Tragic Gas Fatality Of Roxbury Domestic Servant
Annie Borden a Roxbury domestic died from illuminating gas asphyxiation in her room at 11 Greenheys Street. Mrs. Frank Miller reported she arose at about 3 am to check the time, lit the gas, then turned it off and on again by mistake. Dr. Bicknell examined the victim before transfer to City Hospital morgue.
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Frank Miller
Greenheys Street
Roxbury
Mrs. Miller
Miss ‘Borden
Miss Miller
Miss Borden
Death of English baronet Sir Arthur Curtis shocks Yukon trek
Vancouver dispatch reports returning Klondikers say Sir Arthur Curtis the English baronet who vanished last spring on the Yukon journey killed himself. Exhaustion and a quarrel with a fellow traveler allegedly drove him to drown in a mountain stream.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Vancouver
Klondikers
Sir Arthur Curtis
Yukon
Ashcroft
Sir Arthur
Contempt for Fighting Bob in Navy Chaplain Proceeding
Court martial of Rev. Joseph P. McIntyre, chaplain of the battleship Oregon, resumed in Denver on the charge of scandalizing the navy. Witnesses supported published reports of the August lecture with Minnie Reynolds testifying that McIntyre called Captain Robley D. Evans Fighting Bob in a contemptuous manner.
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Denver
Col
Joseph P. McIntyre
Oregon
Minnie Reynolds
McIntyre
Robly D. Evans
Bob
Death of George W. Phillips Equitable actuary
News reaches New York of the death of George W. Phillips actuary of the Equitable Life Assurance Society at Rocky Hill New Jersey He had served as actuary since the society’s founding A native of Salem Massachusetts he graduated from Harvard College.
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New York
George W. Phillips
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Rocky Hill
N. J
Phillips
Equitable
Salem
Mass
Harvard College
Official Conduct. War Investigation Commission Seeks Answers
The War Investigation Commission in Washington demands written complaints since April 1, 1898, on war conduct from the Secretary of War and key generals. It issues six questions to Secretary Alger and lists detailed queries to the medical, quartermaster, subsistence, and adjutant generals about campaigns, supply, camps, hospitals, ships, and sanitation. The panel adjourned to reconvene tomorrow at 10:30.
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War Investigation Commission
Secretary of War
Alger
Havana
Santiago
Tampa
Fernandina
Jacksonville
Jacksonville and Tampat
Porto Rico
Medical Department
Cuba
Philippines
Army
United States
Banquet Honors Chaplain Murphy of Ninth Massachusetts
At a Boston banquet hosted by Jordan, Marsh & Co. Rev. P. B. Murphy, chaplain of the Ninth Massachusetts, defends his front line duties in Cuba. Attendees include Col. Sohier and Sen. John Quinn. a gold medal was presented by John Cronin with a heartfelt response from Murphy.
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P. B. Murphy
Ninth Massachusetts
Santiago
Sohier
John Quinn
P. Boyle
F. Hannerin
T. Tobin
Eri. J. Curtin
John McHugh
J. J. Shaw
R. S. ‘Burke
S. J. Gleason
M. O’brien
A. Teeling
Charles Glennon
Patrick Walsh
John Colbert
Samuel Splane
Father O'Callaghan
Messrs
Thomas Tobin
D. A. Mahoney
William P. O’connor
M. C. Means
John F. Cronan
James Casey
Michael Burke
J. F. Callahan
James F. Burke
Charles Linnehan
Father Murphy
John Cronan
Massachusetts
South Framingham
Boston
Mass
Boyle O'Reilly
Teeling
Chaplain Murphy
Quiet Wedding in Florentine Palace Tale
New York on September 27 reports a Florentine palace scene where a wealthy mistress commands servants amid marble floors and velvet. A dark-haired girl from Manhattan Beach Hotel contemplates life and love, contrasting with the ideal she seeks.
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New York
Florentine
Vale of
Cashmere
Manhattan Beach
Laura Jean Libbey Marries Van Mater Stillwell in Brooklyn
The Brooklyn romance blends literature and law as Laura Jean Libbey weds Van Mater Stillwell at 239 Gates Avenue with Rev. Dr. J. G. Bacchus uniting them. The couple kept hidden until yesterday due to literary exclusiveness.
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Coney Island
DeWolf Hopper
Laura Jean Libbey
van Mater Stillwell
Blackstone
Greenleaf
Kent
Story
Abbott
Brooklyn
J. G. Bacchus
Gates Avenue
Miss Delphine Love in Secret Louisville Marriage
Delphine Love daughter of Dr. I N Love returned from Louisville where she secretly wed Charles A Cohn son of the Anzieger owner but reportedly left him near the ceremony. A Louisville dispatch notes a telephoned call amid a flirtation leading to the marriage.
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ST. Louis
Delphine Love
I. N. Love
Mississippi Valley Association
Louisville
Charles A. Cohn
The
Anzieger
Lillian Russell Linked to Boston Merchant in New Matrimonial Gossip
Rumors swirl in Berlin and New York over Lillian Russell potential fourth marriage to Jesse Lewissohn a Boston copper trade figure while Sig Perugini seeks divorce on grounds of desertion. gossip cites travel aboard Fuerst Bismarck and prior romances as context for a likely union and sudden wedding plans.
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New York
Boston
West
Lewissohn
Lillian Russell
Perugini
Sig
New Jersey
Berlin
Fuerst Bismarck
Southampton
Bremen
Mr. Lewissohn
Germany
Miss Russell
Lillian
Actress Miss Russell Marries in Louisville Hotel
The article recounts a rushed marriage of Miss Love in Louisville after a call to action by Charles Cohn. Cohn claims intoxication and seeks divorce while Miss Love says she acted on a whim and now regrets the union. The piece also notes chatter about name changes and gossip surrounding the actress.
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Louisville
Jeffersonville
Ind
Cohn
Fanning Dies After Hospital Stay in Boston
Quartermaster-Sergeant Louis C. Fanning of Company B Ninth Regiment died at Massachusetts General Hospital shortly after 2 p m. He was brought to Boston on the hospital ship Bay State on its first trip to the city and had lived in Boston for six years. His home was Richmond Indiana, where the body will be sent today at 2 p.m. Services will be held at McCaffrey's on Albany Street before shipment. He served about four years in the Ninth and worked as a pressman for Bicycle World.
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King
Siboney
Fitzgerald
General Hospital
Red Cross
Guiteras
Bogan
States
United States
Relief
P. R. Guiney
B. F. Finan
Sohier
Quinn
Ninth Regiment
Archdiocese of
Boston
Father O'Callaghan
South Boston
Chaplain Murphy
Father Murphy
John F. Cronin
Louis C. Fanning
Massachusetts General Hospital
Bay State
Richmond
Ind
McCaffrey
Albany Street
Fanning
Ninth
Bicycle World
Bell Crashes Down in New Jersey Church
In Newark on Sunday night the church bell toppled from its frame crashing through two floors and damaging the organ below, sending 150 worshippers fleeing. Sexton Tyler narrowly escaped as plaster and debris showered the parlor. the heavy bell sustained no damage and will be replaced.
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Newark
N. J
Lampman
High Street Presbyterian Church
Sexton Tyler
Freight brakeman killed in railroad yard accident
William S. Duguay 26 of Wakefield died at the Spruce street freight yard on the Boston and Maine line after slipping on a wet rail and being struck by a car. Unmarried, he was crushed below the abdomen and suffered fatal injuries, dying instantly as the car moved forward.
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William S. Duguay
Wakefield
Chelsea
Boston & Maine Railroad
Duguay
Spruce Street
Inventory of Hardy Company stock at 17 18 19 Charles Town Street
The entire stock of the Hardy Company at 17 18 and 19 Charles Town Street Boston comprises doors windows blinds door and window frames piazza posts and related items.
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The
Hardy Company
Charles Town Street
Boston
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