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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1895
Page
8
West Acton notes community activities including baptist and universalist gatherings, a New York choir concert, and a boxboro death. The Coffey family obituary details a 25 year Boxboro residency, a past sleigh accident, and burial in Lowell with Maynard services. Local barn conversion, baseball share, and sales at Mead store cap the item.
An assortment of small ads and notices including a price offer for color cabinet portraits at two dollars and three dozen cabinets for three hundred dollars, portraiture samples, and contact details. Also health ads tout DeWitts Colic and Cholera Cure with testimonials and multiple store names in Maynard Concord and West Acton. A brief city notice reports missing boys being helped home with police involvement.
Miss Ruby Whittemore visits relatives at Winchendon and Fitzwilliam. Rev. Lyman R. Swett to conduct services at the Baptist church next Sunday. Mrs. F. W. Blanchard to return home from Bristol Maine. Miss Delia M. Dufresne ill after Canada trip. Caleb L. Brigham led Sunday at Unitarian, Clarence Pettengill at the other vacation service. Heavy rain refreshed drooping transplanted trees. Ernest Howe and Harry Sampson set out for a bicycle trip in the New Hampshire hills.
The American liner St Louis completed a 104 knot measured run off Southampton on Aug 21, covering the course in 4h 41m 1s for a mean speed of 22 3-10 knots. Officials noted flawless machinery, no bearing heating, and no coal boost, asserting readiness for mail contract trials amid pride in the American flag.
The thirty eighth annual festival runs Sept twenty third to twenty seventh with principal soprano Mme Melba making her U S debut. Other soloists include Mme Eaton Mrs Ford Mme Blauvelt and Messrs Dufft McKinley Campanari and Rieger. Boston Symphony Orchestra performs under Zerrahn Kneisel Jordan and Van Der Stucken. Major works include Handel Israel in Egypt Mendelssohn Saint Paul Berlioz Faust Massenet Eve and numerous orchestral pieces by Beethoven Schubert Dvořák Wagner Smetana and Bizet.
Cholera Morbus is dangerous and often fatal. Use DeWitts Colic and Cholera Cure at the first symptoms. B. F. Johnson & Son Maynard, C. H. Whitney, Concord, H.
Two New York millionaires are aiding Mabel Stanley, arrested August 10 as she prepared to sail for New York. She faces charges of stolen jewelry, which was recovered at her arrest. She possesses letters showing funds for her defense.
The cargo steamer Lyon collided with the passenger steamer Seaford 25 miles off New Haven. Seaford sat within 45 minutes. All 255 passengers and 42 crew were transferred to Lyon except three who had legs broken. All baggage was lost.
The international co operative congress met again yesterday in London. Rev Dr Lorimer of Boston argued that once the secret of real cooperation among all classes is discovered the world will enter a era of universal peace happiness and prosperity.
Paris reports that the government will take time to obtain documents from Madagascar regarding the Waller vase. Meanwhile Mr. Waller is said to be in an advanced stage of consumption.
Time is up as Peru and Bolivia face a strained relation after the Peru government set a deadline for receiving their minister to La Paz. The two nations drift toward rupture though war is deemed unlikely.
A Chinese official travels to Pekin to inform the Catholic bishop that the government will monitor Catholic safety following German interference on behalf of the pope.
Rumor from Santiago de Cuba states that Maceo has ordered no quarter in future following an attack on an insurgent field hospital that resulted in many rebels being killed.
The gold syndicate reportedly blocked a reserve drop below 100 million dollars by late deposits and exchanges. Pierpont allegedly funded 99 thousand in gold for greenbacks, lifting the treasury reserve above 101 million. Officials say only two government figures know the unwritten terms of the bond deal, while the syndicate’s long term plan remains unclear.
In Brooklyn on August 21 William J Winberg a 35 year old East New York banker fatally shot his wife after a servant accused her of dishonor. The wife remains dying. The couple have three children.
In Bar Harbor on August 21 the Kebo Valley club held a reception and ball honoring Secretary of the Navy Herbert and North Atlantic squadron officers in rendezvous here. The event drew more than 800 guests, with Mrs. C W Bergner and Miss Irwin entertaining 20 naval officers at dinner beforehand.
A quarry blast overcharge hurled boulders into the air. A rock crashed through a house striking a girl and killing a man. Two others were seriously injured and the house was wrecked.
Charles Flynn, 19, part of a seven boy Jersey City camping party near MippleTown, shot and killed Henry Showers, a colored man, in Chester yesterday afternoon. Prosecutors say the youths claim they did not know the gun was loaded.
The coroner's inquiry into the Miramichi and Osceola collision in St. Joan New Brunswick returns a verdict of man slaughter against Captain DeGrace and William Tait of the Miramichi.
Lowell Mass Aug 21 The striking employees of the bleachery department of the Hamilton print works returned to work after a promise of a 10 percent wage increase. They had demanded a 20 percent raise.
Johann Bittenheiser, 45, of Mauser Street, Brooklyn, returned home intoxicated and after a fierce quarrel shot his wife and then killed himself. Both are expected to die.
On August 21 at Exp. Fores N. ., yesterday marked ex-President Harrison's 62d birthday. He celebrated by going hunting and fishing and received many congratulatory messages from supporters and friends.
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