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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1888
Page
4
The piece contrasts crew lists and claims by officials with Mont Goomery testimony, then reports Jacksonville Florida’s yellow fever outbreak. It notes deteriorating conditions, exhausted local resources, and a North American appeal for aid, urging generous response and sympathy from distant communities.
In South Berwick Mr Blaines remarks on S D Warren Co letter to Cumberland Mills employees prompt debate over the MILLS bill. Warren Co counters that wood pulp and paper duties are not endangered, while Blaines warning is seen as fearmongering against Maine workers. Other notes cite Wallack pallbearer R M Field, Dom Pedro illness, John Shepard illness return, Mrs Harriet Beecher Stowe illness, Miss Grace Hanley entering Quebec convent, and Lois Royce receiving artificial feet.
The Minnesota Republican platform aligns with the Chicago protection stance yet advocates adding to the free list items of prime necessity used by the common people. A strong minority pushes for broad tariff cuts, signaling an inevitable party split, even if the Farmers' Alliance does not present a separate ticket.
The speech at Sheffield banquet quotes the Duke of Rutland urging that England and Canada can withstand bluster and maintain a just cause. The article notes the minister's label of President Cleveland's message as bluster, and suggests Republican Congressmen may also apply that term to the tone of the remarks on the message and bill.
The Senate, urged by Mr Gorman, cites decorum and prudence amid partisan wrangling over anti Chinese legislation. It recommends recommitting the House bill and awaiting China’s response to the treaty, with a motion for reconsideration and a Monday adjournment to allow cooler heads to prevail.
Boston Journal reports Congressman CoGswELL interrupted Mr. Scott and denied MontGOMERY's statements on alien fishermen and vessel masters. The Gloucester public seeks to be heard before Forn's committee to counter the ex parte testimony and defend the 75 percent alien fishermen and 15 percent alien masters figures, with Special Agent Montgomery's testimony cited as thorough and credible.
The English papers report the return voyage from New York to Queenstown of the new City of New York. Weather was very good overall with delays totaling about eleven hours. The ship’s route was 72 miles shorter than the Umbria’s yet took 26 hours longer to finish. The best day’s run was 376 miles. two favorable days yielded 343 and 340 miles. The City of New York is new and not fully ordered yet, but could still reach rival speeds if conditions permit.
The Democratic State convention signals strong reform discipline across districts. Names linked to tariff reform emerge in the second district with prospects for victory, while opposed candidates in the fourth district show weak reform alignment. In the fifth to tenth districts reformers rally behind candidates like Sherman, Lawrence, Roaps, Donovan, Burnett, and Russell, signaling broad effort to tilt nominations toward reform and alignment with Cleveland.
The Tennessee warship, bought for junk a year earlier, shows drastic overrun costs and misjudged engineering. Its hull and engines, built at great expense and repeatedly repaired, underscore wasteful naval procurement and oversight failures.
The New York World contributor Nym Crinkle lauds SISTER Wat-LACK as an actor who is versatile intelligent and elegant and as a man warm generous liberal and sympathetic as a manager conservative cautious and respected by colleagues. Crinkle says such an epitaph honors him beyond what many geniuses achieve.
The article notes that Mr Coantes Wynp HAM plans a seasonal visit to perform David Garrick, a role in which he has earned wide acclaim in England and Europe. It also compares his light, graceful comedy to Mr Jefferson, praising Wynpau m as unmatched among his peers in this style.
The Pall Mall Gazette prints a cartoon showing Mr Gladstone at his library with the journal and a copy of Homer, amid verses about Home Rule leaders’ holiday spending, described as a libel upon two grand old men.
A 12 year old girl recently ascended Mont Blanc entirely on foot and only received help on the descent. The feat astonishes observers while many deem it reckless and imprudent.
In a shift from prior criticism, John Ruskin now praises Americans after meeting Miss Alexander, Dr. Holmes, and Professor Charles Eliot Norton. He cites their youth and energy as factors improving his view, aligning more with American society than before.
In Boston readers recall two young men who tramp through the White Mountains wearing old clothes. A harsh country landlord sends them to a laborer’s outbuilding and a servant's meals, provoking a note ridiculing the host. A milk-car tasters’ crude test at Boston station draws medical objection for contamination risk.
City of Mexico reports a slight quake at 8 44 PM lasting 24 seconds with northeast to southwest oscillations. Orizaba experienced a 9 second tremor. No damage reported.
The coming week brings new productions at city theatres headlined by the first U.S. staging of Little Lord Fauntleroy at the Museum with Elsie Leslie. Effie Ellsler debuts Judge Not at Park Theatre, while The Crystal Slipper opens at Boston Theatre. Other houses feature Monte Cristo at Hobe, Lights O London at Grand Opera, Kit at Howard Atheneum, and Erminie at Globe Theatre starting Sept 17.
The judge fell ill around 2 p.m. from cholera morbus with diarrhea between 3 and 6 o’clock. Doctors advised rest and skipping the meeting, but Thurman insisted on attending the Garden event despite his symptoms.
A collage of quips and quotes from various papers notes a Harlem man named Mumm christening twins Minnie and Maximilian, alongside political jibes about the Chinese treaty and U.S. Senate habits. It recounts James Gordon Bennett’s Paris bonds aid, Thurman-Harrison handshakes, and a vivid farewell to the Great Eastern bound for demolition off Greenock in a St. James's Gazette piece, tying media angles to a broader British shipping milestone.
The New York World Democratic column recalls Levi P. Morton voting for free salt in 1880 and 1886 reasoning that farmers deserved duty free foreign salt for butter production. It notes Blaine supported free coal and free lumber, underscoring a long line of self described free traders.
The New York Commercial Advertiser denounces claims about the Mills bill, arguing 8 D Warren & Co. understands its business and that Blaine should heed Josh Billings’ adage about knowing too much that isn’t so. The piece challenges alleged facts and cautions against overestimating negative effects on manufacturing.
A New York Times Industrial letter condemns protected industries for extortionate tariffs. It argues steel rails cost 31 dollars with 17 dollars tariff and 757 dollars to the employer, leaving laborers with little gain while competition is blocked by law. The note cites Blaine’s prior U S service and accuses him of concealing the truth.
The Young Democrats press forward against Republicans with belief in honest government and tariff reform. Russell, likened to a local Phil Sheridan, leads Cambridge but faces a hard Governor bid. Party rivals brace for a lively Massachusetts campaign with close eyes on the outcome.
Harper's Weekly notes the treaty debate as a political trap aimed at stirring Irish votes and shaping anti English sentiment. It argues the Senate’s decision to reject rather than delay exposed the President’s counter move, turning the strategic gambit against the senators.
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