The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-04-09
BRIEFLY TOLD.

Peter Emo, the Lawrence murderer,
has made full confession. /;
J. Pierpont Morgan has made a gift of
$500, to the New York trade schools.
F. LIE Sud, a paper published at Sorel,
Canada, has declared in favor of annexa-
ton.
Four bodies were taken fromlthe hui
of the burned steamer Golden Rule at
Cincinnati, yesterday.
The Navy Department has invited
proposals for the condemned Galena at
the Kittery navy yard.
A despatch from Dillon, Mont, reports
that eight cattle men were killed in a
battle with thieves near there two days
ago.
John Brunell, vino killed John G..
Wheeler, the blind inn-keeper of Rindge,
N. H., ecause' Wheeler refused to sell
him liquor, has pleaded guilty to muir
der in the second degree.
Mr.. Emery Andrews of Kennebunk,
Me-, is a member of the advisory board
of the Lombard Investment Company,
elected at the annual meeting recently
held in Kansas City, Mo.
A Cincinnati despatch yesterday re-
ported that fast train on theC Chesapeake
and Ohio railroad was wrecked near
Huntington. w. Va, and that according
to first reports 80 people were killed.
The report was not confirmed.
According to the reports received on
the line of the Mexican National road,
the cattle business is in deplorable con-
dition. The bones of hundreds of ami
mails which have died recently, are being
put in huge piles at every station and the
stock are dying of starvation.
Judge Colt of the United States Cir
cult Court, testified yesterday before the
congressional committee which is inves-
tigating the offices of the circuit and
district courts in Boston. 1t is under
stood that his testimony indicates that
the charges which led to the investiga-
tion are groundless.
An attempt is being made to boycott
employees taking the places of the locked
out men at Winchell & Co.'s shoe fac
tory at Haverhill. They cannot get
boarded in town nor attention at barber
shops. Some were elected from athletic
and base ball games Fast Day. An at
tempt was made to duck one in the river.
A committee from the war department
has been in Chicago investigating the
claim that several millions of dollars
worth of property along the river front
is not legally the property Of the parties
who claim to own it. 1t is said that gov
ernment engineers are sure the ostensi-
BILE owners are squatters. Many promi-
nent concerns are involved.
A despatch from Washington to the
Boston Journal says: 1.-THE report has
gained ground here that Governor Rus
sell will not be a candidate for governor
this fall. He will move into the Essex
district and run for Congress against
General Cogswell. Mayor Matthews, it
is understood, will be nominated by the
Democrats for governor.
The London Athanium says that ow-
ing to the scantiness Of unoccupied space
in Westminster Abbey, the Very Rev.
George Granville Bradley, D. D., of
Westminster, has reluctantly declined
to find room in the Abbey for the pro-
posed monument to the late James Rus
sell Lowell. The dean has suggested
that instead of a monument, window
in the chapter house might be filled with
a stained glass memorial.
The London Chronicles ST. Petersburg
correspondent says: ''The war party
here has received severe check through
the opposition of Count Schouvalotf,
Russian ambassador at Berlin, and Prince
Lebanoff Rostoffslzy, ambassador at vi
emma, both of whom have had % long talk
with the Gar recently. AS a result OF
the certainty that there will be no war
this spring the exchange has become
firmer.''