The Portland daily press., 1895-07-29
Lowell Prize Gun,
BRIEFLY TOLD.

The Valkyrie sailed for New York Sat-
urday.
Governor Culberson of Texas declares
the Corbett- Fitzsimmons fight shall not
take place in that state.
Harry Fitzgerald, who was brought to
Blddeford from Lawrence, Saturday, on
a charge of forging, was bound over to
the September term of the Supreme court.
Later details of the railway accident
near St. Brieuc France, shows that the
disaster was much greater than at first
reported. Twelve persons were killed
outright and fifty more or less seriously
injured, some fatally Eight carriages
were smashed into splinters
The entire set of farm buildings of
Willard Stoddard at West Pennington
were burned Saturday morning with
forty tons of hay, three hogs, etc Loss,
$1,000 The fire took in the barn it is sup
posed from tramps.
At Bangor, the unfinished 2. 25 race of
the Eastern Circuit was trotted off at
Maplewood Park Saturday. Camille,
b m. W. A. Deering, Orland, winning
the heat to decide. Orono Boy, blk G,
9. I. Page, Orono, gets second money.
Excitement among the Grand Army
men over the report that colored members
of the G. A. r. would not be admitted to
parade at the national encanpment at
Louisville was quieted Saturday by the
receipt of the following letter to Col. e.
L. Lee, from Hon. Thomas n. Shirley,
president of the Citizens executive COM
mittee, saying: EVERY veteran that
visits our city will receive equal treat
ment. !"
At New York, Saturday, man on
whose clothing was the name of DIR.
Tndarrit shot bi m, Golf in ,fro1 Do
The man died on the way to the hospital.
Joseph Hamilton, another of the men
scalded when the torpedo boat Ericsson
wrecked her cylinder ten days ago, died
Saturday, making three victims in Ham
ilton's Home.
Samuel Tucker, aged 55, principal of
the Howe school, at Billerica for twenty
seven years, committed suicide at II
O'Clock Friday night by drowning in the
Concord river.
James J. Corbett, through his attorney,
David A. Sullivan, sent word Saturday
to Referee Jacobs that he would put in
no defense in the suit brought against
him by his wife for divorce.
The steam tender Rohiffs has arrived
from Kartuk, Alaska, and brings details
of the wrecking of the ship Raphael,
which occurred in Tanglefoot Bay during
q storm on the morning of the 7th in
stant.
The report that the Emperor of Austria
would visit England is confirmed
James Constantine Pilling, the we'll
known ethnologist of the genealogical
survy died at his home in Onley, Md,
last night, aged 40 years.
Councilman George A. Wood of Provi-
dence member of the firm of Wood,
Bicknell & Potter was overpowered Sun
day morning in his sleeping room at his
home No.5 Charles Field street, drugged,
bound hand and foot and gagged, after
being stunned by blow upon his head
with sandbag by two burglars, who
afterwards ransacked the residence from
the basement to the second story.
The report of the commissioners of
awards at the Columbian Exposition
has just been made to President Palmer
by A. T. Britton of Washington, in the
absence of John Boyd Thatcher, acting
chairman of the executive committee
later discussing the manner in which
the awards had been made at prior ex-
Positions the commissioner insists that
the Columbian system. of awards was alb
solutely fair, and was in the light of ex-
perience, the best that could be devised