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Newspaper

Lowell Daily Courier

Location

Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Mar 08, 1901

Page

8

Trophy Saved as Highlands Triumph in Inter-Club Meet

In Lowell last night the Highlands beat Pentucket 3-0 in bowling to claim the bowling trophy, while Pewtucket won the whist trophy after edging Highlands 318 to 311. The event drew about 150 at the Highland club, with visitors from Haverhill Lawrence and Lowell Vesper Club.

Lowell Highland Club Highlands Pentuckets Haverhill Lawrence Pewtucket Vesper Pentucket Dalton Club Newburyport William A. Read Dr. Donahue Read Richard Charlton Griffin Charlton Chariton Pool Knapp The Nichols Lazzelle Buckley Abbott Pressy Killam Gage Frye Wilcox C. F F. A. Smith Morse Anderson Church Dickerman

Lyceum Topples Hudson In 21 3 League Win

Worcester March 7 Lyceum 21 Hudson 3 in a dull league game Porter starred with a sensational play. Lyceum outworked a weak Hudson outfit. Referee C P Davis allowed little roughness. Attendance about 300.

Worcester Lyceum Hudson Porter C. P. Davis Everett Hudson Dorman Porter Connolly Green C. Martens

Company C Beats Independents in Bowling by 61 Pins

Company C team defeated the Independents in a well played bowling match last night by 61 pins. Final score not shown.

The Independents Company C C Boys

Clover Club Defeats Emeralds In Town Hall Showdown

Clover Club beat Emeralds 25 to 15 before 250 fans in a well played game. McCluskey starred with five baskets, Dixon and Connors also stood out as Clover Club and Emeralds each prepare for their final cre ft game.

Clover Club Emeralds Lowell McCluskey Dixon Connors

Lowell Handily Defeats Manchester in Local Gym Match

Lowell beat Manchester 40 to 12 at the local association gym with sharp passing and strong overhand goals by Pearson and robust team defense. The first half ended 26 to 7. Afterward Lowell juniors defeated Beaver Athletic 60 to 2. Next up Portland Maine visits for a likely top clash.

Association Manchester N. H Pearson Doyle Lew Robataille Kerby Lyme Hazen Lynch Abbott Lew Lynch Kerby Lyme Robatelle Field Lowell Beaver Athletic Club Portland Me Portland Lawrence Lowells

New Boston Club Opens For Members Only Basketball

Gardner will be in perfect condition by Monday night. Tuesday’s event marks Don Desmond’s new club’s first members only meeting under State charter. Nonmembers and police officers are barred. Even ring contestants must join. P. A. C. lineup vs Yale tonight includes Wisen Allard MacFarland Tighe McManimon Halloran.

Gardner Don Desmond Boston Desmond Yale Wisen Allard MacFarland Tighe McManimon Halloran Highland Club Highland

Negro assaults wife then murders farmer in Corsiciana

Corsicana Texas March 7 a farmer's wife Mrs Con way Younger was brutally assaulted and killed by a negro. A posse of 200 men led by Younger pursued the killer aided by bloodhounds after the body was found in a brush pile near the house. The chase continued as of late afternoon with the murderer still at large.

Corsiciana Tex Conway Younger Younger

Minneapolis Schoolmarm Rescues Baby From Burning House

Miss Mae Cryll a Itaska Lake teacher braved zero cold and flames to save the infant daughter of Mr and Mrs L Whitney from a burning house. She entered burned rooms with hair singed and nightdress burned away, emerging with the child and collapsing in the street.

Minneapolis Mae Cryll Itaska Lake L. Whitney Miss Oryll Whitney Mrs. Whitney

Carter Leads In Montana Senate Vote Damaged By Fusion Split

Helena March 7 The legislature adjourned without a senator after seven ballots. Carter leading with 382 while Fusion candidates H L Frank Maginnis Cooper and others trail. A hot battle over a bill backed by Amalgamated Copper and Heinze interests remains with the Governor for veto or signing.

Helena Mont Carter H. L. Frank Fusion John Maginnis Walter Cooper W.G. Conrad Frank C. Higgins Amalgamated Copper Company Heinze Interes

Commander Smith Mentioned for Chief of Engineering Bureau

The Brooklyn Eagle reports Commander J A B Smith, chief of the steam engineering department at the New York navy yard, is likely to replace Rear Admiral George W Melville as chief of the engineering bureau in Washington. A senior naval officer says Melville can retire in July after 40 years of service.

New York Brooklyn Eagle Today J. A. B. Smith New York Navy Yard George W. Melville Washington Smith Elville

Gardners Train Hard For 15 Round Cambridge Bout

The Gardners George and Billie persist in daily hard work to keep in form. Billie faces de Barry in Cambridge Monday night in a 15 round match needing to weigh 127 pounds by 3 pm or forfeit. Eben coaches him with strict diet and routines including long walks, bag work, boxing with locals, and wrestling, with Tommy Tully aiding yesterday.

Gardners George Billie de Barry Cambridge Tommy Tully Dracut

George F Hyde Sentenced in Vermont Case

George F Hyde pleaded guilty in St Albans court to passing worthless checks on former University of Vermont classmates. He was sentenced to two years at the house of correction with costs of prosecution added. Hyde has remained in Franklin County Jail since his arrest. He previously posed as a clerk in the United States Geological Survey.

St. Albans George F. Hyde University of Vermont Hyde Franklin County United States Geological Survey

Landings on the Merrimack River Debated at State House

At the state house Senator Fletcher's street railways committee works on excise bill and railroad commissioners powers over location of new railways. Over time bill fate unclear. House Ways and Means backs New Bedford textile school bill. Landings on the Merrimack river faced factory opposition in Lawrence and Haverhill plus the Locks and Canalis Company in Lowell. John M. Curdy of Lawrence supported, saying access was to cut ice.

Boston Fletcher Ways and Means House New Bedford Mann Merrimack River Lawrence and Haverhill Locks’and Canalis Company Lowell John M. Curdy Lawrences

Senate Session Deliberates Education and Labor Bills

The committee on education reported six thousand dollars for Fitchburg state normal school. Reconsideration motions on women voting at caucuses failed. A proposal to repeal the Dubuque law was defeated. An amendment on prison board pay was rejected while a substitute for state worker pay at two dollars daily passed. The lobsters mutilation law repeal faced opposition and passed to third reading. The Senate devoted the session to Boston affairs.

Committee On Education Fitchburg State Normal School Foster Somerville Saunders Boston Dillon Holyoke Dubuque Apsey Board of Prison Commissioners Mr. Albee Committee On Labor Messrs. Healey Donahue Fall River Munt North Attleboro

Boston Tobacco Theft Ring Busted by Pinkertons

Supt Leith and Pinkertons with city inspectors nab three men charged with stealing tobacco cigars and cigarettes from McGreenery Bros Manning of 214 Hanover street. Flynn Lyons and Dooley, ages 20 to 21, confessed under police watch and restitution is reported. Theft traced to a year long scheme with losses totaling 10 000 to 16 000 dollars. Further arrests expected.

Boston Leith Pinkerton Detective Agency Abbott and Wolf Headquarters J. James Flynn Broadway Joseph Lyons Cross Street Malden William A. Dooley Second Street Dorchester McGreenery Bros. & Manning Hanover Street Dooley Lyons Flynn Lyon Pinkertons

Had Money to Burn Durant Known in Cambridge

Boston March 7 There is no doubt among Cambridge locals who knew John MacWilson Durant while at Harvard Law School that he is the John Wilson Durant of Albany N Y linked in recent Paris dispatches to a self killed in a duel with a Russian count which never occurred Durant came to Harvard from Albany in 1896 and entered law school He expected to graduate in 1898 but failed exams He and his mother boarded at 60 Walker Street while in Cambridge and neighbors speak highly of Mrs Durant

Boston Cambridge John MacWilson Durant Harvard Law School John Wilson Durant Albany N. Y Paris John MacWilsons Durant Harvard Mac Wilson Wilson New York State Young Durant Cornell University Walker Street

Young Man Durant Remembered For Flair And Stormy Acts

John Durant, a 24 to 25 year old Cambridge law student, was famed for looks and refined taste yet noted for spendthrift ways. An 1898 incident in Walker street ended with a revolver confrontation over a mud splash, leading to a $10 fine after a Cambridge district court verdict. He spent 1898 with his mother in Paris, later graduating in 1899 and returning to Paris for fashion and a French cut beard on a Cambridge visit.

John Durant Mother and Son Durant Walker Street J. H. Dickson Cambridge Paris Law

Ex-Congressman Sprague Taken to McLean Asylum

Boston reports ex-Congressman Charles F. Sprague, a Boston millionaire former member of the 7th district, is an inmate at McLean Insane Hospital in Waverly. His term in Congress ended last Monday. He was driven to the asylum at dusk Wednesday with his valet and a hospital attendant, placed in Hope cottage near the brick lodge.

Boston the Post Today Charles F. Sprague McLean Insane Hospital Waverly Congress Hope Cottage

Governor Crane to Host General Court Reception

Gov. Crane announces annual reception for General Court members and wives at the Somerset hotel on Wednesday evening March 20 from 5 to 7 o'clock. The event, a tradition in the Legislature, invites members of the General Court and ladies.

General Court Boston Crane Somerset Hotel

PENSIONS COMMISSIONER OFFERAL Ties to Major Warner

The Star reports a tentative offer for the office of commissioner of pensions to replace H. Clay Evans may have been extended to Major William Warner United States attorney for the western district of Missouri and former grand commander of the Grand Army of the Republic. Warner denied being an applicant and declined to comment on any tendered position.

Kansas City the Star H. Clay Evans William Warner United States Western District Missouri Grand Army of the Republic Warner

Suit Over Boo Outburst Sparks Court Scene

In New Haven on March 7 a 11-year-old plaintiff Ethel Bartholomew sued Charles L. Parmelee for 10000 claiming he shouted Boo at her in public, triggering a cataleptic attack that left her unconscious and in distress through the evening. Parmelee, a middle aged businessman, faces the nervous impact claim as the case continues in superior court.

New Haven Conn Superior Court Ethel Bartholomew Charles L. Parmelee Bartholomew

Senate quorum restored in Annapolis after Moore arrives

Annapolis March 7 Senator Moore, whose absence had unsettled Democratic leaders, arrived this morning giving the Democrats the necessary quorum. After a spirited debate on technical points the Senate reorganization approved yesterday was ratified, clearing the tangle. Republicans concede the proceedings are regular and the new election bill moves toward final passage or defeat.

Annapolis Moore Senate

Pure Beer Bill Heads To New York Assembly

Albany March 7 A new pure beer bill will be submitted to the Assembly tomorrow morning by the excise committee. The subcommittee endorsed the measure and it will be known as the bill of the committee on excite. The bill requires all ale beer and porter made chemically or artificially to be branded Artificial beer Artificial ale or Artificial porter as the case may be. No attempt is made to forbid the consumer from drinking Artificial beer ale and porter if he desires.

Albany Excise George Washington G. Washington Mount Vernon Benson Benson's Benson’s Europe America United States Seabury & Johnson, Mfg N.Y

Two Lives Lost In Hot Springs House Fire

In Hot Springs Arkansas on March 7 a fire destroyed a home in the southern part of the city killing Mrs Sanders and her niece Viola Wilcox. Mrs Sanders tried to rescue the child and fell as she reached the exit.

Hot Springs Ark

Priest commits death by own action in hotel

Despondent over his discharge from the Duluth Diocese, Rev. Francis Budzynski, a Roman Catholic priest, shot himself in the heart at a sofa hotel in Minneapolis and died before aid arrived. He carried a letter from Bishop McGorrick dispensing with his services and left two other letters for a brother in Elmira, New York, and a waitress in a local restaurant.

Minneapolis Duluth Francis Budzynski McGorrick Elmira N. Y

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