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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1902
Page
7
The New York market opened stronger as London rallied, with Canadian Pacific up a point and Southwesterns rising. By 11 am gains persisted with shorts covering. St Paul and Amalgamated led advances while sugar fell, reversing some gains and trimming Southwesterns.
New York reports futures opened firm on June 25 with June at 9.00, July 8.74, August 8.44, September 8.09, October 7.96, November 7.92, December 7.90, January 7.91, February 7.91 bid, and March 7.93 while Liverpool plans a June 26 to 28 closure.
The British Americans of Chicago will hold a remonstration and entertainment at the First regiment armory tomorrow night in honor of coronation day. If the king’s health improves the meeting stays celebratory. if critical it shows sympathy. if he dies it becomes a memorial. A resolution to Queen Alexandra was passed.
The bark Roderick Dhu reports Kilauea is more active than since the last major eruption four years ago. Since June 3 smoke and flames pour from the crater, the sky over Hilo appears like a storm by day, and a fiery torch can be seen at night from ships nearby. Earth tremors and underground rumbling are frequent as the eruption intensifies.
In Melrose this morning Buckman filed suit in the superior court seeking $500 plus interest from Francis H. Foster on a contract in which Buckman sold 56 light brown and 110 dark brown fowls and chicks. M. E. S. Clemens represents Buckman. S. P. Smith for Foster.
Daniel A. O’Hearn, city resident and Harvard medical graduate, will begin duties as house officer at St. John’s Hospital on July 1. He previously attended St. Patrick’s parochial school in Lowell and St. Bonaventure College in Alleghany New York.
The excerpt contrasts King Edward's appendicitis with President McKinley’s gunshot wound. It notes appendicitis has a high recovery rate when treated promptly, while gunshot stomach wounds have lower survival chances. Surgeon Treves, renowned in abdominal surgery, performed the King Edward operation.
Gordon Prince a prominent summer resident of Manchester died at 1 55 this morning at his West Manchester home from appendicitis. He is survived by three brothers Dr Morton Prince and Frederick H Prince of Boston and Charles Prince who resides in France.
Williams College awarded honorary LL D degrees including Gen Leonard Wood formerly Cuba governor at June commencement in the Congregational church. Three top graduates spoke as valedictorian Austin Harmon Rowland Haynes and Charles Mills. Prize lists announced before the alumni dinner in Lasell gymnasium.
Yesterday Jane Toppan was found not guilty by reason of insanity for the Mrs Mary Gibbs murder. She was moved from Barnstable to Taunton for life confinement. Officials, her attorney and a matron accompanied her. a large crowd watched as she arrived at the hospital.
Inspectors Maher and Walsh seized a man claiming to be Joseph Johnson in Manchester after tracking him for a week. He operated a portable pasteboard box gambling game in saloons and billiard rooms, drawing money from customers with rigged chances. Authorities found him in the city after a day at Lakeview.
A Connecticut senator met a New York visitor who insisted his 10 year old son is the rightful heir to the English and German thrones. The man produced papers and a coin impression as proof and urged Senator Platt to arrange a meeting with President Roosevelt to stop the usurpation. The visitor left for New York after a brief discussion.
Funeral services were conducted Tuesday for Charles S. Shugrue of Westford with Mass at St John’s North Chelmsford. Bearers included Connell Couture Ward and Savage. Burial at St Patrick’s Lowell. Mary Mackin’s funeral followed from 126 West Sixth Street to St Michael’s with a Gregorian mass and notable floral tributes from family and friends.
A Franklin Hamilton poem from The Outlook laments fleeting youth and love as high tides wash the shore. It contrasts April clouds and sunlit waves with hard granite where saxifrage grows, and ponders death, toil, and unspoken beauty. The closing line notes June graduations leaving some young people feeling small.
In this city on June 265 at the home of her parents John and Margaret Tansey 30 Pleasant Street Louise Margaret Tansey aged 6 years 9 months.
At the parochial residence of the Immaculate Conception Church this morning at 9 30 Rev Fr Lawrence united Bernard Donnelly and Miss Annie M Sweeney in marriage. Miss Bridget Cryan acted as bridesmaid and James Donnelly was best man.
The Highland Congregational church choir took a Monday trolley ride to Tewksbury, using Deacon Enoch Foster's grounds for a picnic. Activities included a baseball game, tug of war, and races, followed by a vestry meal. Rev. Yeoman and Rev. T. Clayton Welles spoke, with Mrs. Grace Naylor organizing.
A New York Central official, George H. Daniels, learns an editor gave passes to his late brother, sparking apology and a free ride for a real undertaker. The anecdote, cited from the New York Times, underlines warnings against favoritism in rail passes.
A notorious English beggar with a regular contributor role asks a patron for aid. The man gives half a crown, and explains that heavy wedding expenses for his eldest daughter forced him to cut back. The beggar responds with a humorous understanding that he cannot contribute to the daughter's wedding.
A Washington Star description explores the scarcity of Oriental pearls, prices rising 30 to 50 percent, and several fisheries exhausted. It contrasts true pink pearls, wholesale value, and the mouth test used by jewelers to distinguish real from imitation. A Wisconsin freshwater strand is cited as an American alternative, with notes on pearl grading, matching, and luster. The piece ends with a column-like aside and a humorous anecdote from the Indianapolis Journal.
William Townsley recalls a Cleveland bound Erie to Cleveland trip where a dog was tossed from the smoking car window after a quarrel over a pipe. The husband confronts the traveling man who admits the act, and a fistfight ensues as arrival nears.
Western merchants adjust to new conditions as demand shifts away from rough rider fashion toward rubber tires, pianos, organs, and centralized stores. Rural delivery and mail order catalogs reshape commerce. former oddities shops fade, while home dealers gain.
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