Digital Extra: The Journal's 175th Anniversary

07.21.2004

The passing news

THE LATEST sensational story regarding the murders was sent out by a Lynn newspaper yesterday. It was to the effect that Mr. and Mrs. Borden were passengers on the schooner Jefferson Borden when the crew mutinied and afterward appeared as witnesses against two of the mutineers. The story went on to say that these men were sent to the Maine State prison for life, but that they had been recently pardoned. They had sworn vengeance on Mr. and Mrs. Borden, so the tale went, and furthermore, they were seen in Fall River shortly before the murders. The story is all right with the exception that the two men, George Miller and William Clark, were found in prison at Thomaston, Me., where they have been ever since their conviction. Furthermore Mr. and Mrs. Borden were never on board the vessel.

The wide publicity given to the story by the Associated Press makes this denial necessary.

Journal report, Aug. 14, 1892

THE TWO HUNDREDTH anniversary of the Salem witchcraft delusion, which some Massachusetts antiquarians have been observing with appropriate exercises, could be celebrated with a good deal more general satisfaction were it not for the melancholy consciousness that there are a great many other delusions, equally inexcusable, still prevailing among the Americans of the nineteenth century.

Editorial, Feb. 20, 1892

THE DISCOVERY in the archives of an ancient Swiss city of an unpaid tailor's bill of an Emperor who lived four centuries ago furnishes a striking proof of the permanency of human characteristics.

Editorial, Jan. 21, 1892

THE FORMAL opening of the new electric route to Pawtuxet occurred yesterday. Invitations had been sent to the city officials and to the members of the Cranston Town Council. In all about 70 guests were present.

The start was made from the Narragansett Hotel at 12:15 o'clock. Three cars were employed to convey the guests to Pawtuxet. The trip occupied 45 minutes and the admirable manner in which the cars ran was commented on favorably by all. There was a noticeable absence of any jar or hitch in their action and their easy riding qualities were pleasantly noticed.

Jan. 20, 1892, on the opening of street car service in Providence

NEW BEDFORD, MASS., June 12. -- Many of the colored citizens of this city are wild to-night over the fact that a daughter of Rev. William Jackson was not admitted to the Borden trial this afternoon. Miss Jackson presented herself, and was told to sit on the stairs. While she sat there eight white women were admitted to the court house, and finally Gilman A. King, a well-known colored citizen, seeing Miss Jackson, gave her his seat, and while he was in the aisle seeing her seated, he was informed that he could not stand, and came out. He placed the matter in the hands of a lawyer, claiming that the color line had been drawn in Miss Jackson's case.

Associated Press item printed in The Journal, June 13, 1893