The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-08-06
News Condensed.


The President has signed the Worlds
Fair bill.
sIr English miners were drowned in .
coal mine.
Chairman Prick Of the Csrnsgis Com
pany 10 back at work.
Two fishermen were lost on the Banks
In . dory during gale.
Troops are being sent to the Chsrokss
strip to eject trespassers.
A tourist and guide were killed BY fall
ing down q precipice In the Tyrol.
The President has approved the act
granting pensions TO army nurses.
Lorenxo Crounse was nomina ated for
governor By the Nebraska Republicans.
Herr Jaeger, the defaulting RothschiId
cashier, was given ten year sentence.
British steamer had TO be fumigated
In New York on account OF yellow fever.
Five Russians were captured among the
rebellious Haxara and sent in chains to
Cabul.
Ten deaths from cholera are reported In
Paris, where the disease 10 spreading to
the su uburbs.
Michael Davitt took his seat in the
House OF Commons without objection
being made.
England has taken possession of the
Johnston Islands and will establish q
coaling station at Apia.
Ex-senator Platt denies that he 10 to
have conferences with Whitelaw Reid or
President Harrison.
Thirty millions In gold are being trans
ported, on an armed train, from San
Francisco to Washington.
The secretary OF the treasury received
q consc ience contribution OF S100 from an
unknown resident of Lenox, Mass.
Mrs. william johnson committed sui
eide at Brooklyn, Conn. Cause tempo
rary insanity, from Ill health.
There 10 q possibility OF a strike among
the carpenters on the Worlds Fair
grounds on account OF long hours.
The President has sent to the Senate
the name Of Theodore r. Hofer to be SUI
perintendent Of the United States mint
at Carson, New.
Schulenberg & Boecklsr lumber COM
pany's mill, situated in Dutchtown,
Minn., was burned. Loss e425. 900, with
e65, 900 insurance.
Johnstown relief fund OF the city of Bos-
ton be transferred to st. Johns. The
fund amounts to $500.
John Burgess, q st. Croix & Penobscot
brakeman, was killed by being thrown
from freight car under the wheels. His
home was Milltown, Me.
william Dcehans daughter Nellie, Is
years old, belonging in Portland, Me-,
was drowned while bathing at Scarbor-
ough beach. The body was recovered.
A house being built on Dutton street,
Peabody, Mass, was struck by lightning
and Thomas Hanna, a carpenter, aged S5,
was instantly killed on q staging thirty
feet from the ground.
VIM. Lawrence, aged %, Of Salem, Mass,
coachman for Robert Wilson at Peters.
ham, Mass, fell from a scsffold and broke
hsi skull, dying Immediately. Lawrence
leaves q motherin Beverly, Moss.
Taschol Piepetra, an Italian, 80 years
old, was run over and instantly killed by
o freight train at Pittsford, VT. He was
lying on q side track and his head was
completely severed from the body.
The Worlds Fair committee of tho
Massachusetts, state board of agriculture
has selected ]. G. Dillon of Amherst to
make collection for an agricultural ex-
hibit to represent the state at Chicago.
Simeon Alderman OF New Haven was
fatally injured In q runaway accident.
The horses hoof struck his skull and
crushed 1t. He was taken to the hospi-
tai, but 10 expected to die at any mo-
ment.