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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1900
Page
8
A special legislative report from Beacon Hill notes Engineer Mills's communication in the Lowell Citizen leading to the Senate tabling the bill authorizing the Proprietors of the Locks and Canals to discontinue the Upper Free Landing.
The Massachusetts House spent the first 45 minutes delaying the school teachers retirement fund bill and the taxation bill until March 28. Petitions and committee reports followed, including a probe into Albert Tuson bail and a contested $2100 recovery claim tied to Tyson.
In the Senate an order allowed the committee investigating the Metropolitan Water Commission to travel in the state. Reports favored and opposed bills including city payments to Dodge and the widow Ryan, abolition of Lynn grade crossings, renaming the Massachusetts Hospital for Consumptives, and inspection of almshouses. The Boston dog license tax was rejected. Senator Kelliher proposed replacing an adverse report with his Suffolk county senate nomination bill. The body substituted the bill for the adverse report and passed engineer and fireman licensing to third reading by 14 to 7.
Boston March 15 Aldermen Doyle and Bowen will again push for an investigation of the park department special committee. They charge the committee's legal counsel was chosen by a deal guaranteeing two members a share of fees. Doyle plans to present an order for inquiry and doubts the committee’s exoneration of counsel.
Alderman Doyle vows to press all facts as the special committee edges toward a full disclosure. The panel will hold its first hearing tomorrow at three with former Mayor Matthews as park commissioners counsel and Mr Lundy presenting the committee indictment against the department amid potential challenges from the commissioners' counsel.
Lexington mourns postmaster and longtime civic leader Leonard Gardner Babcock aged 59 after a lingering illness. Civil War veteran wounded at Fort Donelson, he later led Lexington’s drug business and served as town clerk and selectman. funeral set at Unitarian church with family survivors Dr. Fred G. Babcock of Denver and Mrs. Amasa W. Walker of Boston.
Lawrence March 15 Mrs Giuseppe Ciarla and Pasquale Colla were arrested and arraigned in police court on charges of living together illegally. Held for the grand jury under $500 bonds. The alleged romance spans Providence Boston Lewiston and Washington mills before ending in Lawrence with rooms on Common street. Both pleaded not guilty.
Former Boston physician Dr Charles E Cameron was arrested on a charge of stealing 100 book plates from Harvard College Library. He hails from an old Canadian family and admits possessing stolen property but claims it came to him honestly. Cameron asserts his innocence.
Quincy reports Commissioner of Public Works Charles W. Knowlton has sent his resignation to Mayor Hall. He received a cablegram from Puerto Rico offering him the engineer of survey and instruction position in the island department of public works, which he has accepted.
Francis Truth head of the Divine Healer association was arrested at 6 A Bowdoin square on charges of using the mails for fraudulent purposes. Officers seized mail matter and found a large operation with 23 workers, a printing press, cure crutches and extensive correspondence. Truth held for U S Commissioner Fiske. wife not questioned.
The body of ex police captain Joseph H Bates of East Boston was found in Wood Island Park. He was 72 and had suffered from insanity for months. A 38 caliber revolver was the apparent means. He had recently been in a sanitarium and was last seen at his Princeton Street home before the morning walk.
Boston March 15 President Mitch ell of the New England association of granite manufacturers denies the granite cutters union seeks only wages. He says the union demands eight hours and a minimum average of $3 per day have not been granted to any member. Temporary wage adjustments exist while the dispute centers beyond pay. An arbitration proposal was offered but rejected until eight hour concessions and a $3 daily minimum are conceded.
James Leishman an 18 year old Plainville resident was arraigned before U S Commissioner Marvin and held for further hearing over involvement in a registered mail package stolen during a wreck. Bonds were posted by his mother. Four youths divided the $300 recovered with discrepancies reported by witnesses and government inspectors.
The supreme court has granted the application of Elmer J. Smart as assignee of the Rochester Savings Bank for permission to proceed. The action concerns a request related to dividends from the failed bank. The decision sets a procedural path for the bank’s creditors.
In Everett the New England branch of the Evangelical church voted to dismiss Rev. Aaron Hartt of the local church and Rev. John Short of Cambridge for unchristian conduct toward the church. The issue stems from last December when Hartt’s church withdrew from the Evangelical church.
In Boston at the Parker House on March 15 the Franco American Historical Society held its first annual session. Guilleta of Lowell presided as the event gathered leaders and featured M. Henri de Regnier speaking on Michelet, the great French historian.
Mr. O S Copenhaver of Mount Union Huntington County Pa reports lasting relief from stomach pain indigestion and ulceration after trying multiple doctors and patent remedies he credits Dr Pierce Medicines with curing him in two months using the Golden Medical Discovery Pleasant Pellets and other preparations claiming the products cleanse the stomach liver and bowels and supply nourishment without harmful additives.
Assignee Smart orders a 10 percent dividend of $20,000 payable after today, bringing total paid to 65 percent. Remaining securities, chiefly lands in Kansas, Minnesota and Nebraska, are of uncertain value. Supreme court has ordered sale of these assets for depositors' benefit.
Augusta Maine March 16 The rumor of American Ice company buying Knickerbocker company was confirmed by a company official The price paid was 10 000 000 This deal consolidates control of most retail natural ice output in Philadelphia Baltimore and Washington
Nathan L. Graves a Tremont street druggist was attacked by a footpad at Appleton and Dartmouth streets South End early today. The thief demanded money but fled after Graves resisted and no money was taken.
A local physician explains the number mania as a harmless yet compelling nervous condition. People feel driven to perform trivial acts a set number of times to ward off a vague foreboding of calamity, with examples from touching door knobs to tapping dresser items. The condition often remains a private burden though others share the same compulsion.
Boston and Maine rail schedules corrected for October 2 list train times from Merrimack Street Depot Lowell to Boston and from Middlesex Street Station Lowell to Boston and other destinations including Lawrence Salem Haverhill Newburyport Amesbury and ports mouth with numerous morning daytime and Sunday departures. Schedules show many times and route notes and include express symbols and service via Plymouth and other connections.
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