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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1887
Page
1
Pattern sale emphasizes clearance pricing for Portors Libraries Dining Boones and Halls with borders to match. The rest of the page notes varied items and news briefs including centennial events and labor disputes.
Mr Chamberlain details his stance toward the government and presents a policy for Liberal Unionists. Advices from Zanzibar say Emin Bey has been warned of the Stanleys expedition. The London Post opposes Germany on the Samoan issue. Mr Dillon warns of a bleak winter if coercion acts persist. Edwin Ennis testifies the Mitchelstown police act was wanton. Orangemen and Nationalists clash at Green Castle near Belfast.
Slightly warmer conditions and fair skies fill the day. Local news notes clergy sermons, a yacht club member's distress, a shoe league move, a court ruling against Equitable Life, a sailing win worth 1000 dollars, a locomotive engineers meeting, anti coercion talks, and a stock market showing mixed momentum with banks announcing reduced surplus.
Reports from Coxnenisville Pennsylvania indicate the coke region will begin an informal strike tomorrow as operators refuse any wage advance. Most works will idle with mass meetings likely to be attended and leaders predicting the strike will not broaden.
Arrived ships include Terman Winter Boston Morgen City and others. The report notes the steamship Hope of Scarborough found adrift and burned after being boarded, with crew details and cargo missing. A rock collision sank the schooner William M Everett near Clark's Point, while the Adeliia reported sighting vessels off East Chop and a whaling schooner under sail.
Special despatch reports Joseph Chamberlain outlining his policy divergence from Liberals and his push for a definite Unionist program. He argues against Gladstone’s return, favors Irish land reform, and proposes a centralized imperial parliament with broad self governance for England Scotland and Ireland. He urges formulating a concrete plan before appealing to Gladstone and Salisbury to unite behind a long term settlement.
London reports say Stanley expedition messengers reached Lake Albert Nyanza and met Emin Bey returning from Usungora. Emin Bey warned western shore troops and moved to Wadelar awaiting Stanley. The messengers note a fierce war between the King of Uganda and Unyoro.
The region between Lake Albert Nyanza and Lake Matanzi has been shattered by belligerents and remains hard to traverse. The article notes widespread destruction and severe disruption of movement in this corridor.
Mr Dillon warns of police crackdowns and growing coercion amid nationalist agitation in Mitchelstown and South Galway. He predicts crime flare with Tory land policy shifts as demonstrations spread to Bandon and Bodyke and MPs brief jealously on actions by O Bri en and the Salisbury cabinet.
The Post criticizes a proposed Samoa plan at the Washington conference proposing Upsolu and Apia for land and harbors and Savin and Tubuita for England and the United States. It urges native governance advised by neutral figures unconnected to trading houses.
In Washington Commodore Walker jokes about shedding multiple acting roles as Whitney Harmony Sicard and Wilson. The piece notes Commissioner Black’s illness, Pratt’s report on Father Davis and Baltimore fishing industry, Alaska conduct of Secretary Bayard, and Dawson’s Alaska education mission with liquor enforcement details.
Judges Bond and Morris of the United States Circuit Court grant an order restraining William C Turnbull from making or using any electric speaking telephones or related apparatus tied to Bell Telephone Company patents until the hearing set for November 1. The injunction targets the Chinese telephone scheme linked to Count Mitkiewicz as reported in Washington.
PurrapunG Sept. 18 President John Ward of the Ball Players' Brotherhood and New York team member said league officials refuse to recognize the union and without recognition no contracts will be signed for the 1935 season.
The British man of war Bellerophon, arriving from Quebec, was to sail to St. John’s N F. On the 10th at Quebec rockets fired in honor of the governor general ignited clothing on deck. Forty men injured, ten seriously, while 500 on deck witnessed the incident.
The American party convention adopted a platform calling for strict immigration limits and a cabinet level immigration department. It seeks fourteen years of residency for citizenship, bans on many groups from naturalization, bans on alien non residents owning real estate, and opposes land donations to private corporations. It also urges fortifications, a navy, church state separation, and a firm foreign policy.
For twenty four hours from 7 a m Monday Sept 19 conditions will be slightly warmer with fair weather. Winds will be light to fresh and generally southwestward across Maine New Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts Rhode Island Connecticut and eastern New York.
Governor Ames and the Massachusetts delegation returned from Philadelphia with troops, greeted by crowds in Boston. Cadets escorted the party to the station amid cheers, and a speech by Governor Ames drew applause, as the flotilla and shipboard officers received compliments for the tour.
A list of ships arriving at and sailing from major ports with dates in September. Vessels include Sarmatian from Montreal to New York, Otranto from Newcastle to Amsterdam, Slavonia from Swinemunde to Port Spain, and Normandie from New York to Liverpool among others.
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