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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1884
Page
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New York May 17 1881 The brief wall street flurry drew broker failures and alarm yet did not reach a real panic. The piece argues cautious bank policy and expansion to weather the strain, noting notable speculators and past crises from 1857 to 1881. O. D. Ashley signs the commentary.
New York May 14. Since the 1873 panic the Stock Exchange faced renewed tremors as a heavy run hit the Second National Bank and several major brokerages suspended. By 1 PM declines ranged up to 10.44 percent with many stocks plunging, while early buying offered a brief uptick before more failures, including Donnell Lawson Simpson, Hotchkiss Burnham, and Charles M Bayard. Total daily volume reached about 607000 shares.
Growing confidence appears in New York markets as stocks open high, dip, then close at day’s peak. Banks face strain from Newark Savings Bank stoppage while demand from cash buyers and abroad remains brisk. Decline in United States Express stock sparks fears of Marine Bank fund lockups, yet overall tone ends calm.
George I. Seney, president of the Metropolitan National Bank born in Astoria on May 12 1826, is praised for philanthropy. His gifts exceed 1.48 million dollars to Wesleyan University the Long Island Historical Society the Seney Hospital and other institutions. He explains trusteeship and his belief that giving during life ensures correct use of funds.
Washington May 19 Senate proceedings centered on the need to curb speculative banking. Senator Morgan urged a finance committee investigation into New York bank failures, criticizing Grant Ward tied maneuvers. Some members supported probing actions while others urged caution amid broader market wobble.
Washington May 14 The House committee on elections reports in favor of seating Mr English over Peele in the Indiana contest. Evidence shows fraudulent voting methods, manipulated ballots, and misprinted spring back tickets used to tally votes and scratch names. The committee concludes English won by twelve votes and should occupy the seat.
Washington May 14. E B Loring M B Kittredge and Oliver Dunn for the John A Anderson Post 15 G A R of Boston presented about 1000 petitions from Grand Army posts across the states in support of the Lovering Bill. They expect 3000 more. Loring urged universal pensioning as practical relief and noted the average veteran age now 49. Dunn described the organization as an effective lobby for reform.
May 14 report from a congressional session where lawmakers debated the consular and diplomatics appropri ation bill. Critics assailed ministers, with Mr Robinson denouncing diplomacy as vanity and proposing replacing Lowell with Sackville West. Aimed at abolishing missions, the body rejected the amendment and adjourned at 4 50 p.m.
A west-bound freight collided with a gravel train near Connellsville Pennsylvania on May 14. Twelve to twenty laborers aboard the gravel train were killed or injured as flames engulfed overturned cars. Names of the dead include John Neville John Ward John Carey and John Hughes. A full inquiry was ordered.
Adrian C Hewitt of Pequoton bridge, near New London, defies wedding eve cigars tradition and shoots at an approaching mob wielding shotguns. Eight men are wounded, none seriously, as the crowd bombards Hewitt's house. The village doctor treats buckshot injuries overnight, and Hewitt later offers cigars to visitors who refuse.
Benjamin Wallace, a long time soap maker with an estate valued at about $227,000, has been declared of sound mind by a Supreme Court commission. He disappeared last month, wandered to Cavarsie beach, announced he had bought the island, and tried to dispossess a fisherman. He was later found in Brooklyn and sent to Bloomingdale asylum, where he proposed purchasing property and transforming the island into a vast pleasure garden. His condition includes a plan to build ten story flats and to own half of New York, with a shift to comic singing and a desire to shed his identity as Wallace the soap man.
A Cincinnati Enquirer account recounts two uncanny cases linking dreams to real tragedy. A woman, pleading with a physician, describes a dream of her child harmed in Cincinnati, while a later case in Ireland details a man who dreamt of a murder and later foiled or witnessed it through events at Portland and Carrick, culminating in a murder conviction. The piece preserves the era's fascination with occult visions and their perceived link to fate.
In court Hickley described the victim’s clothing with precision while Caulfield pressed Rogers about his keen notice of two strangers at the public house. Rogers grew uneasy, but yielded the backstory of a dream guiding his testimony, corroborated by Father Browne who noted the dream’s townwide talk before the murder. The presiding judge was Sir George Caulfield, Lord Chief Justice.
Despatch from Paris reports England presses for equal commercial rights in China under the French Chinese treaty. France reportedly secures monopoly in Quanghi Quang-Tung and Yunnan while Jules Ferry argues the clause indemnifies losses in Tonguin and Auram. Diplomats say France may resist Granville demand for parity. Ferry instructs Admiral Lesapes to confirm the treaty at Tientsin.
Alliance C railroad passenger train collided head on with a freight about three miles west of New Galileo at 5 10 PM destroying engines and cars. Several passengers and crew were seriously injured including Jacob Castiner and Express Messenger McFarland with head wounds, and Freight Engineer Pontefract with a head cut.
Scarlet fever rages at Poquonoe seven miles from New London with Tillotson children affected. Authorities bar entry and exit at the Tillotson house and deny medicine or nurse access. Connecticut Humane Society to visit. prior case linked fever to oyster brush on the Poquonoe river. G F Raymond, owner of oyster beds, previously awarded 5000 damages by the Legislature.
The Gloucester schooner Gertie E Foster found a dory on Banquereau May 4 with two dead young fishermen, ages about 22 and 18, who likely starved after eating raw fish. One body carried a conk shell, compass, and the name Ricland Horare. They were buried at sea after salvage.
New York on May 19 reports Rosa d Erina Rosa O Toole prima donna and organist of the Catholic church of the Holy Innocents married to Professor G R Ven tum Viscount de St Croix. The wedding drew a great crowd at the church. The groom teaches French and music at St Louis College attached to the church. His family holds county seats in France and in Jersey.
The Guion steamer Or egon arrived in New York after a fast voyage from Queenstown to Sandy Hook in 6 days 15 hours and 6 minutes, beating all existing records except her own best time of 6 days 10 hours 1 minute.
In Dovar New Hampshire May 44 the Democratic caucus chose four delegates for state and district conventions: Joshua L. Foster, Thomas J. Smith, Michael R. Kennedy, and Michael Killoren. Two favor Tilden and two support Butler.
In Winthrop Maine near Lake Maranacook two odd men drive town chatter. Tom Coffin returns after years away seeming rich from Western gold and buys a grand house, firing furnishings and converting the estate while villagers recall his debts and ill deeds. Uncle Bragdon, famed cider drinker, runs a woodwork job that ends with him owing the widow 350 dollars in cider payments.
The Knights of Honor convocation in Chicago elected Supreme Lodge officers led by Supreme dictator General Frank D. Sloat of Connecticut and vice-dictator L. A. Gratz of Tennessee. St. Louis chosen as permanent abode for the Supreme Lodge. Salaries set for the year: dictator 2500, reporter 3600, treasurer 3600.
Chicago tale details Mrs. Julia Colson locking a hall to trap gas as she plans suicide to spare her dog, which had bitten a child. Thomas Colson and his son found the apartment filled with escaping gas. a note on a collar box explained the motive and the planned killing of the dog. Dr. Rose hopes for recovery.
Milwaukee May 17 four ward school boys formed a violent league and armed with knives and revolvers fled west to a farm two miles from the city. They built a camp and planned to stay several days before continuing. A farmer locked them in a barn and notified the sheriff.
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