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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1894
Page
8
A Post reporter recounts the Hudson's harbor dispute as mate Leeman and second mate Wilson abandon ship citing leaky conditions. Captain Hatch defends the vessel claiming shallow water and no seaworthiness, while sounding shows twelve inches in hold. voyage may resume Monday with new crew.
Halifax N S Oct 5 The town of Dartmouth across the harbor reports a grim incident. Alex McBrachen about four years old and his wife were found dead at their home from poison. A note signed by McEachen stated the wife poisoned herself accidentally and he could not live without her so chose death by his own hand. McEachen had worked in the United States in New York and Boston electrical trades.
John Stetson now owns all property where the Globe Theatre stood except Baldwin estate holdings. A nine story building rises behind it, with a first floor theatre lobby access. An extension has been contracted making the structure 160 feet deep.
The schooner Carrie E Lane will have a new pine mast fitted after removing the old rotten one. Rigger Reed will stop the mast at 9 o clock Saturday to finish rigging as the vessel prepares to load for the West Indies. Other harbor vessels slowly resume sailing as winds calm. Also two stowaways, George Berkitt and Joseph Leavens, are in custody awaiting return.
Detroit scene on Woodward Avenue sees five firefighters killed and nine injured when Kennan and John’s furniture store fire collapses its five story walls. A spectator also dies as the blaze, started about 8 am, causes stock losses estimated at 65 000 and building damage of 10 000 in insurance claims. Firemen from Engines 8 9 Chemical 1 and Truck 2 battled the flames but the floors gave way at 9 16 am burying crews. rescue efforts saved some, others were trapped in the debris. The condemned building was noted unsafe prior to the disaster.
New York reports the death of Professor Botta a wealthy linguist who fell from a third story window at his home on West Thirty-seventh Street He taught Italian language and literature at New York University and was born November 11 1818 in Caviller Maggiore Piedmont He married author Ann Charlotte Lynch in 1855 and became a naturalized citizen after moving to the United States to study education.
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