Holmes to Be Taken Back to Philadelphia Today
Boston police and Pinkertons pursue H. H. Holmes alias Harry M. Howard in a $10,000 conspiracy to defraud Fidelity Mutual Life. Holmes may waive extradition as detective Crawford heads to Boston with the prisoner. Police suspect bigamy and note Holmes’s skill and role in the elaborate swindle.
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H. H. Holmes
Harry M. Howard
H. M. Howell
Fidelity Mutual Life Association of Philadelphia
Sunday Post
Philadelphia
Crawford
Boston
Holmes
Boston Police
Pinkerton
Insurance
Chance
B. F. Pitezel
New York
Pitezel
Chicago
Pinkertons
Weatherworn old whaler John Walton taken to Te wksbury
Aged 65, once a New Bedford whaler and wardroom steward on the Constitution, Walton faced vagrancy and was sent to the State institution at Tewksbury after seeking relief at Lynn police. His perilous career included battles with the Rappahannock, long voyages to the North Atlantic and Pacific, and a life of maritime danger and occasional fortune.
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Lynn
Tewksbury
John Walton
Rappahannock
New Bedford
Cayuga
Canalling
Osceola
Swift & Perry
Atlantic
Cape de Verd
Africa
Constitution
Dale
St. Jago
Isaac Mayo
Walton
Kittery Navy Yard
Bryon
Sea of Okhotsk
Bermudas
Elizabeth
New York
Northern Pacific
Gallapagos Islands
Peru
Great Britain
Alabama
Swift & Co
Behring Straits
Roman
Swift
Wadleigh
China
Larrabee
Cape St. Antoine
Cuba
Saugus
Second Nationalist Club Opposes Bond Issue
At a meeting the Second Nationalist Club of Boston denounced a fifty million dollar bond issue in peacetime as bad policy and hostile to the interests of the people.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Second Nationalist Club
Boston
Blaze at Haverhill Causes $1000 Loss
Haverhill reports an incendiary fire at George S. Smith's leather and straw board factory on Phenix row. Early this morning the building suffered about $1000 in damage, insured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Haverhill
George S. Smith’s Leather and Straw Board
Phenix Row
State Gas Consolidation Plans Highlight City Approach
A Boston official outlines efforts to consolidate Bay State and allied gas firms, shift control to local management, and maintain price regulation. He notes capitalization reductions after a 1893 commission ruling, a drive for Massachusetts based consolidation, and separation from the Delaware Bay State company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bay State Gas Company
Board of Gas and Electric Light Commissioners
Boston Gas Light Company
Brookline Gas Light Company
Boston
Bay State Gas Company of Delaware
State Gas Commission
Delaware Company
Boston Gas
Delaware
Massachusetts
Boston Street Railway
Charles River
West End Street
Sousa's Band Delights Boston Theatre Crowd
Sousa's famous band drew standing room only as Boston Theatre hosted a long anticipated concert. Wagner and Scenes at a Masquerade opened, with encore pieces thrilling the audience. Arthur W. Prior and Madame Francesca Guthrie Mayer earned strong applause. another full program repeats next Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Sousa
Wagner
Tannthauser
Arthur W. Prior
Francesca Guthrie-Mayer
Boston Theatre
Murder at West Forty-ninth Street: Leach kills Mary Hope Newirk
New York city reports Mary Hope Newirk killed by Richard Leach who cut her throat at their home 412 West Forty-ninth street. Leach tried to cut his own throat, failed, and was removed to Bellevue Hospital as a prisoner.
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Boston
Henry J. Thomas
Charles L. Frost
Walter Fr. Bray
Cornish
Hanscom
Watts, Burke and Collins
Thomas
Mutual Accident Association of
New York
Mary A. Leonard
Dover Street
Frost
Beverly Harbor
Cambridge
Holmes
United States
Mary Hope Newkirk
Richard Leach
No. 412
West Forty-ninth Street
Leach
Bellevue Hospital
Colored Republicans endorse Curtis for Mayor in Ward 19 meeting
The Colored Republican Club of Ward 19 held a Sunday meeting endorsing Eerwin A. Curtis for Mayor and pledging support for Charles N. Bryant’s re election as Alderman if he is nominated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colored Republican Club
Ward 19
Eerwin A. Curtis
Charles N. Bryant
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TCL
Yankee Company
Prince Albert
New Englan
W. Farnsworth
Assignes
Dr. Holmes
Phila
Delphia
John Cornish
Potters’ Field
Medical
Watts
Texas
Yankee
Enterprise
W. EE. Chowell
Crowell
Summer St
Municipal Corporation
N. Matthews, JR
Sousa’s
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