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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1898
Page
5
Alderman Conry ends bid for Congress after ward realignments alter delegate balance. Senator Quinn switches stance in favor of Fitzgerald ally Major Grady, while Ward 7 and Ward 8 dynamics threaten Conry’s position. Ward 2 delegates pivot to Fitzgerald supporters as Donovan and Welcher gains emerge.
Ten years of heart disease and dropsy afflicted Mrs. James Adams of Syracuse until one dose of Dr. Agnew's Cure for the heart brought relief. She reports the remedy cured the dropsy and heart symptoms. Sold by C. E. Woodward & Co. and Sheppard & Co.
Thomas Lynsky, owner of an inn near Granite State Park, was arrested and arraigned on a charge of attempting to murder pianist William H. McHugh. McHugh is missing but his injuries are described as very serious. Bail set at 3000. Witness Lillian Smith held at 20. Hearing scheduled September 16.
A sad scene at the late Major Grady’s home yesterday afternoon saw the private trunk he used in his farewell voyage brought back by an expressman. Mrs Grady, overwhelmed with grief, watched the trunk she helped prepare. Congressman Fitzgerald supervised the trunk at Camp Wikoff and ensured its return on the Ninth’s train.
In Harrison Hall Ward 16 home of Alderman Lott a meeting is held tonight in favor of Representative Callender for Senator. The subject is The Failure of Popular Government the People to Blame.
Men of the Ninth receive furloughs starting tomorrow for sixty days as the regiment awaits muster out. Camp life at Dalton South Framingham continues with visitors and last lookings before departure. Commanders plan final rolls and discharges while awaiting the arrival of the First Heavies next week.
General Miles outlines plans for army reform including a standard ratio of one soldier per thousand population, broader training, and improved non-commissioned officer corps. He signals Congress support and notes mustering out of general officers will prompt departmental reassignments. He aims to strengthen efficiency and readiness amid ongoing war criticisms.
In Havana on September 9 the city awaits the arrival of the US military commissioners aboard the Resolute. Public scenes are muted as orders close soup kitchens and emphasize maintaining order after a recent court martial of five insurgents at Matanzas for theft.
The Sovereign Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows gears up for a huge multistate gathering in Boston led by Charles N. Alexander. Delegates from California Texas Georgia and many eastern states will attend September activities including a harbor excursion a Salem Willows dinner services at the Church of the Disciple and a grand parade with over twenty thousand members.
The Gold Democracy of Massachusetts has shuttered its Bosworth street headquarters and posted to let. A Parker House proclamation states the National Democratic party, formed in 1896 chiefly against free silver, sees no live Massachusetts free silver party to fight and will not call a state convention.
Yesterday closed the National Railway Master Blacksmiths Association convention with delegates hosted by B. M. Jones Company. About one hundred members visited Plymouth on the steamer Plymouth and enjoyed an informal social at the American House after a day of historic site visits.
Captain William C Manson longtime Scituate resident and former sea captain died at his home at age 76. Born in Scituate he was the son of a Revolutionary soldier and the youngest of eight boys. He retired from sailing about eighteen years ago and kept a small schooner yacht near Nantasket in recent years. He was a life member of the Boston Marine Society and leaves a widow two sons and two daughters.
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