The Portland daily press., 1895-08-07
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A hundred and eighty three laborers,
mostly Italians, employed by j. B. Reilly
& Co., contractors, struck at Woonsocket
Water Works Storage reservoir Tuesday.
The Italians claim the strike is for the
removal Of an alleged obnoxious boss.
The Foo Chow correspondent of the
Shanghai Mercury telegraphs today that
the position of the Europeans there is
critical, owing to the openly expressed
hostile feeling of the natives towards
them.
At San Francisco, Hans Hanson, a
native of Denmark, one of the three
sailors of the American bark Hesper, who
chopped Mate Fitzgerald to pieces and
threw his body into the sea, was
hanged on October 1S next st. Clair,
the instigator, is to die on the same day.
Sarf the third man, confessed and was
acquitted.
A despatch from Tarnopol, Austrian
Galica states that cholera is raging in
Russian Podolia. The inhabitants re-
sisted the erection of temporary hospitals
for the accommodation of the sufferers
from the disease and began rioting, and
troops.
Premier Greenway has summoned a
meeting of his cabinet ministers for next
Friday, to take into consideration the
communication from the Dominion gov
arnment, requesting that the Manitoba
government at once state definitely what
it proposes to do about the governor S
generals order to restore Roman Catholic
parochial schools.
A special to the Press from Lima,
Ohio, says that the tenth national en-
campment of the Union Veterans Union
and the Woman's Veteran Relief Union
b egan yesterday.
At New York Charles Foster an old
time actor, died Tuesday of Bright s
dis Q ase. He was the author of "Twenty
Yea RS Dead,'' ''The Swamp Angel, .
'sThe Old Straw Man," and other lively
dramas.
Last evening the boiler of steam
threshlng machine being tested on the
farm of John Blair, near Wormley, Pa,
exploded. Curtis Ammons aged 22, was
an ex-member of the Pennsylvania legis-
lature is probably fatally injured. Blair's
two sons and John Pitsnagle are badly
hurt.
Early Thursday morning, Deputy
Sheriff Alf Warner of Critenden,
Arkansas, was shot and killed near Jones
Landing on the Mississippi river by a
negro he was attempting to arrest. The
negro escaped.
News of another killing several miles
from Baton Rouge has been received.
Gus Weaver were riding horseback with
mutual friend when a quarrel arose.
Both men drew their reyolvers and seven
shots we're exchanged. Weaver fell dead
from his horse with four bullets in his
body. McCrew was hit in the arm and
side and rode away bleeding profusely. 1t
is thought he was fatally wounded.
At Denver, Col, the Rocky Mountains
Savings bank has assigned. 1t was mixed
Union National, and the collapse was
expected.
At the offices of the Westinghouse
Electric Manufacturing company, repre-
sentative of the company said that an
agreement with the Baldwin Locomotive
Works has gone into effect. The new
arrangement is not a combination, but
simply working agreement.
At Pertle Springs, Mo-, at /. 80 p. m.
Yesterday, the Democratic state conven-
tion was called to order by Vice Chair
purposes of the convention and introduced
Hon. r. p. Bland as temporary chair
man, After the usual committees were
selected the convention took q recess till
2 p. M.
A Central News despatch from Milan
saws that Eleanore Duse, the celebrated
actress, is suffering from melanoholia,
and her condition causes her friends
much uneaslness.
< congress Of deaf and dumb associ a.
tions opened in Dublin yesterday. Among
those in attendance at the opening session
was Rev. DIR. Thomas Gallaudet of New
York, who represents the United States
at the congress.