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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1896
Page
6
The Post opens its columns to readers to discuss the gold and silver question now central to the coming presidential campaign. The gold bug silver bug and Straddle Bug are urged to present views without descending to personal attacks and to observe parliamentary rules.
Letter to the editor from South Boston argues a cartoon on free silver and the monetary standard misleads voters. It contends McKinley would open mills while Bryan could open U S mints, questions the benefit to foreign holders, and suggests discarding the image as a “Real Tissue” or “Weakest Fake of the Day.”
A correspondent requests Mr George A McKinnon reply to the author’s actual arguments. He denies stating that Indian Asian and South American mints were clogged with silver from 1874 to 1876, noting their facilities were pressed to their limits.
In a Calcutta letter the writer argues that an overwhelming influx of silver forced the Latin Union to curb and ultimately end free coinage. He criticizes McKinnon and prominent financiers for flip-flopping on independent action and warns against relying on biased authorities.
The Enterprise hearing resumed with Captain Eaton testifying on dam safety and ship provisions. Dr Olcott admitted four pint flasks of brandy in the medical chest, while denying seven bottles in twelve days. The text notes a later resignation of Second Lieutenant Binns for anti government remarks.
Boston police released George Viers a Greek charged with murder in Greece after Greek consul D T Timagenis directed the action. US officials found no extradition treaty with Greece, so no extradition steps were possible. Viers allegedly stabbed Diamandois Diamandoprolos during a farm path dispute between Sparta neighbors.
Miss Rebecca Fairbanks of Dedham entertained twenty six Adams Chapter Daughters of the Revolution members from Quincy at the famed colonial Fairbanks house. The 1636 building, last of Norfolk County's colonial structures, was erected by Jonathan Fairbanks who arrived in 1653 from Yorkshire. The house remains in the Fairbanks family, now in its seventh generation.
The Channing Club hosted a reception and banquet at the Thorndike in Boston for Rev. Samuel H Winkley marking fifty years in the ministry. President Fred H Nazro presided and speakers included Rev. Dr Edward Everett Hale Rev Edward A Horton and Rev Christopher R Eliot. About 100 members attended dinner and new officers were elected for the coming year.
The Harvard faculty and corporation voted to confer a list of John Harvard and Price Greenleaf scholarships to undergraduate students for high academic distinction. The John Harvard scholarships are newly created and awarded for the first time. No consideration of applicants’ pecuniary need is noted in the official announcement.
Charles Richardson, a painter on the New York New Haven Hartford line at Montague City, fell seventy one feet into the Connecticut River. Fellow workers lowered a rope and one man swam to Richardson as he sank, rescuing him with help from his mates in fifteen feet of water.
The public question surrounds when Dr Bull's Cough Syrup will end the cough that agitates the audience. The campaign seeks a clear end date and relief for listeners.
In East Boston, Elizabeth Phipps sued Michael H. Shute for 20000 over alleged mutual promises to marry made in August 1893. The jury found for the defendant in the first session before Judge Bishop. Phipps, about 58, resided across Princeton Street from Shute, who is over 60 with grown children. Gove represented the plaintiff Emmons & Emmons the defendant.
Miss Emeline Kennedy filed suit against Philip Henry of Boston for 50000 dollars alleging breach of promise after meeting in New York. The case was settled out of court as Henry had previously hired a flat and educated her while presenting himself as her intended husband. Henry later told Kennedy their acquaintance must cease.
John B. Quinn, formerly of Rutland Vermont, prisoner after a $20,000 damages verdict in a suit by Dr. Benjamin C Senton over alienation of his wife’s affections. Quinn was arrested on a Lunton claim of lack of financial responsibility and sent to Ludlow Street jail in default of $20,000.
Rhoda Mather, 17, of Wallington, tried to kill herself after her father refused to consent to her marriage to a young man. She purchased sixteen grains of morphine, took nearly the entire dose, but was saved by a doctor who worked through the night.
Thomas McElroy of 225 Cabot Street Highlands collapsed in a Castle Square Theatre fit and was taken to City Hospital by patrol wagon. John L Burke 51 of Malden Street Randolph fell 30 feet from a swinging stage injuring his back and spine and is at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Li Hung Chang was reprimanded for entering the summer palace to visit the dowager empress without observing the required formalities. The event occurred in Pekin on October 26.
The six year old Henry Jones drowned in the Charles River two weeks earlier. His body was recovered yesterday near Soldiers Field Brighton by WP J Donohue. Mrs Jones of Cambridge sought funeral arrangements as officials said no burial permit had been issued. The mother is in a precarious condition.
A well dressed man collapses on a Broadway car near City Hall Park. Two passersby carry him to a drug store and then to Hudson Street Hospital. Doctors diagnose heart disease and identify him as Cortlandt Southworth of Springfield Mass, a chronic heart patient. He is out of immediate danger.
Andrew J. Munroe of 570 Broadway Boston was arrested by Inspectors Abbott and Logan for alleged theft of $60 in gold from H. D. Osgood Co at 250 Tremont St. Esther K. Parker of Providence RI was arrested on a default warrant. she is wanted for fraudulent conveyance of a diamond ring valued at $150 held on a conditional contract from Metropolitan Manufacturing Co.
About 140 members attended the Episcopalian Club banquet at the Hotel Brunswick last evening with Henry Levering in the chair. Speakers included Fr. Stanhope Hill of Cambridge Dr. C. C. Tiffany of New York and Rev. I. M. McConnel of Brooklyn who discussed the topic Church History.
The Supreme Court granted a writ of certiorari in the Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co. versus Grant Wilkins et al case from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. In the related Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co. versus Samuel W. Greene et al case, the court denied certiorari to the Fifth Circuit.
Herbert Palmer aged 20 of Little Compton drowned while gunning at Quicksand Land. His boat capsized during a shot, his clothing and rubber boots weighed him down, and his body was recovered today after sinking yesterday in Mass.
The market remained active and buoyant Monday amid London selling and profit taking. Sugar and Chicago Gas led gains while St Paul lagged on weak September earnings. copper rose in London. Boston & Montana stayed weak with insider tensions and potential leadership changes looming.
Tug George M Winson from New York with two barges lost a propeller flange forcing a return to East Boston for a bronze propeller. Imports at the port totaled 2 068 585 dollars and exports 1 941 212 dollars for the week, vs last year. The steamship Herman Winter was raised after a fire and water damage to cargo. twenty plates must be replaced.
Helen Nugent one year old daughter of John Nugent died after a bedroom fire at 151 Norfolk Street Cambridge. Housekeeper Mrs Wells left the child asleep then heard screams, neighbors helped extinguish flames and she was taken to Cambridge Hospital in a dying condition. Police believe the child may have played with matches igniting the bedding.
The Rev H Francis Perry of Hyde Park Baptist Church has been invited by the Englewood Baptist Church of Chicago, a leading West coast group in the denomination. Perry, a Newton Theological Seminary alumnus of 1899, has earned rapid recognition since coming from Hudson and Hyde Park has prospered under his ministry.
Washington reports the United States battleship Massachusetts has no superior. Commodore Dewey chairs the board that tested her for forty eight hours at sea. On October twenty second she logged thirteen knots for two hours and produced about five thousand forty four horsepower.
Lawrence officials say the Washington Mills will suspend operations for about two weeks after a blaze last night. Damage is pegged at 75000 dollars. A few men resume on drying frames while the rest are laid off.
In Superior Civil Court the jury awarded William T Scott $5500 and Emma Scott $12,500 against the West End Railroad Company. The case arose after a West End electric car collided with a wagon from Fifield Richardson & Co., injuring Mrs. Scott who was near a dry goods store when the horse trampled her on the sidewalk.
In Worcester on October 26, John Lawrence age 72 faced the Superior Court on indictments for larceny from a building forgery and false impersonation. He pleaded guilty to forgery and received a sentence of three to five years in State prison.
Inspectors Knox and Douglass arrested for shop lifting in several large stores yesterday afternoon. Names associated with the incident include Margaret Murphy Roxbury Annabell Swift Brockton Anna Richards Porchester and Maggie Powers Brighton all well dressed and said to have money.
Lydia W Harmon of Brockton sued Old Colony road for 40000 on account of injuries from a Boston station incident when a locomotive backed down, throwing her from a Brockton train. The Superior Court awarded 4750 yesterday in the third trial.
Eugene Tompkins owner of the Boston Theatre was fined $109 by Judge Gaskill in the Criminal Court for playing a Sousa Band concert on Sunday May 3 that was not sacred or charitable.
About 520 prisoners are confined in the Cambridge House of Correction. Keeper Fairbairn has found it necessary to place cots in the corridors to accommodate all his boarders.
Henry W. Peafody and his Salem family will sail to Australia on November 4 for a combined business and pleasure visit and will be away all winter.
In the Northern District of Illinois a foreclosure sale is ordered under a 1896 decree. Henry W. Bishop, Master in Chancery, will sell on November 17 1896 at noon at the Goox County Courthouse for the Chicago and Northern Pacific Railroad Company and related properties including extensive rail lines and associated lands and rights of way.
The Boston City Treasurer invites sealed proposals by Oct 29 1896 for up to 1 million dollars in registered bond certificates due Oct 1 1936. Interest paid semiannually, funds secured by sinking fund, delivery eligibility and mail interest options noted. Proposals open Oct 29 at 12 noon with right to reject all.
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