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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1900
Page
1
A fragmentary verse note from Pall Mall Budget reflects on death and life, urging acceptance and joy in the present. It questions past kings voices and feasts, urging readers to seek spiritual bread and wine of life, banish fear, and surrender to true life here and now.
The passage blends satirical notes on U S politics and foreign missions. It references Taggart to lead the democratic campaign, questions McKinley’s picks for public service, and contrasts Massachusets and Braggart with ongoing senatorial concerns while noting Iowa’s calm yet capable men.
Reports indicate off as a fuel has not proven satisfactory in tests. Patent fuel made from coal dust and tar yields nearly as good results as coal. The Windsor Castle carpet holds the record as the largest in the world, 40 feet wide with 58,840,000 stitches, woven by 28 men over 14 months.
Transacts a general banking business issuing foreign exchange payable worldwide in English French German and Swedish money. Furnishes safety deposit boxes with private coupon rooms. Pays four percent per annum in the savings department compounded semi annually. Invest starting monthly. Includes ladies banking rooms. A depository for United States and Massachusetts.
July 16 18 reports from Tien Tsin Chefoo and Shanghai describe a daylight assault by 7000 allied troops on the city walls. Chinese defenders estimated at 20000 pour heavy artillery and rifle fire, with American Japanese British French and Russian forces engaged. Wounded include Col Emerson H Liscum Majors Regan Captains Buckmiller Wilcox Noyes and Captain Davis killed. Losses total about 15000 dollars in value.
The Navy Department reports from Chefoo that on July 13 allied forces attacked the native city at Tien Tsin. Russians seized the right, Ninth infantry and marines on the left. Losses were heavy: Russians 100, Americans over 30, British over 40, Japanese 53, French 25. Col. Liscum was killed. Capt. Davis, Capt. Lemley, Lieuts. Butler and Leonard wounded. The evening assault was repulsed with great losses.
Cape Town July 16. After the war ends 10,000 Boers will emigrate to the United States. The Irish Americans are organizing the preliminary movement. President Kruger refuses to surrender until supplies are exhausted.
Franklin Bagg, superintendent of Oak Grove cemetery in Springfield, collapsed and died during Mrs. Sylvia L. Duckworths funeral rites. Witnesses say heart failure caused the death. He leaves a wife, a brother Seymour Bagg of Ludlow, and other relatives.
United States Senator John H Gear of Iowa died at his Portland apartment yesterday morning from heart failure. Born April 7 1825 in Ithaca New York he rose from mayor of Burlington to governor of Iowa and served in Congress and the treasury before his Senate term began in 1894.
The office of first assistant postmaster general has been offered to Col Curtis Guild Jr of Boston. Perry S Heath, current incumbent, will resign in a few days to become secretary of the Republican national committee, a position to which he was elected yesterday. The question of Heaths successor was considered yesterday in Washington D C and the report notes Guild as the candidate.
John Smith aged 23, a lineman for the Portsmouth Street Railway, was shocked on a pole in Portsmouth New Hampshire this morning and died within minutes. He hailed from Wentworth.
A fire at the Masonic temple in Lancaster New Hampshire caused about 15000 dollars in damage this morning. Ground floor tenants Richard and Tracey grocers and F F Kellum butcher were forced from their premises.
Judge W. H. Washington of Philadelphia dies at Castle Creek Hot Springs of consumption at age 46. He was a direct descendant of Augustine Washington and father of George Washington. The death occurred in Phoenix, Arizona on July 164.
At Canton a conference among President McKinley Postmaster-General Smith and Mr. Heath concluded with an offer of the position to Colonel Guild.
Colonel Guild says Postmaster General Smith offered him the office of first assistant postmaster general. He calls it a great compliment and a pleasant surprise but notes business reasons may prevent acceptance. He is unsure whether he can leave Boston for the role or for a Cuba commission as previously considered.
Gov Allen and Gen Hastings of Bermuda spent the day at the McKinley residence in Canton Ohio. Allen discussed island administration matters before heading to Washington and then to Lowell Massachusetts for rest prior to returning to Porto Rico. Hastings was en route west for a social visit with the president. President McKinley attended morning services with Allen and Comptroller of the Currency and Mrs Janes joined at dinner.
Mrs Minnie Johnson faced court on July 15 for scalding 6 year old Vincent Boland the prior Thursday. Found guilty she was fined 40 dollars and held on 500 bail for appeal to the superior court.
Mont Vernon, New Hampshire drew Lowell visitors including Mr and Mrs Co H Nelson and Mr Samuel A Chase plus Miss Ella E Gardner. Rev Bicknell of Cambridge preached to a full church. Mont Vernon Golf Club held a handicap tournament with eighteen entries led by E W Wight of Boston. Marden of Lowell placed sixth. Regular weekly men tournaments on Saturdays and women on Wednesdays open to new entrants.
A mob of men and boys gathered at Ah Sing’s Chinese laundry in Kansas City on July 15 and hurled stones at the shop, threatening to kill the inmates. Police intervened, dispersing the crowd and guarding the laundry overnight.
Lake Geneva Wis July 14 Harry Vardon lost his 36 hole match by one down to Walter Egan and A C Tolifson using best ball but he set course records at Lake Geneva Country Club during the event.
Antigonish Nova Scotia July 15 Fred Simpson a Western Union telegraph repairer was struck by lightning during a thunderstorm and died instantly.
Humors are vitiated or morbid fluids in the veins influencing tissues. They arise mainly from defective digestion or occasionally heredity. They show as skin eruptions eczema pimples boils and general weakness and languor. It is claimed to be the best medicine for all humors.
A Union Line trolley car was dynamited late last night in St Louis Missouri. The blast blew the car from the track and left two persons badly injured with both painful injuries reported.
The article praises the White Mountains region in northern New England, highlighting Crawford Notch Franconia Notch and Dixville Notch sights such as Table Rock Old Man of the Mountain Flame White Horse Ledge Elephant's Head Crystal Cascade and Echo Profile Lakes and Lake of the Clouds. It notes the Boston and Maine railroad runs through the area and offers a Mountain literature booklet sent for two cents.
Meetings of the baths and accounts committees are set for 8 o'clock this evening. The accounts committee will review the July 4 bills.
The H. F. Webb company lost its corn canning plant in Norway Maine on July 16 due to a major blaze. Local firefighters battled the flames as the facility suffered extensive damage and production halted. No injuries were reported.
A newly designed implement with two handles pivots to operate elongated steel jaws. The tool threads through bottle necks to seize corks and pull them free, simplifying cork removal for users.
A mammoth barn belonging to Fred Fox in Dracut Centre was destroyed by fire this noon, with 200 pigs and 100 tons of hay lost. Firefighters, aided by a chemical, arrived too late to save the building. The loss is about 35000. A separate report notes a cruelly detailed medical case involving a lockjaw incident and related treatment.
Chelmsford cases include Fred A Burgess pleading not guilty to keeping liquor with case continued to July 26. William E Stimpson jailed for theft of a Morning Citizen from Lorenzo Grace’s stand at 513 Dutton street, fined $3. Saturday drunks fined $2, three released. Sunday drunks fined $5. Fred Dudley John J Clancy and George Primeau placed on probation. Joseph Orzana assault case postponed to July 21. Patrick McLaughlin jailed five months as a third offender. Central Baptist church bell incident yields mixed verdicts with Coffin fined $5 Mason acquitted and Fletcher Ward fined $10. appeals filed.
Alfred Richards a 14 year old boy was taken to St John s Hospital with early lockjaw symptoms after injuring his left index finger while firing blank cartridges July 2 The wound did not seem serious at first but swelled and became inflamed despite home remedies A physician saw no improvement by July 13 and the boy suffered sleep loss until Dr Thomas F Carroll was summoned yesterday afternoon to treat the finger
About a hundred and fifty suits by A Shuman & Co priced from fifteen to eighteen dollars with many twenty dollar suits. The thirty line includes the famed fifteen dollar Hand-Finished Line. Goods are fancy worsted cassimeres and cheviots in stripes checks and oxford mixtures all season's make.
An article describes the installation of a new organ for First Baptist Church by W B Goodwin. It features 60 stops across swell great choir and pedal with electro pneumatic action and a grand crescendo pedal. The organ is to be a landmark, funded by Arthur G Pollard, built from Goodwin plans by Woodbury of Boston. A party toured the plant site and enjoyed a lawn luncheon before returning home.
Saturday incidents on Adams Street and Prince Street report two fall injuries and a loaded cartridge explosion. Sylvester Sullivan, 2% years, fell from a window but escaped serious harm. Bridget Currie fractured an arm and sustained internal injuries after a stair fall. Aldrich Lambert, a child, was treated at St John’s after a cartridge blast caused a minor bullet wound in the hand.
Western Union began digging a Market street trench for underground conduit with Merrimack Valley Paving in charge. The two foot wide trench varies 26 to 30 inches deep and will hold a three inch pipe for 1740 feet between the sewer and New England Telephone line. Electric Light will start excavation soon seven feet from the north curb. Superintendent MecElham says he will not press aldermen and will carry out board instructions.
Members of the sewing circle of the Daughters of Liberty visited Mrs. Nellie Fisher in Lexington on Saturday afternoon and evening. They were received hospitably by Mr. and Mrs. Fisher and enjoyed welcoming home comforts.
The sale features many stock items priced at a quarter of their value. Shoppers should budget time for selection as items are marked to fit limited spaces. The sale emphasises a grab bag style with Monday highlighted as the best day for bargains.
Box 42 reports a blaze yesterday afternoon at 3 30pm in a two story Oak avenue building. Mattresses burned briskly and scorched the wall. damage done before extinguishment. Capt Boynton of Branch street engine house among the first on scene with facial burns. Fred C Church held the building insurance.
A telephone alarm summoned Hook and Ladder No 2 on Saturday at 4 20 pm to a blaze at the dumps foot of Columbus avenue. The fire was immediately extinguished by the Chemical Engine.
William Morris, who plunged from a third story window at Bridge and French streets early Saturday, is reported much improved at St. John's Hospital. Doctors express surprise at his vitality, saying an ordinary man would not have lived two hours after the fall. Morris’s chances are favorable.
Agent Knapp of the board of health said cats caused the illness until a city hall bacteriologist proved otherwise. The report notes that children commonly acquire diphtheria from playing with diseased cats that shed the germ.
Wesley Brown, who took carbolic acid in despair, will be discharged from Lowell hospital in a day or two. He is much improved. Physicians say the acid was diluted with water, noting he might have died before reaching the hospital otherwise.
Deputy Moffatt Inspector Donaldson and Officer Bumps executed a search warrant at 9 Bay State Court Sunday morning and seized two kegs of ale belonging to Joseph Desmarais. They did not arrest the seller as no offender was found.
Auctioneer Chas H Worcester sold six Daniel Gage parcels in Pawtucket ville Saturday afternoon totaling 13198. Purchasers included Oscar R Hall George Andrews Emery Burns Arthur Hinsdale and C Wheelock with prices ranging from 90 to 1200 per acre and a 12500 square foot lot sold to Hall. The estate on Varnum Avenue included a house barn and 18 acres selling for 4970.
William Barnie longtime Hartford Eastern League manager and prominent baseball figure died in Hartford Sunday after a brief pneumonia illness. He had attended the Elks gathering in Atlantic City last week and worsened, returning Friday night and gradually sinking. Barnie, age about 46, previously managed the Brooklyn and Baltimore NL clubs among others, and was a well known figure outside Nick Young.
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