The Portland daily press., 1892-10-31
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| them for drunkenness.
The new recruits for the battery at
Fort Preble arrived Friday.
| Don forget the Yacht Club smoker
tonight. Lunch will be served.
The fires have been lighted at the
small dry dock aud all is ready for
use.
! The First Parish coffee party at Gill
bert's Saturday night was very success
full affair.
Saturday was rainy and intensely No
| vemberish. Sunday was sunny and
cool.
A large number of vessels took refuge
in the harbor Saturday from the
storm.
Percy Galley, nine years old, of Smith
street, crushed his hand badly in door
| Saturday.
"A large gray owl in tree on Atlantic
street was shot Saturday by Mr.. Albert
H. Hatch.
The semi-annual earnings of the Port
land Loan and Building Association
were SO, 1902.
Wenonah Council, D. of P, will invite
a Massachusetts council to visit them at
ali early date.
Granville H. Cloyes and H. Fitzgerald
bagged At woodcock and six cartridges
near WATERFORD.
Smith street, from Congress to Cum
berland, will be closed to travel while it
is being macadamized.
Business of special Importance will be
acted upon at the session of Ivanhoe
Lodge tomorrow evening
In a dog fight between two bull pups
fought a few miles out of town Saturday,
Victor, brindle pup, won.
A large crayon portrait of Hon. T. B.
Reed, the work of the Phoenix Crayon
Company, has been placed in the Lincoln
Club rooms.
Warden Cushman captured about 5000
day he seized two boxes full on the Mer-
ryconeag.
The election warran is were posted by
the city messenger Saturday and the
copies of the official ballots given out in
the city and islands.
The schooner j. w. Bigelow will take
a cargo for Point-a-Pitre valued at ST.
OS4.71, and schooner Nellie Woodbury.
one for Jamaica valued at ST., 1880.
Mr.. Summer Cummings, late clerk of
the Grand Trunk, was presented gold
watch, chain and charm by the en-
ployes.
The Portland Company is building 20
box cars for the Kennebec Lumber Com
pany and the foundry has turned out
900 car wheel axle boxes.
Chief of Police Parkman of Deering
found John Davis, who is wanted for as
sault on several people, in barn at
Deering Point Friday. Davis ran, but
Parkman was too fast for him and
caught him.
The Improved Order of Red Men for
the year ending July 1st, 1892. made
net gain of Is per cent. Masconorno
tribe Of Knightville will have supper
and entertainment tonight
Mr.. John Wilson fell through hatch
way in the old J. L. Best building, cor
ner of High and Commercial streets,
distance of Is feet Friday, dislocating
one shoulder and bruising him badly.
Mr.. w. F. Parks, who has severed his
connection with the Eastern Forge Com
pany on account of i'll health, was pre-
scented a handsome gold watch and chain
Saturday by the employees
Three little children playing on the
Natural History Society steps Friday,
lacerated themselves badly with the
barbed wire surrounding the fence.
Two fine looking Syrians, Mr.. Scliman
David and Miss Mary Tebet, were at the
clerks Office for marriage license Sat-
urday and the Mayor conversed with
them in Spanish and French. They live
in Brazil.
The committee on laying out new
streets will recommend the extension of
Morning street from Congress to Turner,
and the laying out of the streets and
parks on Diamond Island.
The committee on drains and sewers
will recommend carry ing out the sewer
between Gait and Franklin wharves in
the same manner as is done with the
sewer at Long wharf. A terrible nuis-
ance will thus be abated.
1t is thought fast train to Boston,
leaving Portland at a. M, and arriving
in the Hub at 10 a. M, will soon be put
ON the Boston & Maine.
The new Catholic parochial school for
boys on Cumberland street, next to the
Cathedral, is completen. 1t is
fine looking building, will accommo-
date 200 pupils and F. H. Fossett was
the architect. The school will begin
this week.
The man who swindled ladies out of
supposed subscriptions to the Ladies'
Home Journal. giving bogus receipts
for the money, was caught by Officer
Miles Saturday. His name is John
Davis and he is an old offender. He will
go before the court today.
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