Miss Farnsworth Aims at Death With Laudanum
Heiress Catherine Farnsworth, 2, reportedly living at 208 West Newton Street, awakened her landlady at midnight and said she had taken laudanum to end her life. A doctor treated her with an emetic, and he says she will recover. The girl, described as beautiful and well bred, has kept her private life obscure amid speculation of wealth and relatives.
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Catherine Farnsworth
West Newtom Street
West Newton Street
Dr. Burnham
Columbus Avenue
Woman Attempts Suicide With Corrosive Sublimate
Mrs Louise Domigan aged 29 residing at 17 Elwood Street Charlestown attempted to end her life last evening by taking three seven grain tablets of corrosive sublimate at her home following a family quarrel. Family alerted Sergeant Ringer of Station 15 who summoned Dr Duff. She was removed to Massachusetts General Hospital where her condition was being watched.
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Louise Domigan
Elwood Street
Charlestown
Sergeant Ringer
Duff
Massachusetts General Hospital
Cleanliness and purity in drink ordinances debated
A fragmented critique emphasizes that one cannot tell when a gin bottle is finished and accuses adulteration with impurities. The writer urges genuine purity and a clean pint, arguing for properly colored but entirely pure gin without artificial additives.
Disaster at Cumnock mines claims fifty lives
Raleigh reports a terrible disaster at the Cumnock mines in North Carolina. Fifty men are said to be killed in what is believed to be an explosion.
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Raleigh
N. C
Cumnock
Quiet Day As St Louis Strikes Wane
St Louis reports the quietest day of the strike with the Transit company reopening lines. Twenty four lines operated with full crews on nine, one casualty, HB Kilgore shot in the back but expected to recover. Minnie Kruger, wounded in a riot, claims grand niece relation to Paul Kruger of the Transvaal republic.
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HB. BW
Kilgore
Armstrong Avenue
Minnie Kruger
Paul Kruger
Transvaal Republic
Miss Kruger
Twelve Caskets Smashed in Melrose Cemetery Desecration
In Melrose on May twenty two, a private Upham family vault near Foster Street was broken into and coffins torn apart. Skeletons lay scattered as youths allegedly used the tomb as a playhouse while authorities did nothing. Residents demand action or face officials.
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Upham
Melrose
Foster Street
Captain Kidd
East Side
Post
Board of Health
Obituary of Amos Franklin Breed Dies in Lynn at 69
Lynn May 22 Amos Franklin Breed prominent Lynn business leader and former street railway head died at his Union Street home after a four week diabetes illness. Born Oct 15 1830 in Lynn he led shoe manufacturing and served as president of Lynn & Boston street railway and later Massachusetts Electric Railway Company. Survived by widow Mary Ann Lindsey Breed and two sons Amos Franklin Breed Jr and Sylvester Bubier Breed.
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Lynn
Amos Franklin Breed
Union Street
Essex County
Wood End
Breed, Dole & Co
Lynn & Boston Street Railway
Massachusetts Electric Railway Company
Breed
First National Bank
Lynn Institution of Savings
Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn Railroad
Lynn Gas and Eilectric Company
St. Paul’s Church
East Middlesex & North Woburn Railway
Pine Grove Cemetery Commission
City Sinking Fund
Lynn Historical Ie Ag
Etna Lenn. Hospital
Empire
Senate
St. Louis
Middlesex
Massachusetts
Essex
Boston
Park
Oxford
Otis Shepard Dies at 72 in Brookline
Otis Shepard, a respected Brookline resident and Boston businessman, died at his Rawson road home at noon yesterday. He was 72, after a nine month illness.
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Otis Shepard
Brookline
Boston
Rawson Road
President and Cabinet Tour Potomac by Yacht
President and Cabinet members traveled down the Potomac this afternoon aboard the naval yacht Byph as guests of Secretary ey. the party proceeded to Swain Read and returned to the city by o clock.
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Washington
Potomac
Byph
Swain
O'Cloc
Local forecast for midweek fair and unsettled weather
Wednesday brings fair weather followed by Thursday unsettled but improving. Temperatures rise slowly with winds generally from the south to southwest.
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Qouthweet
Defences Strengthened in Transvaal as War Proceeds
London May 23 3 30 am Officials report Transvaal will not surrender unconditionally but will fight to a finish. Johannesburg Pretoria to be defended noncombatants cleared. Leaders Kruger Steyn and others determined to resist though some urge terms. British dispatches note Kruger seeking peace while Roberts moves. Milner praises enemy bravery and urges respect for foes amid relief of Mafeking. Lady Sarah Wilson sword proposal cited.
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London
Transvaal
Pretoria
Johannesburg
Kruger
Steyn
Reits
Lorenzo Marques
Daily Chronicle
Amsterdam
Great Britain
Lord Roberts
Kroonstad
Pad
Crive
Snes E
Cbeery
Redvers Buller
Laing’s
Clery
Laing
England
Sarah Wilson
Bethune Ambushed Near Vryheid in Boer War Action
General Buller reports from New Castle that Bethune’s squadron of mounted infantry was ambushed six miles west of Vryheid on May 21. Sixty six casualties, Lieutenant Lausum and Ca missing, Captain Earl de la Warr slightly wounded. Buller plans to advance to New Castle via Dundee after reinforcements.
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London
War Office
Buller
New Castle
Bethune
Vryheid
Lausum
Earl de la Warr
Nqutu
Dundee
Envoys Move Ends Official Talks With Boer Delegation
In Washington on May 23 the State Department said no further communication with the Boer delegation is expected. Any credentials as official diplomats were not presented or referenced during informal talks. It is believed credentials, if any, would be recent.
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LA Belle Gold Mining CO
State St
Boston
Washington
State Department
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