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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1894
Page
1
Fall and winter trade lighting up the storefront with new stock and fashion. The ad touts all wool ceviot suits at $9.50, single and double breasted styles, and urges liberal patronage. Massachusetts Clothing Company at 80 Manever St sixth door from Cor Portland Washington St.
Robert A. Clark, a criminal medical practitioner, is sentenced to ten years in Charlestown State prison by Judge Hopkins in the Superior Criminal Court. The court found no mitigating circumstances after detailing Clark and Arthur M. Hill's earlier “sanitarium” operations, the Norcross case, a death, and a false death certificate. Clark pleaded guilty to the operation that caused Mrs Jennica L. Norcross’s death and was already sentenced on that count. Hill also pleaded guilty to the related indictment and faces sentencing today.
Forecast for Friday calls for Maine New Hampshire and Vermont generally fair and warmer with east winds. Massachusetts Rhode Island and Connecticut likely to see rain and high east winds with coastal gales and warmer interior.
The schedule notes a daily 3 p m departure in both directions on the Air Line Limited express train. It promises a vestibuled, dining car equipped journey to Willimantic arriving about 9 p m with buffet smokers and parlor cars. Meals priced at $1. From Boston foot of Summer Street to Grand Central New York.
J G Paul, named by Eleanore Whitfield as her assailant, walked into Station 11 at 1 30 this morning and surrendered. Whitfield remains in precarious condition at City Hospital. she had identified Paul after the attack near Bushnell and Deal streets, Ashmont, Friday night. The couple reportedly traveled from Old Colony station to Ashmont, where a quarrel occurred at a carpenter shop and a bullet wounded Whitfield in the left temple.
Tokio report details the battle off Yalu River with Admiral Ito commanding eleven Japanese ships and the Saikio Maru. Chinese Lai Yuen Chih Yuen Chao Yuen Yang Wei and others sank or fled while Japanese ships sustained minimal damage. The Saikio Maru narrowly escaped and Admiral Ito shifted his flag. both sides suffered casualties and officers face inquiry.
Worsted $20 overcoats are crafted from exclusive worsted fabric ideal for fall wear. The coats feature soft warm light weight twills and diagonals in dark Oxford tones, produced in clean well lit workrooms. Ready for immediate selection and wear, these garments embody gentility and conservative dress for gentlemen.
President Grover Cleveland issues a full amnesty and pardon to all persons convicted of polygamy bigamy adultery or unlawful cohabitation under laws targeting Mormon plural marriages. The proclamation cites church changes and urges future obedience, with W Q Gresham as secretary of state.
Early yesterday morning Policeman Loughlin found an intoxicated man in a Temple place doorway. Taken to Station 4 he died after arrival and an autopsy showed skull and spine fractures from a heavy blunt blow. No ID or address found. case remains a mystery.
Thomas H. Mitchell, a Boston city laborer, died after a clash with Martin Fallon on Cambridge street. Fallon, a Cambridge painter, claimed Mitchell insulted him and that he struck only once, but witnesses say two blows led to Mitchell’s skull fracture and death at Massachusetts General Hospital after 7:05 pm. Fallon was arrested for assault as police investigated the killing and reviewed eyewitness accounts at the Joy street station.
J Frank Cross, victim of a brutal assault at Brewer Brown stable Lynn Broad street, lies in critical condition with doctors saying he may die at any moment. The man who found Cross is Har rison of the Lynn Theatre who saw a carriage leave the barn and reported the scene. Cross later regained consciousness but forgot the assailant.
Franklin C. Pratt of North Weymouth has been an inmate at the Taunton State hospital complex for over a year. A physician’s report by Dr. E A Chase found him perfectly sane, though Pratt insists his condition stems from dipsomania not insanity. He worries about inadequate care and privileges amid inmates, and calls for release.
Pittsburg Sept 27 The Carnegie Steel Company limited informs 5000 Edgar Thomson Braddock workers it desires to terminate the sliding wage scale contract. A new scale is proposed that would cut wages for most classes except common labor. The firm says tariffs and uncertainty prevent continuation of present pay.
The Boston and Albany schedules a New York excursion for October 9, touted as the best value yet offered. The trip promises favorable pricing and a full day in the metropolis with rail transport and sightseeing arranged.
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