The Collectorship and Farrar Visit at White House
A Boston figure, Leverett Saltonstall, visits Washington to discuss the collectorship matter, with Massachusetts petitions overwhelming in his favor. Canon Farrar delivers a sermon at St. John’s and draws a large crowd, while Dr Farrar’s White House visit goes largely unnoticed. Stevenson seeks more room as the sixth auditor clears space by moving 150 treasury clerks to accommodate post office duties.
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Washington
Leverett Saltonstall
Boston
Endicott
Massachusetts
Butler
Canon Farrar
St. John’s Protestant Episcopal Church
White House
Arthur
Republican Court
Dr. Farrar
Mr. Stevenson
Stevenson
the Treasury
Post Office Department
Department
Final Cholera Report From Consul Mason at Marseilles
Final dispatch from United States Consul Frank H. Mason at Marseilles reports the gradual subsidence of cholera in Marseilles Toulon and Cette. The deadliest day was August 21 in Marseilles with 69 deaths and August 27 in Toulon with 42 deaths. By report date the epidemic has claimed 1280 victims in Marseilles since outbreak. Mason notes no US citizen casualties and praises American captains who followed sanitation advice. The remedy used by these captains is described and the report urges prevention through ventilation drainage and public health measures.
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Frank J. Mason
Marseilles
Washington
Toulon
Cette
United States
Frank H. Mason
Mason
Hyeres
Boston
New York
Valentine Mott
Kocks
Spain
France
Italy
Trouble at New Spiritual Temple Over Seance Revelations
A dispute at the First Spiritual temple on Newbury and Exeter streets centers on revelations from a seance led by Mrs. Dyer. Dr. Page, a Charlestown dentist and temple member, opposed by Mr. M. S. Ayer, accuses autocratic conduct and plans to circulate a critical letter. Officials downplay the split, insisting harmony remains and the disturbance will pass.
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Newbury and
Exeter
Page
Charlestown
Helen Marr
Westchester Park
Miss Marr
Dr. Page
Ayer
Mme Nevada Arrives in New York From Europe
Mme Nevada reached New York on the Etruria after a foggy sea voyage and a tense search by multiple steamers. She greeted by friends aboard a revenue cutter, praised her manager and concert company, and confirmed plans for an American tour beginning with a Cleveland engagement.
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New York
Fier Associates
Boston Post
Mme
Nevada
Europe
Etruria
Fire Island
Cunard
Emma
Nort of
Mme. Nevada
Chizzola
Cleveland
Suburban Short Notes From Wakefield Area
Wakefield high school boys form a military company. Woburn board of trade will discuss insurance rates at tomorrow night’s meeting. Brighton stores burglaries unsolved since Friday. A thief stole $200 in cash and $444 in a check from B F Sturtevant’s office Saturday. E A Atwood of Salem ill with possible poisoning after eating canner berries Saturday. Millis plans a stone railroad depot with library and town offices if $500 is appropriated. Wakefield car shift accident injures Engineer Charles Howe of Lowell. he suffered a severe facial injury and is hospitalized at home.
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Wakefield
Woburn Board of Trade
Brighton
B. F. Sturtevant
New
Atwood
Salem
Henry L. Millis
Millis
Charles Howe
Lowell
Artist Mr Whistler to Return to America This Autumn
Mr Whistler the artist plans a return to America this autumn. Rev E P Bowker has sold his new house on Aspinwall avenue Brookline to Mayor O Brien whose son likely will occupy it. The wedding reception at Governor English s New Haven residence will occur Nov 4. Governor and Mrs English will spend winter in Europe and return to New Haven to reside in the spring.
Death on the Rail Near Hackensack Bridge
A western express train collided with an emigrant train near the Hackensack river bridge in Jersey City causing multiple deaths and many injuries. Several bodies were decapitated or mangled. fires and dense fog hindered rescue as authorities counted at least eight dead.
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Jersey City
N. J
Western Express
Pennsylvania Railroad
Hackensack River Bridge
Newark
Lehigh Valley
Eulena Arneas
Christian G. Balsted
Marians Clenger
Laura Redesen Melanand
Speer
Stewart A. Bowers
Owen Hall
Louis Abie
Sergeant Crawford
New York Division
Associated Press
the Meadows
Pacific Express
Lehigh Valley Railroad
Collision of Trains Kills Three on Boston and Lowell Line
Three men die and five are injured in a deadly wreck on the Boston and Lowell northern division between East and West Andover. Emerson and Scannell, engineers, perish. the baggage master and express messenger are trapped, with fire in the baggage car. Investigators will determine responsibility.
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Concord
N. H
Boston and Lowell
East
West Andover
Chicago Express
John P. Emerson
Daniel Scannell
Emerson
Andover Centre
Mellen
Boston
Todd
Lucius Grover
Wm. Harvey
Lebanon
Frank H. Stevens
West Lebanon
Will W. Stone
Wm. Turner
Oscar Leighton
Frank C. Wells
Turner
Leighton
Wells
East Andover
Democratic speakers invited to stump state tour
New York October 18. The democratic state committee invites a list of gentlemen to campaign for the ticket: Leon Abbott of New Jersey Allan G Thurman of Ohio Samuel J Randall George West of Missouri Wm Henzel and Geo L Converse of New Jersey.
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New York
Democratic State Committee
Leon Abbott
New Jersey
Allan G. Thurman
Ohio
Samuel J. Randall
Geo. West
Missouri
Wm. Henzel
Pennsylvania
Geo. L Converse
Dramatic editor injured in stair accident at home
Horace M. Jordan, dramatic editor of the Traveller, fell two flights of stairs at his residence, No 21 Union Park Street, sustaining a severe scalp wound and a fractured left thigh. Dr. Thompson ordered his removal to the city hospital.
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Horace M. Jordan
the Traveller
Union Park Street
Thompson
City Hospital
Fires Report From Across The Nation
A series of fires reported Saturday and Sunday include the Old North church in Weymouth Mass where a planned arson attempt was thwarted, mills in Detroit. a church in Schenectady. foundry patterns at Fitchburg. a Neillsville hotel blaze. destructive prairie fires in Esteline Dakota Territory. a bridge fire at Yuma Arizona. a Boston laundry blaze and other incidents across New Hampshire Maine and Louisiana with losses ranging from hundreds to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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Weymouth
Old North
Detroit
Mich
Peter Dingman
Lynn Furniture Company
William Mitchell & Sons
Barclay Smith
Schenectady
N. Y
Hast Avenue
Fitchburg
L. H. Goodnow
Rollstone Foundry
Putnam Tool Company
Neillsville
Wis
J. E. Breed
Esteline
D. T
H.B. Greenly
Colorado River
Yuma
A. T
Boston
Sam Sing
Shawmut Avenue
Parker Heirs
Kehoe
Division One
Samos
Iie
William Gill
Great Falls
N. H
Wimpfheimer & Co
Levi Stone
Cornish
Charles Ramsell
Fred C. Smail
J.t.summer
Provincetown
Davis& Son
Bowenville
Fall River
Traver & Son
Hudson, N. Y
Howard Staples
South Eliot
S. Brand
St. James Parish
Louisiana
Smallpox
Mass
Essex County Democrats Rally Behind Prince for Governor
Special Correspondence from Lawrence notes Essex Democrats unite behind Mr Prince and the full ticket amid labor unrest and reformist momentum. It highlights Cross as treasurer candidate, Beard’s opposition, and anticipated strong turnout in Essex, with local debates and committee meetings shaping the campaign.
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Boston Post
Lawrence
General Butler
Essex County
Cleveland
Essex
General Court
Prince
Hssex County
Henry M. Cross
Newburyport
State House Commission
Boss Beard
Ross
Republican State Committee
Beard
Cross
Edward F. O’sullivan
Thomas P. Hearne
James Tookey
John Carney
O’sullivan
O’sulliyvan
Hearne
Carney
John Campbell
Setes Stafford
Joseph Watts
Melvin
Knights of Labor
Frank D. Allen
Lynn
Allen
Alfred A. Mower
David O. Allen
Mower
Democratic City Committee
N. R. Morse
Salem
Capt. Cross
State Committee
Burke the Hartford financier and church leader falls
A Hartford figure, Albert L. Burke, long a Sunday school superintendent and donor, is revealed as a defaulter. Once a trusted helper across church, business, and civic roles, he faced ruin after misusing funds, with details of estate losses and a move to New York after his defalcation. The piece also notes a Boston church dedication and local police actions against gambling at a club.
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Scott A. Webber
Boston
Clinton and
Fitchburg
Northern
Old Colony Railroad
Webber
Smith
Helen
Austin
Miss Smith
Worcester
Springfield
Hartford
Albert L. Burke
Burke
Brother Burke
James L. Howard Railway Supply
New York
Oliver Parish
the Howards
Boston's Theatre Season Sizzles With Mlle Rhea and Many Acts
The Boston stage scene this evening features Mlle Rhea in her version of Frou-Frou, Thatcher Primrose & West minstrels at the Globe, Maggie Mitchell in Fanchen the Cricket at Park, and the Museum's premiere of The Magistrate after long London and Daly's runs. Also lined up are Esmeralda at the Windsor, Kernell company at Howard, a Germania Quartet concert, Gettysburg cyclorama, Stradella at Bijou, Flotow’s opera, and a full World’s Museum program. American Opera in New York begins January. cast lists and tours for Booth, Davenport, and McNish, Johnson & Scavyn noted.
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Boston
Mlle
Rhea
Thatcher, Primrose & West Company
Globe Theatre
Maggie Mitchell
Park Theatre
Museum
London
Daly’s Theatre
New York
Windsor Theatre
Esmeralda
Howard Tonight
Kernells
Messrs
Harry and
John Kernell
W. T. Bryant
Lizzie Richmond
Charles Banks
la Martine Brothers
Annie Suits
Florence Matthews
Bryant
Saville
Harry la Rose
Coulson Sisters
John McAuliffe
James Nelson
America
Frank Dumont
Germania Quartet Concert Company
Boston Star
Tremont Temple
Emma Hayden Eames
Weil
Gettysburg
Stradella
Flotow
Neuendorff
Charles E. Locke
Gluck
Lakme
Halevy
Rubinstein
Mr. Thomas
Corps de Ballet
Mile
Theodore de Gillert
Pauline L’ Allemand
Germany
Mesdames Montague
Walker
Emma Jueb
Bensberg
Mesdames Bartlett-Davis
Sara Barton
Campbell
Muellenbach
Mathilde Phillips
Turner
Paullett
Thompson
Candidus
Lee
Stoddard
Sweet
Gilbert
O’mahony
Whitney
Boston Theatre
Fannie Davenport
Sardou
Robert B. Mantell
Loris
Harry W. French
England
Alps
Italy
St. Bernard
Lake Como
Milan
Florence
Venice
McNish
Johnson and Scavyin
West
Edwin Booth
Baltimore
Brooklyn
Boston Museum
Fifth Avenue Theatre
Philadelphia
Sol Smith Russell
Felix MckKusick
The
Sadie Martinez
Mackaye
Maude Granger
William Redmund
Thomas Barry
New England
William Harris
Danny Doon
the Howard
Napier Lothisn, Jr
Mary Anderson
Henry Chanfrau
Kit
Lang
Dr. Damrosch
Unidentified man found dead on Beat Hill Waltham
The body of a well-dressed unnamed man lies at the Waltham police station as investigators and witnesses search for clues. A photo is available for identification, with theories ranging from self-inflicted death to foul play. An autopsy is planned as detectives review a bloodstained note and hidden clothing bundle found nearby.
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Beat Hill
Waltham
Chief Stockbridge
Waltham Police
George H. Young
Dorchester
New South Church
Young
Post
Brockton and Clinton firemen parade amid Hudson outrages
Firemen from Brockton and Clinton paraded while Knights of Labor condemned recent outrages at Hudson. Mention of Nashua quarantine proposal and local civic moves alongside multiple appointments, missing person, and minor accidents. Oldham operatives accept 5 percent wage cut. Marblehead light infantry plans seventy sixth annual parade and ball next Thursday.
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Brockton and Clinton
Knights of Labor
Hudson
Nashua
N. H
Cyrus M. Wheaton
Somerset
James N. Childs
Maine
Guelph
Ont
Mass
Edward Allen
Brockton Express
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Prince Democratic Club
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Peabody
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Danvers
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Jules Winfrey
Harvard
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Holton
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Charles River Road
Rev. Galusha Anderson
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Hollis Street
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Mary A. Livermore
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Pyle
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NEW England News
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F. Vv. Cooke
Portland
Wm. Workman
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Turner’s Falls
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Gonic N.jr
Crannen
McKay
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Herbert B. Viall
Internal Revenue
Keene
Willie Atwood
Troy
Alonzo Payne
Sanford Marsh
Montague
Greenfield
Donn, Green
James F. Doherty
William A. Smickh
Concord River
Timothy P. Collins
Bradford
Haverath Bridge
Congregational
Greenwich
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