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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1897
Page
5
Spain rails against the United States in a bitter confrontation while lacking funds to wage any real war against Uncle Sam. Madrid voices fury at the U.S. posture and rejects calls for heavy spending amid economic hardship.
Captain William Wyndham, newly assigned British consul in Chicago after three years in Barcelona, traveled on La Bretagne from Havre. He plans a week with Philadelphia relatives before starting at his Chicago post and notes Spain’s bitterness toward the United States amid Cuban War fallout. plus Irish leaders plan Miss Maude Gonne visit to Boston with large turnout and parade plans.
Madrid reports the cabinet council approved political amnesty for Cuba and the Philippines and clarifies no U S. communication influenced the decision. Autonomist leaders in Cuba accept Madrid nominations with Marcos Garcia and others set as provincial governors.
William Archibald Thompson a Yale Law School student is jailed at Central Station on embezzlement charges. Police say he allegedly sold a ring to another student for 40 dollars then used or hid the proceeds.
Paris November 7 A duel was fought today between M Albert Carre manager of the Theatre du Vaudeville and M Ser vanines editor of the Paris. Carre received a scratch on the arm in the encounter provoked by an article in the Paris that he called insulting to his private affairs.
Prisoners from the bark Olive Pecker were moved from the United States ship Lancaster at Fort Monroe to the Norfolk city jail this morning. No one is allowed to see them.
Cincinnati Nov. 7 John R McLean and party depart for Washington amid talks he will not seek a Senate seat as Democrats consider contest outcomes. The move signals possible Republican control of the Legislature with debates over majority rules and succession to the governorship. Senator Voight of Cincinnati holds balance in a split Senate.
At a Henry George memorial gathering in Omaha on November 7, the Rev. John Williams of St. Barnabas Church denounced New York churches for opposing Henry George. He accused Protestant Episcopal leaders of being under Vanderbilt and Astor influence and said George remained a Christian despite plutocratic pressure in the church.
A large mob in Rio de Janeiro broke into and looted the Republican office last night. The attack followed the paper’s criticisms of government policy and remarks about President Moraes and War Minister Marcado Bittencourt, who was fatally stabbed during the disturbance after the attempted assassination Friday.
William H. Busiel a prominent Laconia resident died after a long illness at age 68. He was long active in woollen yarn and hosiery manufacture. Ex Governor Charles A. Busiel was his nephew.
A Nashua soap factory owned by the Edward F. Marsh estate burned this morning. Officials say the blaze likely started incendiarily and caused about $2000 in damages.
The first Sunday evening concert of the Young Men's Hebrew Association drew a large audience at Minot Hall. The Albions, with violin cellist Wulf Fries, performed an engaging program. Eva Macey Fairbanks played a piano solo and gave select readings, Louise Ainsworth sang, Fries played cello solos, and a finale trio by Ainsworth Fairbanks and Fairbanks closed the program.
In Chattanooga two women, Mrs. A. P. Lockhart and Mrs. Thomas Wilson, were riding a buggy when a passing incline car startled the horse. The horse bolted down Lookout Mountain, the buggy lodged on a stump, then the horse backed the buggy over a 30 to 40 foot precipice killing the horse. Both women suffered fatal injuries. Authorities note six similar deaths in the past decade at the same spot.
A young country woman lured by city life falls into a reckless romance and drunken excess. The tale ends with a strangler claiming her life as police search for the killer. A morgue waits for identification and burial in the city hospital.
The tale centers on McMillan linked to Alice and Leavitt’s murder case as authorities question his involvement. Leavitt, a self described blind author, defends his innocence while detailing alibis and his past, including fledgling life and possible connections to Alice Brown.
The murdered New Bedford woman Alice Brown’s identity hangs on stories from Hat tie Belmont. Owen Brown visited Boston and viewed the body at City Hospital Morgue and said it is not his daughter. The missing latch key and a pint whiskey bottle found in Alice Brown’s room raise questions about who shared the liquor and who took the key.
A young man called at 15 Corning Street yesterday morning seeking Alice Koosey and asked to see her for Sunday. He met Alice OBrien who rents the first floor and spoke of Harris Gladwin from the Parker House as his contact. He showed surprise upon hearing Alice Brown was dead, and police note doubt about the murdered womans identity while focusing on Hattie Belmont as a possible key in the case.
A 16 year old girl, Alice Ward, is sent to Monson Reformatory for being a bad girl. Two weeks later Mary Retherhan joins her, they move to Boston where Alice becomes Blonde Hattie and Mary is known as Alice Brown. Their lives are marked by sin, remorse, and continual movement through police districts as they drifted through the city.
Wil Jam Leavitt, a blind song vendor, declares his innocence in the murder of Alice Brown and tells a Post reporter he appeals for justice. He dramatizes his theory of the crime during a tense interview at his Corning Street room.
The steamship City of Columbia drew over 5000 visitors at her East Ninth Street dock as it prepares to depart December 1 for the Klondike via Cape Horn. Among the guests were H. H. Herbert General Boynton C P Huntington and D C Mills with seventy five Philadelphia bankers and businessmen supporting the project.
Columbia Theatre hosted Rev. D. J. Stafford who argued Hamlet's insanity is feigned to advance a plot. He rated Julius Caesar and Macbeth above Hamlet in epic sequence and unity, citing his polished Boothlike and Salvini-like declamation. Proceeds aided St. Philip's Church fund.
Early morning officers found a male infant in a small box behind 7 Bulfinch Place. Doctors believe the child was alive at birth and died from strangulation. The infant was not more than a day old. Medical Examiner Harris will perform an autopsy as police investigate a possible murder.
A fragmentary comic anecdote contrasts a husband’s rare restraint with a wife’s grievances. The speaker lists small irritations and social constraints, from draw room smoking to money worries, humorously underscoring marital expectations and disappointments.
Officers arrested Morris Goldstein 33 of 44 Leverett Street on multiple counts of unlawfully killing three horses at a Leverett Street stable during the night of November 3. The horses belonged to Joseph Landy Charles Ratkobsky and Borie Matzkel and were reportedly poisoned.
Special Officer Kelly brought Laura Smith age 21 of 53 Melrose street to justice after her capture in Philadelphia. She is charged with complicity in a $3000 robbery of Edwin F. Benton at 44 Porter street on September 18. Also detained are Lucy Fields Samuel Boyd and George W. Smith on the same charge.
Halifax Nova Scotia November 7 fire destroys the Tullock residence three miles from the city killing Miss Maria Walker and a 4 year old child who were asleep together both victims burned to death in the blaze last night.
Captain Robert H. Coombs, a prominent vessel master during the port boom, collapsed and died on Northport Avenue in Belfast while walking with his granddaughter this evening.
A Chicago News item presents a child’s joke as Little Robert asks if camels come from Kentucky after his teacher says camels can go weeks without water. The humor highlights misinterpretation of geography and animal facts.
A Lynn Post reporter finds liquor easily available at nine hotels on Sundays despite charges by B H Fairchild and Harry Woodward of Pentucket Lodge. Hearings start Tuesday evening as advocates seek enforcement and a no-license outcome with full evidence published for voters.
Assistant inspector general’s report on the Lexington rifle range notes Captain Lombard of Company B, First Regiment, H. A. M. V. M., overstepped authority and strained civil military relations. Colonel Pfaff is to reprimand Lombard and inform Cambridge Mayor Sortwell through military channels.
Morse Bros reports orders for over ten carloads in a single day for Rising Sun and Sun Paste Stove Polish. The Sun Paste offers greater quantity and quality than other paste polishes, while the Rising Sun Stove Polish remains a trusted cake dry polish with strong sales.
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