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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1901
Page
5
The market opened little changed with steel firming. preferred up 2 and common 1 percent while sugar weakened fractionally at noon. Rail and copper stocks stayed dull, and professional trading dominated with little public dealing.
Secretary of the Navy John D. Long arrived in Hingham for a private visit and discussed the Sampson Schley court of inquiry. He weighed Admiral Kimberly's possible excusal, noted Assistant Secretary Hackett handling affairs, and commented on Gov. Allen as a potential successor. He praised Foraker Act results in Puerto Rico, citing debt repayment and schools, and spoke highly of Judge Hemenway as a possible Gray successor. Mrs McKinley has recovered and plans for a future visit were shared.
Washington on July 31 reports the general fund balances excluding the gold reserve. Available cash 176,629,151 dollars. Gold 99,480,159. Silver 26,136,726. U S notes 13,769,883. Treasury notes of 1890 106,080. National bank notes 89,407,260. Total receipts 2,980,210 for today, 62,320,340 this month and year. Expenditures today 1,475,000, this month 2,205,000, this year 2,305,000. Deposits in national banks 102,662,128.
Nellie Frances Kelley wife of Charles B. Kelley and daughter of the late Henry C. Howe died in Chicago on Wednesday. She leaves a 13 year old son, her husband, a sister Miss Bertha Howe and brother Walter H. Howe of this city. Mrs Kelley lived in Chicago since her marriage fifteen years ago and was educated in Lowell schools. She was a Carney medal scholar in the 1872 high school class and was noted for her intellect. A sister Sister Loyola Cummiskey died recently in Cincinnati aged 63. Also noted are relatives Sr Bernadine and Miss Loyola McCann. Martin Galvin died this morning at his sister Mrs Brennan’s home, age 25.
A series of funeral notices from Lowell area residents detail services held yesterday and nearby towns. Joseph Perrault and Margaret Kilbride were buried in Catholic cemeteries with multiple bearers and church rites. Bridget Gibney died by drowning, with Undertaker Molloy in charge. Ira B. Underhill’s funeral featured Odd Fellows and lodge tributes with notes on his armory shop work and Civil War service. Also listed are brief notices for Stanley Morrison Boardman, Nancy A. Dickinson, and Nellie Frances Kelley with service details and burial or chapel arrangements.
Christians are said to be in a desperate condition as foreign ministers press the Yildiz Kiosk for protection of lives and property. Albanian unrest at Prishmina grows. A Pall Mall Gazette despatch from Budapest reports Austria placing all garrisons in Bosnia and Herzegovina on war footing with additional regiments en route to Sarajevo and Banjatuka.
William G. Greene of Lakewood identified the body washed ashore at Natumich as his father Charles H. Greene who had been missing since July 19. The elder Greene, a Grand Army veteran, reportedly jumped overboard from a Sound steamer while temporarily insane.
Official chemical examinations of Berlin food in June show 83 of 294 samples below legal standard. Four of five milk samples were adulterated, 92 percent of sausages were artificially colored, and 82 percent of Leberwurst contained flour.
Five year old son of Rescoe Cobban of Groveland was fatally injured when a dump wagon toppled onto him in the family yard yesterday afternoon. The tragedy occurred in Haverhill as the boy played near a tree, the wagon overturning and pinning him.
A dense list of railroad bonds and preferred stock names with various connotations appears, including Evans and Ter Haute, Fore N A Chic, Mexican Central, Missouri Pacific, Rio Grande Western, and St Louis Bridge Term. The items are shown alongside contact addresses at 27-29 Pine Street and 65 State Street in Albany New York.
A Middlesex County trolley party of 68 from Chelmsford spent a day at Hampton Beach on a 7 am to 9 30 pm outing. Rev E C Bartlett led the group whose members praised the day. The 16th annual New Hampshire State Board of Agriculture session at the pavilion drew 500 plus attendees. Gov Chester B Jordan spoke with optimism on agriculture’s future joined by Prof Thomas F Hunt and music from Exeter Coronet band and Oberon Ladies’ Quartet. Also noted was Mrs Hannah Perham’s 75th birthday and local families using a Hampton cottage for weeks. A breaking wheel disrupted a freight train near 8 15 pm requiring a relief engine. Fire pumps and hand pumps were praised for effectiveness at a West Week fire.
Travelers on electric cars witnessed a Bedford fire that consumed Elihu Loomis’s house and barn at Main and Burlington streets. Loss estimated at 15000 dollars with hay damage. stock and most furniture saved. Fire started in barn hay. town crew failed to stop it, Lexington sent steamer and hose wagon. Cause undetermined. Loomis is a Boston lawyer residing in Bedford year round.
North Chelmsford notes list Major John Varney visiting Skowhegan Maine to spend weeks with grandparents Mr and Mrs E G Varney. Visitors include Mrs Johnson of Dorchester and Mrs Duntze of Stockbridge NY at Postmaster John S Hall home. Mrs D W Shirreffs plans a NY visit. Local industry remains strong with little unemployment. Mrs C A Plummer and her two boys Stanley and Harold vacationing with relatives in Portland Maine. Misses Addie Overlock and Ethel Ranger return from Spofford Springs New Hampshire.
At the reunion of the Massachusetts Mozart association the 40th New York volunteers were noted. Daniel C. Fletcher was elected first vice president. Mr and Mrs C S Robbins stay in Melrose with her sister. A large lawn party at Mr F B Priest’s featured music wax figures ice cream and cake. The Sunday school gave thanks to the Priests for the pleasure. Master Frank Needham of Arlington visited with Grace. Mrs George Patch returned last Saturday.
A summary of local social visits lists Mrs Blodgett and sister visiting Somerville, Burton Flagg from Andover returning home, Miss Hattie Freeman of Worcester visiting relatives, Mrs Wyman of Allston a guest of cousins, and Master Walter Hartwell of Clinton visiting grandparents and uncle.
Jerome H. Reading age 35 of Ma ple street Lexington was seriously hurt in the Boston and Maine yard in Boston on Wednesday afternoon while attempting to board a moving train. An electrician for the Pullman palace car company, he was thrown to the rail, breaking a left rib and suffering internal injuries. He was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital.
A clerical mix up named Miss E. C. Clark instead of Miss B. O. Clark in Sudbury. Sermons on Unitarian principles may be from Miss Ellen O. Clark. A. A. Clark, Inez Perry and Rev. A. W. Birks were named to organize an Unitarian picnic at Boone's Pond on August 14, with more details to follow next week and from the pulpit.
In Dunstable David F. Rideout reports three cattle deaths blamed on Paris green poisoning. A reward of 50 dollars is offered for the arrest and conviction of the culprits after evidence of poison near a tree and grass. The town votes 760 for highway laying and a library sum from the state amid heavy rains.
Mrs Mary Beebe Cutler of Newton files divorce libel against Ethan Horace Cutler in Cambridge court alleging unfaithfulness and neglect to support. Property in Newton and elsewhere attached for 30000. She seeks custody of three minor children. Cutler, a Boston rubber dealer, maintains a Bedford Street office.
Impartial observers note actors are intellectual and refined, not illiterate. The piece argues writing and criticism depend on educated actors, citing Dickens and Stuart Robson, praising actors as shapers of dramatic literature and language across three centuries.
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