The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-02-27
BRIEF JoTTINas.

the rank of Page tomorrow evening.
The Warwick of the Donaldson line is
now due at this port. Since last here
Capt. Coutts has been transferred to an
other ship of the line and Chief Engineer
Davies has been promoted to captain,
position to which he is fully entitled, due
to his long service in the line.
There will be meeting of the Metho-
dist ministers at the Y. M. G. A. rooms
today at 1880. Subject to be discussed:
''The Witness of the Spirit Opened by
S. e. Mcdonald.
Saturday and Sunday were both bright
and pleasant There was little spit of
snow on Saturday evening.
1t lis reported that Mr.. j. G. Stevens is
preparing plans of an elegant house for
Fred E. Richards to be erected on the
corner of Pine and Vaughan streets.
A bakery team belonging to Burns
tipped over in Monument square Satur-
day afternoon, causing free distrlbu-
ton of pies and cakes.
A young boy was struck by locomo-
tive in the Maine Central yard Saturday
and thrown quite distance. Strange to
say he was not hurt in the least but was
thoroughly frightened.
Mr.. John Rourke, driver for ingalls,
Bros, was thrown from his team in Mon
ument square last Friday and badly
bruised about the side and arm.
Miss Margaret Bryant foot was badly
burned. 1t was wrapped in bandages
wet with alcohol and lamp was brought
SO near that the bandages took fire;
Capt Scott Oliver and companion were
nearly smothered by coal gas In their pi-
lot boat Friday night They closed the
damper Of the stove before the coal had
sufficiently kindled.
A Young man went into Davis, the
clothier's, place on Fore street Saturday
evening and after looking over the goods
became abusive. He was ordered out,
but failing to go Patrolmen Usher and
Madden were called and they sent him
in.
The Loyal Legion will have meeting
and banquet at the Falmouth Hotel on
Wednesday evening and the Bowdoin
Alumni at the same place next Saturday
evening.
The annual concert and ball of Chan
dlers Band will take place at City Hall
March Goth.
Since Wednesdays storm Street Com
missioner Griffin has employed 1876 men
with teams clearing the streets and Man
ager Newman of the Portland Railroad
Company It's men. The men employed
get about $1,000 day. The horse rail-
road also has 100 men and teams at work
in Westbrook.
A woman and child had narrow es-
cape from being struck by a railroad
train at the old transfer station of the
Boston & Maine Saturday night, giving
rise to the report that they had been
killed and mangled.
| Blanks in triplicate are now furnished
| by Chief Norton to the engineer, driver
and foreman of each engine company
and these have to be filed out with
enumeration of the company's property.
If anything is missing they are respon-
sible to .the city for it. The exercise
wagons for Nos. and are on the way
from Racine, Wisconsin.
Seizures were made Saturday at ]. A.
Gorham's, A Centre street, and the pro-
! prietor was arrested; and a team was
overhauled on Commercial street and $50
bottles of lager secured, and J. j. Rourke
and M. J. Sullivan arrested for Illegal
| transportation.
There were % arrests last week of
| which II were for drunkenness.
The new school signal box arrived Sat-
urday and has been placed in Superin-
| tendent Lords office, who will give the
''no SCHOOL, signals hereafter.
The delegates to the Maine State Fed
Grafton at Augusta today from Portland
will be Mrs. Geo. G. Frye. Mrs. j. B.
Coyle, Mrs. E. S. Osgood and Mrs. Burn
ham.
Miss Treworgys next Bible reading
will be given in the First Baptist church
this afternoon at o'clock.
The Portland Club will have one of
those enjoyable clam suppers at the club
house tonight. The CLAIMS will be
served at $50 o'clock. A full attendance
is desired.
There was sleigh upset at the corner
of High and Congress streets yesterday
afternoon and three drunken men spilled
out. The horse ran away, but was
| caught before further damage was done.
During lunch hour at the police sta
ton this morning Prof. Berrell, the won
derful young wizard, astonished the pa
trolmen with some really surprising
feats of legerdemain. If he keeps on pull
ling half dollars out of policemen's hats
there will be another big fall in silver.
The Death Rate.