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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-04-14
Discrsdited by the Police.
The Cape Elizabeth water Question.
CAPE ELIZABETH, April II, 1891


To the Editor Of the Press:
The article signed "Citizen" in Saturdays
PRESS as well as the able editorial on the
same subject are greatly open to criticism
from the standpoint of their application to
affairs in this town. The writer would not
personally take exceptions to what "Citizen"
says in relation to the high and honorable
position of farming as compared with other
Industries. He halls and recognizes it as
being the king and primal occupation of
mankind. But inasmuch as your cOrrespon-
dent has appeared to extol his own at the
expense OF other yocations / cannot refrain
from calling attention to bit of ancient his
tory Of highest authority which seems fitting
to cite in this connection. The first farm
| ers" of which we have authentic record,
were those.placed by their Creator in the
Garden of Eden. We find also that owing
| to their dis0bedience and assembling they
| were the first subjects Of eviction, and that
| their sinful course brought everlasting
| "penance" upon the whole human race. az
| a later stage of the world 1t is matter oI
| history that preference was given 70 tne
| fishermen as the agents of regeneration.
So much for the two earlier industries oi
| the world and those engaged in them, anu
| hereafter Mr. Citizen, whenever you oF
| your co-workers are calling the voters oi
| South Portland "hoodlums, r0Wdles,
''roughs," "pOll-tax payers" and otner KIN
| dred epithets, please let your thoughts re.
| vert to the foregoing. citizen says: IL
SUCH" meaning those not farmers, will
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-04-14
RECORDS SMASHED.
when the Athletes CT the Amateur
Union Met In Boston.

BOSTON, April 12-The second annual in
door championship meeting of the Amateur
Athletic Union was held in Mechanics Hall
this afternoon and evening, and was attend
ed by thousands of spectators, bringing to-
gether many of the best known amateurs of
the country. The afternoon was devoted to
trial heats and the evening to finals. The
following are the results:
70 yards dash-S. II. Carey, M. A. c., 4-5 sec
onds. The record is ia seconds.
600 yards run-W. c. Dohm, N. Y. A. c., min
ute IS 20 seconds.
200 yards hurdle-F. @, Puher, N. j. A. c.,
20 2-5 seconds.
Standing high jumps. Crook, feet IL inches.
Three-Quarter mile Walk-W. r. Burkhardt, p.
A. c., minutes 3-5 seconds.
155 yards dash-J. P. Lee, III. A. A.. 16 90 sec
onds.
1000 yards run-B. A. Fearing, Ii. A. A., %
minutes % 35 seconds.
Standing broad jump-Crook, 10 feet inches.
Putting the shot-George A. Gray, N. Y. A. c.,
3S feet 11s4 inches, beating the worlds record,
which was also his own, by 1s4 inches.
300 yards hurdle race-A. F. Copeland, M. A.
c., SO 5-5 seconds.
Four mile walk-E. d. Lange M. A. c., 80 min
utes 4S 4-5 seconds.
Pole vault for distances. II. Green, II. A. A.
26 feet 41a inches, or 2 feet 71a inches better
than the best previous record; +. j. Hoop, M. A.
c., second, 25 feet 101a inches.
Putting weight for height. s. Mitchell N. J.
A. G., broke the worlds record, held by himself
of Is feet making l5 feet inuhes.
Running hop, step and jump. p. Connolly, A
800 yards run-W. G. Downes, II. A. A., 80 As
seconds.
The Manhattan Athletic Club won the
prize for the most points.
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THIRTY SWEPT ovERBoARD
When a Steamer Was CarelessIy Ran
Against a Bridge.

EAST SAGINAW, Mich, April 13.-The
steamer Handy Boy Of the Bay line steamers
running between Saginaw and Bay City,
while bound out this afternoon, was run into
the Flint & Pere Marquette railroad bridge
carrying away all of her upper works and
drowning number Of persons. She was 60
feet west Of her proper course In the channel
Carelessness is given as the reason Of the
accident. Capt. Dalsen got ashore and es-
capped. The police are searching for him.
George Little, the engineer, and Ed Trump,
who vas at the wheel, are In Jail. Miss May
Haight aged %, Mrs. Catherine Neyins, an
9ld lady, tY0 other ladies and one man un-
known, are reported drowned. No bodies
nave yet been iSeoyered. A number Of pas
sSengers were sligEly injured.
IL Is estimated here were 30 persons on
board at the time Of ne accident, and they
were an swept into the rlyNr. The number
Of lost therefore, as reported~t this hour, is
merely conjecture.
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hayden Among the Japs.

SANFORD, April 12.-B. Frank Hayden,
who left Sanford last December with $4,000
sin his inside pocket" and a female compan-
ion, has been beard from. He is very com
fortably settled in Japan, according to a let
ter received by an intimate acquaintance
here Hayden deserted wife and two
children.
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FLOODS AND DISASTERS.
A Batch of Bad News by Steamer
From the Antlpodes.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 13.-Steamer Mari
posa, from Sidney and Honolulu, brings the
following advices. Extensive floods have
done great damage in New South Wales and
Queensland. A large part of Brisbane was
inundated, wharves submerged and railroad
traffic stopped. Hundreds of families are
homeless and fatalities are reported. Many
lives were lost and great destruction of prop
erty is reported from the interior. At the
last accounts, the floods were subsiding and
communication between different districts
was being restored
A railroad collision occurred March 1st, on
the Penhurst and Koroit line and seven men
were killed.
The American schooner Cassie Haywood
Feb 4th. Schooner Argus, with eight hands,
was lost six miles north of the Brunswick
river.
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Peace In New York.

New YORK, April 12.-The strike of 14oO
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The following are the United States Signal
18th, taken at s o. M, 10Th meridian time
the observations for each station being given
in this order: Temperature. direction of the
wind, state of the weather:
Boston, Az. E, cloudless; New York. $50
Washington. 720, W, partly cloudy; Albany
$50, w, cloudy; Buffalo. $40. S,cloudy; Cleve.
land. CSC, S, partly cloudy; Detroit, 64o, S,
cloudy; Chicago, 3So, NE, rain; st. Paul, ,460
n, cloudless; Duluth, $40. NE, cloudless
St Vincent. 360, NV, clOudless; Bismarck,
800. S. rain. jacksonville. CSC. Sc, cloudless
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Washington Notes.


A small company assembled in the blue
parlor of the White House Saturday to wit
ness the formal presentation of a medal to
Joseph Francis, in Iecogniti0n of his servic-
eS In the construction and perfection of life
saving appliances. The medal is of pure
gold and weighs over three troy pounds. The
total cost OF the medal, exclusive of design,
is over $4,000.
The Senate has passed the Senate bill to
increase the efficiency and reduce the ex-
pense OF the signal corps of the army. The
Dill transfers to the Department of Agricul-
tnre the weather bureau, leaving the signal
corps OF the army to remain in the War De-
partment. The weather bureau is to consist
OF one chief and such civilian employees as
Yong congress may annually provide for. The
Snon cnIed Is 10 nave an annual compensation Of
$45oO, and is to be appointed by the Presi-
dent by and with the advice and consent of
the Senate.
The election case of Waddill against Wise,
from the third Virginia district, was settled
in the House Saturday by the adoption of
the majority resolution seating Waddill-
yeas, 134; nays, 120.
Senators Hawley, Squire, Allison. Hale.
Gray, Gibson and Manderson Saturday
POKE messages @ OF congratulation TO Henry
M. Stanley. Inc messages were delivered to
phonograph and will be repeated to Stan
ley at dinner to be given him in London
by Col Guirand, Edison's Europepn partner.
Secretary Proctor has plan to form reg
lnent VI lnuiaus iOI tn6 UnlteQ states army,
to be officered by West Point graduates.
The Republican caucus committee having
under consideration the question of legisla-
ton on the silver question, met Saturday
night. Sectretary Window was present and
the question was discussed at length hnt M
conclusion was reached 1t is said that the
demands of the extreme silver men for free
coinage causes the delay.
Chief Postoffice Inspector Rathbone has
received information Of the arrest at McCool,
Miss, of Jim johnson, A. S. Rowell and Boil
Bowie, charged with being concerned in the
Shooting at Postal Clerk Blevins some weeks
ago while on duty in his car. The officers
are in pursuit of Frank Scarborough, who is
said to be one of the party. Blevins is a col.
ored man, and the attack upon him Is beliey-
ed to have been due to that fact
It cost 81, ,0S7 during 18S9to protect United
States interests at Samoa.
Senator Edmunds has gone to Virginia
Beach His health is in precarious cOndi-
| tion.
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Bank Men In Trouble.

DUBUQUE, April 12-The United States
grand jury has found indictments against
President r. Z. Graves and Cashier c. 81.
Harris of the defunct Commercial bank of
this city, which closed its doors March 20.
1888, with liabilities amounting to 100000.
Two indictments were found against Presi-
draft when he had not the means to make it
good, and another for falsifying the accounts
of the bank. Cashier Harris is indicted
jointly with Graves as an accomplice and
abett0r. 1t is understood that both Graves
and Harris will come to Dubuque and stand
trial, without officers going after them.
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OBITUARY..
PerIey D. Cummings.

Mr.. Perley d. Cummings died in Falmouth
last Friday, at the age Of so years and two
months. Mr.. Cummings was a native Of
Freeport, but was in business in this city for
many years with his brothers, Thomas and
Freeman, carpenters and builders. Their
shops and lumber yard were on the site now
occupied by the High School During the
last years of his life he was in the employ Of
Conant & Rand as pattern maker. He was
a member Of the Maine Charitable Mechanic
Association. He has resided of late with his
daughter, Mrs. Frank Rogers, at Falm outh
Foreside, where he died from brief attack
Of diabetes. The funeral will take place
from the residence of his son, Mr.. Edward
b. Cummings, No. II Wescott street. this af-
fal nnnn at q n,clnek
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Women's Baptist Foreign Missionary
Society,".

The nineteenth annual meeting of the
Woman's Baptist Foreign Missionary Socie-
ty will be held at the Free Street Baptist
church on Wednesday and Thursday of the
present week according to the following or
der Of exercises:
WEDNESDAY MORNING.
$780, devotional meeting, led by Mrs. w. s
Roberts, Rockland, Maine.
.1O.3O address Of welcome, Miss Abbie Russell,
Eass Deerng Maine reRO and
address, "RambleS in the Telugu Fields" Mrs.
Lyman Jewett, India.
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.
2o'clock, singing; prayer; address, Medical
address. Beginnings of work in sagaing.n' Mrs;
Hascall, Burma; paper, ~ Home application OF
Chester, n. Y; address, Life in the Sarah Curtis
Home,1 Miss whitman, Japan; address,
Mrs. M. b. ingalls,. Burma.
WEDNESDAY EVENING.
7.So o'clock-Young women's meeting, leader
Miss Greenwood, New Hampshire; prayer, Miss
Brigham, Yermont; address, Girls Mission
Bands" Miss Curtis Western %nr Maine; me- PAPER
Rhode Island paper. "Relation of Bands to the
Woman's, Society" Miss Hunneman, Massachu-
teresiting," teresi Mrs. Montgomery. Western New
York; paper, missionary Literature"
Misses s GS%Sn Of Of RAISING EsstsTn M1nev Mains MT,
fPSaes' Potess Connecticut; % u paper, % aRefex Infa.
ence Of Work for Missions" Miss Rawllns;
Pennsylvania; singing, solo, Your Own"
address, Miss Lucy Guinness, England; sing
ing; address, Needs of Japanese girls"
Miss Whitman, Japan; address, "our work in
Japan" Miss Eaton, Japan; address, "Kachin
Girls" Miss Stark, Burma; "Words from girls
who go; address, Mrs. Waterbury; reading,
Mrs. Blgelow, New Jersey.
THURSDAY MORNING.
$50, devotional meeting led by Miss Lucy GUM
ness London, Eng.
1000, State Secretaries report; singing; ad-
dress, "The Swatow Girls School," Mrs. Part
ridge, China; address, Bible work In Yokohoma,"
Miss Lucy M. Eaton, Japan; address, Miss Mary
Day, India.
THURSDAY AFTERNOON.
o'clock, singing; prayer; election :of officers
slngingi address," Work In Toungoo" Mrs. Mix,
Burma; address, "Our missions IN Kobi," Mrs.
Rees, Japan; address, "A Kachn school," Miss
Eva Stark, Burma; paper. "Daughters of the
tees; farewell service; presentation to missiona-
| ries; prayer.
Thursday evening at 7,30 public meeting
will be held in the First Baptist church
| which will be addressed by Miss Lucy Guir-
ness Of London, Miss M. b. ingalls, Of Burma
| and others.
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Breaking Leyees.

Atchafalaya levee, which occurred on We'd
nesday ten miles south of Sims Port In
Point Coupes Parish, is now 600 feet wide
and seven feet deep. The town of Sims
Port is said to be about two feet under
water. The Cason levee on the west bank,
IL miles moth of Melville, broke Saturday
night. The break is said to be about 80 feet
wide and 10 feet deep. Advices are received
that the Big Bend levee of Bayou des
Ciaisea, eight miles west of Sims Port is
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THE sAWTELLE MURDER.
A Remarkable Story PufportIng to Be
Confession Rv Isaac.

SSthOSStStt 6y todnSs
Boston, April 13.-The Globe today prints
a long story purporting to be a confession by
Isaac D. Sawtelie, charged with the murder
of his brother Hiram. The story is that
Isaac employed the famous "Dr." Blood to
secure from Hiram written withdrawal of
his claims to the estate of his father. To do
this, Hiram was to be decoyed to the old
camp in the woods in Lebanon, Me-, near the
place where the body was afterwards found,
where "Dr." Blood and an ex-convict, known
as Jack, were to take him in hand and force
him to sign the paper. Isaac took little Ma
rian away and and induced her father to go
to Rochester by sending word that his daugh-
ter was ILL., Hiram fell into the trap and
driven by Isaac to place near the old camp.
On the way Isaac bought lamp, pens, ink
and paper, telling his brother that they were
articles for the family with whom he was
stopping. Near the camp Jack met the two
and, on pretence of sending Isaac for doc.
tor, took his place in the carriage. Isaac
waited in the old deserted house on the main
road while Jack drove with Hiram to the
camp in the woods. There, according to
this alleged confession, "Dr." Blood and his
killed Hiram. After Isaac had remained in
the old house some time, Jack came back
with the team. Jack told Isaac that 1t had
been necessar yto bind Hiram. who had re-
olSlcQ anu was SUIu6 uuEt. luo tA-COuNlCt
had with him a canvas bag. He drove with
Isaac for some distance, carrying the bag in
the carriage. Isaac now thinks the bag con-
tanned his brothers head, and that from 1t
came the blood afterwards found in the car
riage. When Jack left he had the bag with
him. What became Of "Dr." Blood is not
known, but Blood wrote to Isaac while the
latter was in Portland, telling him OF his
brothers death. The tools which Isaac
bought were purchased by Blood s.directions,
the spade being returned because it was not
suited for the purpose.
Discrsdited by the Police.
BosToN, April 13.-The Herald tomorrow
will publish interviews with police officials
Of this city and Lawyer Gale, associate coun-
sci in conducting the defense Of Isaac Saw
telle, all of whom express disbelief in the
confession of Sawtelle, published in this
mornings Globe.
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men in the building trades, which took
place yesterday on nine big buildings in
course of erection came to an end at 4 O'clock
the housesmiths to resume work Monday
morning. Delegate Carroll of the Engineers
Union stated that the proprietors of the
Hecla Iron Works had agreed to allow rep
resentatiyes of the Central Labor Union 10
same privileges allowed by other firms. Mr..
Poulson of the iron works told everybody
interested today that he worked his men
only nine hours and paid union wages. The
board Of walking delegates satisfied them
selves that this was so and all hands will go
to work on the buildings Monday.
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1T WILL sE GOV. DAVIS.
The Democrats cain Control Of the
Rhcde Island Legislature.

PROVIDENCE, r. l., April 13.-The post
poned city election yesterday resulted In a
Democratic victory, giving that party::a sena-
tor and eight representatives. There was no
election in the case Of one representative
The complexion Of the incoming legislature
shows 81 Democrats and 80 Republicans,
giving the Democrats a working majority
with two to spare, and lnsures the ele-ssgnof
the Democratic state ticket Ayaued Dy John
w. Davis for gnvosss0r. The election OF Gov.
Davis asd MS colleagues will take place at
sembly at Newport. The state senate stands
ii Democrats to 21 Republicans. The House
stands 43 Democrats to 80 Republicans. The
ballot system worked like clock
work Yesterday
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Quit Work This Morning.

Boston, April 13.-At a meeting of the
Amalgamated Building trades today all the
men employed by Norcross Brothers, build
ers. were ordered to quit work tomorrow
morning. Norcross Brothers are filling many
contracts in New York and New England.
They are building the new Stock and Shoe
and Leather Exchanges, the state house ex-
tension, and the large Ames Building in this
city. 1t is said the strike will affect 10000
men. 1t is an outcome Of the present lockout
of frepstona cuttarS
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Hotel Mems Convention.

President Montgomery S. Gibson OF Port
land, presided at meeting OF the New Eng,
land members Of the Hotel Mems Mutual
afternoon. Reports were submitted by the
several committees having in charge the
making of arrangements for the annual con-
yention of the association, which is to be
held in Boston next month, 1t was decided
To give the banquet on the evening Of the
opening day Of the convention. and the
American House was selected as the place.
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MIR. DsrIIng's CnecK Kiting.

NEW YORK, April 12.-The schedule of as
sets and liabilities Of the firm OF John +.
Plummer Il Co.. will be nled Monday. This
afternoon a satisfactory method as to how to
arrange them was arrived at by Assignee
Murphy and his counsel, Richard Il. New
cOmbe. The Whereabouts OF MI. Darilns Is
still a mystery. Already his ''kitlng" checks
To the amount Of S1SO,OO0, have been recov-
cred, and are In the hands Of Mr. Newcombe,
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OVER ONE HUNDRED WERE DROWNED
When the Steamer Quetta sank
Without Warning OF Danger.
Two Hundred People Left Struggling
In the Waves.
A Big Barge Burned and a Crew
Missing Off Erie, Pa.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 13-Additlonal de-
tails were received by the steamer Maraposa
from Australia Of the wreck Of the steamer
Quetta off Thusdau Island. About o O'Clock
In the evening Of March 1 the passengers
were holding an impromptu musicale, when
they were startled at the sudden stopping Of
the engines and the grating Of the vessels
keel on rock. In less than three minutes
the Questa sank out of sight, leaving 210
people struggling in the waves, 113 lives
were lost. The rock en- which the vessel
struck was not on the charts and is right In
the track Of the course recommended by the
admiralty, which states there are 12 fathoms
Of water there.
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moNTooMERYs CHALLENGED.
The Emmet Guards Not Satisfied
With the Late Contest.

Saturday night the following despatch was
received by Capt Hartnett Of the Mont
gomery Guards:
EMMETT GUARDS, COMPANY G.l
9TH REGIMENT INFANTRY, M. ". NJ
Capt. 4. y. Hartnett, Cdptain.
Not feeling satisfied with our last contest. L
hereby challenge the Montgomery Guards Com
Pany =, ISL Regiment Infantry, M. v. NJ, OF Port
land, Me-, TO another contest, to take place not
later than April "a 1890. 1 will meet you at the
Herald office, Boston, Mass, Wednesday, April
IL, 1890, at p. M, and sign articles Of agree
ment for the contest. The prize TO be drilled for
not to be less than that OF our last match.
Respectfully yours,
WILLIAM REGAN Captain.
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Differences Adjusted.

CAIRO, ILL.,, April 13.-Freight trains are
running again on the Mobile and Ohio road
north, after blockade lasting three days. A
settlement was arrived at yesterday between
the striking freight brakemen and General
Manager Clark, by which the men are paid
$2.64 cents mile and for extra time over L
hours. The strikers all went to work. the
new men brought from the southern division
of the road returning south. No Limitation
was placed upon the time of trains
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the GREW MISSING.
Life Savers Find a Burning ana
Abandoned Barge.

ERIE. Pa. April 13.-The steam barge
Shenango burned and sank of this port last
night and the fate of her crew is a mystery
A patrolman on the beach sighted strange;
appearing craft two miles off shore at late
hour. A fash aboard aroused his suspicious
and the life saving crew went out to the
barge. They went within $50 feet of the
craft and found here fire. Seeing the yes
sci make lurch they rowed of and in three
hours the craft went down In four fathoms
Of water. No trace Of the crew could be
discovered. The Shenango was Of 935 tons
and cost $50 600 She had 60,0O0 bushels Of
grain on board.
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Bought M aine Ice,

NoRwALK, Conn, April 12.-Local dealers
here have formed an ice trust and prices To
consumers have advanced from FORTY cents tn
one dollar per one hundred pounds. These
rates were adopted at meeting, Yesterday.
and are already. in effect. Some twenty
thousand tons Of the commodity have been
purchased in Maine and will arrive here ear.
lv in Nav
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Captain Leonard Gordon. who died recent
ly in Deadwood, OAK, was native Of Vien-
ma, Me. He served with distinction In the
Rebellion, in Massachusetts regiments.
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VANCOUVER AT halifax.
Will Sail for Portland This Morning
A Captain Lost.
Especial to the Press.l

Especial to the Press.l
HALIFAX, N. S. April 13.-Steamer Van
cOuver, from Liverpool April 8, via Moville
April T. arrived at o'clock this afternoon.
She sails for Portland tomorrow morning.
A special despatch received from st. Pierre
says the brig Joseph from Cadlz was wrecked
at Dog Island last night. A heavy sea was
running at the time and the captain was
drowned The vessel was insured.
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At New Tipperary.

DUBLIN. April 13.-The ceremonies at
tending the opening of the town of New
Tipperary were held this afternoon. Messrs.
Pictou. Stewart, Brunner and Leake, men,
Countess Setback, Misses Orme and Bryant,
Mrs. Davitt and others arrived with Mr.. o.
Brion and other Irish members of Parlia-
ment. The procession formed and accom-
panied By bands and with flags flying the
paraders marched from Limerick Junction
to New Tipperary. Upon arriving at the
platform erected opposite the mart the pre-
cession halted and speeches weresmade.
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Sold to an English Syndicate.

produce business of Wilkinson t& Gaddes
has, it is announced been sold to an English
syndicate for 81, 100000, of which 5000. 600 is
payable in cash aud 100000 in bonds. The
present management will be continued