The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-01-02
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BRIEFLY TOLD.

The British Admiralty has ordered a
cruiser 300 feet long to have speed of %
or "a knots an hour.
Sickness to an alarming extent prevails
in Portsmouth, N. III, at the present time.
Twice within the past week ten persons
have been lying dead in one day.
The London Pail Mall Gazette hears
that with five torpedo boats recently
purchased in Germany, Peixoto expects
to finish the revolution in short order.
Woonsocket inaugurated the first
French Canadian mayor ever elected in
Abram J. Pothier, Republican.
Nearly 5000 men and women who have
been working in various mercantile
establishments of Chicago have been
thrown out of enjoyment since the close
of the holiday trade.
E.Stevens Hewry, the mayor of Rock
Vile, Conn.,, in his inaugural address
declares, that while the property in the
city amounts to $40, 900, 900, only 50, $780,
600 is taxed
The British ship Volga has been
wrecked onsone of the Windward islands,
She carried $40 Chinese laborers, few
OF whom are reported drowned.
The Washbu IN and Moen Manufacture
ing company of Worcester, has cut the
salaries of its officers from 10 to 90 per
cent and reduced the quarterly dividend
from to per cent.
Forty full blooded Indians convicted
OF various crimes in Indian territory.
have been sent BY the government to.the
Kings county New York; pententiary.
Columbia won the inter collegiate
chess championship with total of eight
and half wins. Harvard stood second
with seven; Yale third with five; Prince
ton last with three and half.
Advices from Buluwayo say that native
runners who have arrived there state
positively that a portion of the force of
Captain Wilson, reports of the massacre
of which by Matabeles have been current
fled in the direction of Hartley Hills.
Richard Ashbridge, past assistant
surgeon, United States navy, has been
found guilty, by court marital, of
forging the signature of Secretary Her
bert to a telegram to the commander at
Mare Island
A despatch to the London Central
News from Madrid says that four bonn bs
were found Sunday near Sabadell, ten
miles north of Barcelona. The bombs
resembled those used in committing the
Lyceum theatre outrage at Barcelona.
hepOrUS lfOH Blk OIL the seven
anthracite mining districts of PennsvI
vania, for the year ending Novem Der
80, 1888, show that in that time of 291
accidents, 1852 were fatal. The coal
mined during the year amounted to 49,
900, 900 tons, the greatest production in
ten years.
The carpet and splush departments of
John and James Dobson's mills at Phila-
delphia have been notified that the
wages of all employees will be reduced
from 10 to IL per cent. 1t is thought
other departments now idle may resume
this week at a simil ar reduction.
Captain Picking, of the cruiser
Charleston, who is in command of the
naval squadron at Rio has issued an or
der to the commanders Of the vessels of
the feet instrpcting them to cut off the
shore leave hitherto given to the seamen,
marines and others Of the crews. This
curtailnent of shore liberty is due to the
fact that the yellow fever season is APP
preaching, and Captain Picking is deter
mined to keep the warships free of the
disease if possible.