The Portland daily press., 1893-10-16
BRIEF JoTTlNas.

will meet in Y. NJ. C. A. hall at 1870
this morning.
Zone Day. is to be repeated in City
Hall November 3 and 4, at popular prices
for the benefit of the Maine Eye and Ear
Infirmary.
/ The members of Pine Tree Division,
! No. &C, Order of Railway Conductors,
| will hold their second annual concert
and dance at City Hall, Lewiston. Thurs
| day, November 9.
| On and after Wednesday. November Is
| dividend of 81 per share on the com
mon stock of the B. & NJ. of record of
October IA, will be paid. The
books will close at the Office of the Old
Colony Trust Company, corner of Court
| ard Washington streets, Boston, Octo-
! Der IA.
The other night, at Chebeague Island.
| Mrs. Webb's house was entered and a
lot of provisions stolen, and j. B..
Thompson's lobster car was robbed of a
hundred Holsters.
The regular meeting of the Central
Labor Union will be held this evening at
o'clock.
A dirty and vicious looking tramp
went into the Universal Laundry, corner
of Washington and Congress streets, last
Friday evening, and asked the proprie-
tor, Mr.. Libby, to give him shirt
When MI. Libby refused he threatened
| to shoot him.
An old soldier from Togus, named
Franklin Rogers, Of Pepperell, Mass,
| fell in the corridor Of the City Building,
Saturday aud cut himself quite badly.
| He was attended by City Physician Nick
erson and sent home on the Boston boat
Deputies Chute and Sterling seized a
quantity of beer and hard stuff at %
Newbury street Saturday, and arrested
John Wheeler and J. P. Jones.
| Park Commissioner Smith has had the
| usual fall coat of dressing put..on the
different parks and public grounds.
Whole number of arrests for the week
81; drunk, 20.
A small boy named Seton, living on
Adams street, was severely bitten by a
dog Saturday evening. The dog will be
shot.
Work on the big chimney at City Build
ing is completed, and the staging taken
down. Thirteen feet have been added to
obtain more draft.
A large importation of canned blue
berries from Canada is held at the GUS
tom house pending the decision on a
question of value.
Carr was passing White Head Saturday,
the knots in her sheet pulled out, caus
ing the boom to break like a pipestem.
Damage $50.
A lady fell down on Congress street
Saturday evening, while in fit and was
carried to her homo on Greenleaf street.
She received deep cut in her head.
During Friday night two sailors be-
came involved in a quarrel over bottle
of whiskey on Fore street, and finally
came to blows. One tried to wrench the
bottle from the other, and during the
struggle the bottle broke. Both men
were badly cut by the broken glass, one
of them, James Hansen severing small
artery in his right hand.
One of the officers of coaler which
arrived Saturday, thinks the vessel that
the tug Argus saw on September 25th,
near the position where the tug picked
ND the derelict schooner A. S. Conant,
was none other than the schooner L. A.
Durham, Savannah for Portland. The
vessel, which was bottom up, was evil
IDENTIFY about $50 tons and had been new
ly coppered.
A room has been nicely fitted up in the
upper part of the City Building for the
permanent use Of the more advanced pu-
pills of the evening school. 1t will be in
charge of Principal Milliken.
The electrical committee have voted
thatI the Postal Company remove their
poles from st. John street.
The Argonauts celebrated their eighth
anniversary at their rooms Saturday
night. Steward Payne served an excel
lent supper.
William F. Stone, Sheriff Wormell of
Oxford county, and Officers Measure,
Pickett and Skillings returned Saturday
from a weeks cunning trip at Pulpit
Rock, on the Megalloway. They brought
back four large deer.
Several young ladies who have occa-
sion to travel on Munjoy and Atlantic
streets after dark complain of a boy ap-
parently about 10 years old, who has an
irresistible desire to tear down their
back hair.
An attempt will be made by Portland
and Boston wreckers to raise the schoon-
err C. w. Hines, which sank three weeks
ago off Porcupine Harbor, Me-, in 25
fathoms of water. Captain Eager,
wreck master of the Boston Underwrit-
ers. passed through this city Saturday
for the scene.
Yesterday was Harvest Sunday at the
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