The Portland daily press., 1892-05-02
BRIEF JoTTINos.

Last weeks exports were valued at
$2o4, ,294.
Grand Canton Ridgely will elect Off
GERS tonight.
Ivanhoe lodge, z. of p, will confer the
rank of Esquire tomorrow evening.
Mr.. John Batty has been appointed en-
gineer of the steamer Chebeague.
1t was cloudy and raw yesterday with
spits of rain last evening.
The new police signal system will give
two more patrolmen who will 60 on the
night force.
MI. John Wilson Of Pleasantdale lost
two fingers while coupling Eastern rail-
road cars last week.
The Paint and Oil Club will hold their
monthly meeting and dinner at the Fal-
mouth hotel next Saturday evening.
Bosworth Post will have camp fire
Thursday evening. Supper at 7.so
o'clock.
Mrs. Frasier of Winter street fell on
the sidewalk last week and broke her
leg above the ankle.
Mr.. P. 7. Felix of the Cary cigar fac
tory was presented an elegant easy chair
by his fellow employees Saturday night.
The Tucker Printing house and Owen,
Strout & Co.'s plant have been merged
into one under Messrs. Owen & Strout.
The committee on electric appliances
met Saturday afternoon but did not de-
eide what system they should adopt.
VIM. Files has been arrested for sell
ing liquor without a United States IL
cense.
A United States officer will visit Port
land to instruct the militia in the new
tactics before the June encampment.
The Electric Light Company has made
an offer to replace the gas lights in City
hall with electric lights for $500.
The Maine Central has received from
the Providence Works it's new ten wheel
Mogul freight engine No. 140.
Past Chancellor Charles E. Pulsifer of
Bramhall lodge, Z. of p, has been pre-
sented an elegant past chancellor's
jewel.
The railway employees in Maine will
soon wear button representing min
iature car wheel and bearing the device
of a locomotive.
A man named Gallagher, wanted in
Auburn for Jail breaking, was arrested
by Deputy Marshal McCallum at Daniel
Friers yesterday.
The directors of the Cumberland Coun-
ty Agricultural Society, Saturday, voted
to offer special premiums to the value of
$1OO or more.
Brush fires burned over half an acre
on the slope of the Western promenade
yesterday. Members of engine company
three were called out to fight the flames.
Two boys named Charles F. Thomas
and Bert Gould were taken in charge by
the police last night. They had run
away from their homes in Maplewood,
Mass.
The interior of the west wing of the
Maine General Hospital is completed,
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new wards will make room for forty
more patients.
The Dominion line steamship Labra-
dor, Captain McAuley, (the last English
steamer sailing this SEASON. will leave
the Grand Trunk wharf at 1.3O p. m.
Wednesday next.
Tonight the board of engineers will
elect the drivers of the steam fire en-
gines and hose carriages, and the ap-
pointments will probably be confirmed
by the committee on Tuesday.
Wednesday mig hit the kel-in-the-slot-
weighing machine at Peaks Island was
broken open and lining, slot and contents
taken. A dory was also stolen during
the same night.
It is said that the Y. NJ. G. A. has had
an offer of $4,000 bonus for the Libby
property, so called, at the corner of High
and Free streets.
There were twenty-four arrests last
week, of which eighteen were for drunk
enness. A drunken man was arrested
Saturday night for breaking glass in the
night lunch wagon. = =
The Portland Evangelical Ministers As
sociation will meet at the Young Mems
Christian Association this morning at
1890. The subject is: Dickens as
Preacher" to be opened by Rev. A. H.
Wright.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Women's Maine Indian Association will
be held in the Friends church, Oak street
tomorrow afternoon at o'clock o. m.
DR.. Gerrish has invited the pupils of
the Fox studio to go to Brunswick, Fri
day, where he will deliver lecture on
anatomy at the college.
During the past season there were
1889 head of cattle shipped to Europe
by the Allan and Dominion lines The
Allan took 2,575 head and the Dominion
4,614. The business was much larger
than the previous year.
The North Atlantic Squadron will be