27 Mar 1897
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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1897
Page
1
A lyric recounts a stroll past a little Dutch garden filled with herbs flowers and produce. Gretchen stands out as the fairest, capturing the speaker’s heart among heartsease tomatoes roses and onions.
A collection of wry notes on March customs and rumors across circles from medicine to theater. Circus Bailey faces no deal for Madison Square Garden while Cleveland nail makers strike. Manchester cotton ships to China. The Chicago Vegetarian society chief dies. his son blames food shortage. Rev Berle weighs in on Boston lids and local faults.
Over sixty years the number of Episcopal churches in Scotland rose from 75 to 321. Spain counts more than 22,500 tobacco stores with 21,156 women employed in tobacco factories. A fire in Mandalay Burmah destroyed 1500 houses leaving 7000 homeless and causing losses around £400,000. A large sewing machine was completed at Leeds weighing five and a quarter tons for attaching cotton belting. A platinum nugget exhibit in Liberty Street New York is about 85 percent pure, near two pounds, found in Colombia, with only one larger nugget ever found, owned by Prince Demidoff in St Petersburg.
A humorous cartoon dialogue features a milkwoman, a servant, and Mr Nicefellow as characters in a domestic scene. A narrator notes not being an artist and recalls drawing in youth, mentioning Artemus Ward and a child drawing a cartload of turnips on a wooden bridge. The piece airily reflects early 19th century social banter and artistic boast.
Nashua New Hampshire March 27 a daring attempt to burn the Foley heirs tenement was found in time to prevent damage shavings soaked with kerosene and lighted candles were placed in rooms but lack of draft drove smoke upward no clue to the incendiary Mrs W Knox dies in Lawrence aged 47 heart and brain trouble well known pastor Homer N Dunning dies South Norwalk Conn arson arrests Edward Finley and Thomas Murphy Brockton Mass charged with attempting to burn their factory amid financial difficulties
San Francisco report says the Tr. 8. marshal will turn murderer Butler over to British officers for transport to Australia. A strict watch is kept to prevent self harm amid fear of suicide while in custody.
Fort Scott Kansas March 27 registration for the city election closed last night with two thousand women enrolled. Women show strong interest in the pending contest.
Madrid reports after a cabinet council Senor Canovas Castillo the Spanish premier declared that the Cuban campaign was drawing to a close with the near conclusion of hostilities and a transition to settlement efforts.
Oliver Optic writer William T Adams died at 9 20 this morning in Boston from fatty degeneration of the heart.
In Canea on March 27 fighting continued into the night at Nerokuru and the fort at Perivolia was destroyed. In Boston the Lewiston Journal signed to take the Associated Press on March 27.
A London despatch notes the non retroactive US tariff boosts shipments with a rush of exports to America. Industries surge while shipowners struggle to manage demand as regular ships fill with long warned cargo and Cunard orders a Bordeaux to New York voyage for goods normally sent via Liverpool.
A commission appointed by the Governor to investigate the Massachusetts Benefit Life association will form a new director slate replacing the old board. The selection will reflect the views of the policy holders, gathered from the holders themselves, aiming for reliability and conservatism.
The Chicago and Northwestern Missouri Pacific and St Louis and San Francisco railroads filed notices withdrawing from all traffic associations they belonged to. The Louisville and St Louis Airline also left the Southern States Freight association where it was a member.
New Hampshire cattle commissioners voted to drop tuberculosis testing for Massachusetts cattle and will require only a physical examination going forward. The action changes pasturing regulations and reduces precondition requirements for cattle entering the state.
A recent fire at the Baltimore and Potomac railway station in Washington damaged the facility. No injuries are reported and investigators determine the cause as unclear. Repairs are expected to take several days, with service temporarily disrupted through the area.
A marble tablet marking the Garfield assassination spot was destroyed by fire and the railway company removed it. They placed a less conspicuous red tiling instead, since the sight troubled many travelers who preferred not to be reminded of the tragedy.
Judge Stone of Lawrence presided as few cases appeared on the docket. Drunkenness produced fines of 1 dollar for Ambrose Creamer Patrick Donnelly John Keating Michael Farrell and Thomas Farrell. Duffee Berreau pleaded guilty to stealing a bale of hay from C F Keyes and was fined 10 dollars or 60 days jail. Frank Bentley, a 14 year old colored youth, charged with assault and battery, was held over to next Friday for juvenile cases.
The Lowell Military Association elected Captain Greig as president Lieutenant Worthen as vice president Sergeant A D Colby as secretary and Captain Kimball as treasurer all from Company D. The season opens with a Parker cup shoot next Saturday and the Butlex cup on April 24. Patriot's Day features a competitive shoot for prizes donated by local merchants with first class and second/third class marksmen competing in separate divisions.
Last evening the lodge conferred the third degree on five candidates under Brother H. D. Wadleigh. A large gathering attended with one new application. After adjournment, members went to the banquet hall for steamed clams doughnuts cheese and coffee. Remarks from District Deputy Grand Master Schoolcraft followed. On April 2 a joint committee will meet to plan the 78th anniversary observance.
Notices posted in rooms after payday inform workers the mill will run 40 hours weekly starting next Monday. No Saturday work, daily hours from 7 30 to 4 50 with eight hours per day for five days. Policy remains until further notice.
N. W. Norcross & Co. reports word from the New England Insurance Exchange meeting held Saturday March 20 that a 25 percent reduction in rates will apply to buildings used for mercantile purposes in Lowell. In Little Canada the cut covers both dwellings and mercantile buildings.
Massachusetts report notes the end of a dispute between watchmakers in Waltham and the American Watch company as the former abandons the fight. Minnie Mooney, 23, from Prince Edward Island, is arrested in New Bedford on infanticide charges after a three week old girl’s throat was cut and found under seaweed near Acushnet river. Charles J. Roberts, 23, a Washington hotel clerk, is seized in Boston as a fugitive for jewelry larceny and suspected in thefts from Hon. Thomas B. Reed. Frederick W. White, a North Attleboro jeweler, has been missing since Monday, after recent grip illness, with fear he is wandering or ill somewhere.
Work started Thursday afternoon on the Cambridge street Probate building valued at $100,000. Contractor Mar T. H. Connell plans rapid progress with a sizable crew and hoisting engines on site. Foundations are laid and brick work will begin once stock arrives.
Thaddeus S Cobb, a 51 year old Lowell second hand machinery dealer and former Republican alderman, swallowed laudanum at his Middle Street machinery store amid losses of about 4060 dollars and troubles rumored to stem from his failed ventures and a contested bequest. He was rushed to St Johns Hospital where a stomach pump and emetics saved him. Miss Gertie Sayball, a former seven year clerk, provided details of his distress and visit to a wealthy widow from New Bedford.
Middlesex Women's club heard Prof. Cable describe how true storytelling combines craft and emotion. He urged strength of will and warned that weakness taints a tale, noting love, heroism, and romance as proper subjects while error should be avoided.
Arguments in Moynahan vs Boston and Maine continued in Superior Court with defense resting at 11. A conference followed on jury submissions. Judge Wardwell indicated rulings on trespass and authority, then adjourned to Monday at 9:30 a.m.
A G Pollard & Co offers damaged bed spreads at reduced prices. The two popular crochet quilt lines, originally $1 and $1.50, now 69c and 98c. Marseilles quilts drop to $1.49 and satin finish quilts to $2.98 with over 700 sold since last Thursday.
The will of Sarah J. Hanson of Chelmsford was filed in the Middlesex Probate court at East Cambridge Thursday. It includes two public bequests of 50 dollars each to the Woman's Baptist foreign missionary society and the Woman's American Baptist home mission society.
Chelmsford Odd Fellows auctioned a quartered oak sideboard with glassware to the contestant nearest 326 season tickets, five people guessing 325 and three guessing 327. Eight competitors will meet next week to decide ownership. Net fair proceeds total about $420. Also notes a birthday gathering at the Emerson home with whist, prizes, and a light supper, plus an ad for Derby hats and pricing.
Alderman Peirce will chair a new city finance committee with powers of the prior finance commission and the City Council. It will elect a secretary and study methods to reduce running costs, including questions on funding a new office clock and potential budget lines. Street committee members roamed the town examining trees growing through sidewalks as they toured.
Alderman Lawrence, bustling with duties, is pressed by residents to personally address street and sidewalk issues. They request relaying the Merrimack street sidewalk in front of Marin's new block and repairs or raising sunken spots to prevent water gathering at 474, 444, 392, and 336 Merrimack street, Shattuck's block on Middlesex street, and E. D. Steele's Prescott street property.
Morris C. Hines a 33 year old painter from 245 Fletcher street died after a ladder used as staging on a building in Liberty square snapped. He fell suffering a skull fracture and died en route to the hospital. Hines was well liked by coworkers and had recently dislocated a shoulder in a prior fall at the city poor farm.
The Savoy company opened at The Muses, a new theatre in Lawrence, on Thursday. Poor patronage led to an unsuccessful engagement and the company’s effects have been attached.
Lowell members of the Democratic State Central Committee travel to Boston for a special session to fill two resignations. The move is said aimed at placing loyalists to bolster the city machine, with remote members likely to resist being summoned for ratification of outsiders’ roles.
A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. George Crompton of Sixth street this morning. The item notes the birth as a local family milestone with no additional details provided.
The funeral for David B. Barnard was held from his Tewksbury home Friday with Rev Runels officiating and the Highland quartet singing. Bearers included David Simpson Andrew Johnson John Gilman and Frank Harris. A requiem for Elizabeth J. Leeson was celebrated at St Peter's Church Friday by Rev Fr McKenna. Bearers were Owen O Neil Andrew Barry Patrick OConnell William OConnell Daniel Shea and Edward Lewis. Interment followed in the Catholic cemetery.
In Wilmington on March 25, by Rev. Jah Harmon, Charles V Blaisdell married Arabel K Closson, both of Wilmington, in a formal ceremony marking the couple’s union.
Entertainment at Huntington hall Web 17 and 18 raised 353.68 for the Lowell Humane Society. The Mendelssohn Orchestral Society concert at Savoy Theatre was postponed indefinitely yesterday afternoon. City farm inmates' cooking moved to a new kitchen with steam vats and a 65 gallon coffee urn. Closets to be installed soon.
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