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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1896
Page
2
Inspector Cleary labels the housebreaking as a professional burglary. The article lists stolen items including a diamond pin worth 800 dollars and a ruby sapphire diamond brooch, a watch marked 1882, a gold bracelet, and several locket pieces, totaling near 2300 dollars.
Between midnight and 3 am Saturday William H. Guilds residence on Hollis street Newton was entered through a rear window. The lower story was ransacked and burglars took a large amount of silverware valued at several hundred dollars along with garments. No clue was left and police suspect amateur thieves.
Perry New York reports a fatal fire at the Irving Thompson farm tenement. Luther Greenman aged 40 Mrs Greenman 87 Aime 6 Lottie 3 and Arthur 11 months died as flames consumed the interior. Coroner Watson noted a defective pipe as the probable cause.
The three masted schooner Mary I. Wellington collided with the Malden bridge on the Mystic River yesterday morning. The impact broke trusses and damaged the bow, drawing a crowd of about 1000 people onto the bridge. The schooner anchored nearby to await repairs. bridge repairs will cost several hundred dollars.
Frank Vernegreno, 26, a Watertown resident, drunkenly tried to assault and shoot Mrs. Skein in Nonantum. A crowd of about 200 Italians chased him for over a mile, culminating in his capture by officers at Crafts Street. He was jailed at Station 2 and to be arraigned tomorrow before Judge Kennedy.
The Hamburg dock strike widens as warehouse and grinders join for higher wages. Delays mount on waterborne freights with cargo piles and unskilled workers slowing loading and unloading. Stockholm reports dockers refusing cargo from nonunion workers. Emperor William orders a full report on causes and extent.
Mrs. Emmons Blaine presented a $15,000 organ to the Presbyterian Church of Richfield Springs in memory of her husband with a ceremony attended by Cyrus H. McCormick and other guests. The gift carries the Blaine name and honors their marriage in the church. A note to the pastor accompanied the presentation. The Blaine party traveled home tonight. a reception is planned tomorrow afternoon.
Mrs. Clara Burpee, longtime Everest resident, walked without crutches after Drs Henson and Phelps laid on hands at Columbia Theatre Washington Street yesterday. The free healing lectures run weekdays 10 to 11 with additional consultations at Quincy House from 9 to 8 and free theatre admission. Dozens more cures were claimed as audiences cheered and skeptics considered the power of the healing demonstrations.
The Scotch novelist Ian Maclaren spoke in Boston at the New Old South Church, occupying the pulpit of Rev. Dr. George A. Gordon. A Back Bay crowd gathered to hear the author deliver sermons on faith and humanity, offering reflections on character, truth, and belief.
The raid at the First Spiritual Temple led by Gates sparked a chaotic scene as curtains tore open revealing items claimed to expose fraud. Witnesses dispute what happened with Concannon, Ayer, and Willard contesting accounts amid accusations of fraud and outrage.
An unnamed man recounts returning home after 2 am from the Hotel Atwood on a Tuesday night. He sneaks into his house, removes shoes, hides his watch, and finds his wife absent, recalling past misdeeds by Spike Hennessey while insisting he was sober and had only spring water and Worcester sauce.
Beau regard Boz a professor of mathematics and astronomy at the College of Charleston died today in Charleston South Carolina. He was regarded as the most accomplished mathematician of his age in the South.
Maud and Mamie discuss the complexity of voting systems. They reference the German, Irish, and Australian ballots, noting how many kinds of votes exist. The Washington Star quote captures public confusion over evolving electoral methods.
A controversial quote from Harper's Bazaar surfaces in which a speaker comments on servants by color. The remark reflects dated attitudes on race and service, highlighting the era's social norms and stereotypes surrounding occupation and race.
Dr. Watson delivered a forceful sermon on The Optimism of Christ before a full house, with 500 to 600 outside unable to enter. He contrasted two Zacchaeuses and urged belief in the better side of every person, warning that cynicism harms while faith preserves.
Testimony details a Roxbury murder mystery involving Mrs Hanson and a man named Sawyer. Janitor Parsons describes a four room suite and frozen pipes, with Hanson seeking a German maid and moving after a fight. Sawyer and Hanson were detained at Station 10 as arraignment looms before Judge Bolster.
It is reported that over 200 Texas cowboys are ready to depart from Point Isabel on the lower gulf coast near the Mexican line for Cuba. The expedition was organized by an agent of Cuban insurgents who has been in Texas for weeks. A large quantity of arms and ammunition will be taken by the party.
British sloop Wild Swan reports unrest in Chile after the Errazuriz victory. Balmacedist opposition fusion allegedly aided the election to gain cabinet posts, with duels and conspiratorial talk noted. A looming $8,000,000 deficit and cabinet tensions threaten ministerial stability as Congress nears.
Armenian American B Hagopian accuses Turkish attacks at Haskeny of desecrating the American flag and looting an American house. He cites a Constantinople dated letter from Miss M J Gleason noting locals fled and the flag was torn down, exposing the flag as no protection for Miss Gleason's home.
A man likely Nicholas Cody, 38, of the New England Dredging Company, drowned off Pier 6 Grand Junction wharf East Boston at 10 40 last night. Watchman Harding saw him struggle, threw a rope, but he sank. Police will recover the body. Cody has a wife in New Brunswick and two brothers with the Furness line.
The American Wringer Company advertises wringers and Bisell carpet sweepers available at 13 and 15 Broadway extension and 29 and 31 Corn Hill Boston. Repairs are called for and delivered without extra charge. Write or telephone Tremont 764.
Andrew Leeds, who owned much of present day Atlantic City land, was exhumed from a vault on Absecon Island after thirty years. Relatives and health officials clashed over the removal, the casket opened at a blacksmith shop revealing a blackened skeleton, while Aunt Hannah Leeds, 83, protested nearby. Leeds was born near the site in 1791 and died aged 75, leaving a large extended family.
Tokyo dispatches from Nov 16 report Li Hung Chang, once expected to regain power in Pekin, now in the hands of the board of punishments. He rode in a palace park chair, provoking etiquette breaches and a threat of punishment. The episode sparked a clash between the Emperor and Empress Dowager and drew sharp foreign press comment.
Mark Twain has departed his Surrey residence and moved to London for the winter. He plans to stay across the Atlantic region until the next summer.
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