Monticello Steamer Disaster Near Yarmouth Harbor
The Monticello of the Yarmouth Steamship Company with 38 on board sank near Yarmouth Harbor after a fierce storm, six people lost, four saved. A second wreck, the schooner Myra B. Weaver, hit Vineyard Sound with victims including two girls and eight men. Shipwrecks mirror the fate of the City of Portland, with waves and boiler explosions tearing apart vessels.
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Boston
Armouth
Halifax
Monticello
Yarmouth Steamship Company
Yarmouth
Myra B. Weaver
Vineyard Sound
Portland
Edison Phonograph Club joins with affordable weekly payments
Become a member and enjoy Phonograph pleasure for a daily cost. Two popular outfits offered: Gem Phonograph set with 5 Edison Records for $3 down and 5c weekly for 14 weeks, and Standard Phonograph set with 5 Edison Records for $5 down and $1 weekly for 20 weeks.
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Edison
Stolen Attleboro Cannon Leads to Taunton Jail
In a Pawtucket case, Fred Patterson, Jonathan H. Smith, the elder Smith’s son William, and William Hackett were arrested on wholesale stealing charges. They confessed to taking the Attleboro cannon from G A R lot in Woodlawn Cemetery last July and selling it to junk dealers in Providence. The group also admits stealing three bales of wool in Taunton, copper wire in Warren, and transporting assets to Boston. Hackett previously served time in Concord Reformatory and Rhode Island Reform School.
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Pawtucket
R. I
Fred Patterson
Jonathan H. Smith
William
William Hackett
Taunton
Patterson
Ekett
Providence
Smiths
Smith
Hackett
Oodlawn
Attleboro
Central Falls
Warren, R. I
Warren Electric
Jealous husband shoots wife and contractor in Lawrence
In South Lawrence at 281 Merrimack street Harry Hansford shot his wife Eliza Hansford and Frank Butler after a scuffle with Butler at the Hansford home. Butler suffered a bullet wound to the upper arm while Eliza was wounded in the shoulder blade. Both were taken to the hospital. Hansford was arrested and faces arraignment Monday.
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Hansford
Butler
Kidnapping Case Cleared in Fall River
Elizabeth Cummings aged 25 or 26 was arrested on November 10 for abducting 5 year old Mary Plunkett from Anawan Street. She faces assault and battery larceny and false imprisonment charges. The child was returned to her mother after a Providence search led to the arrest.
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Fall River
Elizabeth Cummings
Central
Mary Plunkett
Anawan Street
Elizabeth
Both Legs Fractured at Navy Yard Accident
Silas 8 and Seaver 10 Main Street Charles Town injured yesterday afternoon at the navy yard when a derrick hoisting failed and fell on Seaver. He suffered fractures to both legs and was transported to Massachusetts General Hospital for treatment.
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Navy Yard
Silas
Seaver
Main Street
Charlestown
Navy
Aver
Massachusetts General Hospital
Plasterer Injured After Fall From Chapman School Scaffolding
Benanzi Caffant a plasterer fell twenty five feet from staging while working on the new Chapman school building on Eutaw street yesterday afternoon. He sustained injuries to his back and spine and was taken to his home at 42 Richmond street.
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Chapman School
Eutaw Street
Benanzi Caffant
Richmond Street
Inspectors arrest Nellie Cook for larceny of gold watch
Inspectors Kelly and Douglas yesterday arrested Nellie Cook of 31 Common Street for the larceny of a gold watch from an unnamed victim.
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Kelly
Douglas
Nellie Cook
Common Street
Beer Barrel Breaks Leg At Alley’s Brewery
John Doherty of Heath Street was struck by a beer barrel at Alley’s Brewery yesterday afternoon and sustained a fracture above the knee in the right leg. City Hospital reports the injury is serious but not life threatening.
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John Doherty
Heath Street
Alley’s
City Hos- Po
Schooner Myra B. Weaver Wrecked in Vineyard Sound
The three masted schooner Myra B. Weaver wrecked in Vineyard Sound early yesterday morning, six lives lost. Survivors rescued by the City of Macon include First Mate John Kearney and Second Mate Rasmus Olsen, with a long account of the voyage from Fernandina to Vineyard Sound.
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Myra B. Weaver
Vineyard Sound
R. S. Vannaman
Philadelphia
William Petersen
New Orleans
Charles Magnussen
Bergen
Norway
John Herman
Aland
Finland
Mary Emerson
Mobile
Ella de Boe
Emerson
Ocean Line
City of Macon
Savage
New York
John Kearney
Calais
Rasmus Olsen
George Johnson
Axel Oggla
Lewis Wharf
Kearney
Mate Kearney
Delaware
Cape Cod
Tragic Monticello Wreck Near Yarmouth Claims 34
Halifax reports the steamer Monticello bound from St John to Yarmouth foundered near Chegoggin Point as mountainous seas overwhelmed her. Thirty four passengers and crew perished, four survived after a perilous lifeboat escape. names include Wilson Cook Kate Smith and Captain Norman Smith.
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Halifax
N. S
Bay of Fundy
Monticello
St. John
Harding
Chegoggin Point
Yarmouth
Elsie McDonald
Kate Smith
Murphy
J. T. Flemming
Quartermaster Wilson Cook
Norman Smith
Wilson Cook
Hallifax
Smith
Battle Hine
Pharsalia
Flemming
McGray
Immense Piano Value at Low Down, Easy Payments
Not the Ivers Pond brand but a vast iane value for the money. $15 down and 6 per month. Pianos priced from $50 to $1000 with nearly 200 options. We buy in bulk for spot cash and warrant them. Rent available with rent applied toward. Old pianos taken in exchange. Full description by mail. Call or write us.
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Ivers & Pond
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City OF Monticello
Yarmouth Harbor
Edison Phonograph Club
GEM Club
Standard Club
Murray
Blanchard, Young & Go
Ireme
Harvard
BROWN
Cambridge
New Haven
Yale
Carlisle
Middletown
Wesleyan
Holy Cross
Princeton
Andover
Phillips Exeter
Sporting Post
F. Abraham & Son
Court Street
A. McArthur Co
Cornhill
Wen
Noow
Hony Blum
East CO
Rainy River District
Ont
Arizona
Business Eee
Harry Hansford
Frank Butler
Hansford House
Husband
Fernandina
Fla
Monticello Founders
Cushing Medical Supply CO
Cushing Process Co
Washington St
Fulton St
Sixth Ave
Nora
Wilson Jewelry CO
Tremont Row
Ivers & Pond Piano Co
Boylston St
P. B
A. G. van Nostrand
Bunker Hill Breweries
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