Boston Common Council Reorganizes After Summer Session
The Boston Common Council held its first post summer meeting with 34 orders acted on. Allocations included 100000 for school building improvements, 50000 for Ward 19 playground, 30000 for Ward 13 playground, and 5500 to pay election officers. Controversies included opposition to entertainment expenditures and a veto override for tree removal funds.
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Common Council
Flanagan
Ward 19
Brooks
Ward 10
Portland
National Baptist Convention
Barry
Washington Street
Union Park
Canton Street
Board of Election Commissioners
General Register of Voters
Board of Aldermen
Committee On
Mahoney
Ward
William Byrne
John T. Scully, Jr
Edward E. Hale
Boston
Albany Street
City Hospital
Long Strike Ends in Victory for Union Labor
The two year dispute between Henry Hussey & Co. Boston and the Boston Journeymen Plumbers Union Local 12 ends with a union victory. Hussey hires only union plumbers after signing an agreement to discharge all non union workers. The union calls the settlement a major win for its craft and organized labor overall.
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Henry Hussey & Co
Boston Journeymen Plumbers’ Union
Henry Hussey Company
Reorganization of Burke Club of Roxbury Plans Ball
The Rev. Thomas N. Burke Club of Roxbury will hold a meeting at Hibernian Hall Hampden street next month to reorganize and elect officers. Action will be taken and arrangements made for the annual ball.
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Rev. Thomas N. Burke Club
Roxbury
Hibernian Hall
Hampden Street
Mather Grammar School
Meeting House Hill
Dorchester
Mather School
Winthrop Hall
Upham’s Corner
I. Rosnosky
Richfield Street
Mamie Cullen
Arcadia Street
George Dunican
Longfellow Street
Annie Donahue
East Street
Best Men’s Suits and Fall Overcoats Offer
The ad touts a wide range of garments from clothing and accessories to hats, bags, and underwear in new materials. It claims superior quality, guarantees satisfaction, offers refunds, and notes strong sales of fall overcoats with $7.50 and $10 lines moving quickly. It promises sizes for all shapes and highlights cheap-leading prices despite higher value.
Pretty Ida Strongin Remakes Hair Like Cleo De Merode
New York report describes 16 year old Ida Strongin who mimicked Cleo de Merode claiming to be the dancer. After taunts at Third Avenue stairs she assaulted onlookers and was arrested by Gerry Society agents. At Essex Market Court she denied her identity, confessed later, and was committed to Bellevue Hospital for examination.
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New York
Ida Strongin
Cleo de Mero
Cleo
Third Avenue
One Hundred and
Sixty-ninth Street
Cleo de Merode
Ida
Merode
Ilda
Aes
Gerry Society
Essex Market
Gerry
Bellevue Hospital
Bellevue
New York Excursion Date via Albany and Hudson River
The notice sets October 5 as the excursion date from New York with travel via Albany and the Hudson River, returning on the Fall River line.
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New York
Albany
Hudson River
Fall River
Won Millions and Freedom From Family Curse of Will
In a New York Supreme Court ruling Justice Chase voided a Pell will clause that barred a daughter from her fortune unless she stayed in Europe or divorced. Eleanor Phelps would inherit 7 million only if she avoided divorce and stayed abroad, allowing her to keep both fortune and husband Charles Phelps.
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New York
Supreme Court
Chase
United States
John Augustus Pell
Pau
France
Susan W. Pell
Eleanor Livingston Phelps
Europe
Charles Harris Phelps
Miss Pell
China
Japan
Pell
East
Fall Overcoats and Boys Suits Highlight Beach Street Offers
A local retailer promotes fall overcoats in light to silk-lined options from eight to twenty five dollars and a wide range of boys suits from two fifty to five dollars. The store highlights affordable prices, durable fits, and appealing window displays on Beach Street drawing daily attention.
Fled to avoid marriage Miss Shannon vanishes in Newark
Miss Mary Shannon of Prospection Newark fled just before a wedding to William H. Ryan of Chicago. Ryan hired detectives after learning she disappeared amid promising marriage plans. He remains in Newark seeking the bride while denying coercion and insisting he seeks the truth.
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Miss Shannon
Fortune for orphan girl from New York heir to 75000 dollars
Miss Mary Burns a New York massage operator learns from Edinburgh lawyers Hawkins Brown she is sole heiress to her aunt Jane Biggins estate in Scotland. Born 1876 in Glasgow she endured a puritanical upbringing before fleeing to London and then the city, now weighing how to use the fortune.
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New York
Scotland
Mary Burns
Miss Burns
Hawkins & Brown
Edinburgh
Scot
Glasgow
Jane Biggins
London
Mrs Borroe Seeks Immediate Payment of Will Legacies
Mrs Anna Corbin Borrowe seeks a citation from Surrogate Petty to compel the executors of her father Austin Corbin's estate to pay $60,000 and $7,500 legacies immediately. The surrogate filed the executors accounting. estate indebtedness to Mrs Borrowe is acknowledged. Counsel for the executors suggested payment would occur if proper. Counsel for Borrowe cited more than $2.5 million in assets shown by appraiser's report.
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Riverhead
L. IL
Anna Corbin Borrowe
Hallett Alsop Borrowe
Austin Corbin
Petty
Borrowe
William J. Kelly
Executors Ordered to Show Cause Over Unpaid Legacy
Surrogate Petty delayed granting the citation due to an incomplete petition and scheduled a showing for tomorrow to determine why the legacy to Mrs Borrowe has not been paid while noting no demand had been made on the executors. Mr Kelly urged payment but the executors had not been asked to settle the legacy.
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Kelly
Surrogate Petty
Borrowe
Man Falls Into Cauley’s Hatchey and Dies at City Hospital
Terence McCarthy of 1017 Columbus avenue died at City Hospital at 6 55 last evening from injuries after slipping into a basement hatchway at Cauley’s saloon on Tremont street near Columbus avenue yesterday morning. He struck his head on a barrel, was taken unconscious to the hospital, where doctors found a fractured skull and he died.
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Terence McCarthy
Columbus Avenue
City Hospital
Cauley
Tremont Street
McCarthy
Cauley’s Place
Norfolk Brewery
Dangerous Thorndike Street Crossing Highlighted
Somerville Common Council met last night to address the Thorndike street crossing after a York boy was struck by a train on Tuesday. An order requests the Mayor to confer with Boston & Maine officials about placing a flagman at the crossing at all times. McDonald proposed a second order on municipal electric lighting, tabled for potential citizen vote at the next election.
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Somerville
Mattress and Pillow Hygiene Promised by Local Makers
Be cautious when buying sleep gear. Doctors warn filthily filled mattresses and pillows harbor more diseases than any other source. We make our own hygienic, comfortable mattresses and pillows in all kinds and prices. Open Saturday evenings.
Lynn Schooner Abbie M Deering Damaged In Explosion
The Lynn Gold Mining Company schooner Abbie M Deering bound for Alaska suffered major deck damage and injuries after an explosion of benzine on the forecastle. Crewman Michael Kennedy was badly hurt, John Moriarty escaped injury, and extensive repairs will be needed before any Klondike voyage via Cape Horn.
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Breed & Stevens
Broad Street
John Moriarty
Michael Kennedy
Kennedy
Klondike
Sentences Meted In Superior Court For Various Offenses
Yesterday in the Superior Criminal Court Judge Dewey imposed sentences including Charles Mulkern three and a half to five years in Massachusetts State prison for pickpocketing John J Leigh fined fifteen dollars for assault and battery Timothy Callahan a probation for breaking and entering and receiving stolen property Crenzo Farme manslaughter six to eight years in State prison Lena Burke and Annie Lovejoy two months in the House of Correction at hard labor Lawyer John B Moran defended the case and criticized Boston police methods likening them to New York practices, triggering Colonel Grant to resign from the New York Police Board.
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Superior Criminal Court
Dewey
Charles Mulkern
Massachusetts
John J. Leigh
Timothy Callahan
Crenzo Farme
Lena Burke
Annie Lovejoy
House of Correction
John B. Moran
Boston
New York
Grant
New York Police Board
War Vessels for Morocco at Tangier
The U S cruiser San Francisco flagship of the European squadron left Tangier after arriving Tuesday to seek redress for flogging incidents against American citizens at Mogador and to press payment of U S claims. If not settled soon a U S squadron may be sent to Morocco as the Sultan moves troops against Rif pirates in the region.
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Tangier
United States
San Francisco
Mogador
Unite States
Morocco
Fire at Cottage Hotel in St Johnsbury Vermont
Fire at the Cottage Hotel on Railroad street in St Johnsbury Vermont damaged the three story wooden structure. The blaze started from a bracket lamp on the first floor and climbed to the roof. The fire department acted quickly saving the building and many guests escaped in night clothes. One man woke to a burning mattress.
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ST. Johnsbury
Railroad Street
R. B. Flint
R. P. Lindsay
Republicans seek Tracy as New York City mayoral candidate
In Plattsburgh leading Republicans of New York County held a secret conference with Lemuel E. Quigg presiding. They adopted a resolution asking former Secretary Benjamin F. Tracy to allow the use of his name as the Republican candidate for mayor of Greater New York at the forthcoming city convention. The measure passed unanimously.
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New York
New York County
Lemuel E. Quigg
Gallantry Rewarded for Monocacy Battle Hero
Alexander Scott of Burlington Vermont received the Medal of Honor for gallantry at the battle of Monocacy on July 9, 1864. The ceremony was reported from Washington on September 2. Scott's actions are highlighted as exemplary in the Union defense during the engagement.
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Washington
Alexander Scott
Burlington
Monocacy
Coughlin Realigns Democrats At State Committee Session
A secret session of the Democratic State executive committee at headquarters ended with John W. Coughlin of Fall River satisfied after a heated speech. Philip J. Doherty was named temporary chairman of the Worcester State convention by unanimous vote. Fusion with the Populists was not discussed. Attendees included Paine, Lloyd, Bellamy, Callahan, O Gara, Scollard, Corbett, Sullivan, Lee, McLaughlin, Cusick, and others.
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Democratic State Executive Committee
John W. Coughlin
Fall River
Chicago
Coughlin
Harry Licoyi
Don Carlos Denies Abandoning Spain Throne Claims
Don Carlos, the pretender based in Madrid, issues a letter denying he has abandoned his royal rights. He says he would be a coward to renounce his claims after the sacrifices made for him and claims 100,000 volunteers stand ready to rise. He believes Spain must abandon Cuba as its loss fuels discontent and plans a forthcoming manifesto.
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Madrid
Don Carlos
Spain
Cuba
Man Found Dead in Hudson River Near Fishkill
John Hazard of New York, a well dressed editor staying at the Palatine Hotel in Newburgh, was found dead in the river half a mile north of Fishkill. He had stones in his pockets and a coat note reading I can stand it no longer Over there is rest, with no clear motive. The body was identified by letters on his person.
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Poughkeepsie
N. Y
John Hazard
New York
Palatine Hotel
Newburgh
Fishkill
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Jordan Marsh and Company
Haruke Cos
Cleo DE Morode
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William Ji, Brine
Mrs. Phelps
Beach St
Mary Shannon
Prospection
Newark
William H. Ryan
Mr. Ryan
Ryan
Fortune
Mrs. Borrowe
U .Burn
Washington Sf
Jerdan
Mareh
Clothiers and Outfitters
Washington St
Corner Beach
Allele AS
Gott Sheng Urs Srenons
Cushing Process Co
Lynn
Exgoson
Chapman
Platt
Tracy
Summer St
Mr. Coughlin
Doherty
Worcester
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