The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-12-28
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

New York Is to have l2-Story office
building.
Receivers OF the Atlantic and Pacific
railroad have resigned.
The Vinccnnes Qnd) paper mills were
burned. Loss, 100000
Sailors think that Boston Is q fine port
to be in at Christmas time.
More than 1000 Armenians were slaugh-
tered at the capture OF Zeitoun.
The Gloucester Mass fishing record Oh
1895 shows that IL vessels and l07 lives
were lost.
Sidney Towne, brakeman. was In
stantly killed while coupling cars at
Portland. Me.
Philadelphia citizens are desirous OF
having the city assume control Of the
street railroads.
Peter Shellmer, found to be an innocent
man, was discharged from the Massachu-
setts state prison.
Commander Francis NJ Barber, U.S.N.,
has been retired on account of disability,
incident to the service.
There is scheme on foot to have a
through line OF electric cars from Provi-
denee TO birmingham, Mass.
~Henry Fink, wealthy brewer OF Dun
kirk, n. Y, was killed by train while
walking home along the tracks.
Senator Hoar delivered an address at
Washington on Popular Discomfort
with Representative Government"
The postoffice at Pleasant Point Cush-
Ing, Me- was robbed by burglars who Sc
cured $500 in cash and $40 In stamps.
III. b. Minis e. Co., one of the oldest book
concerns in Troy. N. Y, made general
assignment Liabilities about sos, 900.
Walter Hayes, years old, OF Hartford,
was Killed by being crushed, beneath
boat, which tipped over and iell on him.
The board Of directors of the Delaware,
Laskawanua and Western railroad de-
clared the regular quarterly dividend OF
Ia per cent.
AT Denver, n. A. Pippin and A. B.
Highes, class A, tandem team, rode n
quarter, unpaced, in "a los, reducing the
old record 2-5s.
The mild weather is causing great anx-
iety among Maine lumbermen, with pre-
dictions that numbering this winter will
not be profitable.
Steamer Kirkby has landed at the
Azores the crew OF the German bark
Bremerhaven, Captain Leeke, which was
abandoned tsea.
Charles Hoyt, the playwright and men,
Der of the New Hampshire legislature, en-
tertained the New, Hampshire judiciary
committee at Boston.
Alderman O'Rourke OF Cambridge
Mass, was thrown from his carriage by
runaway horse and was badly injured.
Ha IL I'm n critical condition.
Captain Joseph Thurston, aged &C. OF
the schooner Robert Byron, was drowned
Mt Rockport, Me-, by the capsizing OF his
skiff. He was widely-known mariner.
Tho mysterious disappearance of Ed
ward Krug from Holyoke, Mass, In 1886,
has just been cleared up by the discovery
that he was murdered In San Francisco in
1888
The town Of Amesbury, Mass, will con-
test for the $50, 900 bequest by the will Of
John w Hilton, left to the town OF Sails
bury, which place is now part of Ames-
curry.
Tic Nashua IN, H. company has begun
tho erection Of a mammoth bleachery.
For nearly 30 years 10 has placed work
averaging $1,000 month with the Lowell
Mass bleachery.
The grand lodge OF Masons Of the state
of New Hampshire met in Manchester in
semi-annual session. There was n ban
auet, and this was followed by secret
work of the order.
The manufacturers OF Lawrence. Mass,
have been sounded regarding the probable
effects of the wooden clause in the Ding
lev BILL shouldit become law. The mills
generally favor the measure.
Princess Frederick Leopold. while skat.
ing, had narrow escape from drowning.
The ice gave way and the princess was
immersed In the water until she was rcs-
cued, with the aid Of plank.
During high wind the chimney on the
Horn Goods supply company's factory at
Leominster Mass, 10 feet in height, col
lapsed, crushing the furnace house beneath
IT, The chimney cost sl2OO and contained
$4,000 bricks.
Rev. Francis Ii. Wheeler. DID, was
stricken with paralysis at his home at
Poughkeepsie. n y. He was one of tho
best known ministers In tho Presbyterian
synod OF New York state. and was born
nj North Adams, Mass, In 1919
In consequence of the attitude OF the
Peruvian government In refusing 10 legal
ize the register OF the marriage OF Mr..
Hazeltine 20 Miss Wood, the American,
German and British ministers At Lima are
agitating the question OF Protestant mar.
riagcs In Peru
la Temps of Paris. discussing protec-
tion, says: We, in Europe. protect our
selves ?ieccmeal against our Deighbors,
aud none of ms see that the only effective
protection 90 originate Il one. including
the whole oi Europe, against our great
and M srfnl xixsI soraas fha AAl.-si.