Prorogued Night as Ames Vetoes Firemen Bill Stalls
The Great and General Court prorogued about 11 15 p m after a tense session. Governor Ames vetoed the Massachusetts State Firemen’s Association bill arguing it enacts class legislation and risks a dangerous precedent. House and Senate debated water rights for Winchendon and other measures as clocks ran out.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Secretary of State
Massachusetts State Firemen’s Association
Winchendon
House
Winehendon
Conference Committee
Ames
Commonwealth
Massachusetts
Crocker Hall
State Normal School
Framingham
Seachusetts Reformatory
Concord
Disastrous Fire Destroys Perry and Griffin Blocks in Danbury
A major blaze in Danbury, Connecticut destroyed Henry Perry’s block and the Griffin block on Elm Street, along with ten dwellings and over eighteen shops. Fifteen or more families became homeless. total loss listed at 31,000 with 12,350 insured. Gas explosion wounded several. Patrick Elliott’s Triangle Street dwelling also burned, loss 2,800. Fire traced to tar in Matchett’s restaurant oven.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Danbury
Conn
Henry Perry
Griffin
8. M. Griffin
Elm Street
Julius R. Weber
W. B. Jones & Co
George Bronson
A. N. Garnsey
James Kinkley
A. Winton
Lavinia Cronk
S. M. Griffin
Frank E. Gallagher
H. Stern
Mary Sherwood
A. H. Mallett
Charles Gustoson
Dr. McDonald
Matchett
Patrick Elliott
Triangle Street
Second floor fire at Norfolk Street tenement houses
A painter dropped a lit candle in paint on the second floor of 128 Norfolk Street causing a blaze that spread through the Chester double tenement. Twenty four families were rescued by police and firemen as furniture was destroyed and the loss neared four thousand dollars, mostly uninsured. Diesy New Jersey fire at Annapolis also noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Chester Double
Norfolk Street
Diesy
Annapolis
Dominion House
A. Riordan
Lawyer Mills
King’s
McLaughlin's
Passons
Man's Decomposed Body Recovered From Merrimac Shore
Two boys found a badly decomposed man’s body about twenty feet from shore on the Merrimac near Dr. Trench’s farm in Methuen. The remains show no prior wounds, appear a week old, and lack identifying papers or clues. He stood about six feet tall, weighed around 160 pounds, aged 40 to 80, with bien diagonal salt and congress shoes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence
Sprojan
McDonald
Murphy
Merrimac
Dr. Trench
Methuen
Congress
Taft Inauguration At Newport Rhode Island
Newport May 29 The inauguration of Governor Taft and state officers drew a crowded day of ceremony with a parade from Aquidneck to the State House. The Senate and House organized and officers were sworn in before a balcony announcement. Petitions on Kansas injunction law and party caucuses followed, with county officials nominated for sheriff and clerk posts across Providence, Newport, Kent, Washington, Bristol and other counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newport
R. I
Newport Artillery and Light Infantry
Davis
General Assembly
Aquidneck
State House
Senate
Eugene F. Warner
Coventry
House
George H. Utter
Westerly
William H. Sweetland
Providence
Reading
Thomas Z. Lee
Woonsocket
Taft
Aquidneck House
Kansas
Paver Ae
Almon K. Goodwin
Pawtucket
Herbert
Grover
Henry M. Kimball
Hartwell H. Jencks
Linccoln
State Board of Education
George A. Littlefield
Samuel H. Cross
Board of Commissioners
Sinking Fund
Samuel 8. Sprague
A. H. Littlefield
Lincoln
Fourth District Court
Thomas J. Tilley
Washington County
BE. G. Crandall
T. D. Lawton
J. C. Church
D. R. Kenyon
Supreme Court
Court of Common Pleas
George Carmichael, Jr
BE. H. Noyes
G. H. Olney
Bristol
J. B. Pearce
L. T. B. Bosworth
Portsmouth's Murder Case in Adjourned Inquest
James Palmer, accused of fatally wounding Henry T. Whitehouse in Portsmouth, was questioned at the adjourned coroner's inquest. Palmer testified he was at home when the murder occurred. he formerly lived in this city and worked at the Edison Electric Dominating Company, part lineman part engineer, before moving to Portsmouth about a year ago. His friends describe him as exemplary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portsmouth
N. H
Sprctar
Whitehouse
Palmer
Lawrence
Sprcran
James Palmer
Henry T. Whitehouse
Edison Electric Dominating Company
Harvard Canoe Club Races on the Charles Win for Crews
Harvard crews competed on the Charles River with action packed tandem and single canoe races. Boats from Holder Townsend Greene Vaughan and more vied for wins as Green Dibbois claimed victory in the first heat and Herrick/Payson led the close tandem final. Drenched competitors and cheers along Beacon Street highlighted a sunny racing day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles
Harvard
Boston
Crimson
Union Boat Club
Holder
Townsend
Greene
Vaughan
Marquand
Dibbis
Green
Dibbois
Cances
Stakes
Winthrop
Herrick
Payson
Amory
Crehore
Barnes
Crowninchfield
Parker
Pulsifer
Potter
Williams
Roan
Stokes
Wiliams
Pigken
Vaysen
Beacon Street
Amery
Methodists Debate Freedmen Society Name Change
May 29 New York The Methodist conference opened with the freed men report. The majority urged renaming the Freedmen's Aid Society to the Freedmen's Aid and Southern Educational Society. the minority's change option was tabled 186 to 140. Payne elected secretary of the board of education on the third ballot. A sorrowful note for General Sherman was adopted. Bishops to serve four years. episcopal residences listed. Memorial against Bishop Fowler dismissed. tobacco question deemed settled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Committee On Freedmen
Baylis
Freedmen’s Aid Society
Freedmen’s Aid and Southern Educational Society
H. Payne
Wesleyan College
Delaware
Board of Education
Sheridan
Boston
Washington
Buffalo
Cincinnati
Covington
Chattanooga
New Orleans
Chicago
Minneapolis
St. Paul
St. Louis
Pooka
Denver
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Iaha
Galveston
Portland
Ore
Eighteenth Street Church
Fowler
Cranston Print Works Sold at Auction
Cranston Print Works property sold for 25 dollars to John P. Campbell and others at an auction this afternoon, subject to two mortgages and encumbrances totaling 220000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cranston Print Works
Provinpiner
R. L
John P. Campbell
MIT Graduation Day at Huntington Hall Gives Wide Notice
Seventy eight diplomas awarded as Huntington Hall fills with students and admiring friends. President Walker presides as Miss Annie Sabine and peers present theses on steam flow, microphone current, gauge standards, and electrical engineering. Dr Brooks delivers a closing address praising unity of knowledge and human character.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huntington Hall
New England
University
Cambridge
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lowell
Alfred Russel Wallace
Charles Darwin
Henry A. Clapp
Institute
Francis A. Walker
Phillips Brooks
Walker
Henry Forbes Bigelow
Clinton
Mass
Benjamin Gilbert Buttolph
Buffalo
N. Y
Department of Electrical Engineering
Louis Aloysius Ferguson
South Boston
Itejiro Fukuzawa
Tokyo
Japan
Ane
William Henry Gerrish
School of Mechanical Engineering
George Lincoln Heath
Evgerett
School of Chemistry
Edwin Oakes Jordan
Auburndale
School of Natural History
Annie Ware Sabine
Columbus, C
Charles Augustus Stone
Newton
Amos Erastus Woodward
East Somerville
Caperton
Canada
Scientia Scientiarum
Philoloists
Dr. Brooks
Henry Dodge Bates
Av. Racine
Wis
Henry Forbes Bigelow Gy Clinton
Herbert Stetson Bird
City Mills
Winslow Blanchard
Dorchester
Arthur Tisdale Bradlee
Boston
Benjamin Gilbert Battolph
Elbridge
Stoyle Carleton GV
Rochdale
David Allen
Gloucester
Stephen Child
West Newton
George Edwin
Courts Adjourn Pending Illness in Charallo Case
The government's attorney is ill, jurors are excused to Thursday, and the case of Vincent and Giovanna Charallo will be resumed on that day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vincent
Giovanna Charallo
Superior Court First Session May 29 1878 Docket Highlights
Records show multiple cases including Household Sewing Machine Co vs Nickerson over notes dated Feb 4 1885 with a verdict for plaintiff for 48188 and lawyers listed. Also Lewis L. Cohn vs Frank Ferdinand a three count tort suit in trial, other docket entries and references to prior cases and sessions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Superior Court
Pitman
Household Sewing Machine Company
Charles W. Nickerson
Boston
Aintiff
G. F. Bean
Clary
Lewis L. Cohn
Frank Ferdinand
George R. Swasey
John C. Coombs
N. A. Walker
William A White v Inhabitants of Foxboro takes damages case
Superior Court Norfolk County May 29 Justice Bishop presiding No 227 petition for assessment of damages for land taken by Foxboro for widening Liberty street On trial attorney Reed for petitioner Grover and Carpenter for defendants Court adjourned until Thursday morning
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Superior Court
Norfolk County
Bishop
William A. White
Foxboro
Liberty Street
C. A. Reed
T. E. Grover
R.W. Carpenter
Heirs to a large fortune in Marblehead
Frabius W. Rix received a letter from a legal firm saying Judge Timothy Rix of California is dead and asking him to locate heirs. The judge reportedly was worth over $1,000,000 years ago. He was a bachelor and eccentric. Rix and his sister are said to be the only living heirs. Rix is described as poor and ill with a disease from the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marblehead
Frabius W. Rix
Timothy Rix
California
Judge Rix
Fabius W. Rix
Mr. Rix
Lowell Defeats Manchester in Low-Scoring Outbatting Match
In Lowell, May 29, the Lowell team defeated Manchester by outbatting. Elis was hit by a batted ball in the fourth and replaced by Staib. five singles off Ellis and eight off Staib aided the win. Manchester managed a few runs late off Burns, but the home nine held on for the victory.
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Lowell
Lowell Easy
Manchester Today
Elis
Staib
Ellis
Burns
Dover Sc
Aly
Manchesters
Lynn
Salems
Lynns
Raigims
Sccacnconesvare
LYNDB
Ccs Eteccr Ress
Worcester
Worcesters
Portlands
Wolchas
Military Gusts Visit Cambridge With Parade and Drills
Company A of Providence addressed by Cambridge City Guard officers arrives near Park Square, escorted to Old Cambridge Armory. Notables including Mayor Russell and Colonel Bancroft attend a one hour reception with drill demonstrations, recitations, and a male quartet before the visitors depart at 9:30 PM.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Train of Artillery
Providence
Park Square
Cambridge
Russell
Teele
Fiveleth
Sanders
Bancroft
Sutton
Edes
Parker
Fouth
Dallinger
Lombard
First Infantry
C. M. van Slyck
E. ©. Danforth
W. J. McCaw
W. E. Burbank
E. Cates
Quincy Yacht Club Regatta Opens Off Hough's Neck
The Quincy Yacht Club opened its regatta at the club house off Hough's Neck with a brisk easterly breeze. In class one Moondyne led from start to finish while Nereid won class two. Flora Lee topped class three with Rocket close behind. Hebe sailed unopposed in class one cruiser. Madel defeated Julia in class two cruiser. Cosette was unopposed in class four.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quincy Yacht Club
Quincy
Hough’s Neck
Moondyne
Echo
Nereid
Hester
Onl
Disdem
Elsie
Guen
Flora Lee
Rocket
Hebe
Madel
Julia
Cosette
Universalist Club Ladies Night in Horticultural Hall
About 300 attendees at upper Horticultural Hall attended a Universalist Club evening. A fine collation preceded speeches by Rev J Smith Dodge, Rev E C Sweetser, Rev A G Rogers, Rev I M Atwood, Rev E L Rexford and Hon J W Hammond. Speakers praised Universalism and its pioneers amid musical interlude by the Columbus Arena choir.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Universalist Club
Horticultural Hall
Jerusalem
J. Smith Dodge
Stamford
Albany
N. Y
I. M. Atwood
D.D
Canton
E. L. Rexford
Dertroit
J. W. Hammond
Cambridge
Sweetser
Universalists
Philadelphia
Sawyer
Atwood
New York
Rexford
Joe Blackburn
Kentucky
Dr. Atwood
Dodge
Sweetner
Columbus Arena
Memorial day festival aids House of the Good Shepherd
Notes on Memorial day activities include a festival in the Mechanic building from 10 AM to 10 PM supporting the House of the Good Shepherd. Also reported are parole actions for James Doyle, a large confirmation at St Marys Church, a suspected poisoning case, and public holiday access to Chauncy Hall schoolhouse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House of the Good Shepherd
Mechanic Building
James Doyle
St Mary's Church
Somerville
J. Robinson
Prince Arthur Freeman
Chauncy Hall
Boylston Street
The
Essex Company
Charles 8. Storrow
George H. Edwards
Boston Druggists’ Association
Tremont House
Eastern Crockery Association
Parker’s
Echo
Battle of Bunker Hill
Tremont Street
George Currie
Evangelistic Association of New England
Clarendon Street Baptist Church
L. B. Bates
D.D
George CG
Needham
E. EB. Davidson
D. L. Chubbuck
Cambridge Aldermen Approve School and Property Proposals
Cambridge city actions authorize the public property committee to seek proposals and award the contract for Lines street wing of the Peabody grammar school and to fund plans for a new English high school at up to 90000 dollars. A public hearing on Front street widening was remitted. The city grants workers a half holiday Saturdays in June July August. Council adjourns to meet in two weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cambridge Aldermen
Committee On Public Property
Lines Street
Peabody Grammar School
Board of Registrars of Voters
New English High School
Front Street
First Universalist Society
Funeral of Harvard’s oldest living graduate at Waverly House
The funeral of Dr. William Goddard, then Harvard College’s oldest living graduate, was held at 2 pm yesterday at the Waverley House in Charles Town where he resided. The Rev. Warren Goddard Jr of Providence R I, a nephew, led the service with a prayer and eulogy. Burial followed at Forest Hills.
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Lowell
Alfred Grnham Ellsworth
Buffalo
Aesh
Richard Eppes, Jr
City Point
Louis Aloysius Ferguson
South Boston
Bertram Pierrepont Flint
Roxbury
Theodore Albert Fogue
Malden
Stejiro Fukuzawa
Tokyo
Japan
James Edward Fuller, Jr
Worcester
William Henry Gerrish
Irving Galen Greene
Boston
Harold Gordon Gross
Eureka
Cal
George Warren Hamblet
Lawrence
William Lincoln Harris
George Lyon Harvey
Chicago
Charles Frederick Hastings
West Newton
Javory Clifton Hathaway, Jr
New Bedford
George Lincoln Heath
Everett
Edward Webster Herrick
Northampton
Edward Clapp Holton
Winchester
Henry John Horn, Jr
St. Paul
Minn
Frank Morris James
Haverhill
Arthur Winslow Jones
Philadelphia
Penn
Edwin Oakes Jordan
Auburndale
William Thomas Keough
East Boston
George Strickland Lee
Tevere
J. Wallace Loveland
Arthur Simons Mann Gry
West Medway
George Vincent MacLaughlin
East Bridgewater
Charles George Merrell
Cincinnati
Rank Ashburton Moore
Harry Churchill Moore
Brookline
Addison Doane Nickerson
Harwichport
Edwin Richter Pearson
Portsmouth
N. H
Charles Albert Peterson
Harv
Univ
Herbert Frank Pierce
South Braintree
Leons Baldwin Pool
Forest Hills
John Ray
Russell Robb
Detroit
Nich
Odin Barnes Roberts
Harvard University
Annie Ware Sabine
Ohio State University
Columbus
Frederick Hollister Salford
Alfred Henry Sawyer
Concord
Frederick Lincoln Sayer
Walter Keith Shaw
Lexington
Ivar Ludwig Sjéstrém
Clarence Wright Smith
Cambridge
Edward Morrie Smith
North Hampton
Frank Owen Stetson
Newton
Charles Augustus Stone
John Murchison Sully
Marion Talbot
Boston University
Walter Irving Towne
Opsfield
Clarence Browning -Vorce
Farmington
Conn
Algernon Sydney Warren
Newport
Edwin Sibley Webster
Charlies Lewis Wiel
North Andover
Arthur Shepard Williams
Amos Erastus Woodward
East Somerville
John Eben Young
Danielsonville
William Edwards
Quincy
Stetson G. Hindes
Burlington
Charles O. Lenz
Providence
R. I
Horace G
Lobenstine
William A. Morse
Foxboro
Arthur
Savage
Hyde Park
School of Mechanic Arts
Grace C. Blood
Ella C. Coffey
Luana Cohn
Milford
Fred A. Emery
Louis EH
Felton
Natick
Winifred
Voster
Fitchburg
Willard
Fowle
Russel B. Henchman, Jr
Thomas E. Knowland
Middleboro
Belle Lamprey
Charlestown
Fred H. Lawrie
Medford
Annette S. Smith
Herbert W. Tirrell
Weymouth
Frances E. Turner
Carleton J. Underwood
Groton
William Goddard
Harvard College
Waverley House
Warren Goddard, Jr
R. L
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Great and General Court
Henry HM. Sprague
Board of Railroad Commissioners
C. F. Caoare
Boardman
Ohio
Kimball
Hartwell
Isaac N. Keith
Hathorne
P. D. Dwyer
Noyes
Upham
Waltham
Hill
Spencer
McDonough
Hall
Taunton
James Donovan
Brown
Pinkerton
Coveney
Lyman
Belchertown
Atherton
Saugus
Lovell
Poore
Bradford
Holyoke
Great Barrington
Cook
Essex County
Messrs. Woodward
Wakefield
Bartlett
Montagne
E. J. Donovan
Southwick
Peabody
Committee On Conference
Caucus
Massachusetts School Fund
Fall River Court House
Howland
Messinger
Howard
Crosby
Ladd
Athol
Amesbury
Mayall
Sprague
Suffolk
United States
I Jnecess
Whitcher
Stoneham
Edgell
Mercury
Glines
Samuel Roads, Jr
Sleeper
Senator Sleeper
Senator Roads
Southworth
E. Herbert Clapp
Fisk
Harvey H. Pratt
Abington
Democratic State Committee
Messrs. Wadlin
Flynn
Wharton
Harvard Canoe Club
Charles River
Massachusetts Institute
United States Circuit Court
Nelson J
M. Co
Nickerson
Coln
Ferdinand
Calnan
O'Toole
White
Cavanagh
Durgin
King v. Phenix Ass
Baugher
Kernan
Morrill
Kelly
Author
City of
Newburyport
Whipple
Flanders
Boston Disinfecting . Co
Thompson, J
John Murphy
Boston & Providence Railroad
Bussey
West Roxbury
Willam
William A. Gaston
George
William L. Putnam
Boston & Prov
Fuller
Forbes
Lincoln Who's Co
Same
Chaase
Harriman
McCormick
Ring
Hatch
Chapman
Eopiere
Ralskesey
McGenan
Bosls
Waltin
Devley
Turner
Thomas
Kenken
Boston & Lowell RR
Butterworth
Edards
F Sano
Riedel
Vargas
McNeil
Hollander
Whelan
Hammond
Emery
Clark
Fiske
Slattery
Cutty
Faye
Sullivan
Rand
Miller, & Lowell RR
Holt
Ross
Folsom
Littlefield
Cowan
Daly
Dickerman
O’don
Fennell
Furlongwell
Lathrop
Max Schnitzer
Neptune Fire Insurance Company
Boylston Fire Insurance Company
Pynchon Street
F. D. Ely
G. Keyes
William C, Loring
F. Peabody
Schnitzer
Neptune Fire Ins. Co
Boylston Fire Ins. Co
Hamkinson
MclTanes
McQuade Ve. Menada
Roberts
Boston & Proy, RR
Culter
Doherty
Daley
Tivnin
South Boston Iron Works
McLeod
Askenasy
Hale
Clifford
Wendall
Spod Reed
Osgood
Weat
Fitzgerald
Costello
Negus
Seaverns
Ward
Rogers
Robertson
Jacobs
Casey
Donnelly
McKinney
Slade
Shorey
Bostons
Quakers
Senators
South End
Harry Wright
Scott
Sowders
O’rourke
Fogarty
Wise
Delahanty
Philadelphias
Andrews
Mulvey
Farrar
Clements
Johnston
Nash
Merrill
O'Rourke
Boltons
Hornung
Burlinton
Burdock
Irwin
Sawders
aAndrews
Wood
Lynch
New Yorks
Washingtons
Murray
Litcomb
An Ewing
Washingtona
A.B. R
A. E. Gore
Daily
Tiernan
Wilmot
Brien
O Ewing
Hoy
Connor
Oj Irwin
O Murray
Richarda
OjGardner
O Murphy
Connelly
Titeonb
Ewing
Richardson
Titcomb
Dailgs
Gilmore
Vimpire
Detroits
Fener Wee i
Rhode Island
the Universalist Club
Horticultural
Cambridge City Government
DR. Goddard
Taylor
Chester H. Graves & Sons
Paris
Baker’s Breakfast
W. Baker & CO
Chauncy-Hall School
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