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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1893
Page
8
Notices request readers to send in all tens of news items for the Enterprice left with A. A. Wheeler and assure prompt attention. Subscriptions for the Enterprice are also being received.
South Acton notes mention spring school vacation and a large turnout for the Acton Centre inauguration pall. Frank Harris the Acton highwayman was captured in Boston and staying in Cambridge. A temperance drill at the Congregational church drew a full house. Street light funding and new lamps are planned. Harry Clark’s sleigh mishap near Hobert Conant place caused a rapid dash to Worster’s stable. Local notices advertise a lunch room and Columbus Souvenir spoons at Baldwin’s.
A Vermont dispatch notes a $1850 liquor case fine. Local updates include library closure for annual inspection, a camp fire committee at Reno Post G A R, Frank Murray leaving Seymour block, and growing support for a day police. Also covered are shrine attendance in Boston, school reports in Maynard, grain demand in Hudson, a photograph exhibit at Phaneuf's barber shop, and a Massachusetts Democratic club special train to Washington.
Massachusetts state prison faces a volatile mutiny led by two thirds of inmates armed with nearly 100 revolvers. Guards fear for their lives as a planned roof escape and days of unrest threaten a full-blown revolution inside the Charlestown facility.
Governor Russell praised Mr Quincy calling his appointment excellent and fully qualified. He said Quincy will discharge duties with high character, ability, judgment and tact. Russell noted Quincy accepts reluctantly but wishes to aid the administration.
R C Marcy sued the towns of Abington and Rockland for 10000 damages over water rights taken from Big Sandy Pond Pembroke. After four years of litigation the case was settled out of court to avoid trial in Brockton Superior Court this week.
A Liverpool court case shows a new danger to American travelers who bring cigars and tobacco. Customs officers must prosecute offenders rather than settling by duty payments as in the past.
In Ottumwa Iowa during the March 8 municipal election a riot erupted in the second ward. Bystander George Gabriel was struck on the head by a stone and seriously if not fatally injured, while rioter J J Shephard was badly disabled. The vote turnout was heavy and described as the most bitter local political contest.
The British tramp steamer Eglatine arrived in Philadelphia from Rio Marino with nine crew members from the barkentine Chiselhurst. They were rescued with great effort. the Chiselhurst sank 20 minutes after the rescue was completed.
Julius H. Stitch, senior member of Stitch Bros., wholesale hatters at 19 East Fourth Street, shot himself in the bar room at 164 Third Avenue after leaving his lawyers and consenting to an assignment amid mounting business troubles.
The Massachusetts Legislature considers appointing a city fire department commissioner with a three year term and a $7500 salary. Bills address state prisons, the Old Colony Co terminal facilities, judiciary reform, voter registration proof, docked horse protection, stream pollution, liquor laws, transit proposals, gas and electric plant rules, Keeley cure, and ballot box use at caucuses.
Ulster Unionist members of Parliament vote to thank Canadians for offers of help to resist a Dublin parliament. The pledge follows assurances of support in the event of Home Rule being established.
Officials and employees of the agricultural department visited the residence of Secretary Rusk last night and presented him with a five piece silver service a salver and lamp all bearing the monogram J M R The surprise presentation marked a notable farewell gesture to the ex secretary.
Mexico Mo March 8 Clark a small town at the junction of the Chicago and Alton railroad was almost entirely destroyed by fire yesterday many small stores business houses and dwellings burned to the ground origin unknown.
J. G. Crowell of Boston appeared before United States Commissioner Fiske on a smuggling charge. He pleaded not guilty and was held in 50 cents for the United States district court.
SPRINGVILLE N Y March 8 Lea Multer a teller at the Farmers bank has absconded and is $3000 short in his accounts His bondsmen have made good the defalcation and he is missing from the city
Washington reports fair weather for New England with slight temperature changes and rain expected by Thursday morning. Winds will be variable and shift to easterly, forecast issued on March 8.
Benjamin Harrison returns to Indianapolis after four years in the White House to rest at his old home on Delaware Street. He plans a quiet life focused on his grandson Baby McKee, with his daughter Mrs. McKee and Josephine the housekeeper nearby. Private lectures and law work are considered, while he remains a church and literary club member and his wealth is estimated between 150 000 and 175 000 dollars.
J Pierpont Morgan said a management committee from the Boston and Maine road met with a committee from the New England road and reached a conclusion to be submitted to their boards of directors next Saturday afternoon. After action is taken the result will likely be made public.
Princess Kaiulani visited Wellesley College yesterday. The note highlights a series of foreign and domestic events including a sewer gas explosion in New Haven injuring four men and uprisings in Servia with ten killed by the military.
Percy L. Skinner a teamster faced municipal court on a manslaughter charge after allegedly running over Catherine Foltz on Union street Friday. Foltz died at the hospital and Skinner was held for Monday with $2000 bail posted by his employers.
Washington March 8 Secretary Smith promotes his Washington correspondent Claude Bennett to private secretary without solicitation or suggestion.
In Trenton the senate confirmed the nomination of the former governor to serve as an associate justice on the state supreme court, marking a notable advancement in the judicial selection process. The confirmation follows hearings and committee review.
Lieutenant Norton finds two victims in Alleghany park. Rosa Rutzler of Apollo is dead from a throat cut and gunfire. James M. Hill of Tarentum survives, naming a third man as the killer. A knife and tortoise shell hairpins are recovered. the revolver remains missing.
Washington March 8 The first meeting of President Cleveland's cabinet lasted over two hours with all members present. Topics included Hawaiian annexation and the financial situation, but most time was on appointments and the need to fill posts carefully and without haste.
In Attleboro Massachusetts James Ellis a probable tramp was fatally stabbed by a companion after being enticed into woods near the south city railroad area He refused to enter a hut where others lived and was attacked The murderer fled to Pawtucket where he was arrested last evening Ellis spoke of the motive with difficulty before dying
The body of Alaco Psaltes the Greek who fatally shot the Klaus girl then killed himself has been disposed of and will be buried today by the identifying company. A brief service will be held in Bridgeport and interment will be in Brooklyn as his brothers in Brooklyn refuse to touch the body.
In Clarksville on March 8 two women Mrs. John W. Jones and her 16 year old daughter were seriously burned when flames from a burning brush heap touched their clothing. Despite rescuers efforts they died within minutes.
Michael Mc Carthy of Salem, aged 70, died at Royal Wilson's tannery in Peabody when his apron caught in a hide splitting machine roll. He was pulled into the machine and killed almost instantly.
Cheyenne Wyoming March 8 Lionel Sartoris a cousin of Nellie Grant's late husband announces a major colonization scheme. He will colonize with English farmers a tract of 80000 acres in central Wyoming.
Boston resident Major Howes files a libel suit against The Globe and The Reporter of Fredericton alleging they published a paragraph accusing him of killing his wife in the Tobique river two years ago.
March 8 Absolute Divorce action filed by Mrs Beila Clyve Neame daughter of William Henriques of the Stock Exchange and niece of the late Charles Osborne against her husband Douglass I Neame.
Watertown live stock market data show totals across states with 896 838 cattle and 8 965 swine on record. Prices for western beef cattle declined slightly while northern and eastern beef cattle held steady amid slow trade. Milch cows and springers sold with little change as buyers remained scarce.
A columnist laments the rising presence of women in the House of Commons noting tea culture and dining room expansions. The piece traces how ladies shifted from private rooms to terrace dining and new public spaces as they increasingly frequent lobbies and terraces amid parliamentary social life.
A French journal reports a simple method for obesity: restrict meals to a single dish, any choice, no condiments, soups, or desserts. An army officer nearly retired due to weight slimmed in weeks using this diet and regained some after stopping it. A lady with similar results followed the plan and felt no inconveniences.
Miss Rachel Baker of Boston, an amateur playwright, returns from Switzerland with her brother after a failed sight condition. She finished her father’s unfinished play After Taps, then wrote three acts and published a popular work. She has since published three more plays and chairs the Boston Amateur Dramatic association.
The Chewing Gum Center in Indianapolis is touted as the hub of chewing habit. Professor Harty testified linking a ladies dinner in the city to widespread gum chewing with pepsin gum passed around and women attempting to hide their weakness.
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