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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1894
Page
4
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The McKinley organs decry Senate tariff amendments as pro trust. They concede Senate schedules reduce the McKinley tariff where it is most excessive, noting the public is not harmed by the changes and that accusations of favoritism are overstated.
The State Senate has taken a holiday and the House follows suit. Officials note a dilatory, bungling session with many amendments delaying work. Memorial Day and Boston holidays loom as the Fourth of July nears, prompting questions about the legislature’s participation in celebrations.
A statewide pattern of shutdowns spreads from Missouri to Arkansas and Indiana as coal and fuel shortages cripple factories and railways. The piece blames mine owners for monopolistic practices while noting some strikers err, the broader toll falls on workers nationwide.
A critic argues Republican Senators in Washington should back absolutely free sugar, contending McKinley era policy was a sham tax favoring the Sugar Trust. The piece says current tariff gaps reduce McKinley protection and urges breaking promises by supporting genuine free sugar.
The State House elections committee, a Republican panel, finds no bias toward Democrats in the Ward 17 seat dispute and grants leave to withdraw to the Republican contestants. The action is praised as rare political honesty, drawing sharp denouncements from some Republican papers.
The committee states there was crooked work in Ward 17 yet concludes the Republican contestants did not win and could not have under any conditions. It urges the House to accept the facts and act honorably, saying irregularities should not disfranchise the district’s voters.
The Grand Memorial honors those who died for the nation and those who live to guard liberty. North soldiers fought not for insurrection but for a great principle of free government and majority rule under the Federal Union. Their duty and civic virtue defined the Memorial Day observance today.
The observant citizen notes rising female cycling clubs in Cambridge and Boston with knickerbockers and short skirts, plus social events. Paris and Cambridge leaders praise cycling culture. Boston artists and public figures gain recognition while civic life shifts with charity drives and local humor.
In 1878 Watson recounts medical training in India, his return to England and the plan to share lodgings with a mysterious yet brilliant Holmes. Stamford warns Holmes is eccentric, intensely scientific, and possibly dangerous in his methods.
Congress considers a bill to allow Professor Asaph Hall to accept a Paris Academy gold medal for Mars satellites, while the Gould estate faces New York tax probes on 10 million dollars of personal property. Theosophist affairs involve Mrs Annie Besant and Mr Judge with a London trial planned. The Siamese minister Maha Yatha visits Washington ahead of credentials to the US and UK.
The article notes Swing returning to the Presbyterian church and his belief the church has come to him. It cites remarks by Presbyterians and mentions Swing being expelled from the church twenty years ago for liberal views surpassing those of Briggs and Smith, whom the general assembly has recently disciplined more harshly.
Julian Edwards, musical director once with Lillian Russell’s company, rode a newspaper train from Newark to Boston in disguise. He wore overalls and tossed papers to blend with railroad workers after finishing a Newark engagement. Manager Askin greeted him at the depot, and he resumed his role promptly.
The passage notes that descendants of rival fighters form unlikely friendships and that new generations should avoid repeating past feuds. It praises Union troops but argues against overly praising their enemies, urging a balanced view of wartime loyalties and consequences.
A Tremont Theatre crowd brings almost every local wheel club to the venue for Utopia Limited with Wilson Barrett in Boston. The crowd praised the cast and chorus while a parade of bicycles and flags decorated the lobby and boxes.
An Independent Hebrew Citizens' Club for Ward 8 met at 59 Lowell Street to protest alleged misassigned votes in Lowell Wall Barton and other streets. They formed a committee led by Wechsler with H Weinberg and B L Golditer to investigate and guard against dual voting.
Ex-Justice K F Sutherland admits in court to producing fictitious ballots for Gravesend elections. He states annual fake vote totals ranged from 800 to 2200 and personally prepared ballots for inspectors to cast. He receives two years and eight months in prison plus a $500 fine.
At Saratoga session of the American Baptist Missionary Union Rev Dr A H Hovey read a report affirming that missionary theological seminaries are indispensable and should receive support. Finance head Fuller recommended maintaining the foreign missions appropriation at 694657.88 for the coming year.
Eight members of the Eva J. Cole dramatic company arrived in New Haven from Derby seeking aid from the Board of Associated Charities. They were referred to the town agent and left town after receiving temporary assistance, as they recalled a solemn wartime tribute to fallen defenders and national sacrifice.
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