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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1882
Page
1
Washington dispatches report widespread Massachusetts discontent over the tariff commission's bill. Letters from cotton, woolen, chemical and dye-stuff sectors claim harsh impacts on diverse industries. Details on navy reconstruction, clerks’ hours, and Chippewa negotiations follow in this capsule summary.
A Pacific coast business figure argues that abrogating the Hawaiian sugar treaty would hardly alter California prices since Spreckels controls sugar pricing via railroad rate influence and can keep Eastern competition out. He notes California consumers pay about twelve and a half cents more per pound than New York due to the current arrangement.
Washington December 16 Dr D W Bliss Bays denies Dr Hamilton rumors claiming he dosed President Garfield with morphine and calls the reports a lie. Bliss also faces creditors accusing him of maneuvering to collect a Bum award by drawing funds from the treasury before disclosure.
The House has passed the Indian agricultural military academy and consular and diplomatic appropriations. The post office bill should finish tomorrow. Kasson will push civil service reform but faces army bill opposition. The army bill may delay civil service action. A recess from December 22 to January 3 is expected.
A Senate territory committee focuses on Yankton county Dakota bonds worth 850000. Dakotan observers say the aim is not statehood but to have Dakota Territory or government assume the debt. Bonds reportedly bought for nominal sums by private individuals, prompting expected rejection and renewed inquiry.
The Senate finance committee plans a substitute bill extending the bonded period for distilled spirits to two years for existing stock, while future spirits retain three years. The draft goes to the Internal Revenue Service for polishing before Monday, with expectations that both chambers will approve the measure.
Washington reports over one million acres fraudulently entered in the West with daily discoveries. A Colorado case shows three townships of 25,000 acres entered by a gambler using heelers and runners for a reputable citizen who has since sold the lands.
Secretary Chandler ordered four naval officers to examine the life saving service revenue marine coast survey and lighthouse service for a potential transfer to the Navy. Senators seek the official orders behind the move as reports are prepared and debated.
Washington December 17 By the death of Representative Orth of Indiana the Forty seventh Congress loses the fifth member who has died within the year. The others were Allen of Missouri Lowe of Alabama Hook of Illinois and Updegraff of Ohio. Mr OConnor elected to this Congress died before he could take his seat. The flag will be at half mast over the House tomorrow and both houses will adjourn early out of respect to Mr Orths memory.
Senator Hale and Representative Reed of Maine urge the lighthouse board to revisit the Cape Elizabeth light decision. The next meeting will consider substituting the present lights with a first order lens emitting 400 candle power and a 10 second flash.
The Senate focused its past week on the Pendleton civil service bill. Republicans hoped for passage by Saturday, but opposition led by Mr. Cockerell of Missouri blocked further consideration, with plans to resume work tomorrow or by Tuesday at the latest.
Anping the Garfield Funeralists, Washington December 17. A Georgia undertaker presented a bill to the Senate sergeant at arms for 3800 dollars. The charges include 800 for the casket 500 for carriages and 1800 for other expenses including personal attendance. He was inclined to tenon and an extravagant example of the Garfield era.
Washington December 17 Senator Blair and allies press to take up the education aid bill in the Senate this week if the civil service reform measure is disposed of promptly. They expect to secure a recent pronouncement from the president supporting the project.
The Kansas City Times reports a caper at Kinsley Kansas where cashier L G Boice and county treasurer J W Crawford left the bank with the vault entry apparently unlocked. Coins littered the floor as a panel was found broken. Crawford, familiar with the vault combination, is alleged to be implicated and to have hidden the stolen money outside town. Rumors claim Crawford surrendered the funds.
Mrs Catherine Harrison, recently separated, was seized by four men while walking in Germantown. Two men outraged her and stole her watch and jewelry. After a crossing field for help, another assailant assaulted her. Two suspects, Thomas Whiteman and Thomas Sellers, are jailed. warrants out for John Orth, her husband’s brother, who has fled.
A destructive cyclone struck northern Colorado. In Boulder canyon a freight train left the track and debris blocked the Denver and Rio Grande line. Trees and rocks were blown onto the rails and a Sugar farm house was carried several hundred feet by the wind, with two men aboard the occupants.
London reports Mr. Gladstone marked fifty years as a Member of the House of Commons receiving telegrams from across the world including political opponents. The update covers disaster in Australia with mine flooding at Creswick Victoria where twenty two bodies recovered and more feared dead. Also details Fuad Pasha treason case and Dublin police raids on secret society hotspots. Further notes on student riots in Russia, Bolivian-Chile talks, Parnell remarks, Irish distress, and other international items.
Paris report states Admiral Jaureguiberry submitted a draft 11 million franc vote of credit for the Tonquin expedition during a Saturday council session. President Grevy and several ministers opposed the measure. the admiral, enraged by the defeat, burned the document and offered his resignation.
A Madrid despatch says Marshal Serrano withdrew after the constitutional debate showed wide splits among his followers. With only sixteen votes likely, he could not count on support and stepped back.
Mr Parnell received an enthusiastic welcome in Cork by the National League at a banquet held in his honor. A man believed to be a foreigner caused a disturbance and drew a revolver but was arrested before any harm occurred.
The Times Dublin correspondent reports that with judges absent from the assizes, the case against Davitt Healy and Quinn has been postponed and may be allowed to drop.
The Moamtrasna murderers, whose life terms were commuted from death, intend to file a joint affidavit asserting that one condemned man was not present at the crime scene.
In Paris on December 17 reports say about 10,000 Chinese soldiers advancing on M Riviere the French commandant in Tonquin were ambushed in a mountain pass. The rear guard was wiped out and the survivors fell back toward Kuansi province.
Despatches from Cape Town report continued fighting in Zululand. Cetewayo will proceed next week, accompanied by several British officers and a military escort, to resume sovereignty of the country.
A mine of dynamite connected to two wire conductors was uncovered yesterday under Temesvar post office. Several arrests were made and investigators expect to trace the perpetrators. In South America, Chile and Peru push for peace while each side shows firm demands, diminishing chances of accord.
A Hungarian peasant woman Lynukas Kathi from Szerdahely was hanged for multiple murders including killing her own husbands with arsenic cakes sold to others. She confessed six murders, prayed publicly, and faced an angry mob as her execution proceeded with a daughter attempting to witness but blocked by guards.
Hundreds exposed as Joseph Crawford of the company contracts small pox in Minneapolis. The theatre is quarantined with ground floor safe, upper floors closed, and pest-house measures rushed. Patrick Jordan dies as Isanti county health officers rush epidemic containment.
The Sun publishes Garfield to Hubbell letter dated August 28 1880 from Mentor D noting Brady should aid in the Star route contractors political effort to secure a 50000 assessment. Garfield asks about department status and assistance, showing high level authority claims to press contractors.
December 18 report from Cochituate notes a fishing party including Lewis Herrick, about 38, who grew still on the ice. He was moved to his home where he died shortly after. A postmortem examination will likely determine the cause of death.
A Pittsburg Cincinnati and St Louis railroad collision at King's Station this morning killed the train engineer and a postal clerk. The Eighty Days Around the World troupe aboard the train had several wounded and an elephant in the company was killed. A train carrying surgeons has been dispatched to aid the injured.
Mrs. Moses W. Foss, of Milton New Hampshire, died after walking two miles in a blizzard to trade, then succumbing to exhaustion near her home. She leaves three small children. her husband was away.
Investigators in Brooklyn have finished a report on the embezzlement case of George W. Stuart, former secretary of the Brooklyn Board of Education. The theft is stated as $260,508.55 and the findings will be shown at the board meeting tomorrow.
In New York on December 16 Jacob Tolader a Swedish sailor aboard the steamship Germania fell from the masthead. His skull was crushed and every bone in his body broken.
Halifax reports the brig Rebecca Neilly wrecked off the western shore twelve miles from Halifax harbor in a fierce snowstorm. The crew clung to the wreck as it broke apart, with one sailor from Cork, Thomas Wallace, heroically swimming ashore to lay a line for rescue. Two others survived frost and exposure after reaching Bear Cove, while one sailor perished.
Mrs. Martha J. Collins, wife of N. R. Collins of Bradford Pennsylvania, freed from the State asylum after a judge ruled he exceeded authority by returning her to a foreign state. The asylum, claiming recovery, discharged her amid public discussion of the institution’s conduct.
In Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, heirs of Jacob Baker, Philadelphia resident who died childless, plan a federal suit seeking control of an estate estimated over 300 million dollars. The estate includes Philadelphia real estate and bank deposits that have grown since his death twelve years ago. Relatives across Pennsylvania, West Virginia, New York, and elsewhere number about forty, prompting federal jurisdiction.
Mrs. Thomas Heckman of Lebanon Pennsylvania has suffered nearly a quarter century from a pin lodged in her thorax after coughing up the pin from a mouthful of pins during sewing. Physicians have failed to remove it and she endures extreme pain, occasionally unable to eat. Death is daily anticipated.
In Canton Illinois yesterday two boilers exploded at Parlin and Orendorff agricultural works destroying the engine house and part of the main building. Eight American employees were killed and two injured. Two hundred fifty workers lost jobs as fires were quickly checked and flags in Chicago flew at half mast.
A boiler explosion at the head of No 9 plane on the Pennsylvania coal company's gravity road Saturday killed fireman Lewis Marsh. Six boilers, each forty six feet long, powered a 260 horse power engine. One boiler was hurled 1600 feet. The shock was felt for miles and the gravity road cable was severed halting travel until Thursday.
Whittier received birthday calls from ex Governor Claflin and notable figures including Dr H Barnard Rev William Mountford Dr Bartel Hon Samuel Sewall and Miss Elizabeth Peabody. Brookline school sent a laurel wreath while Houghton Mifflin gave a bouquet of roses daisies and variegated flowers. Smaller bouquets arrived from across the state.
Eminent physicians clergymen and merchants from Maine to Boston endorse Adamson's Botanic Cough Balsam. Notable testimonials from George W. Martin, I. Al Stearns, F. W. Kinsman & Co., Rev. J. Torsey, Lieut. John Osborn, William Y. Bartlett, and Mrs. Geo A. Robbins praising its safety and efficacy for coughs colds and asthma. Local postmaster William Bartlett credits a 12 year asthma relief.
A Kingston Jamaica blaze swept one and a quarter miles along the water front with high winds fanning the flames. Estimated loss ranges from £3,000,000 to £8,000,000 as warehouses and wharves burn. three to five people die and a law banning shingles is proposed. The incident comes with notes on city layout, exports, and major buildings.
At 2 30 this morning the Hall block at St Clair and Jefferson streets was destroyed by fire. The building, erected in 1874, housed wholesale firms on the first floor and law and insurance offices on the upper floors. Owned by the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company, the loss is likely over $500 000 with some insurance.
A morning fire at Hampton Court Palace in London destroyed parts of the Vaneyxe and Holbein paintings and damaged much furniture and tapestry. One woman died of smoke inhalation. a large amount of property was lost before the blaze was subdued at 2 pm. The palace, historic seat of Tudor and Stuart rulers, hosts famed collections including Raphael cartoons.
A large fire in Dublin today destroyed several of the citys major co operative stores and caused extensive damage to nearby businesses. Firefighters battled the blaze as adjoining buildings suffered heavy gutting and smoke blanketed the area. Names of affected firms and exact losses were not disclosed in the report.
Cyrus Barber aged about 25 to 30 leaped from his bedroom window in night attire and, wielding an axe, nearly severed his leg while in a lunacy episode at Westerly R I. Neighbors and his father aided, a surgeon treated the wound, and Barber spoke of scripture while recovering.
Claremont New Hampshire December 17 The burglars whose arrest was noted in The Globe Friday evening were brought to court Saturday and held in 2000 bail for the January term of the Superior Court. Unable to post bail they were jailed in Newport. A Boston detective works on the case as a cleverly made object is found. Letters arrive from Dover and other towns concerning missing property. The gang is broken up and one member is an ex prisoner from the Dixon State prison.
Coroner M C Clintock and a Belfast jury probing the death of Miss Almatia N Beal hear nothing new after the stomach analysis was sent to Brunswick Medical College. The jury adjourns to May hoping testimony from the mother who allegedly attacked the girl may emerge. Authorities consider possible parental abuse as a cause, with the mother said to have poisoned her daughter after going insane.
Ottawa reports official figures showing Canada immigration from January 1 to October 31 at 158 055, plus November arrivals of 9 212, totaling 162 267 to November 30. Of these, 73 522 went to the United States, with 8 745 remaining in Canada and 73 022 going elsewhere.
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