The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-04-02
BRIEF JOTTlNGs.

The assistant assessors begin their
work today. The fiscal year ended Sat
urday, and the assessors returned their
warrant of supplementary taxes to the
city treasurer. The amount returned
was So, 124.70.
. Whole number of arrests for the week
was 46; drunk 20.
The alarm from box Is, corner of Fox
and Hammond streets, at 1886 Sunday
morning, was false one.
At meeting of the Peoples Ferry
Company, Mr.. George B. McGregor was
elected treasurer.
Mr.. c. Fl. Kilby will be ready to deliv-
or his book, "Glimpses of Portland and
Casco Bay." to subscribers on and after
April 10Th.
The next boat of the Dominion line
will be the Sarnia. The Oregon sails
Thursday. The Alcides, of the Donald
son line, is the next boat of the line now
due, and the AmarynthiaI.will probably
sail Tuesday, with full cargo. The
Partisan, of the Allan line, will be due
tomorrow.
The regular meeting of the Central
Labor Union will be held this evening. at
8 o. clock. The matter of how and where
to celebrate next Labor Day will be
brought up for discussion, and every del
egate is requested to be present.
By the giving way of staging two
ship carpenters were given bath at
Browns wharf, Saturday afternoon.
The second lecture in Professor David
sons course of lectures. on Goethe's
Faust will be given at the Second Advent
church on Avon street, this evening.
The building corner of Congress and
Oak streets, now occupied by the Turko-
Japanese Bazaar, is to be torn out and re-
modelled, and the work will commence
about April 18th.
One of the compositors in thisoffice
had the misfortune to lose three flve-dol-
lar bills Saturday. The finder will be
literally rewarded by leaving them at
this Office.
A young man, whose name is given as
Harry Moody, took bicycle from Scan
lan's store, Friday, to show his uncle,
and cannot be found: neither can the BIZ
cycle.
James Mckay, who assaulted Mrs.
Catherine Kelley last Sunday night, was
before.the Municipal Court again Satur-
day. He waived the reading of the
charges and examination and pleaded
not guilty. He was sentenced to 60 days
in Jail and appealed. Not being able to
secure bail he went to Jail.
William Conner, of Westbrook, pur-
chased a bicycle of George Fl. Seaman
on the installment plan, pawned it and
left for Boston. Deputy Sheriff Chute
arrested Conner in Westbrook Saturday,
and he will be brought before Judge
Gould today.
Ivanhoe Lodge, K. of P, will confer
the rank of esquire tomorrow evening.
Messrs. Obadiah Gardner and Arthur
Pride of Rockland were operated on for
appendicitis by DR.. Gordon at the Maine
General Hospital, and are doing well.
Thomas S. S. Lee, whose left arm was
injured at the Grand Trunk yard in De-
cember, will have to 60 back to the hos
pital to have some pieces of bone re-
moved from the arm.
The Taussig suits against the Waldo
proprietors, on account of losses Of jew
elry, ETC., suffered by Mr.. and Mrs. Taus-
sig of New York, at the burning of the
Waldo, will probably be tried at the Oc-
tober session of the Supreme Court.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Portland Yacht Club will be held at the
club house on Wednesday evening.
The Portland Evangelical Ministers
will meet in Y. M. C. A. hall at 1870 this
morning.
The A. o. H. attended m ass at ST
Dominic's and at the Catholic cathedral
yesterday.
1t was very mild and springlike yes
terday, and the streets were crowded
with promenaders.
Officers Bracket and Hanson made q
seizure of whiskey and beer yesterday al
John J. Minnow's. Liquors were seized
by the police over the store on CONNER
cial street, formerly occupied by Dawson
McGlinchey.
The marshal ordered the restaurant
lately run by Kilday, to be closed yester
day. The new proprietor had not beer
licensed.
Yesterday the new watch system wen
into effect in the different engine houses
Sons of the American Revolution.
At meeting of the board of manager: