicans Jeffrey Hazard and Lorillard Spencer as alternates from Providence and Newport, respectively.
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Providence
R. L
Ladd
Rhode Island
Lyman B. Goff
Pawticket
Gardiner C. Sims
Jeffrey Hazard
Lorillard Spencer
Newport
Massachusetts Census Enumerators Appointments Announced
Mr Horace G Wadlin Massachusetts supervisor of the United States census announced yesterday the names of the men and women commissioned as census enumerators. The appointments for Massachusetts number 1267 with 1100 for general population enumeration and 167 for institutions. Work begins June 2.
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Horace G. Wadlin
Massachusetts
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