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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1896
Page
8
A dispute surrounds the Barnes case with Mrs Barnes denying an engagement and denying that Miss Harned was ever connected. Miss Harned asserts her name was used without permission and that she hardly knows Thurlow Weed Barnes. She recounts interactions at Delmonico's and later denials of visits.
Sara Abbott arraigned before her uncle as a society daughter from Pershy Am boy faces a troubled path. The piece recalls Sarah Fothergill once the town belle, her marriage to Edward Banta, and the unraveling of finances followed by a disputed child and abandonment.
In Perth Amboy a woman named Sarah Abbott is identified as the jailed wife’s child of Abbott. He received eight years for brutal treatment. Sarah, once despised by kin, is arraigned for vagrancy before Judge Ward and sent to South Amboy after legal proceedings.
The passage chronicles a woman released on bail for vagrancy deemed an outcast, recalls her father's quiet retirement and fortune, and notes her return to parental home. It mentions her father’s death, a divorce, and subsequent marriage to a wealthy, unscrupulous-seeming suitor, John.
Alice M. Jones of Orange, once indicted for larceny, is freed after her lawyer and fiancé Charles Cohn sought dismissal. Jones, a confidential clerk at John B. Yates’s Maiden Lane jewelry firm, allegedly stole and forged orders but surrendered last August. Yates initially refused dismissal, then consented, arguing circumstances and the defendant’s suffering met justice.
Miss Virginia Harned, once a Boston society figure linked to Mrs. Thurlow Weed Barnes divorce proceedings, will marry E. H. Sothern. Sothern made the announcement amid circulating talk surrounding his partner and the case.
George McClellan, manager of Nat Goodwin, arrived from Chicago and denied reports of an engagement with Miss Elliott. He stated the divorce filing was not to wed but to end association with a woman he found obnoxious and vice versa.
A large fire in Leominster damaged the Leominster Hotel block, Monoosnock bowling alley, and a tenement house owned by George S. Jones. Origin suspected incendiary, with massive losses across businesses and residents totaling thousands in both damage and insured value.
Alarm from Box 554 at 4 55 yesterday morning reported a fire in an unoccupied two story wooden house on Knoll Street owned by John E Morton. The dwelling was destroyed with damage over 2000 dollars.
Division 1 officers raided Salvatore Sheilo at 20 Charter Street and seized seventeen gallons of beer. Division 11 officers seized from Michael Saunders at 1048 Dorchester Poaen one gill whiskey and two quarts of beer.
Miss Louise Bonaparte daughter of the late Jerome Bonaparte and great granddaughter of Jerome Bonaparte is set to marry Count de Moltke of Denmark in Washington. The ceremony will take place December 10 at St Pauls Church with Cardinal Gibbons officiating.
Chicago dispatch notes the anxious wives of presidential and vice presidential candidates will monitor results. Mrs Bryan and Mrs McKinley are deeply involved with campaign wire services and home telegraphs. Other spouses including Hobart Sewall Watson Palmer and Buckner will also track returns from their headquarters and phones.
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