Morning journal and courier., 1890-03-04

Adirondacks was destroyed by fire yesterday morning. Loss about 1000. The cause of the fire is unknown.
 Mslcher, republican, was elected mayor of Portland, Me, yesterday. For municipal officers the democrats carried two wards and the republicans five.
 Secretary Blaine called ou the president yesterday morning in company with Mr. Charles Tupper of Canada. The interview lasted about five minutes.
 Fire Sunday evening in the dry rooms of the Freeman & O'Neil company's building at Claremont, N. H., burned 90, 900 feet of lum- Der. Loss $2,000. Insured.
 In the senate yesterday Senator Spooner spoke for two hours in opposition to the Blair bill. At the close of his speech Mr. Blair took the floor to reply to some of his points.
 The sczar has forbidden Princess Dslgou- rouki and her family to return to Russia. The government will pay fifteen million roubles for the princess estates, which are valued at thirty millions.
 A dispatch received last evening states that one hundred and ffty-eight passengers and crew of the steamer Quetta, which was lost while on her way from Cooktown to London, were saved.
 The hay and grain establishment of J. E. Lewis & Co and the Chelsea Yacht club house on Broadway, Chelsea, were burned yesterday morning. The loss will probably not exceed 10,000.
 A statement prepared at the Treasury de- partment shows that there has been 6 new increase of $10, ,276. .963 in circulation since T1l -E A in money and bullion in the treasury during the same period.
 Among the petitions and memorials pre- sented and referred in the senate yesterday were three from Societies of Friends in Massachusetts, Indiana and Kansas remon- strating against increased expenditures for the navy and coast defences.
 The house committee on public buildings and grounds has reported bills making the following appropriations for public build ings: St. Albans, Vt, 0,000; Haverhill and Taunton, Mass, Lewiston, Me, and Pawtuckett, R. l., 5,000 eaca.
 The issue of the standard silver dollars from the hints during the week ended March was $305, ,560. The iseue during the corre- spending period last year was $804 ,344. The shipments of fractional silver coin during February amounted to $S73, ,339. J. W. Hendenberg of Chicago yesterday addressed the house committee on coinage weights and measures in favor of the bill authorizing the issue of specie certificates re- deemable half in gold coin and half in silver bullion equal in value to the gold half. In Wentworth, N. H., yesterday morning the store of Eaton, Davis 6e Co. an old hotel and two dwellings were burned, Eaton. Davis 6 Co.'s loss on stock is $5, 1000; insur.
 ed $2, 300. 0. E. Mason, jeweler, loses $500. All the town records were destroyed. Cause unknown.
 Samuel B. Swan, superintendent of light
 at Providence, R. T.. died last evening oi ! consumption. He was native of Bristol In 1879 he was elected superintendent oi lights, which office he has held since. He l was for time member of the board of pub- l lie works.
 At Buffalo yesterday morning Judge Daniels handed down 8 decision on the ! motion for new trial in the libel suit of Rev. Dr. Ball against the New York Evening Post. The motion is denied on the ground ! that the verdict of no cause for action was warranted by the evidence. The funeral of the late Commodore G. B. ' " AAV01 SAACA oA sAo OuLoou OA JuAu5 dAO docks took place at 10 o'clock yesterday l from St. Johns P. E. Church at Washington ! and was largely attended. After the ser. | vices the remains were taken to Philadelphia for interment in St. Peters cemetery.
 James O. Curtis died yesterday at Med
 ford, Mass aged eighty-eix years. He hal resided in Medford since 1890 and was at on, time prominent shipbnilder, there beinf seventy-eight vessels constructed in his yard I from 1859 to 1869. He has held numeroul town offices, and was member of the gen. | eral court in 1886.
 MT. Lodge of Massachusetts yesterday in
 troduced bill in the house to regulate thu
 appointment of fourth-class postmasters b,
 providing that the postmaster-genersl shal
 divide the United States into districts O
 suitable extent to be known as postal dis
 tricts and shall designate for each district ! postoffice inspector to act as examiner.