Barings Crisis Eases as Gold Infusion Quells Panic
The Pall Mall Gazette notes Baring Brothers safety due to South American commitments. The Times reports a near panic and Bank of England intervention with Rothschilds to avert a catastrophe. Markets rallied briefly as a crisis was contained, though confidence remains cautious amid Argentine and Uruguayan exposure and a potential Barings personnel shakeup.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baring Bros
Pall Mall Gazette
Bank of England
Times
Barings rescue arranged by Bank of England meeting
London reports the Bank of England concluded an arrangement to assist Barings after Russia's Paris agent withdrew funds and Barings assets total about seven million pounds. A guarantee fund was raised to avert panic while preserving secrecy and time for reconstruction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Bank of England
Russia
Paris
Baring Bros
Barings
Comptoir d'Escompte
Berlin
Massachusetts Board Reports on 1890 Old Colony Wreck Near Quincy
The Massachusetts Board of Railroad Commissioners released a 25 page report detailing the Vineyard, Nantucket and Hyannis express wreck near Quincy on Aug 19 1890. It links the disaster to a Barrett jack left on the track by section workers Welch and Hartney, analyzes brake failures, and calls for stricter track jack rules and fuller brake integration across locomotives and cars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusetts Board of Railroad Commissioners
Old Colony
Quincey Station
George F. Swain
Nantucket
Woods Hall
Cape Division
Buzzard’s Bay
Frederick W. Steadman
D. C. Babcock
Wass
Dimmock Street
Boston
Pauliman
Kendrick
Joseph K. Welch
Quincy Adams
Michael I. Vartney
Joseph F. Welch
Ilurtney
Hartney
Welch
Old Colony Railroad Company
Emory
Bryant
J. H. French
Central Division
James H. Kendrick
Jessrs
French
Massachusetts
Clinton & Fitchburg
New York
New England
Goodsell after Shepard and the New Consul
Charles H. Shepard United States consul to Sweden was served with a $10,000 tort action by Abner C. Goodell of Salem. The writ, served just before the Pavonia voyage, is returnable the first Monday in January in Salem Superior Court. The suit likely stems from Goodell’s conduct investigation and subsequent vindication by a legislative committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles H. Shepard
Danvers
United States
Sweden
Abner C. Goodell
Salem
Pavonia
Shepard
Goodell
Sailed steamers Wisconsin and Servia bound for New York
Late ship news from London reports the steamers Wisconsin and Servia sailing via Queenstown for New York today. A separate notice from Tarpaulin Cove light station in Vineyard Sound Mass informs that a fog bell will be established around November 20 1890 and struck every fifteen seconds in thick fog under the Lighthouse Board order signed by Rear Admiral Davin B Harmony.
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London
Wisconsin
Servia
Queenstown
New York
Washington, SD. C
Tarpaulin Cove
Vineyard Sound
Vineard Sound
Mass
Davin B. Harmony
United States Navy
Mala
Auction of Henry J. Steere library at 2 p.m. Friday
C F Linnie and Co of 13 Hayward Place announce a sale of the private library of Henry J Steere esq at 2 o clock Friday. The collection is rich in fine arts architecture standard literature deluxe editions etchings and bound works including wood engravings by the Society of American Wood Engravers Tokyo proofs Nash’s Mansions of England and a unique Rhode Island Tracts set tied to the Dorr Rebellion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. F. Linnie & Co
Hayward Place
Henry J. Steere
Society of Amercan Wood Engravers
Japan
Dorr
Rhode Island
Obituary of Leonard Gardner the South Weymouth mathemetician
Leonard Gardner of South Weymouth died aged about 87. A self taught calculator of astronomical events, he traced his education to small local schools and advanced by reading Flint and other works. He computed eclipses and the Venus transit of 1874, 1882, and created volumes later lost in a library fire. His efforts earned praise from a Boston dealer and a Cambridge professor. He lived in Nash's Corner, worked at Loud's box, and taught at St. Paul's school, Concord. He leaves a family.
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Leonard Gardner
South Weymouth
South Hingham
Flint
Mr. Gardner
Nash’s Corner
Boston
Gardner
Cambridge
Pierce
Davis
United States
Hingham Public Library
Mars
Newcomb
Provost Nathaniel Morison Led Peabody Institute to Prominence
Nathaniel Holmes Morison, provost of the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, dies. A New Hampshire native born November 14, 1815, he studied at Phillips Exeter and Harvard, taught theology under Dr. George Burnap, founded a girls school, and published scholar handbooks before being unanimously chosen provost in 1867.
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Nathaniel Holmes Morison
Peabody Institute
Baltimore
New Hampshire
Peterboro
Phillips Exeter Academy
Harvard
Edward Everett Hale
Samuel Eliot
Samuel Longfellow
Obituary for Civil War General John C Starkweather
John C Starkweather died in Washington D C on a Saturday after a lingering illness. He was born May 11 1830 in Cooperstown New York and educated at Union College. He married Louisa Hallett and left Milwaukee to serve with the First Wisconsin, rising to brigadier general and later served as postmaster of Oconomoco Wisconsin.
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John C. Starkweather
Washington, D.C
Cooperstown
N. Y
Union College
Milwaukee
Louisa A. Hallett
William Paxton Hallett
New York
Lincoln
Milwaukee Light Guard
First
Wisconsin
Starkweather
Brighier-General
Oconomoco
Wis
John Lewis Brown French Artist Dies at Bordeaux Born 1829
John Lewis Brown the French painter died. Born in Bordeaux on April 28, 1829 he studied under old masters at the French National Gallery and developed a talent for equestrian and animal subjects. He copied Rembrandt at Copenhagen in 1892 and later settled in Bordeaux before moving to Paris. He received Legion of Honor in 1870 and medals in 1865 1866 and 1867.
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John Lewis Brown
Bordeaux
Camille Roqueplan
Belloc
French
National Gallery
Dupin Stud
Copenhagen
Emmaus
Rembrandt
Tours
France
Limoges
Brown
Paris
Legion of Honor
Society of French Water Color Painters
Death of Captain George F. Nickerson a Duxbury shipmaster
Captain George F. Nickerson of Winchester and formerly Duxbury died at Winchester after a long career as a merchant shipmaster. Born Barnstable and raised in Duxbury, he commanded fine ships for nearly thirty years and never faced major disasters. His last voyage was six years ago to the Java coast where he contracted fever. His wife Lucy Bradford died in 1879 near Cape Horn. He leaves a son and three daughters, two of whom live in Yokohama.
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George F. Nickerson
Winchester
Duxbury
Barnstable
Mr. Nickerson
Nickerson
Java
Lucy Bradford
Cape Horn
South America
Europe
Yokohama
Japan
Death notices for Rev. Thomas G. Valpey
The Rev. Thomas G. Valpey died of heart disease at his brother D Valpeys residence in South Lawrence on Saturday. He was born in Andover on July 16, 1882 and attended Lawrence public schools before graduation.
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Thomas G. Valpey
D. Valpey
South Lawrence
Andover
Lawrence
Waldensian Church Leaders Recount Alps Faith Message
Dr Gay of the Waldensian Church in Rome outlined the Alpine church’s history and growth to an audience at South Congregational Church. He traced migrations from Lyons, persecutions, and the establishment of schools, Bible distribution, and broad Italian presence, calling for American aid to aid the Waldensians.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gay
Waldensian Church
Rome
King’s Daughters
South Congregational
Church of the Alps
Italy
Alps
Lyons
Holy Inquisition
Duke of
Savoy
France
Oliver Cromwell
Switzerland
Lurin
Uruguay
South America
India
Sicily
Donahoe Announces Preliminary Pilot Transfer Plans
Patrick Donahoe, veteran publisher and former Pilot owner, says preliminary transfer arrangements are made. The property will be placed in a stock company with James Jeffrey Roche and Katharine Conway remaining in their editor roles.
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Patrick Donahoe
The
Pilot
The Value of Hood s Sarsaparilla for Catarrh Remedy
The article promotes Hood s Sarsaparilla as a constitutional cure for catarrh noting local applications fail. It claims the remedy cleanses impurities in the blood, attacking the disease at its foundation and restoring the affected membranes to health.
Thought She Had Consumption
Mrs McKyiur of Newport Kentucky recounts a nine year cough and catarrh being misread as consumption. After sending her daughter to Florida for the winter, Hood sarsaparilla was tried on three bottles and she improved markedly according to the letter.
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Florida
Hood
Family horse prospect Morgan bred gelding 16 hands high
A thorough description presents a dark mahogany bay Morgan type horse six years old standing sixteen hands with a weight around 1126 pounds. He is noted for splendid limbs and feet and a brisk reading of eleven miles per hour on his courage. Described as fearless and suited for a gentleman's family use.
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Genteman
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Overend, Gurney & Co
Stock Exchange
Rothschilds
Plaza
Baringros
Quincy
Dartmouth College
Episcopal Church
Concord
N. H
Brooklyn
Manlius
St. Paul’s School
Lawrence High School
Mission Church
Moses G. Steele
Rush Street
East Somerville
Steele
Hudson
Somerville
Steele & Webster
Shirley Hibbard
Gardeners
Kew
MR. Donahoe
C. I, Hood & CO
Apothecaries
Lowell
A. W. Davis
Northampton Street
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