The Portland daily press., 1893-12-28
BRIEFLY TOLD,

The San Francisco Bridge company has
assigned; liabilities s175, 000
Minister Mendonca says the insurree-
ton in Brazil is fast crum bling to pieces.
The Civil Service Reform League pro-
poses to organize "The Anti. -Spoils
League with Carl Schurz as president.
Charles P. Miller, book keeper at Hotel
Reynolds, Boston, has confessed to the
embezzlement OF $1,000 and has been
arrested.
The report of the Northern Pacific re-
ceivers for the month of October shows
an increase. of $142, 545 in the net earn
ings over the previous month.
An expedition will soon be sent into
the Soudan to liberate the Austrians
Herr Neufelder, merchant, land Slatin
by the Mahdists.
staff of Governor Stone of Missouri.
states in an interview that Governor
Stone is in the race for the Democratic
nomination for President in 1886.
One of the Danbury, Conn, hat
factories will open as union shop this
morning, and there is a prospect of a
settlement of the long labor war in shat
town.
The Treasury Department orders to
Soii1CUoI AllpIetA VI NEW IOrk, con-
corning the rel1quidations in tobacco
cases have been made applicable at all
ports where like cases may arise.
The Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity at
Pittsburgh yesterday, elected Hon.
Claudius Dockery of North Carolina,
permanent chairman, and II. G. Berges
of Boston, secretary.
Mrs. Gladstone while travelling to
Hawarden on Thursday last, from Lon
don, was seized with severe chill. She
is now greatly improved, however, and
is making favorable progress towards re-
covery.
The Fiske Gold Mining and Milling
company,'s, property located at Black
parties in Hayerhill, Mass, has been
sold to an English syndicate for half q
million dollars
DR.. F. a. Gay, dentist, persisted in
fire which did $4,000 damage in the
Moulton building, Providence, r. l.,
yesterday. DR.. Gay became confused in
the smoke in trying to escape. There
were several narrow escapes.
Hon. William e. Chandler, in the Con-
cord Monitor, says he shall appeal to the
supreme court of the state to decide the
question of the duty of the railroad
commissioners to fix passenger and
freight rates.
The New York Herald's Managua.
Nicaragua, special says the government
of Nicaragua has been collecting forced
war loans from American citizens resi-
dents there, in violation of the treaty.
United States Minister. Baker has made
vigorous protest against such proceed
ings.
The English Bankers Magazine, COM
pairing the Stock Exchange values of 1898
with those of 1899, says the figures this
year show decline of 1886. O00 600 upon
1874 leading securities. The decline is at
tributed to the distrust created by COM
pany disclosures, the Australian crisis
and American currency question.
David Galloway, middle aged Irish
man, crazy drunk, attempted to Jump
down the smok estack of moving loco
motive from off the bridge which crosses
the Pennsylvania railroad tracks in tine
Smithsonian grounds in Washington.
He missed the smokestack, struck the
boiler and rolled out of the way of the
wheels. He was picked up in semi
unconscious state and sent to hospital
A special from Column bia, s. c., saws
that Zimm erman, the champion bicy-
clist, III d talk with a reporter, said: Il
think all records can be lowered as I
have ridden onc-fourth of mile at the
rate of l.43 for the mile. If man is in
the proper shape, the conditions favor
able and the pacing fast enough, be can
be quite sure OF doing it in las, This. |
think, will be the record before two
years have elapsed.s