08 Oct 1891
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1891
Page
1
The item notes a cloak shop located at 500 Washington Street, identified as the headquarters for fashionable cloaks. It emphasizes the store’s role in offering stylish garments and a notable address for clothing shoppers.
A public tribute highlights a grand demonstration in honor of Grant at the university. Organizers call for unity and civic pride as participants march through campus avenues, featuring speakers, banners, and musical performances.
London and Dublin recount the sudden death of Charles Stewart Parnell at his Brighton home. Reports note long illness, strain from political turmoil, and possible rheumatic fever. Reactions span Cork to Boston Irish circles with funeral preparations underway.
Reports from London and New York recount reactions to Charles Stewart Parnell’s death. Justin McCarthy, Joseph Chamberlain, and Michael Davitt predict party reunification and a shift to democratic leadership for Home Rule. Davitt cites likely successors Sexton or Dillon as possible head while stressing that leadership will no longer hinge on one man.
In Columbus on October 7 Governor Campbell protested an article copied from the New York Recorder that questioned his finances, asserting he lost half a million in Wall Street plays. He ordered his New York attorneys to seek a full retraction, threaten libel suit, and sought retractions from the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette and other papers asking for their Columbus correspondents.
A compilation of ship arrivals and departures with origins and destinations. Vessels include Ostonian from Liverpool to Boston, Milanese from London, Galileo from Hull, Weimar from Bremen, Maasdain from Rotterdam, Norseman from Liverpool to Boston, and more. Also notes Aberdeen, Antwerp, Liverpool, Rotterdam, and Queenstown port movements with multiple routes.
Continual demand for Elite Kentucky Whiskey in three wired sealed bottle sizes shows no substitute when the best is desired, promoted through leading merchants.
Tastily put up, though the price is a trifle higher, the quality more than doubles it says purchasers of Thethetherston Importing Co s Elite Kentucky Whiskey in three sizes wired and sealed bottles All leading merchants list S Webster Co 63 Warren av T A Bishop 295 Tremont st B F Ansart 6 Pynchon st E T Leach Co 655 Tremont st and others sell it.
Maria Clegg age 22 was fatally shot by Harry Entwistle 24 as she left work at the Massachusetts Corporation. Entwistle fired three rounds from a 38 caliber revolver, one entering the thigh and another in the right lung. He surrendered to police about 11 pm admitting guilt. Her father had complained of him previously.
Charles Stewart Parnell was born in 1846 on the Parnell estates in Avondale Wicklow. He studied law, entered Parliament with a cautious start, and by 1876 emerged as a leading figure in obstructive tactics against the Conservative government. He challenged landlords rights and formed a base with the Home Rule movement, later becoming vice-chairman of the Home Rule Confederation of Great Britain. He led parliamentary obstructions, opposed the prisons bill, and engaged with figures like Butt and Biggar while promoting Irish self governance.
The text recounts Parnell's role during Gladstone’s Liberal government from 1880 to 1885, detailing arrests under the Coercion Act, suspicions by the British government, the Kilmainham imprisonment, the Lord Cavendish murder shock, Dublin honors, and the revival of the Land League as the National League with Parnell at its head, culminating in the 1885 general election where nationalist candidates won eighty five Westminster seats.
The article recounts secret talks between Parnellites and Conservatives before 1886, notes Gladstone’s return to power and the ensuing Home Rule and Land Bills, and describes Parnell’s withdrawal from public life while others like Sexton and Dillon battled on. It hints at ongoing intrigue as Parnell clashes with Mrs O Shea and is continued on page eight.
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