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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1899
Page
8
Josephine Peterson and William McCauley are found dead in T. Basey’s barn on Park Street. Autopsy by Medical Examiner Meade will determine cause, with police thinking poisoning involved amid suspected jealousy and threatening letters.
The report notes the couple appeared engaged and no poison traces were found in the room where bodies were discovered. McCauley, a steady man, had bank books and a Smith & Wesson revolver in his trunk, and a letter to a James McCauley in Ireland. Peterson was a Swede who once worked as a domestic in Mr Casey's home.
Evangelist Dwight L. Moody launches a series of meetings at Tremont Temple with Rev. G Campbell Morgan of London's Congregational Church. Morgan speaks on spiritual longing and the primacy of being in the will of God over personal power or success.
A Batavia dispatch reports a violent quake on Ceram island devastates Amhel and kills about 40000 people with 600 injured. The quake struck between Booroo and Papua, impacting the south side of Ceram near the Moluccas.
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