The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-11-10
BRIEFLY TOLD.


A government Signal station is to be
established at the Isle of Shoals.
The Tucker and Cook Manufacturing
company, Springfield, Mass, is financial
ly EN- barrassed. t4
Twenty government and five opposition
members have been elected to the New
foundland legislature.
Yesterday was Lord Mayors day in
London and was observed with the usual
show.
The worlds convention of Cristian
Workers began in Atlanta, Ca, yester-
day.
Secretary Gresham and Minister Grip
have exchanged notifications of the Nor.
wegian extradition treaty.
Henry Vincent, Frenchman, once
editor.of the Paris paper, La Patrie, com
m tilted suicide in New York yesterday.
Wm.J. Patten, New York broker, &C
cused Of embezzling $50, 00) has sur
rendered himself to the sheriff.
". VIM. ?. Wentworth, formerly confiden-
tial bookkeeper of the Victoria hotel,
New, York, has been indicted for the en-
bezzlement of $2S, 900.
In some districts in England coal, in
consequence of the miners strike, is re-
failing at SIS per ton and prices threaten
to increase. The weather is cold and the
price demanded for coal places ii
entirely beyond the reach of the poor
Vice President Lord of the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad practically confirms
the report that the Reading Railroat
company has decided to abandon the
Poughkeepsie bridge route between Bos-
ton and Washington.
The New York Herald's cable says that
Admiral Mello began a vigorous bonn
hard m nf Pin N1,oc =
it is still being continued. The cannon
aiding is very heavy. The banks are said
to be closed and a crisis exists. The
general sentiment is that the attack by
Mello was unprovoked.
A despatch from Mellila states that on
Tuesday the Riffians besieging that place
sent delegation to ask for peace. The
delegation declared the Riffians were
famished and that their munitions were
Sultan OF Morocco is at Uxa, near
Melilla. and this, perhaps, accounts for
the submission of the Riffians.
While)a meeting was being held in the
vestry of the Methodist church in Fitch
burg, Mass, Wednesday evening, fire
was discovered in the audince room A
cushion and newspaper had been
satura ted with benzine and set on fire.
The blaze was discovered before any
oNAAoeAo NdAAoSC was uOuc.
The New York Herald's LaLibertad,
the American flag at Anapo,a is deeply
regretted by the whole population. It
was done by President Vasquez's direct
orders, in his desire to get hold of his
old enemyss Bourill, who was aboard
Costa RIGA, but he now throws the entire
blame on the commander of the port
The Boston News Bureau says:
People close to the Boston & Maine
management reiterate the statement that
changes OF an Important character will
be made In several of the executive
departments in due time 1t is not the
intention to make wholesale overturn
but SUCH changes as are made will be
made gradually and only when the right
men can be secured"
Chairman Wilson, of the WAYS and
means committee, after long conference
with the President at the White House,
went directly to the committee room in
dfaft OF the new tariff bill. There is
meeting of the committee every day, and
the members all come early and stay late
1t is the Presidents wish to have the bill
lar advanced when the regular session
begins. The committee wants to have
tne measure ready and printed when
congress meets again next month.
Ihe New York Times says: 1.-The
big armored cruiser New York has been
SO badly constructed as to prevent her
entering single dry dock in the United
States. The New York has been regarded
as the finest warship in commission
which the United States possesses. 1t is
now declared that she is unsuitable, and
what is worse, it is impossible to learn
in this country the vessels exact condi
ton. The defects in the vessel make it
mandatory that to place her in dry
dock she must be sent to some foreign
country"
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