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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1893
Page
8
All matter must reach the office by Tuesday night to be in the same week issue. Earlier receipts prevent condensation or delay of articles. News and advertising matter and subscriptions may be left with T. F. Newton.
In South Acton weekly notices report a new 5 cent sociade at the Universalist vestry on Oct 6 and a century bike run meeting in Exchange Square. Skel ton of a missing canoe was found by the brook. James F. Sweeney may secure the district Republican nomination. A bicycle thief is captured after a chase from a dry goods store to Concord Junction, with further pursuit ending in West Acton. Several social happenings include Miss Carrie Wheeler receiving $42 as she departs, and local dressmaking and millinery openings.
Open every evening except Wednesdays over T. J. & W.'s grocery store.
Fred Ruggles was in town with R. E. Joslin planning Chicago travel the first of next week. A lad named Clifton Baker was injured by a lasso to the head. Dr. Bassett reports cattle inspections show no tuberculosis. The Bradley factory resumed Monday and is expected to run normally. Rev. W. G. Seamen will preach at the Methodist pulpit next Sunday. The piece covers pensioners from the War of 1812 and Odd Fellows members, with remarks on local church painting and a Baptist sermon by Rev. Theodore Busfield highlighting longtime ties.
In Auburn Maine on October 4 unions and factory owners issued staunch positions over the labor dispute. Owners defend their hiring of Armenian workers and insist on nonconcession terms while unions reject 10 percent wage cuts and shop rules. Citizens form a compromise committee as crowds fill the streets and 75 special police guard the business district.
Ex Judge Eben Hutchinson, once indicted for embezzlement of about $100000 from clients, fled to Chicago then Boston and disappeared. He is now reportedly in the Argentine Republic evading extradition while detectives sought to locate him. His criminal career had previously drawn sensational attention.
W. M. Windle set a world mile record with a flying start at Hampden Park Springfield pacing partners Olmstead Measure Broadhead James Clark Arnold and Sanger. He clocked 1 58 15 with earlier marks of 5 35 for the half mile and a 2 04 4 5 mile record previously held by Zimmerman. Windle also ran a Springfield half mile in 1 00 1 5 last year.
Edgar W. Mix, formerly of Lynn, Massachusetts, writes from Pryemsl Austria about his arrest as a spy after leaving a train to photograph peculiar Hebrews. He says he displayed his passport but was searched at the depot and jailed, then confined in prison.
Gathers at Springfield Mass for the 29th annual Massachusetts Women's Christian Temperance Union convention opening at State Street Baptist Church. Mrs Fessenden presides and committees are appointed after opening prayers. Reports are given by Mrs S L Drury and literature head Mrs K L Stevenson. Miss Louise Manning Hodgkins leads the noon devotional hour. The afternoon features the president's annual address by Mrs Fessenden.
Nasawa Oct 4 The city attorney asked the court to compel donors to withdraw their $50,000 gift immediately or the supreme court should order the city council to buy the Greely lot for the Hunt memorial. Donors notified the city clerk they will seek return of their gift within a reasonable time.
Henry De Varigoy, named special commissioner for the French government, arrived in Oyster, NEWHAVEN. He will observe dredging by steam and other oyster cultivation methods with help from Connecticut shellfish commission Clerk Botsford, spending several days here gathering statistics.
The old county court house roof gave way during demolition in Middletown. Laborer Carter and four workers fell to the ground. Carter is badly hurt and expected to die, while the others escaped injury.
A telegram to friends of Missionary Harrison R Thornton says he was shot and killed by natives on August 20 while in Alaska since April 1892. Mrs Thornton reportedly left for San Francisco with the remaining family and would continue to Auburn New Haven October 4 Benjamin C Proctor a warpish maker out of employment committed death by own action shooting himself several times through the herd He was 86 lived with his mother and sister in needy circumstances and despondent for closing up Nasawa New Hampshire October 4 Attorney General Eastman asked for a receiver for People's Insurance company of Manchester October 9 set for hearing Fall River Massachusetts October 4 Typographical convention adjourns to meet in Concord New Hampshire next April The Massachusetts union merged into a New England union with same officers and liabilities and assets
W H Moor, a leading New Haven clothier, filed a voluntary assignment with liabilities around 8000 dollars and assets under half that. The story notes concurrent local items including church ordinations, deaths, and a bridge vote in Ware Massachusetts.
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