The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-02-26
TELEGRApu,C BREviTIEs.


Fresh massacres in eight points OF Ar.
menia are reported.
A wildcat was shot In the woods ut
West Dedham, Mass.
George II. Adams has been appointed
fire commissioner at Nashua, n. III.
All the liquor licenses granted in New
Bedford, Mass, may be inyalidated.
The Bangor (Me) Prohibition party
nominated Lewis Robinson for mayor
The Political association OF Rustenburg,
Transvaal, declares its hostility TO Eng.
land.
A Citizens caucus at Belfast, Me-, unan.
imously renominated Mayor Edgar +.
Hanson.
Indiscreet denunciation of the sultan by
the American press makes Miss Barton's
work harder
Sir Frederick Pollock's statement Of the
British case in the Venezuela dispute Is
not quite ready.
A Singapore dispatch says that numer.
Gus deaths from the Bubonic plague have
occurred at Hong Kong.
Ten dogs were killed at Newton, Mass,
as a result of the dog -muzzling order OF
the cattle commissioners.
Mrs. Florence Haun was sentenced at
Fonda, n. Y, to life imprisonment for
the murder of Charles Landry.
Kline Frederick, aged o, and Asher
Barnes, aged 6, were drowned in the
Lehigh canal at Catasaqua, Pa.
A Philadelphia firm has been given the
contract to supply trolley cars for the
Cape Town Tramway company.
min Of No
nounces his candidacy for election as one
of the Republican presidential electors.
Fire gutted Holman a. Sons tobacco
store in Hoboken, n. j., and rendered 80
poor families with 50 children homeless.
Rev Il. T. Blake, formerly of Manches-
ter, n H., was ordained as pastor of tho
Congregational church at Charlestown,
NH.
Officials OF the Argentine Republic es.
innate the wheat crop at TO per cent OF
that of 1895, and that 100000 tons are ex-
portable.
In the United States court at New
Haven, Clarence Il. Belden of Torrington
was fined 81 and costs for sending abusive
matter through the mails to Miss II. A
Coffman.
The stockholders of the Postal Tele-
graph company elected Clarence ".
Mackay director to succeed the late T..
B. Fowler.
The trustees of Storrs Agricultural col
lege have decided to appropriate $4,000 for
equipment and appliances to be used in
the college.
The 30th senatorial ballot, in joint as.
sembly, at Frankfort, Ky, resulted
Hunter 60; Blackburn, 90; Carlisle, A.;
Denny, 9; Bate, /.
The Kennebec Fish and Game associ-
alton held its annual meeting and ban
quet at Watervile Me. William z. Blake
was elected president.
Captain General Weyler telegraphs from
Habana that the situation in the rural
districts of Cuba is such rs to admit of the
holding of the elections.
c. ID. Woods has been appointed dean Of
the agricultural department Of the Maine
State college and director of the Maine
experimental station Mt Orono.
The Clothing Cutters union OF Cincin-
natl decided to go on strike, in response
to threats by leading manufacturers e.
lock out all members OF the union.
At St. James church, New London.
Conn, was celebrated religious services
commemorative OF the death OF Samuel
Seabury, the first American bishop
Thomas Varker, ~ years old, com.
nitted suicide at New York by shooting
himself. Financial difficulties and worry
over the loss of his son are given as the
cause.
The Hartford board of trade has np-
pointed committee TO draft resolutions
TO be presented TO congress regarding
deepening the Great suit pond Oh Block
island.
Rev. William J. Slocum, pastor OF he
Church of the immaculate Conception
Waterbury, Conn, denies the story that
he was to -bc returned 10 the parish in
Montreal which he recently lcfJ
The Harvard Athletic association will
hold invitation games at Cambridrn h,
Mass, ON May 9. a large number of
stars have been invited ana have ncceptcu
Special prizes in every event will be given
Ganiin In Nashua Again.
NASHUA n H., Feb. 25.--Thc police
officers sent after Gustave Ganlin, who Is
wanted for uttering forged check and
retting ID cashei. arrived here from III.
angham, HIS, last night, with GanIin.
The prisoners father Is "a wealthy Proyi-
dence man. When Ganlin went away u
girl from Lowell Mass. accompanied
him. but she left him in Chicago.
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