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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1890
Page
7
In Syracuse New York the Leland House hotel burned at 12:45 am, killing seven and injuring about twenty. Guests fled amid flames as ladders and nets helped several escape. Firefighters fought the blaze while reports state the Globe Hotel also suffered fire damage and a separate shipwreck off Cape Dolphin noted in nearby dispatches.
Fragmented notes describe a Grand Opera House afternoon gathering of the national brotherhood of Lovesey and remarks by Gov. Carp. Be bell of Ohio, Beaver of Pennsylvania, and George B. Roberts of the Pennsylvania railroad, with General Howard and other officers present for the Eleventh Cavalry centennial events. references to Mormon matters and political figures appear in garbled form.
Reported in New Orleans on October 18 at 11:85 p.m. a band of assailants shot and killed D.O. Hennessey, the city chief of police, near Basin and Girard streets. The attackers were described as unknown. The incident follows a pattern of violence against law enforcement in the era.
Irish refugees the heroes of the hour in France confront the Pamine and the Vatican. O'Brien and Dion are wanted by the heroes and interviewed by Paris and English press. O'Brien discusses the Prince of Wales welfare and public opinion, while Dillon notes Parliament’s stance and rising popularity among their factions.
Disjointed OCR text mentions famine themes in Ireland, papal policy notes, and political figures. It references a tunnel plan from Scotland to Ireland and comments by Mr. Balfour on treasury affairs. Multiple quoted phrases appear garbled, but the core concerns touch on famine impacts, church-state issues, and infrastructural schemes.
Scattered OCR text notes the death of a distinguished jurist Justice Miller in Washington. Sketches of his career are promised and a funeral is mentioned, with terse references to a Rome gathering and state supreme court figures. The fragment hints at an obituary style notice with limited readable details.
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