Blaine's 1888 Presidential Candidacy Rumors Stir Maine
A prominent Maine politician cites a Portland conference with Senators Hale and Frye and Joe Manley where Blaine would accept a party nomination if offered unanimously. Blaine’s health, rest at far Harbor, and potential future nomination are discussed, with Harrison’s stance on a current bid and possible four year handover hinted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Far Harbor
Mr. Blaine
Harrison
Gazette
Indianapolis
Stephen G. Elkins
Elkins
Blaine
Kins
Star
Imaake
Unhappy Maryland Republicans Highlight Intra Party Rift
A Maryland Republican rift over governorship leadership worsens as Colonel Van Nort demands the party chair resign or withdraw. The State Committee chair resists, while supporters split between backing Wesco tt as former chair and demanding Van Nort’s removal from the ticket if the chair is not replaced. The discord weakens November prospects and may deter any eminent figure from replacing Van Nort.
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Maryland
State Committee
van Nort
Wescott
Colonel van Nott
John Durham Named Minister to Haiti A Colored Educated Leader
Fred Douglass's successor John B. Durham has been appointed Minister to Haiti. Born in Philadelphia thirty one years ago he graduated from the Institute of Colored Youth in 1876 and earned a civil engineering degree at the Towns Scientific School of the Pennsylvania University in 1886. He has worked as a reporter and editorial writer and authored pieces for Harper's Weekly. Durham, light in complexion, is seen as a foremost representative of the negro race and was recommended for the San Domingo post by prominent figures including Charles Emory Smith and Wanamaker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Douglass
John 8. Durham
Haiti
Philadelhia
Institute of Colored Youth
Towns Scientific School
Pennsylvania University
Philadelphia Times
San Domingo
Evening Alletin
Harper’s Weekly
Gherardi Meets Tracy Over North Atlantic Squadron Status
Rear Admiral Bancroft Gherardi, commanding the North Atlantic squadron, reached Washington yesterday morning and conferred with Secretary Tracy. He said his squadron is at New London engaged in patrol duties and readiness exercises.
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Gherardi
Bancroft Gherardi
Washington
Tracy
New London
Groton Heights
Rose Kawthorne Lathrop
A. J. McLeod
Rich Washington man proposes breeding apes to uplift intellect
A wealthy resident of Washington privately plans to spend $100000 on a radical project to improve ape intelligence by selective breeding. Fifty monkeys would be housed in a paddock, bred by pair, with the brightest kept and the dull expelled, aiming to produce superior reasoning in twenty five years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Americans as smugglers cross border for duty avoidance
In Nogales Arizona border town partly in the United States, Americans cross the street to obtain Mexican soil, cross back with clothing to evade duty. The Treasury Department orders officers to arrest offenders who refuse to pay duty for smuggling goods across the border.
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Nogales
Ariz
United States
Mexico
Treasury Department
Inventor Knibbs wins fire engine relief valve patent case
James Knibbs head of Troy fire department telegraph system wins a US Circuit Court ruling sustaining his relief valve patent for steam fire engines. The city of New York owes Knibbs 2.93 million dollars for engine use since 1864, with 500 similar cases nationwide totaling about 15 million. The long case, involving fees over 100 thousand dollars for the city, asserts Knibbs’s device allows streams over 100 feet and that Amoskeag built engines with the valve without his knowledge, a public-use dispute resolved in his favor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
James Knibbs
Fire Department of
Troy
Wheeler
United States Circuit Court
Christopher C. Campbell
Knibbs
Joseph M. Deuel
United States
Kuibbs
Betts, Atterbury, Hyde & Betts
Marcus P. Norton
James Kh
Lockwood
Horace G. Wood
Ambbs
Norton
Benjamin Richardson
Bean
Amoskeag Manufacturing Company
Amoskeag Company
Amoskeag Comepany
Disappearing State Officials Stir Harrisburg Debate
A Harrisburg dispatch reports a push for a thorough probe into past State treasury scandals as key figures including Boyer Livsey Quay and others have vanished or avoided testimony. Public sentiment demands a real investigation despite Republican committee members’ caution and suspected partisan motives.
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Prit Apertaia
Times
Harrisburg
Treasury
Legislative Investigating Committee
Boyer
Canada
Lively
Milwaukee
Quay
New Jersey
General Baily
Livesy
Henry Rawle
Noyes
Rawle
Blake Walters
Butler and
Hart
Nutt
Dukes
State Treasury
Livsey
Butler
Baily
Captain Nutt
Silas M. Bually
Uniontown
Natt
Fasl
Senate
Smith
Europe
Cameron
Chris Magee
Copyright in Canada He Seeks Imperial Legislation
Ottawa Sept 6 Sir John Thompson minister of justice said imperial parliament prorogued without copyright reform and he favored Imperial legislation to remove doubts. He upheld the 1589 act within Dominion powers but suggested addressing the issue via a joint address or possibly resorting to the act of 1849 if needed. The government would not retreat from its stance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Ont
John Thompson
England
United States
Railroad sold for a song in Astoria acquisition
C P Huntington president of Southern Pacific buys Astoria and South Coast railway for 54000 850000 cash and 4000 debt assumed. The line is praised as valuable property likely to yield a dividend with plans to build a bridge and run trains into Astoria.
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Astoria
Ore
C. P. Huntington
Southern Pacific Railroad Company
Astoria & South Coast Railway
J. B. Russell
State Street
Boston
Explosion of Naphtha at Providence Works Wounds Workers
A naphtha explosion near the Woonasquatucket River injured several workers and badly burned Patrick Nagle and Phineas Gammell while Patrick Fennessey escaped with lighter burns. An accident occurred as men labored on a pile driver when fuel floated from a city still and ignited. Ambulances took the wounded to Rhode Island hospital.
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R. L
Woonasquatucket
Patrick Nagle
Patrick Fennessey
Providence
Phineas Gammel
Pawtucket
Nagle
Gammell
Fennessey
Rhode Island Hospital
Providence Fatal Fall From Tree Injures Man
Timothy Coughlin aged 66 of Valley Street East Providence fell about thirty feet while cutting a dangerous limb and sustained probably fatal injuries. The incident occurred in Providence on September 6.
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Providence
KR. 1
Timothy Coughlin
Valley Street
East
Drowning of a Camper at Island Pond Derry NH
A young man, unnamed, drowned this afternoon at Island Pond in Derry New Hampshire while bathing with a Lawrence camp party. The victim was among a group of campers from Lawrence and the incident occurred during a summer outing. Authorities were informed and the search for the missing camper continued.
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N. H
Island Fond
Derry
N H
Hoe
Lawrence
Boston Delegation Heads to Montreal for Electric Light Convention
Boston electricians travel in a Wagner palace train to Montreal for the National Electric Light Association convention. The New York party later joins, delaying arrival near midnight. Montreal events include Victoria Rink opening, receptions, city drives, garden parties, and excursions to Lachine Rapids and Quebec.
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Buruioron
Sencran
Boston
National Electric Light Association
Montreal
Fitchburg
C. A. Shaw
New England
Electrical Engineer
A.T. Hanley
Central Vermont Railroad
Rutland
New York
United
Bibber
H. M. Daggett
G. Sunes
H. M. Fairbanks
O. K. Stuart
W. W. Castle
M. W. Brown
KF. EK
Donohue
A. Clark
A. B. Hale
Malden
Whitney
J. H. Craig
A.I. Clark
D. F. Urquhart
G. W. Davenport
Mr. Field
E. B. Price
Mr. Whither
D. McLower
K. G. Hill
Mr. Davenport
Palmer
G. &. Lean
J. P. Wilson
G. Hi. Burghardt
Mr. Fry
G. H. Hamble
Victoria Rink
Dominion Square
Fire Department
Lachine Rapids
Quebec
Adelphi Yacht Sinks After Derby Wharf Stranding
The Boston steam yacht Adelphi, idle off Derby wharf, struck the dredged channel edge at low tide, heeled, filled, and sank with the rising tide. Charles Atkinson, 46, of Baltimore, died at the Willows after a long illness. he is James F. Almy’s sister’s brother. Funeral services for James Brown and John Cass were held. Essex Lodge I O O F attended. Kimball family reunion set for Sept 27, 1891 at Manchester by the Sea.
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Salem
Serctar
Adelphi
Boston
Derby Wharf
Charles Atkinson
Willows
Balttimore
James F. Almy
James Brown
Firs Universalist
Pullman
Lynn
Essex Lodge
John Cass
St. James Catholic Church
Kimball Family
Manchester-by-the-Sea
Obituary notes judge Hall and several aged figures
Obituary items report the death of Judge Benjamin Hall in Auburn New York aged 77 a former law partner of Governor Seward and a former Chief Justice of Colorado noted for habeas corpus rulings and a prominent writer and editor. Other notices include deaths of Hiram Alien Webster and Joseph Wheeler with brief biographical details and a list of late September obituaries from Boston to New York.
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Benjamin Hall
Auburn
N. Y
Seward
Fillmore
United States
Lincoln
Colorado
H. N. Slater
Norn
Joseph A. Wheeler
Lowell
Dules Elie Delaunay
Eliza Simonton
Yeasery
W. J. Lyon
New York
James W. Simonton
New York Associated Press
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Maine
Enterprise
Hayti
Durham
New York City
Pennsylvania Treasury
Copyright IN
Woonasquatucket River
National Electric Light Convention
Salem Harbor
Union Square
John H. W. Arnold
The
Boar of Aldermen
Prince Consort OF
Hawaii
San Francisco
Australia
Sydney
Honolulu
John Dominis
Liliokalani
Towlem
Royal Barracks
Brooks
Massachusetts General Hospital
William II. Brooks
Manson
Scituate
Mary Manson
Joe L. Manson
Peterson
Quincey
Elizabeth Greenleaf
Edwin G. Peterson
W.S. Pattee
Damon
Hamilton
Henry Damon
Steedman
Newnport
Sarah
Charles Steedman
Commonwealth Avenue
Folera Morbus
Olie
Perry Davis
Court ST
Devonshire ST
Pearl St
Washington ST
Kincston, Cor
Essex ST
Avon Place
Bedford St
Minot, JR
Marlborough ST
Fairfield Street
Dexter & Curtis
John Jeffries & Sons
Ace S
Boston and Vicinity
Lastalls
Washington Street
Prospectus Post Free
John Chinaman
Ceylon
Tore
India
Egypt
Betgic
Phos. Cook & Son
Chicago City Mortgages
Ivative Investors
Chicago
Central Trust & Savings Bank
Henry W. Savage
Boston Wharf
Boston Postoffice
West End
Massachusetts New Church Union Building
Arlington Street
Chauncy-Hall
Institute of Technology
Boylston Street
Copley Square
Mr. William Nichols
Temple Place
Nichols
West Newton
English and Classical School
Allen Brotivaers
Mass
Mme. G. van Dusen Cook
Mme. Marechess
Paris
Dartmouth Street
Back Bay
the Delphine
East Gloucester
Museum OF Fine Arts
E. C. ‘Tarbell
F. W. Benson
C. Howard Walker
J. Linden Smith
Edward Emerson
A. K. Crosa
Elzabeth Lombard
Abby H. Johnson
Newbury Street
Mr. Hale
Otis Place
Harvard College
Abbott Family School
Farmington
A. H. Abbott
Brookline
Arthur Mills
Irving Street
Ceater & Curtis
Chauncy Hall School
Chauncy Hall
Louisburg Square
Miss Ireland
Beacon Street
Music Hall
Mir
Arthur Nikisch
Ang.tion
OU Bsepay
Gale
Maiday
Boston Museum
R. M. Field
Henry Guy Carleton
POST
Park Theatre
Neil Burgess
Tremont Theatre
Aeley & Schoeffel
Miss Fanny Rice
Hoyt's
Augustus Piton
George H. Jessup
Boston Theatre
Eugene Tompkins
Denman Thompson
Boston Conservatory of Music
Julius Eichberg
Direc'r
Tremont Stee
Crand Opera House
Proctox & Mansfield
Jack
Boston Conservatory OF Musiq
Tremont St
BAY State Land & Building
Association
Ames Building
Cor, Wash
Court Sts
E. van Noorden & CO
Harrison Ave
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