Lightship Position Change Near Boston Aimed At Better Navigation
Commander J R Selfridge announces the Boston lightship will move one mile north of its current site. A whistling buoy will mark Thieves Ledge. Two months notice required. change effective January 1900. Vessels to Boston should steer directly from the lightship to harbor entrance and exit toward the lightship to avoid Thieves Ledge.
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J. R. Selfridge
Second Lighthouse District
Washington
Lighthouse Board
Boston
Thieves Ledge
Fall River Breweries Plan Consolidation
Fall River on November 10 reports the preliminary steps toward merging the Old Colony and King Philip breweries. The two plants will unite under one corporation with combined capital stock exceeding half a million dollars.
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Fall River
Old Colony
King Philip Brewing Companies
Edward Marshall to Speak at Boston Press Club Event
War correspondent Edward Marshall who was wounded at Las Guasimas will be the guest of the Boston Press Club tonight at 14 Bosworth Street. All newspaper men are invited to be present and meet Mr Marshall.
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Edward Marshall
Ward Marshall
Battle of
Las Guasimas
Boston Press Club
Bosworth Stree
Marchell
Fancy Ball Without Men in Chicago
South Side women plan a masquerade german hosted by Mrs. Samuel Baker for Miss McGuire of Richmond. 125 guests from Kenwood to Woodlawn will attend no men present, with all musicians and servants female and invitations delivered as verses.
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Chicago
Hamlet
Bernhardt
South Side
Samuel Baker
Miss McGuire
Richmond
Kenwood
Woodlawn
Separat ed twenty times case in East Stroudsburg man threats
Isaac Brewer, a divorced farmer, visited Schoernertown near Easton seeking his ex wife who had remarried on Nov. 2. When confronted by George Werkheiser, Brewer tried to strike him and after a fall pulled a stick of dynamite threatening to blow up the house where the woman lived before fleeing.
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New York
Blanche
Dr. Travers
Baltimore
John W. Daniel
Virginia
William Leslie
Thomas A. Edison
Miss Travers
William Leslie Edison
Spain
Regiment of Volunteer Engineers
Thomas
William
Blanche Travers
Sunnyside
Miss Ryan
Elizabeth
N. J
East Stroudsburg
Penn
Isaac Brewer
Allen Craig
Brewer
Schoernertown
Easton
George Werkheiser
Werkheiser
Secretary Long Delays Return for Daughter’s Move to Colorado
Secretary Long, resting at his Hingham home, telegraphed assistant Secretary Charles H. Allen that he will not return to Washington for at least two weeks to supervise his daughter Miss Helen Long’s removal to Colorado Springs due to her pulmonary illness caused by heavy social duties.
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Washington
Long
Hingham
Mass
Charles H. Allen
Helen
Colorado Springs
Col
Kiss Costs Yale Student Jail Time and Bond Forfeit
In New Haven on November 10 a Yale Sheffield Scientific School student Stephen O Lawrence forfeited bonds after kissing Miss May Carroll in a restaurant. Both were sentenced in Police Court to 145 days in jail and the bonds were forfeited to appeal to Superior Court. Lawrence, urged by his father a New York lawyer, has not missed recitations. faculty stay silent as he is the only student jailed.
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New Haven
Stephen O. Lawrence
Miss May
Carroll
Sheffield Scientific School
Yale
Miss Carroll
Young Lawrence
Connecticut
Lawrence
New York
Italian killer Di Blasi jailed six years in Italy
A Rome despatch reports Antonio Di Blasi, who killed James M. Ellis, Boston street department foreman on May 23, 1898, was sentenced by the Messina Assize Court to six years in prison. Di Blasi fled to Italy after the killing. extradition was refused as he is an Italian citizen.
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Rome
Antonio di Blasi
James M. Ellis
Boston
Messina
di Blasi
Ellis
Italy
Watts
Rosatto
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