Carey Attacks Attorney General at the State House
At the State House Carey calls out the attorney general in a bitter attack as lawmakers weigh a bill to increase the Lowell Lawrence and Haverhill road powers. Proposals surface to remove the bill from the table, while committees seek relief from paying steam railroad taxes into the State treasury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Lowell, Lawrence and Haverhill
Lynn
Goward
Ways and Means
Luce
Somerville
Committee On Ways and Means
MANN
Massachusetts House Debates Taxed Bills and Reconsiderations
Committees pass on eight thousand eight hundred dollars for Lyman School for Boys and twenty eight thousand six hundred for the State Normal at Framingham. Reconsideration of the anti-trust and Boston electric light consolidation measures is refused after strong debate over the attorney general’s role.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lyman School
State Normal School
Framingham
Hersey
Hingham
House
Boston Electric Light Companies
Carey
Haverhill
Newton
Everett
Mr. Carey
Mr. Newton
Saunders
Boston
Myers
Bartlett
Pittsfield
State Board of Charity
Messrs. Luce
Somerville
Apsey
Cambridge
Howard
Yall River
Suffolk County
Senate Session Opens with Bills On Deeds and Crossings
Senator Sprague presides at the opening of the Norfolk Senate session. Reports push a Brockton registry of deeds bill to the General Court and a Suffolk Superior Court hearings bill is referred. Several engrossed measures move: Haverhill grade crossing elimination, boundary lines for Marlboro Southboro Carver Wareham Lynnfield Saugus, and higher clerk salary in Eastern Middlesex. Proposals on Civil War veterans’ pensions are defeated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sprague
Norfolk
Senate
Committee On Counties
Brockton
Suffolk County
Haverhill
Marlboro
Southboro
Carver
Wareham
Lynn
Manning Oforcester
House
Tambérlain
Shaw
Age Range Change for Abatement Bill Read Again
A legislative update notes the age group for the smoke nuisance abatement bill is widened from 25 to 40 to 21 to 40, and the discussion continues as the measure advances to a third reading.
Syndicate Aims to Absorb Several Watch Plants
Boston May 6 A report says a syndicate with J P Morgan backing plans to absorb the American Waltham Watch company plant in Waltham and the Elgin factory in Elgin Illinois. President Fitch travels to New York for meetings on watch trade affairs while options are reported on multiple facilities and the syndicate reportedly controls several related firms. Capital is said to be 75 million dollars as the group seeks to curb Swiss competition abroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
O'Hara
American Watch Tool Company
United States Watch
Philadelphia
Riverside
N. J
Standard Watch Case Company
Jersey City
Keystone Watch Case Company
Bates & Bacon
Attleboro
Parsons Charged With Murder Opens in Boston Court
The Henry E. Parsons murder trial began in superior court in Boston with Judge Sheldon and Judge Pierce presiding. One hundred twenty jurors responded. 112 were examined as selection continued. The government alleges the shooting on June 18 stemmed from resentment over Hammond’s remarks about Parsons’s attention to a young girl.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Henry E. Parsons
Wm. S. Hammond
Charlestown
Sheldon
Pierce
McLaughlin
Parson
Hammond
Stedman
Women Delegates Kept Busy at Textile Workers Convention
Holyoke May 6 The International Union of Textile Workers opened in French hall with General President Peter Culman of North Adams presiding. Mayor Chapin gave greeting and stressed labor’s role in Holyoke’s prosperity as credentials committee reported about 60 documents and over 100 delegates expected this afternoon. Morning session featured delegates from textile centers in the North and from North Carolina South Carolina Kentucky Alabama and other southern states. Some Southern delegates are women and active in proceedings. Afternoon session focused on organization with detailed business to begin tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holyoke
International Union of Textile Workers
French Hall
Peter Culman
North Adams
Chapin
North
North Carolina
South Carolina
Kentucky
Alabama
South
Two Mill Men Drowned In Chicopee River
Greenfield May 6 Charles B Wrightington 33 superintendent of Ludlow No 8 mill and Foster W Taft 28 chief engineer drowned in the Chicopee River while attempting to shoot the rapids at Indian Leap rock Their canoe capsized and they were carried away by the undertow The bodies not recovered Wrightington from Brookline educated at MIT Taft a Providence native Brown graduate and plant chief engineer for seven years and one year respectively.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Taft
Providence
Brown University
Freight Handlers Strike Ties Up Boston Albany Line
A Springfield labor committee representing Boston & Albany freight handlers met General Manager W H Barnes in Boston on May 6 over wage demands from 1 50 to 1 75 daily. No agreement. a telegram instructed the union to strike and freight was tied up in the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Springfield
Boston & Albany
W. H. Barnes
Earn
Defense Focuses on Friendly Ties in Eastman Trial
Cambridge May 6 witnesses portrayed a cordial bond between defendant Eastman and victim Richard H. Grogan Jr. Testimony described shared dinners and family ties, with Eastman expressing remorse after the shooting. Several associates recalled frequent contact at the Grogan lens factory and in social settings, while Eastman’s wife testified to stable relations and past collaboration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cambridge
Eastman
Richard H. Grogan, Jr
Edward B. Gushee, Jr
Grogan
Edward S. Gushee
Clark
St. Lewis Gorson
Philadelphia
Grogans
Michael S. Hanson
James R. May
Lens
Geo. W. Clark
Grogan House
Smith & Wesson
Sarah A. Clark
Caroline Eastman
Germany
Storti Case Appeals Death by Electricity in Massachusetts
In Boston on May 6 Chief Justice Holmes and four judges heard Luigi Storti's challenge to the state statute authorizing execution by electricity. The case tests cruel and unusual punishment under the Massachusetts declaration of rights. Proceedings included a writ of error and a habeas corpus petition. arguments by Cr W Rowley and W M Stockbridge. The court reserved decision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Holmes
Knowlton, Lathrop
Hammond
Lering
Supreme Court
Luigi Storti
Storti
Joseph Santusuosso
W. M. Stockbridge
Dr. Santusuosso
Asst. Dist. Atty
Gen. Nash
Commonwealth
Engagement Ring Sealed Mor rison Dies After Illness in Newburyport
Arthur P. Morrison, 27, died in Newburyport after an evening with Miss Lydia Lisson. The pair visited the city center and returned to her home where he gave a ring and they discussed an early marriage and a trip east. Morrison fell ill. a physician was summoned and he was taken to the hospital by ambulance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia Lisson
Mr. Morrison
Miss Lisson
Death of American Express employee Mr Morrison shocks basketball circle
Lance and soon after his arrival there became unconscious. Ife failed rapidly and died yesterday. Mr Morrison was a trusted employee of the American Express company. He has been active in basketball matters. He leaves a father and mother, the latter in Pasadena, Cal, on a visit. She has been notified and will return at once.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lance
Ife
Morrison
American Express Company
Pasadena
Cal
One Killed and Thirty Hurt in Burlington Train Crash
Ottumwa Ind May 6 Burlington Passenger No 3 struck an engine attached to a freight train trying to back onto a side track. Engineer S A Brown was killed and about 30 people injured as the passenger train, traveling 70 mph, derailed after the freight engine was moved to safety. The freight crew narrowly escaped as their engine was derailed and the passenger cars piled down an embankment. A relief train and medical support were dispatched to the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottumwa
Burlington
Thayer
S. A. Brown
Brown
Bleeding Picture Mystery At Menominee Report
A Sentinel special from Mavinette Wisconsin reports fresh blood droplets on the face of the famed Bleeding picture at Menominee. A priest drew blood and compared it with the glass substance. both were identical and the dried spots resembled the Saviour. Physician Pv Venega cites coagulated blood and calls the origin mysterious.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Wis
Mavinette
Menominee
Pv. Venega
Menomites
Jacksonville Losses Named in Fire Totals
A former tax collector provides a detailed estimate of fire losses in Jacksonville Florida on May 6. Public buildings are put at 1 088 000, Bay street stores 495 000 north side and 880 000 south side, Forsyth street 405 000, Main street 309 800, residences of prominence 778 000 and 1 500 smaller homes 2 006 000, personal effects 2 300,000, stocks in large stores 1 630 000, stocks in 200 smaller stores 550 000, street railways 30 900, pavements 100 000, total 10 565 000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacksonville
Fla
Bay Street
Forsyth Street
Main Street
Fatal joke ends in deaths at Davenport pulley
Emil Mohr and Charles Reis were killed during a prank at the Independence Making company building when a rope tied around August Blunck caused a pulley to fail. An iron pulley struck Reis, a falling timber injured Mohr, and Blunck suffered minor injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davenport
Emil Mohr
Charles Reis
August Blunck
Independence Making Company
Mohr
Reis
Gus Siems
Blunck
Eight Leading Music Publishers Form American Publishing Combine
Chicago May 6 arrangements completed for a combine of eight top US music publishers. A meeting will be held in New York May 1 to enact the plan. The American Music Publishing concern will have $3 000 000 to $5 090 000 capital stock. The aim is to prevent publication of inferior music.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
United States
New York
American Music Publishing Concern
Cancer savant infected in San Francisco
San Francisco May 6 Dr Joseph Eisen the California scientist known for discovering the cancer germ has been attacked by cancer He underwent an operation at St Luke s hospital and surgeons say he is rapidly recovering though final outcome remains uncertain Eisen believes he may have been inoculated with the cancer microbe while studying germs under the microscope
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Joseph Eisen
California
St. Luke's Hospital
Eisen
German mill operative daughter accused of murdering infant
In New Bedford on May 6 Mantha Rose man aged 33, a German mill worker and wife living apart from her husband, was arrested after confessing to the murder of her infant child. She states the child was born alive. The report notes the brutal details and her plea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Bedford
Mantha Roseman
President Makes Stop in Benson Arizona
President arrives in Benson with a brief speech as the Presidential special passes through on its Arizona tour. The train is scheduled to stop in Tucson at 10.30 and expected to reach Phoenix by morning, drawing a large crowd and lighting the station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benson
Arizona
Tucson
Phoenix
Third Trial Opens For Dr Kennedy In Reynolds Murder Case
In New York on May 6 1900 the third trial of Dr Samuel J Kennedy for the 1898 Grand Hotel murder of Dolly Reynolds began in General Sessions Part 3 before Judge Newburger. A 400 person jury panel was drawn and voir dire produced several challenges with jurors excused for reasons from circumstantial bias to personal schedules. Mrs Kennedy sat in court with Kennedy as selection continued and Judge Newburger restricted seating to court officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Samuel J. Kennedy
Dolly” Reynolds
Grand Hotel
Court of General Sessions
Newburger
James W. Osborne
K. J. O'Connor
Thestate
Moore & Cantwell
Kennedy
Harry R. Churchill
Charles M. Wales
John ©. Hankinson
Mr. Moore
George W. Doren
Talesmen
Talesman
Joseph E. Rue
Hart Sentenced In Grand Larceny Trial
New York May 6 Paul P Hart also known as J Edward Stoddard of Chicopee Mass was found guilty of grand larceny. He had posed as a husband to Mrs Elizabeth Currie of Toronto and netted 400. He acknowledged prior forgery convictions and was sentenced by Recorder Goff to four years and six months in prison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Paul PP. Hart
J. Edward Stoddard
Chicopee
Mass
Goff
Hart
Elizabeth C. Currie
Toronto
Canada
Currie
The Cotton Crop in the South and West
R M Neal of a New Orleans cotton brokerage notes little increase in acreage east of the Mississippi, more plantings westward due to labor immigration, and generally good plant conditions. He cautions Georgia weather reports exaggerate damage, predicting a near twelve million bale crop if maturity occurs, with high prices driven by meat corn and labor costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chattanooga
Tenn
R. M. Neal
New Orleans
Mississippi
Georgia
Old Time Actor Germon Dies of Blood Poisoning
John D. Germon, 64, longtime actor and assistant stage manager at the American Theatre, died at Roosevelt Hospital from septicemia after a magnesia lamp exploded and brass tubing punctured his foot. Amputation failed to halt the infection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
John D. Germon
American Theatre
Roosevelt Hospital
Ignacio Prado Dead
Paris reports the death of Mariano Ignacio Prado former president of Peru. Born in 182, he joined General Castilla's 1854 revolution, led a march on Lima in 1865, entered the capital on November 6 at the head of a victorious array, declared himself dictator on November 26, and was later elected constitutional president by the Peruvian congress, with a subsequent re election in 1876.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mariano Ignacio Prado
Castilla
Echeniques
Lima
London actor Leonard Outram dies in Carbondale
Leonard Outram of London, a member of E. H. Sothern's company, was found dead in his brother in law's Carbondale home. Death attributed to heart failure. He was 46 years old.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scranton
Pat
Admirals Cousin Praises Nervura Remedy Letter
Denison Dewey of Montpelier Vermont extols Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy after relief from sleepless nights headaches and weak appetite. He offers to publish letter with his photograph for others, while Dr. Greene promotes free advice from his Boston office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denison Dewey
Admiral Dewey
Dr. Greene
Montpelier
Dewey
Table Talk and May magazines items overview
May issue items include a Decoration Day poem Colum bia and Her Memorial Day by Joseph Whitton, Modern Superstitions a cook book review, Creole Coffee and Gambalayah, The Rise and Fall of Cake, The Cherry in New Forms, and Cookery illustrations. Also L Art De la Mode for June with fashion designs and descriptions. Review of Reviews May covers politics, Cuba, Philippines, labor, steel rust, and Russia Japan tensions with Hale portraits and The Steel Trust on the Great Lakes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
Joseph Whitton
New Orleans
California
Table Talk Publishing Co
Philadelphia
L’art de la Mode
Morse-Broughton Co
East Nineteenth Street
New York
Review of Reviews
Russia
Japan
England
Edward Everett Hale
George P. Morris
Steel Trust
Great Lakes
W. Frank McClure
Charles Johnston
Samuel E. Moffett
China
The May Black Cat and Cosmopolitan offerings
The May issue features Annie Fellows Johnston’s The Family Skeletons Wedding Journey as lead fiction, plus A Million Dollar Cinder by Will N Harden and The Warden's Overcoat by Grace Gorrill Gowing. Cosmopolitan previews General De Wet by Allen Sangree with illustrations, and other items include Envoys at Washington, Olga Nethersole, The Steel Trust and Its Makers, Paris Types, and Wells’s The First Men in the Moon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Black Cat
Annie Fellows Johnston
Will N. Harden
William the Angel
Paul Shoup
Grace Gorrill Gowing
Eustace V. Bray
May Cosmopolitan
General de Wet
Allen Sangree
Lady Jeune
Thomas Mitchell Peirce
Washington
May Catholic World Issue Highlights Featured Poems and Articles
The May Catholic World magazine centers on The Last Days of Christian Constantinople by Rev. F. X. McGowan with notable poems by Richard Le Gallienne Ella Wheeler Wilcox Theodosia Garrison and others The contents include essays on devotion education women and posterity life insurance intellectual activity of Leo XIII railroads in China and a piece on Shaft No 6 along with several poems such as The Garden Brook Memory and Faith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Constantinople
F. X. McGowan
Thomas Vernon Moore
William Seton
Nile
F. M. Edselas
Eneas B. Goodwin
Thomas Scanlon
Leo XIII
James Murphy
China
China”; “Melchisedech, Priest and King,” Rev. Ward Hunt Jackson, C. S. P
John A. Foote
Garden Brook
James Buchman
Bert Martel
May issue of The Critic showcases varied literary pieces
Superb illustrations anchor the May Critic issue with essays like On Being a Poet and Philosopher by Gerald Stanley Lee and A New Method of Bird Study and Photography by Francis Hobart Herrick. Other highlights include Literary Chelsea by W. S. Harwood, Real Conversations with Mrs. Craigie by William Archer, and notes on Blackmore and Rossetti, plus reviews and book news in the Lounger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Critic
Gerald Stanley Lee
Francis Hobart Herrick
Chelsea
W. 8. Harwood
Kingsleys
Leigh Hunt
Carlyle
George Eliot
Dante Gabriel Rosetti
Mrs. Craigie
William Archer
Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Eden Phillpotts
Tin Jack
Isobel Strong
Isaac Taylor Headland
Clara Morris
Tommy
Ruth Shepard Phelps
Jennette Barbour Perry
Forest Schoolmaster
Peter Rogegger
New England Magazine May frontispiece highlights Blaine portrait
The May issue features a Blaine portrait on the frontispiece and a lead article on The Presidential Campaign of 1884 in Mr Blaine's Home City by Rev Edward G Mason. Other pieces include Among the Southern Appalachians by Prof Frank Waldo and Can Consumption be Cured by Mrs Rufus Phillips Williams with a tour of Rutland State Sanitarium. Additional sketches cover Life on the Irish Brnglands and historical studies The French in the Champlain Valley and An Old Time Ministerial Contract.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England Magazine
James G. Blaine
Mr. Blaine
Edward G. Mason
Appalachians
Great Smoky Mountains
North Carolina
Frank Waldo
Rufus Phillips Williams
Rutland
Mass
New England
Clifton Johnson
France
England
Champlain Valley
Walter Hill Crockett
R. R. Kendall
Also Mentioned on This Page
State House
Bill
Lowell, Lawrence & Haverhill
BR. Williams
Guerrefere Ee . Co
Bohcufandy
N.Y
True
Henry Parsons
Chicopee River
Newburyport
Arthur P. Morrison
Bon Ami
Dr. Kennedy
Recorder Goff
Ignacio Prado
Peru
Paris
Mr. Dewey
Hoy
Denison Dower
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!