The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-12-16
TELEGRAPHiC BREVITIES.


Disturbances i'm tho southern part or
Peru have been suppressed.
The first skirmish OF tho Reed campaign
will be fought in Louisiana.
Nebraska men of all parties met and
organized free silver league.
Justin Mccarthy is 10 support Tory
schemes for sectarian education.
Eleven buildings in Bethel. ". c., were
burned Loss estimated at $25, 900.
st. Josephs Home for Foundlings at
Troy, n. Y, was destroyed by fire.
The formation of n college polo league
Is probable by Yale Harvard and Brown.
fire In the Krell Piano company's
building at Cincinnati caused s75, coo loss
Myrtle France, l8 years old, was
drowned. while skating at Oswego, n. Y.
Several houses at Nantucket, Mass,
have been washed from their foundation
A chapter OF the Children of the Amer-
can Revolution has been formed at Brisiol
RI.
Rev. Isaac n. Phelps will resign the
pastorate of the First Baptist church.
Newport X. ].
Baptiste Frazer. 60 years old, was killed
by train at Fall River, Mass, while
track walking.
Grant Simons, n negro, killed Barney
Finnegan, prize fighter, at Ottawa, Ills
He was captured.
Timothy Dwyer of Fall River, Mass,
who was injured In fire truck accident,
died of his injuries.
The National Red Cross society is ac-
lively preparing for the coming relief
campaign in Turkey.
w. a. MoKeighan, exmember Of con-
gress from the Fifth Nebraska district,
died at Hastings, Neb.
The armory of company +, Sixth pgi-
ment, in Marlboro, Mass, was condemned
by the state authorities.
William Kearney, prominent brewer
and malster,. OF Syracuse, died OF heart
disease while in church.
Henry p. Eser, 20 years old. committed
suicide near Pittsfield. Mass Dependency
Is assigned rs the cause.
The Blake house, Dorchester, Mass. 225
years old, is to be preserved by the Dor
chester Historical society.
Hon. George :. Boutwell, was dined by
the Massachusetts, club In commemora-
ton of his half-century of public life.
Miss Phnbe Lincoln, the favoritc cousin
States, died at La Harpe, Ills. at the age
of 81.
In wreck i'm n tunnel near Lexington.
Ky, l.. j. Duval, n conductor, was killed
outright. Michael O'Day, brakeman, died
later.
President Hutchinson was elected by
the Boston Fruit and Produce Exchange
rs a delegate TO the associated board of
trade.
William J. Baker, student at tho
Worcester tMass.) Polytechnic institute,
skatcd into an open place in North pond
and was drowned.
Steamer Portia reports having had a
terrible struggle with wind aud weather
during the whole OF the voyage from Hall
fax TO ST. Johns, \. +.
A passenger train ran into a street car
on tramway line at Denver, killing the
motorman and seriously injuring the con-
ductor and one passenger.
The British ship County OF Yarmouth,
from Hull, Eng. for Pensacola, Fla, Dec.
=, has been doclcd at Grimsby, having
been dsmasted and damaged.
There is case OF enteric fever in the
regiment just arrived at Halifax from
Bermuda, where it was epidemic, the rcgi.
mcnt losing 20 members by death
The Congregational church in Brook
line, n. H., began the three days observ-
ancc of its centennial anniversary. Tho
exercises arc of reminiscent nature
The deadlock in the Brockton Mass
board of aldermen regarding the punish
ment of Officer Ashport, who was charged
with drunkenness III 1894, still continues.
Stephen A. Holt, formerly one of the
most prominent lumber dealers in the
New England states. dropped dtAd from
heart failure ut Boston. He was 76 years
old.
An\nknown young man was drowned
at New Haven while skating He broke
through the ice, and other skaters made
desperate attempts to save him, but un-
availingly.
John Frazier, aged 43, was found dead
in bed at North Adams, Mass, under con-
ditions which prompted the medical ex-
aminer to make an inquiry. An autopsy
will be held
President Won der Ahc Of the st. Louis
Browns has appointed Henry Didde-
booker manager OF the baseball team.
Diddlebockcr is sporting editor of the
philadelphia Enquirer.
Nathan W. Baker of Lewisburg, Pa,
asserts TINT he was wholly cured ot acut,
intlamma ory rheumatism, from which he
was "a sufferer for score of years, through
the mysterious power OF Francis Schat-
ter
Frank Boulder, who murdered his wife
at Chascburg, Wis, either committed sui
eide or was lynchcd. On arriving mt the
house Co make the arrest the sheriff found
the murderer suspended by n rope in his
woodshed.
The commissioners who have been TAX
ing testimony in the Lake Massabcsic
land damage cases. brought against the
city of Manchester. y. H., for taking land
for the watcrworks system, reported
total award of S5J. 1871
Judge Jenkins issued an order at Mil
eaukce directing Receivers Bigelow and
licHenry OF the Northern Pacific road To
meet the interest on the general first mort
gage with sinking fund charges, amount
ing 10 pcnrly sl 1OO.UDJ