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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1894
Page
1
A large promotion offers high grade suits overcoats and trousers at near manufacturing cost. Men’s $12 and $15 suits now $8.25, overcoats $8.50. boys’ suits from 3.25 to 6, reefers half price, and 600 bargains including tuxedos at 30 and full dress at 35. Ends 8 PM with Saturday hours extended.
Ohio crowd clashes with state militia after a lynching attempt. Militia fires to protect a black man accused of a crime, killing two white citizens and wounding ten. Officials list names and injuries follow, as residents call for two regiments.
Two individuals Smith Welch aged 19 and Jambes Judy aged 25 appear in the record. No further context or actions are provided in the fragment.
Half the winners reside in Boston or nearby as Harvard elects class day officers after a tense week of wire pulling. The Popular Ticket swept most positions, with P. W. Whittemore as the lone contest challenger defeated in both attempts.
A riot erupts in Clermont county when William Dolby’s arrest leads to mob clashes at the county court house. Soldiers restore order after a fatal and multiple injuries including Mack Johnson and William Sams. Dolby is tried and sentenced to twenty years, while Henry Kirk is wounded attempting to aid him.
A postal card offer promises a free copy of the LIFE.BOAT publication. Readers are instructed to send their address to Dana Sarsaparilla at 99 Broad Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
In Brooklyn New York October 17 burglars entered Stephen Duttons residence at 179 Carroll Street stealing fifty one thousand dollar bonds issued by the Montauk Gas Company of West Virginia. The theft occurred while the owners attended a reception and was discovered when Mr Dutton returned to his desk. No other items were touched and police have no clues.
Mrs Mary Benson a 70 year old widow of No 3 Ward Street Roxbury was struck by the 3 15 outward bound train at the Prentice street crossing of the New York New Haven Hartford line She was thrown from the tracks and later died at City Hospital from a spine injury.
The Maine completed an official four hour trial on Long Island Sound confirming engines deliver over 9000 indicated horsepower per contract. Officials noted average boiler pressure 141 psi and cylinder pressure near 335 psi, with 127 rpm propellers and 26 inch vacuum. The ship reached about 15.93 knots over twenty five miles.
Miss Mary E. Bartlett testified on the second day of her $175,000 breach of contract suit against the estate of Dr. Henry J. Bigelow. The proceedings in Middlesex County Superior Court featured calm conduct by both sides and a detailed witness examination. Bartlett, 51, described a long relationship and engagement, moving in 1872 and plans for marriage in 1881, amid a subdued courtroom atmosphere.
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