The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-11-02
BRIEF JovTlNas.

The National Mine Developing and
Brokerage Company, organized at Port
land, for the purpose of doing mining
and brokerage business with sl5o,Ooo
capital stock, of which nothing is palo
in. The officers are: President ROBERT
G. Marshall; treasurer, Charles L. var
ney. both of Portland.
About thirty feet of the wall Of the
boiler room that supplies heat to the
buildings on Plum St, fell Thursday,
owing to the pressure of a pile of coal be-
hind it, The damage was not large.
The Peck Mining Co has been organ
lied at Portland for the purpose of man
ufacturing machinery for mining miner
ais with 500, 900 capital stock, of which
SIS is paid in. The officers are: president,
William c. Eaton, of Portland; treasur-
er, George F. Noyes, of Portland.
The annual meeting of the District AS
ISOLATION Woman's Foreign Missionary
Society will be held Nov. 10, at tho
Methodist church, Pleasantdale. Miss
Clara Cushman is expected to be present.
Fl. NJ johnson is Secretary.
The monty business meeting of the
Diet Mission will be held this week at
the rooms Of the Y. M. G. A. Will the
directors and ward secretaries please
notice the change and come to the Y. M.
G. A. building on Saturday. November
End, at O'Clock
Considerable yacht club gear left at the
Great Diamond mooring has been stolen.
Ropes, buoy and sinkers were taken.
Bruno Gilbert, of Sheridan Plantation.
was committed to Augusta Jail for thirty
days yesterday for violation of the inter
nal revenue laws.
An electric light wire fell across the
Western Union call box connection
Thursday night and burned out several
boxes in the business part Of the city.
United States Marshal Donovan says
thatssThursday nights rain caused per-
ceptible rise in the Saco River.
Tomorrow will be raIlying Sunday for
the Y. P, G. U. of the Church of the
Messiah.
The firm of Dyer & Neal, attorneys at
law, is dissolved, as shown by their
notice today.
Street Commissioner Staples states that
the heavy rain of last night caused con-
siderable damage on many OF the more
billy streets by washouts, although none
of them are very serious.
A boy named King, arrested for steal
ing boat belonging TO Mr.. Enos Alden
at the Grand Trunk wharf, was brought
before Judge Robinson yesterday and
the case continued to Wednesday.
| 1.-The rain fall Thursday night was
exceedingly heavy. Yesterday was bright
and clear with a stiff north wind in the
afternoon.
Today is All Souls and the usual
high mass Of requiem will be celebrated
at the Catholic. Cathedral and ST. Domin-
| les
Yesterday being All Saints Day the
Catholic parocbial schools were closed.
About the middle of November there
| will be sparring exhibition at the At
hletic Club
Fred Plaisted is building cunning
club house on Green Island for the &C.
commodation of sportsmen going of
shore in pursuit of wild fowl.
| The tracks of the Cape road in the city
, are all laid with the exception of the
Middle street crossing for which the
company is still waiting for the special
frogs, ordered some time ago.
Specimens of the crop Of mangrove
oysters taken from the schooner Uranus
now in the dry dock, were to be seen in
J. S. Winslows store on Commercial
street yesterday. They attached them
selves to her timbers while she layed at
Manzanilla, Cuba.
There are at present 175 inmates at the
city farm, few more than last year at
this time.
Mr. David Coffin of Washington street,
is laid up with badly fractured leg,
the result of an injury received while
working about his horse. The animal
crowded Mr.. Coffin against the stall.
The Young Ladies Mission Band will
meet at ST. Lawrence street church
this afternoon at o'clock