Victory celebration extols Republican victory and policy reforms
A Boston Home Market Club event honors a Republican victory with speeches by Warner Miller and others. Attendees praise tariff revision, American trade, and a strong foreign policy, pledging to defend American industry, pay war debts, and support a dignified national administration. Letters from notable figures express regret at unable to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bren
Harrison
Merrick
Whipps & Train
Warner Miller
New York
Congress
Europe
General Alger
White House
Mhay
Jones
Miller
Aldrich
New England
Elliott F. Shepherd
Mail and Express
Boston
Massachusetts
John F. Scanlan
Chicago
Hoar
Benjamin Harrison
Union
Confederacy
Grover Cleveland
Springfield Republican
Supreme Court of the
United States
Republican Party
America
N. D. Sperry
New Haven
John C. Wyman
Rhode Island
Theophilus King
John +. Swift
J. 3. Clayton
South Carolina
Morton
Walker Blaine
Levi P. Morton
M.S. Quay
IT. C. Platt
J. H. Flint
Republican State League of Massachusetts
Cornelius N. Bliss
John D. Long
W. P. Frye
Edward McPherson
W. B. Allison
John Sherman
H. K.churber
John Wanamaker
Thomas Dolan
H. L. James
Jonathan Chace
G. F. Edmunds
J. S. Clarkson
W. W. Phelps
Governor Ames
H. C. Lodge
J. Whitelaw Reid
W. E. Chandler
Political greetings from the past on tariff and jubilee invites
A compilation of letters shows figures like Walker Blaine George F. Edmunds Oliver Ames and others declining jubilee dinner invitations while praising the tariff victory and Republican prospects. Messages note Augusta rest travel limits and gratitude for protective tariff literature influencing New York State and national sentiment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augusta
Sam
Sir
Walker Blaine
Home Market Club
New York State
Lcpratt
Powderly Reports On Last Year For Knights Of Labor
In Indianapolis on November 15 the General Assembly heard General Master Workman Powderly report that the previous year was the most discouraging in nineteen years for the Knights of Labor. He blames false internal reports, unwise strikes, and political strife, urges informed study of finance land and transportation, and backs junior assemblies and equal pay for women. He condemns gambling in money lard railways and food amid stock ticker speculation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Inpianapolis
Ind
General Assembly
Knights of Labor
Workman
Powderly
Litchman
Washington's Social Event The Chamberlains Marry Endicott
In Washington on November 15, 2 PM, Joseph Chamberlain of England wed Miss Mary Endicott at St. John's Church. Attendees included President and Mrs. Cleveland, cabinet members, diplomats, military officers, and Endicott family relatives. A simple breakfast followed at the Endicott residence before the couple headed toward New York, with plans to sail for Europe on the 26th.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Joseph Chamberlain
England
Mary Endicott
St. John’s Protestant Episcopal Church
Hi Street
Cleveland
Endicott
Clara Payson
W. ©. Endicott
Folsom
Layard
Navy
Whitney
Biddle
Macomb
General Greely
Looston
George Gardner
Gardner
M. P. Mason
Mason
R. S. Sears
HE. Peabody
Joseph Peabody
Endicott Peabody
Brimmer
Timmons
Prince
Episcopal Church
W. A. Leonard
Washington
J. P. Franks
Salem
Mass
Endicott Mansion
Fairchild
Vilas
Dickinson
Bayard
Chamberlain
Pennsylvania
Webster Mystery Ends With No Trial For McQuaid and Cowie
In Worcester the famed Webster mystery surrounding Lila Hoyle’s 1887 death remains unresolved as Thomas B. McQuaid and Dixon B. Cowie, jailed, are to be released after the government finds insufficient evidence for a trial. Alice Hoyle recanted both stories, admitting she knows nothing about the death, prompting prosecutors to abandon the case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Worcester
Speciau
Webster
Lila Hoyle
Thomas B. McQuaid
Dixon B. Cowie
Alice Hoyle
McQuaid
Cowie
Lila
McQuaaid
Boston public schools rally defends schools at Tremont Temple
The Citizens' committee of 100 defends Boston public schools as Dr. Miner cites papal bulls and anti Romanist arguments. Dr. Dunn debates Anderson's General History while Prof. Townsend vows ongoing fight against foreign influence. A mixed chorus flags national unity and protests Jesuitical influence. The meeting adjourns near 10.00 pm with a similar session planned for next Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tremont Temple
Citizens’ Committee
Dr. Miner
Gregory XI
Pius IX
Miner
Boston
Duryea
Dunn
Anderson
Swinton
J T. Townsend
H. H. Lincoln
America
Rome
Baggage Master Struck by Train at Fitchley Station
Charles H. Livermore, baggage master at Fitchley railroad’s North Adams station, was struck by a train yesterday and seriously injured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles H. Livermore
Fitchley Railroad
North Adams
Orphan Asylum Fire in Montreal Gutting Building
Montreal records an early morning blaze at St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum. About 150 children and inmates were evacuated safely from the basement as flames spread. The two hour blaze gutted the building with losses around 10,000 dollars, insured. Other fires reported include a small burn at Littlefield and Plummer’s saw mill and a Wakefield post office block fire causing about 10,000 dollars in losses with partial insurance. Plainfield village business section destroyed with 25,000 dollars in losses and light insurance.
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Monttreal
Que
Lynn
Littlefield & Plummer
Box Place
Providence
R. L
Main Street
Wakefield
Postoffice
Cross & Clarke
Jourer
Plainfield
Fire alarms report two blazes and a false alarm
Yesterday afternoon Box 19 reported a four story brick building at 73 Gaverhill street housing Messer Co furniture makers, damaged by an alcohol lamp upset to the tune of 10 dollars. A late evening alarm cited a dwelling at 2 Murray Rae owned by David Flynn, damaged by a kerosene lamp explosion at 20 dollars. A prior noon alarm on Haverhill street was deemed trifling and extinguished before bells rang.
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Gaverhill Street
Messer & Co
Murray Rae
Stuart
David Flynn
Haverhill Street
Hint to the Grandson
The Philadelphia Times notes President-elect Benjamin Harrison’s grandfather General William Henry Harrison named a 1841 Cabinet headlined by Webster Ewing Bell Badger Crittenden Granger. It argues the grandson should match that illustrious group, then reports J F Wilder of Eastport Messenger drowned yesterday.
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Philadelphia Times
Ind
William Henry Harrison
Benjamin Harrison
Daniel Webster
Massachusetts
Aeesery
Thomas Ewing
Ohio
John Bell
Tennessee
George E. Badger
North Carolina
John J. Crittenden
Kentucky
Francis Granger
Newark
Annexation support voiced by The Evening Post in MontTreat
The Evening Post of MontTreat Quebec declares in favor of annexation with a leading editorial denouncing Lord Stanley's Ottawa speech against it. It argues Canadian Union sentiment is broad and growing, condemns Macdonaldite Tories as unrepresentative, and urges a direct appeal to the people to align with the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MontTreat
Spreta
Evening Post
Lord Stanley
Ottawa
Canada
Earl of Beaconsfield
England
United States
Dominion
LYNCHED BY BALD KNOBBERS IN OZARK KLAN MURDERS
A Bald Knobbers lynching in Christian county leaves five men dead Charles Green James Eden William Enders Jonathan Wiley and Enmet Anderson were hanged from an oak near Green and Eden’s home and accompanied by terror across the county as Sheriff Williams leads a posse to the scene of the killings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Ozark
Christian County
Dave Walker
Green and Eden
Charles Green
James Eden
William Enders
Jonathan Wiley
Enmet Anderson
Green
Eden
Enders
Wiley
Anderson
Chadwick
Williams
New Mass. Reports volume by William V. Kellen debut
This first volume by William V. Kellen as reporter covers Massachusetts Reports volume 146. It introduces a new digest index reducing cross references and improving case access. The volume includes decisions up to May 4 of the current year with notable instances in Clark vs Easton and other rulings on road commissioners, deeds, mortgages, and predatory trusts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William V. Kellen
Judge Lathrop
Kellen
Lathrop
Parsons
Easton
Clifford
Atlantic Cotton Mills
Cullen
Howes
Haddock
Boston & Maine Railroad
Foote
Rogers
Sturgis
Holmes
Field
William Allen
Harvard Notes Highlight Prizes and Society Appointments
Sumner prize of $100 awarded to Herbert Henry Darling for an essay on Great National Armaments in Times of Peace. James Harvey Robinson awarded the Toppan prize for The Original and Derived Features of the Constitution of the United States. St Pauls Society adds J C Barr W S H Lathrop H Curtis J H Walker Jr A W Weld S Van Rensselaer G Chapman E H Child F A Goozins C H Blodgett E L Atkinson A K Papineau. Ladd of Santa Fe spoke to Historical Society. Zooological Club heard C H Eigenmann on Eye Membranes in Fishes. Deutscher Verein addressed by Oakes SS on Germany years of residence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert Henry Darling
Sumner
Ames
Emerton
James Harvey Robinson
A.B
United States
J. B. Thayer
Joseph B. Warren
Channing
St. Paul’s Society
J. C. Barr
W. S. H. Lathrop
H. Curtis
J. H. Walker, Jr
A. W. Weld
S. van Rensselaer
G. Chapman
E. H. Child
F. A. Goozins
C. H. Blodgett
E. L. Atkinson
A. K. Papineau
Ladd
Santa Fe
The
Historical Society
Zooological Club
C. H. Eigenmann
Deutscher Verein
Oakes
S.S
Germany
New England Dentists Open Annual Meeting in Boston
The twenty sixth annual meeting of the New England Dental Society began in Boston with morning business and papers on gold fillings artificial articulation and teeth and tusks. Notables include Dr. William Barker Providence Dr. Paul Alfred Kollicker Zurich and Dr. Xavier Sudderth Philadelphia. Afternoon clinics and officer elections follow at Harvard dental school and other New England cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England Dental Society
Boston Natural History Rooms
William Barker
Providence
R. J
A. J. George
B. Davis
Concord
N. H
Paul Alfred Kollicker
Zurich
Switzerland
H. A. Baker
Xavier Sudderth
Medico-Chirurgical College
Philadelphia
Andrews
Harvard Dental School
North Grove Street
A. W. Buckland
Woonsocket
R. L
E. P. McLean
Essex Agricultural Society Meeting Reports Pasture Improvement Profit
At the Essex Agricultural Society meeting in Salem on November 15, C. K. Ordway & Son of West Newbury reported extensive pasture and waste land experiments with a net profit of 205 dollars and 40 cents. A Beverly exhibition is set for the next year. The season’s first institute will be held in Beverly on December 13, with talks on underdrained lands in Essex County and best methods to improve pasture lands. The premium list was revised, increasing flowers to 150 dollars and separating art and fancy work departments, with 30 dollars for gratuities each.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salem
Essex Agricultural Society
C. K. Ordway & Son
West Newbury
Beverly
Essex County
J.J. H. Gregory
Marblehead
Samuel Hawkes
Saugus
Ella M. Doughty matter disposed of in Halifax
Funds deposited to the receiver general by Woodman & Thompson for the schooner Ella M. Doughty were returned after Halifax settlement. Bonds were canceled and $600 initial deposit was repaid minus $125 counsel fees. Proceedings against schooner Ella M. Doughty and Captain Warren A. Doughty are finally disposed of.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ella M. Doughty
Portland
Woodman & Thompson
L. H. Meagher
Q. C
Halifax
Canada
Warren A. Doughty
Puddler strike at Jones & Laughlin over gas shortage hours
Five hundred puddlers at Jones and Laughlin's American Iron Works in Pittsburg Pennsylvania struck in protest of daytime working hour changes caused by scarce natural gas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones & Laughlin
American Iron Works
Pittsburg
Penn
Book of Culinary Heresies challenges fast cooking trend
A reviewer notes One of the Heretics proposes 630 recipes with 340 ready in five to fifteen minutes and 250 in fifteen to forty. The volume includes a Black List of 39 recipes, a humorous Mercury illustration, and claims to mix quick cooking with wholesome, historical dishes, urging balanced speed and skill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mercury
New York
G. P. Putnam’s Sons
Boston
Laughton, Macdonald & Co
Price
Selections of writings from Mrs Stowe Pansy and more
A summary of small books of selections from Mrs Stowe s writings compiled by Abbie H Fairfield and Grace Livingston including Flowers and Fruit from Harriet Beecher Stowe Pansies for Thoughts After Noontide and Golden Words for Daily Counsel The review notes attractive format warm tone and broad literary scope with emphasis on moral and religious content and list prices and publishers for each volume.
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Abbie H. Fairfield
Pansy
Margaret E. White
Amiel
Dr. Bartel
Stopford Brooke
Eliza T. Clapp
George Eliot
E. Hale
George Herbert
Thomas A Kempis
James R. Lowell
Miss Rossetti
Dean Stanley
Whittier
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Boston
Houghton, Mifflin & Co
Price
Rice
Daily Counsel
Anna Harris Smith
New York
Thomas Y. Crowell & Co
Remarkable Hunt’s Remedy Claims Examined
Investigative piece in New England paper interviews apothecaries and dealers who confirm Hunt’s Remedy for kidney and Bright's disease. Records show repeated purchases and cures among notable individuals including Alfred C. Monroe and John Dixon. The piece concludes the claims are supported and merit belief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reading People
New England
B. F. Bradbury
Washington Street
Mr. Bradbury
Bright
Hunt
John Sullivan
Tremont Street
Houghton & Dutton
Messrs
George C. Goodwin & Co
Weeks & Potter
John Dixon
Broadway
Boston
Joseph G. Bicknell
Main Street
Cambridgeport
America
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Geo. F. Edmunds
National Committee
Clarkson
Oliver Ames
WiItLtAm P. Frye
Washington’s
Tom” McQuaid
Dixon Cowie
Boston’s Public Schools
Citizens’ Committee of One Hundred
Orphan Asylum
Montreal
J. F. Wilder
Eastport Messenger
NEW Books
Massachusetts Reports
Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts
Little, Brown & Co
Harvard
Sumner and
Toppan
American Insurance Co
State Street
Geston
George Croshaw & CO
London
Francis Peabody
J. W. Field
Bznry & Rean. Asst
Albert Howe & CO
Market Street
Brighton
Warren Avenue
Nollector
Custom House
Glock
L. Saltonstall
Richards
Horatio Harris & Coo., Auctioneers and Commission Merchants
State St
Tokay
Santa Cruz Mountain
Florida
City of
Macon
Almeria
Cephalonia
Bostonian
Naples
Neustria
Lewis J. Bird & CO
Gromfield Street
China
Pearl ST
Franklin
Samuel Hatch & Coo
Congress St
Charles and
Revere Streets
Charles Street
Revere Street
Charles River
Charnet River
Muirles
West Ind
W. C. Codman
J. 3. Freeman
Kilby Street
Snow & CO
North Market St
Fulton St
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