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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1880
Page
1
Boston police investigate the death of a lodger at 22 Florence Street. Marshall is found shot. his partner John H Hill remains missing. A note and a forged love letter link Hill to the crime, with jealousy and robbery as the likely motive.
Mrs. Orpen reports two well dressed men rented a front room and later the back room at her Florence Street house. One identified as Marshall paid rent with a large roll and claimed to work for a wholesale firm. the other was known only as Wartner. They vanished after a locked room incident, leaving a missing lodger asleep on the floor.
A middle aged Mrs Louisa McKay died in a garret at 330 Third Avenue New York city from want and privation after eloping at sixteen with a wealthy man, later marred by misfortune and separation. Her daughter was with her when she died. Her father refused burial funds, a subscription was set up by a patron. Another item notes Charles A Byrne held on bail for publishing lottery ads.
A St. Petersburg cipher reports the czar narrowly escaped in a palace mine blast. Five soldiers died and thirty five wounded as the imperial family avoided disaster. The incident spurs talk of abdication or a call for a constitutional assembly, with police claming clues but no arrests. Nihilist threats warn of unprecedented celebrations as revolts loom.
A Paris dispatch in La France claims the czar was in Princess Dolgorovky's apartments when the Winter Palace blast occurred. The empress approved the princess's access, and witnesses describe a tense dinner interruptible by the explosion. Investigators say palace insiders planned the mine and escape. Forty imperial court officials were later arrested in London.
Reported attempts to assassinate the imperial family included bombs or grenades hurled near the winter palace. The blast in the guard room startled residents, and unseen hands defused or detonated missiles that fell. One bomb exploded beneath a private carriage, damaging it but harming no one.
Paris February 23 Hartmann alias Carl Meyer in custody as a suspected Nihilist. He bought a house near the Moscow track with 2500 francs, laid a czar‑targeted mine, and a girl lived with him. Swiss and Geneva links, Toosin copies found, Russia seeks extradition if crime is political remains disputed.
John Swinton urged equitable distribution of wealth and peaceful political action to seize government power. He attacked Victoria and called for drastic measures against inequality, praising Parnell, Fanny Parnell, Denis Kearney, and the Nihilist platform as noble.
A Washington communication to the House outlines pleuro-pneumonia history, its noncontagious distinction from Texas fever and common pneumonia, and notes it originated abroad. It urges inoculation but favors slaughter of diseased animals, national veterinary sanitary commission, and strict quarantine to curb spread.
The San Francisco mass meeting at Union Hall featured Mayor Kalloch as principal speaker. He urged peaceful, legal methods to address the Chinese question. Attendees praised the board of health action condemning Chinatown and pledged orderly agitation.
Reports from the whaling barque Adeline Gibbs under Captain Besse describe severe misfortune. At Montevideo the first mate T. F. Batts died, second mate James T. Fletcher was wounded, and third mate Peter Roderick abandoned ship at Fayal. Six crewmen deserted at Montevideo, five making it ashore with chests and bedding, one dying after five hours in the water. four deserters were captured, one fled. The Gibbs set sail for the southern seas the next day.
New York reports Herald famine fund total at 237101 77 dollars with 908 90 raised yesterday. Dublin dispatch notes widening distress, acts of charity, and looming worst period despite distribution by Mansion House and Marlborough committees. Redpath says funds may run dry, risking hundreds or thousands of deaths without continued gifts. Priests and prominent laymen corroborate worsening conditions across Kerry Mayo Galway Sligo Donegal South Cork and other counties.
London report quotes Mr. Maskelyne of the British Museum announcing Dr J Ballantine Hannay of Glasgow has produced diamonds in chemical laboratories. Tests on fragments show diamond-like lustre and structure with goniometer angles matching natural diamond. Details of Hannay’s method await Royal Society announcement.
A January 28 meeting in Salle des Ecoles Paris urged amnesty for exiled Communists. Blanqui chaired and attacked Grevy's rise, conservatives, and the fourth estate while Gauthier blamed the government for Paris’s disasters. He praised the Commune and warned amnesty hinges on provoking the proletariat's 1789.
Two coal miners near Youngstown, Ohio, found the body parts of Adam Rupart after he fell 140 feet from a mine shaft. In Sharon, a boy named Goff was whipped by a drum belt at Kimberly mine, his clothing catching and causing severe injuries.
Washington February 22 Senor Dom Justo Arosemena minister president of Colombia has prepared and printed a pamphlet attacking the Monroe doctrine and argues against the policy and the inter ocean canal plan. The message notes Arosemena has his materials ready for distribution.
The passage recalls Genet’s 1793 interference with Washington’s neutrality policy. It notes senators backing the canal and Monroe Doctrine, and predicts Washington may act on the minister’s actions as a precedent. The matter may be reported by the house special committee on the key canal.
Frank Lawrence, of Brattleboro, is jailed in Grand Island Nebraska after a coroner verdict allege prussic acid caused the death of his father Charles G. Lawrence a former hotel keeper. The case ties to prior finances and suspicions of poisoning across years.
A Stamford Ky special reports a trio of armed men chased Powell and Williams after a fruitless search for a stolen horse. Arch Rowzie fired, Powell was hit in the abdomen, Williams shot in the shoulder, Williams fired back wounding Rowzie fatally. Rowzie is a wanted man with an $800 reward. Powell and Williams are not expected to die. Williams had earlier faced a murder trial ending with a hung jury.
The Rhode Island Supreme Court ruled against the last codicil in the Olney will case, granting Frank D. Olney and his sister a stake in the late Stephen J. Olney’s estate. Trustees including Harvard’s Professor Gray faced rejection after a challenged codicil redirected funds to Harvard College botany study. The decision means Olney heirs inherit upwards of $50,000.
James Worrell, 21, attempted to burn his father William Worrell’s residence near Claysville Pennsylvania after failing to secure funds to marry a young woman. He locked his sister in one room and tied his father in another. rescuers arrived to save them.
The estate of Rev. W. H. H. Murray shows preferred claims at $1000 with general claims estimated from $10,000 to $50,000. Six horses sold for $800, six others moved to Ida Hall Guilford, among them Flying Morgan, tied to two brood mares bought by Miss H with funds earned as Murray's secretary. Mrs Mu is a physician in New York but has heard from her husband since last summer.
CynicaGo February 23. An affair near Princeton Illinois ends in two deaths. A. D. Garvin, an ex soldier with trouble with his sister Mrs. Kessick, planned to shoot himself but failed and shot his sister first. He died the next day from his wound.
Washington reports a lively Willard's gathering of demos and delegates discussing convention seating and press access. Attendees heard that the Lottery Cases are appealed to the Supreme Court and a Pension Court bill is drafted in the House.
New York February 23 The Sun reports a cask of wine at Hoboken and a case in the U S appraiser's office bound for U S Grant Jr with unpaid duties The issue recalls past free passes for Grant family gifts while revenue officers note one recent duty payment for Mrs Grant via Rev Dr Kramer The story mentions Deputy Collector Balch refusing a free permit and paying duties himself in a gesture against improper exemptions.
William McRoberts a veteran of the trotting era and horse dealer at 189 East Twenty-fourth street died at Ninety-ninth Street Hospital after a stroke suffered while driving home from Central Park. He was 77. Born in Ireland, he witnessed historic races and owned notable horses including James K and Oneida Chief. At his death his estate was valued around $80,000. His son-in-law and daughter William H. Darlin attended him at the hospital.
The New York Herald editorializes on Massachusetts efforts to suppress medical quacks. It questions sincerity and suggests extending the bill to include legal quacks and other similarly dubious practitioners. The piece critiques targeted reform as potentially broader punishment of unlicensed providers.
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