On Her Deathbed Flossie Rowlison Reveals Brooklyn Bridge Plot
Norwich NY September 17 Flossie Rowlison dies by morphine overdose ending a staged romance involved with a missing spouse. She earlier appeared to jump from the Brooklyn Bridge as part of a fraudulent scheme run by Halligan and partners. affidavits from Halligan and Hartman describe the staged rescue and near drowning while Smith and McArthur deny any real jump.
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Norwich
N. Y
Flossie Rowlison
Florence Rowlison
Smith
Halligan
William Hartman
Clara McArthur
Hartman
John Chapman
Oliver
Langtry Sues for Divorce in California
Mrs Emily Charlotte Langtry plans to file for divorce from Edward Langtry in the California Superior Court at Lake in San Francisco today through attorneys Dunn and McPike. Desertion and non support alleged as grounds.
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San Francisco
Emily Charlotte Langtry
Dunn and
McPike
Edward Langtry
Superior Court of Lake
Flossie Rowlison’s Tragic End and Clyde’s Return
In a Jersey county case, Florence known as Flossie Rowlison dies after morphine given by husband William Clyde. He reappears as caring spouse before her death, claiming marriage authenticity. The scene centers on a fatal dose amid a tumultuous past, with divorce petitions and Langtry’s impending return to Lake county amid social upheaval.
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William Clyde
Clyde
Florence
Flossie Rowlison
Flossie
Blanche
Mrs McArthur Jump Seen As Brooklyn Bridge Fake
Affidavits support that Mrs Clara McArthur did not jump from the Brooklyn bridge. The episode involved schemes with Harlem heavyweight Long Jack Smith saloon keeper John Halligan and others who bet on a staged jump with a museum scheme and advance notice of the attempt.
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McArthur
Brooklyn Bridge
New York
Clara Mc Arthur
Jack
Smith
Harlem
John Halligan
Lexington Avenue
One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Street
Halligan
At 74 He Finds A Bride In Linden New Jersey
Ex Freeholder Justus Morris aged 74, worth $100,000, marries his house keeper Annie Hegert aged 22 after years of suspense. Earlier engagement to Fannie E. Howard, 24, was broken when illness delayed the wedding. Howard sued for damages later settled for $260.
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Linden
N. J
Justus Morris
Annie Hegert
Fannie E. Howard
Miss Howard
ELOPED WITH A KICKAPOO
Mrs Gertie Mason of Pittsburg Kansas ran away with Kickapoo Indian medicine man Dr Ben Loveland and his touring patent medicine troupe. They arrived in Chicago with the doctor abandoning meals and leaving Mrs Mason and her child stranded with the company.
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Chicago
Gertie Mason
Pittsburg
Kan
Ben Loveland
Loveland
Cholera Outbreak Reported in Honolulu
The Hawaiian consul-general receives word that cholera appeared on August 17 in Honolulu. Thirty-one deaths and thirty-nine total cases, with seven in hospital and one recovering, are reported. whites largely untouched while natives are affected. Oshu Island remains in strict quarantine with vigorous containment measures.
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Gorham D. Gilman
Honolulu
Foreign Office
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Foreign Affairs
Oshu
Brooklyn Man Kills Wife Then Ends Life
Brooklyn report states Charles Poole aged 28 killed Mrs. Jessie Curtis 22 of 42 Ninth Street South Brooklyn and then fatally shot himself about 7 8 o clock this morning. The Curtis spouse and Poole had long friendship. Poole had lived with Curtis after Curtis married. No motive is known.
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Brooklyn
N. Y
Charles Poole
Jessie Curtis
Ninth Street
Curtis
Poole
Rev John A Dowie Coming to Bromfield Church
The Rev John Alexander Dowie of Chicago will speak at the Christian Alliance meeting in Bromfield Street Church Thursday September 19 at 2 30 p m. Dr Dowie is conducting a remarkable salvation and healing work in Zion Tabernacle Chicago with hundreds being saved and...
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John Alexander Dowie
Chicago
Christian Alliance
Bromfield Street
Dowie
Zion Tabernacle
Chisage, Ee
Boston Birthday Celebrations Marking City’s Growth and Winthrop Era
A historical piece recalls Boston’s 26th year since incorporation and its rare birthday observances. It notes Governor Winthrop’s pivotal 1630 acts, the naming of Boston, and key commemorations in 1830 1880 and 1856 including statues and a centennial ode while highlighting the city’s enduring vitality and shifts from Charlestown to Shawmut to Boston.
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Boston
Fair Land
Bostontown
John Winthrop
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Edwardston
Graton
Suffolk County
Charlestown
Winthrop
Atlantic
Salem
Shawmut
St. Botolph’s Town
Lincolnshire
Eng
England
Bostcen
Massachusetts
Old Faneuil Hall
Harrison Gray Otis
Charles Sprague
Governor Winthrop
Scollay Square
Franklin
City Hall
Ships of the Navy in Commission and Under Construction
The letter catalogs U S Navy vessels by class and status, listing first rate ships like New York and Maine and second to fourth rates, torpedo boats, tugs, sailing ships, receiving ships, unserviceable vessels, and under construction hulls including Iowa Indiana Massachusetts Oregon Brooklyn Texas Puritan Monadnock Terror Katahdin. It details armor types and notes which ships are cruisers, protected or unprotected, monitors or gunboats, with individual designations such as Dolphin Castine Vesuvius Petrea Fern Bancroft Pinta and others.
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New York
Columbia
Minneapolis
Maine
Olympia
Baltimore
Chicago
Philadelphia
Monterey
Newark
San Francisco
Charleston
Miantonomah
Amphitrite
Lancaster
Cincinnati
Raleigh
Atlanta
Boston
Hartford
Ajax
Canonicus
Mariapas
Manhattan
Wyandotte
Detroit
Montgomery
Marblehead
Marion
Mohican
Comanche
Catskill
Jason
Lehigh
Montauk
Nahant
Nantucket
Passaic
Bennington
Concord
Yorktown
Iroquois
Dolphin
Adams
Alliance
Essex
Enterprise
Monocacy
Thetis
Castine
Machias
Alert
Ranger
Vesuvius
Yantic
Petrel
Fern
Bancroft
Michigan
Pinta
Alarm
Ericsson
Cushing
Stiletto
Fortune
Iwana
Leyden
Northelta
Nina Rocket
Standish
Traffic
Triton
Wahneta
New Hampshire
Monongahela
Constellation
Jamestown
Portsmouth
Saratoga
St. Mary’s
Dale
Franklin
Minnesota
Wabash
Vermont
Independence
Richmond
Pensacola
Omaha
Constitution
Swatara
Nipsic
St. Louis
Iowa
Indiana
Masachusetts
Oregon
Brooklyn
Texas
Puritan
Monadnock
Terror
Atlantic
Petrea
Political and Tax Reform League Opens Campaign in Boston
Edward Doherty of 21 Baton Street Boston writes that the Boston Political and Tax Reform League will launch its campaign with a first meeting in North Brighton Ward 25 this evening and plans meetings in each ward where a vacant lot or public square can be used. The aims include endorsing qualified nominees across parties, removing party from municipal politics, taxing land held for speculation at full selling value, and pushing local option in taxation.
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Sir
Boston Political and Tax Reform League
North Brighton
Beecham's Pills for Constipation Guidance
Beecham's pills for constipation to and 25 percent. Get the book at your druggist's and go by it.
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Beecham
Prohibitionists mark 25th anniversary in Boston area celebration
Massachusetts Prohibition party observers gather at Music and Y M C A Halls to celebrate a quarter century of activity. The event begins at 10 30 a m with a state committee meeting, speeches, music by the Damon sisters and a full afternoon session including finance credentials resolutions and state ticket nominations. prominent temperance leaders from Springfield Boston Upton Lynn Chelsea Templeton Stowe Northampton Holyoke Marblehead Attleboro Boston Beverly Greenfield Attleboro and other cities participate in the anniversary program. interestingly the party originated from a 1870 convention in Boston that led to the formation of the Prohibition party with Wendell Phillips and Elphalet Trask among early leaders.
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Prohibition Party of
Massachusetts
Boston
HE. Trask
Springfield
H. D. Cushing
George S. Ball
Upton
J. H. Crossman
Lynn
A. P. Burgess
Chelsea
George P. Hawkes
Templeton
George F. Clark
Stowe
A. R. Parsons
Northampton
Edwin Chase
Holyoke
James
Prohibition Party
Wendell Phillips
Elphalet Trask
George S&s. Ball
John I. Baker
Beverly
Whiting Griswold
Greenfield
Lyman W. Daggett
Attleboro
J. H. Orne
Marblehead
Orne
Neal Dow
Prohibition
America
Damon Sisters
Cre Ee
Cornet Solo
Freda Damon
FIREMEN'S MUSTER TO BE HELD ON CONGRESS STREET
The New England Firemen's Union held a special meeting at the Boston Veteran Firemen's hall and voted to stage a hand fire engine muster on Wednesday Oct 16 at the Congress Street grounds. Prizes total 925 with top awards to 350 for first class engines and 150 for first in second class engines. Organizers include R H Brigham chair J H Wetherbee secretary and others from multiple towns. The union will cover expenses with many outfits already signaled to compete and details on route to be announced.
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New England Firemen’s Union
Boston
Veteran Firemen’s Hall
Washington Street
Congress Street
R. H. Brigham
Hudson
J. H. Wetherbee
Hyde Park
R. I. Frail
Hopkinton
H. H. Esterbrook
Calvin C. Wilson
W. W. Claflin
C. B. Ware
New
Shea Faces Insolvency Proceedings For D'Arville
Philip A. Shea, Camille d Arville s manager, filed for insolvency after a two week Hollis Street Theatre engagement. Creditors listed include Schoeffel & Gray, Donnelly, Tenny Photo Gravure, Edison Electric, Bay State Boston, Galvin and Doogue florists. Shea signed as agent, though programme listed him as manager during the road tour.
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Philip A. Shea
Camille d’Arville
D’arville
Hollis Street
O’brien
Suffolk County
John B. Schoeffel
Abbey, Schoeffel & Gray
Donnelly
The
Bill Poster
Tenny Photogravure Company
George Hayden
Edison Electric Company
George A. Carpenter
Bay State Company
Boston
Galvin Bros
Doogue Bros
Sumer
the Tremont
Shell
Hollis
Twenty three violins valued over twenty thousand found in trunk
In Hoboken on the Fuerst Bismarck a passenger from Vienna, Sigmund Deutsch, had trunks containing twenty three violins over 100 years old with appraised value exceeding $20,000. An associate on the dock offered a $10 bribe to a harbor inspector. The instruments include Torpedus Cappa 1673 and several other 17th to 18th century makers such as Adam Klatz 1720 and Martin Fachtl 1736.
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New York
Hoboken
Sigmund Deutsch
Vienna
Torpedus Cappa
Adam Klatz
Marianus Petz
Alexandre Zante
Jacob Fair
Paulus Atelzie
Fredrice Tononi
Martin F‘chtl
Somerville fire bug case continued in court
The Somerville fire bug case continued from last Thursday was heard in Somerville court yesterday. Richard Whalen Jr. faced charges of burning Franklin W. Hop kins barn on Kingman court. Law yer John H. Butler led the government and Curran of Woburn represented Whalen. The case was continued until Saturday morning.
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Somerville
Richard Whalen, Jr
Franklin W. Hopkins
Kingman Court
John H. Butler
Young Whelan
Curran
Woburn
School Opening Hours For Boston Evening English High School
The notice lists opening times for the Boston Evening English High School this year and is addressed to William H. Martell. It confirms the daily schedule and asks for acknowledgment of the requested time.
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Post
Boston Evening English High School
William H. Martell
Child Birth and Military Service Question in Immigration Law
A fragment asks whether a child born in the United States to Italian parents can be forced into a foreign army after visiting Italy. It asserts that US-born children cannot be compelled to join a foreign army unless they are children of officials employed by the Italian government, implying a legal distinction based on parentage and official status.
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Italy
United States
Last Sunday trip noted. Bay State Portland sailings daily
The last Sunday evening trip was made on September 15. Afterward the palace steamers Bay State and Portland leave India Wharf daily at seven o clock except Sundays, indicating a schedule change and regular weekday departures.
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Bay State
Portland
India Wharf
Popham Beach
Squirrelland
Boothbay Harbor
Salacia
C. F. Williams
Commercial Wharf
Plymouth
B.W. D&videson
Floating Fort Maine is Commissioned at Brooklyn Navy Yard
The United States battleship Maine was formally placed in commission at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Built at Brooklyn, the Maine is a fortress like example with ten to eleven inch armor, four 10 inch main guns, and extensive secondary armament. The ship, designed under Commodore Wilson and Melville inspired plans, embodies a high cost and long construction timeline from keel lay to launch.
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New York
United States
Maine
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Columbia
Congress
Commodore Wilson
G. W. Melville
Texas
Finnegan Will Probate Tied To Domicile in Boston
Judge Allen rules James Finnegan died domiciled in Boston after staying with his niece Bridget O'Brien on Swett Street. Finnegan, who came from Ireland twenty years ago, left $3000 for O'Brien. The domicile ruling fixes probate venue in this county. Contestants include other nieces and nephews. further issues on soundness of mind to be decided later. D C and F K Linscott represent Mrs. O'Brien. A J Daly represents contestants.
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Allen
Supreme Court
John Finnegan
Bridget O’brien
James Finnegan
Finnegan
Ireland
New York
Boston
O’brien
Swett Street
D. C
F. K. Linscott
O'Brien
A. J. Daly
Death of George S. Johnson in Watertown
George Sid ney Johnson longtime Watertown resident died at his home on Marshall street after about two months illness. A direct descendant of John and Priscilla Alden he was a seventh cousin of Abraham Lincoln and also descended from John Alden.
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Watertown
George Sidney Johnson
Marshal Street
John
Priscilla Alden
Abraham Lincoln
John Alden
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Mrs. M'Arthur
Piano Headquarters
Tremont St
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Edward Doherty
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the Park
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Phil Shea
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Isaac B. Rich
D’arville la Camnane
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the Howard
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Howard
New England Trotting Morse Breeders’ Association
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Mgr
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Lyceum Theatre
MAY Russell Novelty and Burlesque Company
Col. Washington and
Dover Sts
Lady Audley
Thomas and Watson
Clio
Grand Opera
Lou SF
Putnam
Geo. C. Fogg
Washington St
Masonic
St. John
Eastport
Lubec
St. Andrews
Calais
Campohbense
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