The Portland daily press., 1893-11-03
BRIEFLY TOLD.

:, Harriet Ann Weed, eldest daughter Of
Ihurlow Weed, the. famous journalist and
politician, is dead.
Abe Redman, one of the most desperate
outlaws in Virginia, was taken from jail
IN Charlotte county, Va, Wednesday
night by mob and hanged to a tree.
The Doylestown express ran into the
Germantown express on the Philadelphia
and Reading railroad at Nicetown yester-
day morning. One man was killed and
three Injured.
Two freight wrecks occurred at
karner's junction on the New York Cen
trail road Wednesday night, the first at
six and the other at ten o'clock. Twenty
cars were smashed; no one was killed.
A despatch from Cape Town, Africa,
says Captain Brabant, who commands
the native levies, has summoned the
native chiefs around Fort Victoria to
come in instantly and take in charge of
thecaptured cattle The Mashona declares
that the power of the Meta beles is utter
ly broken.
The adjournment of Congress until the
commencement of the regular session in
to the committee on appropriations of the
House The majority OF it's members
will remain in Washington and engage
upon the work OF preparing the appropri-
alton bills
Orders have been issued from the presi-
dents Office of the New York, New
Haven and Hartford railroad company
today to the effect that John M. Hall has
been elected vice president, in place of
second, vice president, with an Office at
New Haven.
The October movement of cotton in
sight, as shown by Secretary Hester S
monthly New Orleans cotton exchange
report, was nearly 10000 bales in excess
OF October 1892, but shows deficit from
the same month of 1891 OF $3.50 bales.
The total number of bales brought into
sight during October was 1,642, 637
against l, 1852, 799 in October 1892, and
2, 030, CAB in October 1891.
Much of the work of painting the
Methodist church building at Skowhe-
done by member of the society. No one
else being DESTROYS of risking his life by
painting the spire of the church, the pas
tor, Rev. f. I'll Morgan, rose to the occa-
sion and was seen Wednesday well up to-
wards the apex, industriously welding
a paint brush.
. The Worlds Fair commissioners have
asked Congress to aid in the establish
ment of National Academy of Art,
pSioASO etHu IuuuSbIy, W Dc lOCdteu III
jackson PARK, Chicago, with scholar
ship rivalling in number those of the
French Academy. Potter Palmer the
millionaire hotel man of Chicago has
given 5000, 600 to build a woman
memorial building on the lake front.
This magnificent gift was mentioned by
his wife as the browning end of the
closing cermony in the woman's building
at the closing exercises Of the fair.
The British steamer Britannia, has
been sold by her owners, the North
Atlantic Steamship company to Charles
R. Flint & Co.. of New York for S225, 900,
presumably for the Brazilian govern
ment. The Britannia was built in Glas-
gov in 1889, at cost OF 1926, 00O The
North Atlantic company bought her
three years ago and tried her on the line
between Boston and Halifax and Prince
Edward Island, but she proved too ex-
pensive to run. Owing to her fine lines,
which are those of yacht rather than a
merchant steamer her cargo space is
limited. She has been laid up at East
Boston since last fall