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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1893
Page
8
All Enterprise news items should be sent to A A Wheeler. Subscriptions for the Enterprise are also received and will be promptly attended to.
Leonard Willard reports back after sick room time and several locals are noted in brief items. Concord Junction clergy and residents are mentioned with retired mason Francis Conant giving way to John Temple. The piece also references a Boston fire department incident and a Riverside cooperative store ad alongside local business notices.
Charles Ray spent Sunday in Hudson and Rev Mr Yager preached on The Christ Child in the morning and Esther in the evening. Rev Mr Perry declined a Madison Square church call. Mrs P Noon and Nellie visited Cambridge for a christening while birch wood piles and robin signs hinted at spring.
An advertisement offers New Home sewing machines for sale and seeks agents at 160 Tremont Street in Boston. The short notice emphasizes agency recruitment and product availability.
Washington reports indicate pressure from Democrats over civil service reforms and political appointments. Officials expect a drive to remove political influence from high clerical ranks, while keeping department chiefs aligned with party leadership. Rome and New York brief notes close the item.
RoME reports Admiral Maghaghi sailed yesterday aboard the steel cruiser Etna. The ship will join the great naval rendezvous at Hampton Roads and participate in the naval review in New York harbor.
Washington reports the president plans an extra session of the Fifty third Congress early next fall. London notes Wolf's Crag wins the Lincolnshire handicap valued at 1000 dollars with W Smith's Wolf's taking victory.
The Massachusetts Senate adopted house orders to investigate alleged discrimination by the New York New Haven and Hartford railroad against the New York and New England with a May 1 report deadline. Other items include tax and school funding debates, fraternal benefit rules, railway stock auctions, and a fishery board resolution. In New York Charles Manuel, an Italian counterfeiter, faced bail for passing altered currency, with accomplices cited. Berlin provoked a Reichstag tirade over alleged illegal contracts with Jewish financiers during Bismarck era.
Paris March 22 The Panama canal scandal trial ends with Charles DeLesseps and Blondin convicted of corrupting ex minister Baihaut and sentenced to prison. Bailaut Bahait and Sans Leroy acquitted. Fontaine fainted. court to decide on confiscated funds and restitution.
In Camden on March 22, Mrs. John Shields whipped Mrs. Lydia Clark in a public scene on Chester street. Shields accuses Clark of causing her husband’s desertion.
New Bedford police take three boys into custody as they played with dynamite cartridges. The youths were building forts and preparing to discharge the explosive items.
Representative Smith's successor William A. Morse of Tisbury was elected in Vineyard Haven to fill the vacancy caused by Asa Smith's death.
On March 22 forecast for New England calls for fair weather followed by snow on Thursday and slightly colder conditions with northerly winds. Signals are shown along the Atlantic coast at Portland and Eastport.
A list of brief items includes Mrs Patti sailing for America on October 28 and Queen Victoria departing England for Italy. Other notes cover local navigational updates, a political appointment, and various incidents and events.
Washington reports more than 5000 postmaster resignations on file to be considered before any removals. Separate item notes millionaire Mackay in San Francisco expressing improved condition and denial of extreme illness at his residence.
A 110 year old colored woman, born in Virginia, died in Washington yesterday of influenza. Also in Maine, Nathaniel Hall of Montague killed himself by leaping into an ice hole by the river. In London a new rifle demonstrated to experts can fire 80 to 100 shots per minute.
Madrid reports the Bank of Madrid cashier absconded on March 22 with 1200 francs in cash, leaving a large deficit. Police investigate the incident and seek the missing cashier.
A young man in Manchester New Hampshire passed a number of bills raised from two to ten dollars yesterday. Police seized the suspect and began investigations into the counterfeit operation.
In Marlboro a daughter was born March 16 to Mrs George Martel and a son was born March 11 to Mrs Charles Viette.
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