The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-01-15


Yale men are willing TO enter five-col-
sege boat race.
Boston savings ,tnks and trust compa-
uies have assets of S'i07 5O0,O 600.
O.e huudred Portuguese soldiers aro re-
ported 10 have been killed by natives.
The absconding collector OF customs Of
Peterboro. Ont. was an opium iiend.
New York brewers and saloon keepers
ore determined TO defeat the Raines excise
bill
The London press consider the separate
school question In Manitoba very serious
matter.
New York commissioners report that
$40, Cos immigrants entered by that port
last year.
At Fort Smith. Ark, Judge Parker sem
fenced Cherokee" Bill TO be hanged on
March IL.
Ina i0.round eight nj Cincinnati, Joe
Pruper was badly knocked out by Dave
Richards.
New York bankers arc still asking
where subscribers are to get the gold to
pay for their bonds.
Judge John Mitchell Robinson OF the
Maryland court of appeals diedat Annap-
oils Of heart disease.
johnson g. Filoon cut sole and leather
dealers, Brockton. Mass. have assigned.
Assets and liabilities not stated.
A new line Of ocean steamships between
Boston and German ports. via South
ampton, will probably be established.
Martin Brmmer well.known resident
of Boston, dcd after long sickness. He
was one of the oldest business men Of the
city.
Mrs. Phoebe IT. Woodward Of Charles
town district tBoston), is dead, aged log
years. Sbe was a native of Lancaster,
Mass.
Masked robbers entered Missouri Pa
cinc depot at Falls City, Ncb and held up
five people. The valuablcs OF all were
taken.
John Morrissey, said to be an old-time
confidence man. is under arrest az Kansas
City, charged with swindling on bogus
drafts.
Charles A. Smith. aged 40 years, Ma
drid tMe.) farmer cut his throat while
mentally deranged. The windpipe was
severed
The large warehouse of :. = Jcwett q
Co, stove manufacturers Mt Buffalo, was
totally destroyed 10y fire. The loss is
s2500O0.
The Bank of Stratton, Neb. has closed.
The cause is alleged to be slow collections.
The assets are more than equal 10 the
liabilities
Inc woman's Christian Temperance
union Is 10 circulate petitions looking TO
the establishment OF industrial homes
for victims of the alcohol habit
Brigader General Charles a. Hickman,
a
the rebellion, died at his home In German.
town, Pa. He was 70 years OF age.
The Blue Springs (Neb.) bank was
closed by the state examiner. About
t700O of county funds are held by the bank,
but no loss to depositors is expected.
The first battalion of the Massachusetts
naval brigade have taken formal possess
sion OF the old frigate Minnesota, which
was taken to Boston from New York last
fall.
The Nashua (N. H. city government de-
cided that City Solicitor Wason cannot
also hold the office Of president of the
board of education. He will resign one
Office.
Two schooncrs from Gloucester, Mass. -
Falcon and John w. Bray-are greatly
overdue, and while not given up by their
owners, much anxiety is felt for them and
their crews:
Miss Emma Eta Monk died under
mysterious circumstances at Rockland.
Me, and IA coroner's jury gave verdict
that she died from self-inficted injuries,
probably accidental.
The Old Colony Railroad company hrs
paid S26 l70 for n tract of land on Cove
street, Boston, 20 be added to the propett tty
which viii bc used for the new union sta
ton, should 1t bc erected.
The Ketcham Lumber company Of Chi
cago one OF the largest concerns in the
lumber district, failed. Assets are osti-
mated to be between $4,000 and 5000 900,
while the liabilities are about s275,0O0.
Mrs. Edith Cox widow Of the late Abra.
ham X. Cox, n wealthy paper dealer of
Philadelphia, was so badly burned by an
explosion of an alcohol lamp which she
was filing, that she died IA few hours later.
William III. Dinsmore aged 80 years, a
business man OF Haverhill, Mass. dropped
dead from heart failure. He was formerly
engaged in shoe manufacturing, but had
recently been engaged in the liquor busi-
ness.
The Concord (N. H. city government
elected w. Z. Ladd tax collector over A.
/. Foster, the present incumbent; w. p.
Fiske and DIR. q. A. Young park commits
sioners. aud Alfred Clark highway com.
missioner.
Benjamin Johnson, Baltimore agent Of
New York firm of Stock Exchange
brokers, who suddenly left Baltimore af-
ter the discovery of shortage OF about
$4,000 in his accounts, was arrested at
Tampa, Fla.
Master in Chancery Johnson's final re.
port OF the cost of the Santa Fe receiver
ship shows that the total court expenses
were $500 100. Sixty thousand less than
this was allowed by the court, but the
bondholders made up the difference.
The gold medal of the Royal Astro-
nomical society of London was awarded to
DIR. :. g. Chandler OF Boston for the dc.
termination of the laws OF the motion ot
the earth's pole and for achievements IL
the department of the variable stars.
Schooner Conductor of Gloucester, Mass,
put into Liverpool. n. s, in, n sinking
81 II.