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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1893
Page
6
Mothers in Boston unite on lactated food as the best infant diet. Physicians praise it for purity and nourishment, noting its digestibility and ability to restore strength in sickly babies. Twin Atlantic Highlands infants, raised on lactated food, illustrate its life saving role.
The Massachusetts Prohibitionists nominate Rev Louis Albert Banks for governor with H C Smith, Samuel B Shapleigh, Wilbert Farnham Jr, and Robert F Raymond as running mates or officers. Worcester convention heard a platform denouncing liquor, urging united anti-saloon action, school funding for public education, opposition to trusts, equal pay for women, reform of ballots, and enforcement of prohibition.
Sail and fishing activity fills the Commercial Wharf with vessels like Nellie Dixon Maggie Sullivan and Indiana as dredging proceeds from the south dock toward the head. Prices run low reflecting ten days of weak markets. several fish cutters are in demand. The Harvard H. Havey sails from Dogfish Bar to Providence at $1090 contract value. Captain Luther Kenney of Louis J. Kenney dies in Cape Broyle after illness.
A letter-writer laments that John Murphy, an Irish immigrant, was forced to return to Ireland due to lack of aid from the Charitable Irish Society and others in Boston. Edward Murphy’s case prompted officials to verify his whereabouts. the society and local volunteers ultimately assisted him, confirming the society’s goal to aid distressed Irish immigrants.
Reports describe cholera spreading across Danubian ports with six hundred cases in a fortnight and high mortality. Kalafat and Bucharest are infected, Styrne reports forty eight cases and forty two deaths in three days, and Constantinople sees multiple deaths in Scutari and the city. Peer districts in Russia show hundreds of cases and deaths in Podolia Orel Kiev Minsk Poltava Charkoff Groane Kalisch for the week ending August 26.
The funeral of Colonel Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte was held at St. Margaret's Catholic Church Beverly with solemn high mass and Gregorian dead Mass. Notables from the North Shore attended including T Jefferson Coolidge G Dexter Mrs Jack Gardner General Charles G Loring and Mr Mrs L W Mason. Burial set for Baltimore.
Ipswich report of a professional burglary at Charles W. Sherburne's summer home. About $500 in valuables including a gold watch and chain and marked silver were stolen. Inmates were not awakened and the house lies about half a mile from town center.
Emma Goldman the anarchist was indicted on a charge of unlawful assemblage by the New York grand jury. Assistant District Attorney Davis announced she is jailed in Philadelphia and that detectives would pursue requisition papers to bring her to Albany for trial.
Providence report states Colonel Daniel R. Ballou, counsel for Mrs. Barnaby, delayed signing a will for three weeks to pursue reconciliation with her daughters. He stopped delaying only when Barnaby became importunate and censured him, claiming silence harmed Dr. Graves and expressing years of professional restraint.
A large portion of the new Union Station is finished and trains may begin running by October 1. The pillared main entrance west of the waiting room is up, with foundations started for the other side. The contractor aims to transfer Eastern division traffic to the new station and demolish the old Eastern station after summer traffic ends.
A reader recounts paying 3 cent transfers for Washington street fares to Neponset, then a conductor refused them on a Dorchester avenue Mount Pleasant marked car. The West End manager explains no Neponset Dorchester avenue via Mount Pleasant car exists and refunds were offered for conductor punching errors.
Boston public schools opened for the fall term amid large attendance higher than last year. The Mechanic Arts School began in a partially finished Belvidere street building with 226 boys registered in a single third floor room. Professor Hill stated the facility should not have opened yet but the school aims to prepare graduates for both brains and hands.
The board of directors met at Young's Hotel on Wednesday September 6 with most members present. President Lane chaired a broad discussion on finance and the Sherman act repeal purchasing clause, and Lane and Alden Speare were authorized to attend the Washington sound money convention on September 12. The executive committee was instructed to study consular service appointments and removals, has corresponded with officials, and asked for more time to prepare a full report.
The Custom House inquiry starts at 10 o clock with Special Agents Cross and Rice of New York presiding in a private office. First witness Lonergan will address charges accusing the appraiser of political use of office and letting goods pass without knowledge. Seven charges total, hearing likely to last five to six weeks, with Boston agents available and Democrat O Neil assigned to assist.
Six complaints have been filed and chosen for test cases against Italians who habitually store fruit in their homes despite a health board order issued a month prior. Twenty one other men faced complaints, but Judge Adams issued warrants and only six were arrested. Four Chinese men who began growing hens without permission were summoned to court.
Stock holders of the Connecticut and Passumpsic railroad met at Newport on September 6 and chose directors W K Blodgett Amos Barnes Alden Speare John H Williams Oscar Edwards John W Dunklee James H Williams John Mulligan and James A Rumerhill. Directors elected Blodgett president Cleveland clerk Williams treasurer.
Western lager travels long distances to Boston then lingers in stores while Bunker Hill Lager goes straight from Brew to consumer. A G Van Nostrand of Bunker Hill Breweries, established 1821, presents the direct option for pure, cool and sparkling beer.
Henry M. Whitney steps down as president of the West End Street Railway after long service. The board accepted the resignation with thanks, praising his courtesy, sagacity, energy, and devotion to public interests and stockholders amid a strong financial position and nearing completion of construction. Whitney emphasized no major interests would suffer and noted pleasant relations with community and employees.
In a Boston dispatch from September 6 1893 Whitney resigns as president of the West End Street Railway Company citing demand from his other roles with Metropolitan Steamship and Dominion Coal. He remains a director as a new president is to be chosen before the November directors meeting.
Reports from Middletown New York outline conflicting identifications in the Burlingham double murder. A younger woman found dead near a barn is claimed as Robert Halliday’s daughter and Paul Senne’s granddaughter, while a Newburg dispatch identifies the victims as Margaret McQuillan and her daughter Sarah of Newburg. Policeman Sharpe of Middletown returns from the scene saying the body is not his niece.
The twenty fourth annual Old Folks gathering in Western Franklin county was held at Deerfield Valley Agricultural Park with about four hundred attendees. The eldest participants were Rice of Coleraine aged 90 and Mrs. Marinda Barnes of Pittsfield aged 88. Whitin of Plainfield aged over 80 led singing, A L Tyler presided at dinner, and H S Geer of Northampton spoke. Officers include President A L Tyler, vice presidents Charles Hamilton Edwin Scott and Eli Maynard, clerk treasurer R W Field.
Lizzie Sadusky of Boston settled her breach of promise suit against Samuel Davis out of court. The case hinged on him delaying a wedding date rather than denying intent. The payment amount remains undisclosed but described as handsome. Davis remains willing to marry, but no date is set. Sadusky will not marry him.
A man who gave the name Jack Murphy is sought by Newton and Malden police. He arrived in Nondatun and befriended local horsemen, then swapped a bay horse and a Goddard buggy for cash and other goods. The buggy sale brought Murphy additional funds as a separate deal. A horse and carriage matching the description were later reported stolen from Malden, and police recovered the property before sending agents to Boston where Murphy may be.
Archbishop Corrigan of New York attended the Catholic congress opening in Chicago and will deliver a formal address tomorrow evening. The main paper, by Colonel Robert M. Douglas of Greensboro, discussed trade combinations, strikes and arbitrations and proposed state inquiry and constitutional amendments linked to large corporations. Afternoon papers covered temperance, women’s roles, medieval women, life insurance for workers, immigration, and colonization with several speakers from across the country.
A Cambridge City Hall hearing on a proposed bicycle riding ordinance featured Aldermen James and Rady with Councilmen Bradford and Stewart. Speakers Chief Consul Perkins and Cambridgeport Cycle Club leaders P. C. Spring and J. W. Bean opposed wheel lanterns, proposing daytime speed limit of ten miles and six after sunset, with a handlebar warning device. Beans noted bells may be nuisances. Spring preferred bell within thumb reach. committee planned to report to the City Council.
The annual meeting of the New England Undertakers Association opened at the United States Hotel. President Dickinson of Springfield delivered his annual address. A three member committee was proposed to confer with Harvard College faculty and to hold the next annual meeting in another state. The international association was invited to meet in Boston next year. Today the undertakers proceed to Bass Point.
Hard times force disposals of leased furniture offered for sale at auction prices for one week. Most items are new and available at Shawmut Furniture Co Boston with an implied interest in buyer purchases after the sale.
The House resumed work on a new rules code with motions on a Kyle amendment reducing committee of the whole quorum to 100. Amendments on Sunday eulogies and monthly District of Columbia business discussions passed or failed, and Burrows substitute rules were defeated. The code was adopted with no division after further debate, and the session adjourned until Saturday.
In a morning session Senator Stewart spoke against the repeal bill for an hour. The Senate voted 87 to 21 to proceed with House action while Voorhees sought calendar placement. Teller noted quorum issues and Stewart resumed debate, ending with an executive session and adjournment at 5 p.m.
Two awaiting trial prisoners Johnson of Hill for horse stealing and Clark of Concord for freight car burglary escaped the Merrimac county jail in Concord New Hampshire this morning. They worked the door and window bars loosened bricks to pry out a bar and crawled to the woods, inviting their cellmates to join but both declined.
Digby Nova Scotia Sept 6 The schooner Annie M Sproule arrived from a fishing trip recounting a week ago gale that tore her jibboom a seine boat and split sails. She saw a large coastal schooner drift ashore and picked up 30000 labs believed to be deck lead from another vessel.
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