20 Sep 1893
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1893
Page
1
London reports deepen the coal strike with funds exhausted in Derbyshire and miners returning to work on masters terms. Paris notes Pas de Calais strike spreading with 42,000 miners quitting. authorities take riot precautions though no disorder reported.
Rome reports that Henaberg, an American engineer, Fourgerg, a Parisian, and Mariella Tuffi, an Italian, killed themselves in Rosenberg's apartments on Sunday. The art proprietor of Brush Hall had been in financial difficulties.
Rainy day boosts customer turnout as Small Bros. boots and shoes store presses a massive five day sale. With 80 000 dollars in stock, the firm aims to raise cash this week, offering durable, honest shoes to regulars and newcomers alike. They opened at eight and may stay late, promising prices will not be considered.
In Washington on September 19, Senator Mills argued against the Sherman Act and for or against bimetallism, warning that free coinage could unsettle world gold standards, while Voorhees pressed for a final vote. The debate, touching on the force bill and cloture, stretched as senators warned of long hours and political maneuvering.
Charles Dockrell of Dorchester lies unconscious after a ruthless assault by about thirty youths at 25 Fuller street. Bricks and missiles shattered windows as his family cowered inside. Police and his father pursue the assailants, with the father naming a suspect and promising justice amid a spate of recent juvenile outrages.
Society in Charlestown and Back Bay buzzes over the forthcoming marriage of Miss Louise McNamara to Harrison Gray Otis of Somerset. Details hint at a formal autumn ceremony as preparations unfold and spectators anticipate the church exit.
John Lavender of Bristol, R. I., a former American Rubber Company worker, died of exhaustion in the Jeffersonian Democratic Club room in Cambridgeport after years of poverty and failed efforts to place him in care. Club members and the overseers of the poor struggled to help. his emaciated body, weighing 110 pounds, was found on the doorstep. He refused offers of aid, hoping to work again.
Washington dispatch reports the forecast for Wednesday expecting fair skies in New England and New York with west to northwest winds.
Jeremiah Finn, 30, a brewer's wagon driver from Smith street, attempted to stop runaway horses on Elmwood street, Roxbury, yesterday afternoon. He fell under the wagon wheels and sustained severe internal injuries, transported to City Hospital for treatment.
A Washington Ind. dispatch reports Benson Wrattan and his six members of the family were killed last night near Harrison township twelve miles from Washington. The victims are described as horribly mutilated in the crime.
Washington Sept. 19. The weekly weather bureau crop report notes frost damage in exposed areas of New England but not widespread. Corn and potatoes are below average while pasturage remains good.
The Post reveals a secret romance between a young Boston couple culminating in a quiet dawn wedding. They met on a Marblehead yacht two years prior and have been seen together in Boston and Charlestown amid gossip. The ceremony at St Marys Charlestown led by Rev McMahon with celebrant Rev Millerick follows the death of the bride’s father John B McNamara. The bride will wear a tailor made dark green suit for travel after the ceremony.
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