The Portland daily press., 1893-03-27
BRIEF JoTTINas.


There was small fire in Woolf's
store, No.. Ill Middle street, Friday
| night The loss will be small from
smoke, and is covered by insurance
with Dow & Pinkham. How the fire
caught is not yet known. Mr.. Woolf
seems to be pursued by fire. This was
his fifth. g
Mr.. Soule of Portland has contracted
to build one of the stables at Rigby Park
| and has crew of men at work on the
same. 1t is to be 240 feet long and
40 feet wide, containing 40 box stalls.
Mr.. Griffin the track-builder, is expect
ed the firstof April to complete grading
| the track.
Saturday was superb day. Warm
as day late in May, and sunny.
The Thames, Cape Joseph, Couillard,
arrived Saturday morning. She will
take 10000 barrels of flour. 100 tons Of
hay and some butter and cheese to
st. Johns N. F.
Palm Sunday was cloudy with a south
west wind.
The Yarmouth Rifles have received
Burlington sights for their muskets.
They expect to shoot with the Cadets
Fast Day.
The Dominion line steamer Vancou-
yer, which sailed from Liverpool Thurs
day, has on board new shaft for the
Sarnia, which will be detained at Port
land until the shaft has been put in.
Walter Nicholson. was arrested Satur-
day night by patrolmen Chase and How
ell for maliciously breaking glass in
the windows of the Empire Laundry,
113 Middle street.
The whole number of arrests for the
week was SO Of which II were for
drunkenness.
Thatcher Relief Corps will have an
entertainment and supper next We'd
nesday evening at Thatcher Post hall.
A fire engine frightened a horse at
tached to phaeton on Middle street
Saturday night. The carriage was bro
ken and the occupants thrown out, es-
Gaping with bruises.
A sailor belonging to the Cutter Dallas
was knocked down by fire engine
going to the fire Saturday night. He
received bad cut on the left knee.
The committee on streets, sidewalks
and bridges, held a special meeting in
the commissioners Office Saturday night
The approval of of the monthly bills
was the only business.
The alarm from box Al at 1915 Sat-
urday night called the apparatus to
the corner Of Fore and Deer streets to
false alarm.
Wednesday evening the Camera Club
will show fine collections of lantern
slides from the New Orleans and Cali
fornia clubs at the Art Club rooms.
Palm Sunday was appropriately OBJ
served by the Catholic and Episco-
pal churches. Palms at the Catholic
churches were distributed directly after
the 1890 O clock mass. The present
weekbeing Holy week and appropriate
services will be neld Wednesday, Thurs
day and Good Friday.
The liquor deputies made an arrest at
81 Centre street, Saturday, of woman
supposed to be peddling liquor. At the
station she was searched and a pint
bottle of whiskey found on her per-.
son.
Deputies Plummer, Chute and Goold
raided ''beer joint in a room over j.
M. Todd's barber shop on Middle street
Saturday evening, and seized 240 bottles
of lager. They also arrested sRoxie''
VIM, clerk of the place.
An OK team heavily loaded with lum-
Der, stuck in the mud at the foot of the
hill on Main street, Westbrook near 81.
F. Sands residence Saturday morning
The cause of the trouble was the under
mining of the road bed by a leak in
the aqueduct.
The adjourned meeting of the Cumber-
land County Agricultural Society, which
was to have been held Saturday, did not
take place as none of the directors were
present,
A horse belonging to Mr.. John Fonier,
dropped dead in his stable on Sheridan
street Saturday evening. The horse was
valuable one, Mr.. Fonier being offered
only few days before $3.50 for him,
which he refused.
A leak was found in front of F. o.
Bailey & Co.'s in the gas pipe and new
length of pipe was necessary.
Principal Andrews Of the Butler school
has nearly $500 subscribed for the school
library.
The city government committee on
public buildings meet tonight.
A man seized two small boys yester-
day, who were amusing themselves
ringidg door bells, and took them to
the station followed by an immense
crowd of children.
Louis Forsyth and Calvin Young were
arrested Saturday for eyadinp fare on