The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-10-31

A circular letter signed by Populists
| ia being sent over Georgia urging the
Populists to vote for Mckinley
The treasury gold reserve at the c,ose
| of business Friday was S117, S59, $50. Ths
withdrawals at New York were $685.. 200
The German steamer Cordelia from
Guatemala via Montevido was sunk in
the harbor O Hamburg Friday nv a
collision with the sailing vessel Etna.
Daniel Donovan OF Lewiston. aged SO,
| has disappeared mysteriously. He mas
| not been seen since Monday night. The
canals and river will be dragged.
The following fourth class postmasters
were appointed Friday: Maine, S. Wat.
son Cundy's Harbor; o. O. GRAY.
Naskeag.
| Edward Crossman of fremont street
Boston. found his wife and thirteen wear
| old nephew unconscious in their room
| FRIDAY when he went to call them. They
had been poisoned by coal gas. The
| boy will die.
The military commission appointed by
the Sultan to Investigate the recent riots
estimates that the number of Ar
| menians massacred WAS 1850, and
that 40O Mussulmans were killed.
| A news agency despatch from Oopen-
| hagon saws that official denial is given
| to the story published by the Pail Mall
| Gazette nnept the entente between
| Russia and Denmark.
The fifteen round boxing contest be-
sween Leslie Pearoe Of Philadelphia and
| Billey Ernst Of brooklyn, in New York.
was stopped at the end of the fifth by
the referee giving the decision to Ernst.
| A ooroners' jury in the case of An
toine Loranger at Nashua, N. H., le-
burned verdict that Loranger came to
| his death in the ice house By some means
TO the jury unknown, the cause being
fracture of the skull.
| Clarence Fay, aged IS, was arrested
Friday at Pittsfield. Mass, charged with
| arson In burning a dwelling house in
! Otis August 29. He pleaded guilty and
| hearing was postponed TO Wednesday.
He expresses no remorse for his crime.
Cardinal Prince Gustave Adolphe Won
Hohenleohe- Schillingsfurst, brother of
| Prince Won Hohenleohe-Sc hillingsfurst,
the imperial chancellor of Germany died
| ut Rome Friday morning. He was the
ranking member Of the Sacred College.
The residence of farmer named
Robinson, living near Woodville. Mich,
was destroyed by fire Friday morning
and Mrs. Robinson and child were
| burned to death. MIR. Robinson was
| probably fatally burned.
| Chairman Gowdy of the Indiana Re-
publican State csntral committee has
withdrawn his instructions to Republi-
can election boards to refuse to credit
the Bryan electors with the aggregate
vote cast for them under the EN- blem of
the pillow and the emblem of the rooster
MIR. and Mrs. j. NJ. Houston were
found Friday morning unconscious from
partment, $40 Columbus avenue, New
York. The man died in few minutes
after being discovered. The woman was
removed to hospital.
Ex-senator Henry L.. Dawes's SOth
| birthday was celebrated Friday afternoon
and evening at Pittsfold. Mass, by tea
party gotten up by Mrs. Dawes. Many
letters and kilograms were received in
Guiding those from President Cleveland,
VIM. Mckinley and Senator Sherman.
| If their bonds to the amount of $e5, GEO,
which were yesterday su omitted by Mrs.
Susan B. Fessenden. president of the
Massachusetts, state board Of the W. G.
L. u, are approved, 1875 of the Ar
menians will be released and they will
be sent to various farms and small towns
in the New England States.
| Friday forenoon the two-year-ol son
of Patrick Quinn, while at play on the
tracks of the Boston & Albany at South
| birmingham, was run down by a
| freight train. Twelve cars passed over
the child. The trainmen took him out
and found him only temporarily stunned
and with slight out on his he ad.
The ninth annual meeting and ba n :
quet Of the White Mountain Travellers
association was held in Concord, N. H. i,
Friday night Officers were elected In :
cluded President John p. Cutler of Bos-
ton secretary and treasurer, John j.
Bartlett, Concord, N. H.: Executive
com mittes OF nine, including J. B.
Lord of Kennehunkport, Me.
Samuel J. Roberts, chairman of The
Kentucky Republican committee, has given
| out the following "All our adVicea from
the sections sixth and seventh districts
are encouraging. and we will surely elect
Granks, Ernest and Breckenridge to Con
Rress. Everything points to victory fol
MoKi nley In Kentucky and the election
| of nine congressman out of eleven.''
Chairman Jones of the Democratic
National committee denies the report
cabled to the London Chronicle yester
day, that be adm tilted Mckinley would
Garry Illinois. :" never animated Bryan
Will not carry this state,'' said he. 81
did say that he did not need Illinois in
order to be.elected President. The report
that conoede this state to Mckinley is
absolutely untrue. | believe that Bryan
will carry Illinois"
A despatch to the Pail Mall Gazette
says that an entente was constituted be.
tween Russia and Denmark during the
premiership of M. Estrusp, which places
at the disposal of Russia in the event Of
her engaging Ia war with Germany OF
in war involving France and Russia
against the Driebund, the whole of the
available forces of Denmark with power
on the part of Russia to occupy Copen-
hagen and other Danish harbor and for;
works. In return Russia guarantees the
integrity of Denmark with restoration OF
Danish Soheleswig to the kingdom.
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