The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-01-17
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIEs.

Long Island has 200 acres OF availa.
BILE oyster beds.
Perkins g. Welsh. raw sugar importers,
New York. failed.
John f. Mouraine OF Everett, Mass, is
charged with incendiarism.
Thirty-six degrees below zero with "
inches OF snow reported in Montana.
Japan intends to increase her armament
and TO promct- industrial enterprise
The apartments of DIR. Arthur +. White
OF Boston were entered by thieves and sew
eral hundred dollars worth of property
taken.
The Pennsylvania nautical schoolship
Saratoga sailed on her midwinter cruise
with 75 young tars on board. She will be
gone three months.
The barkentine Florence struck shoal
off Carbonear, n. 4. The crew escaped.
and hopes are entertained that the vessel
can be floated again.
Mayor Quincy of Boston recommends
that 800, ,000 be appropriated for the pur-
pose Of adding Improvements 10 the school
buildings of the city.
A notice was posted at the American
Watch company's works, Waltham, Mass,
StdjlnH tnhI tHe pldnb WOuiu snub uoWn
Jan. 2S for one week.
Henry NJ Stanley declares that unless
England consents to the arbitration of the
Venezuela affair, war with America Is
inevitable sooner or later.
Seidenberg, Stefel 81 Co., cigar man.
ufacturers, New York, made an assign
ment The liabilities are estimated at
s275,000 assets ut si00, 900.
Joseph II. Wight Of Medfeld, Mass,
committed suicide by drowning himself
in we'll He was 35 years old and had
been an inmate Of an insane asylum.
The Cornell Athletic club has secured
the services OF Conpor, the trainer of the
Chicago Athletic club. He will handle
the track and field athletes next spring.
The Snowflake Footwear company, or.
ganized under Maine laws, has made "a
proposition to establish a plant at Con-
cord, n. H., If suitable buildings are pro-
yidyd
Flags are flying today from all Boston
city buildings in honor OF the birthday of
Benjamin Franklin, which Is also being
observed by several societies throughout
the city.
The officials of the British admiralty
state that the tenders have been assured
for the construction Of only five, not 10
third,class cruisers, as previously an
nounced.
Boston police inspectors arrested Henry
". Mondon Us n fugitive from justice
Mondon is wanted in Manchester, n H.,
TO answer charge of obtaining sl5i by
false pretenses.
Edward Lauterbach was elected presi-
II, ,l. .I.Is
committee Lauterbach pledged the sup
port of the county committee TO Governor
Morton for the presidency.
i. is reported that DR.. Rosas has gone
as Peruvian minister to Buenos Ayres,
with instructions to sound the Argentine
government respecting n treaty for an of.
fensive and defensive alliance with Peru.
General Edward i. Fowler, auditor OF
the Commercial Cable company, died at
Brooklyn. In addition to his telegraph
service he had an enviablo military career
He was engaged in 20 battles and skir-
mishes
Nothing further has been, heard OF the
reported movements of Chilian troops to
hold the passes i'm the Cordileras on the
borders OF Argentine, but the warlike
measures of the Argentine republic
actively continue.
Richard W. Fox, n cigar maker. aged
40 years, committed suicide at Hartford
by taking nconitc.
a libel against the fruit steamer Barn
stable places the value of the sunken
Fortuna AT 81, 900.
A leaking gas main at Boston caused
the death OF child and the prostration Of
four older persons.
William ". Philbrck was elected city
marshal of Keene, n. H., bringing TO an
end lively contest.
Nincty-iyc per cent OF the immigrants
arriving in Boston last year came to join
relatives in This country.
The American division OF the Salvation
Army will protest against tho removal Of
Commander and Mrs. Booth.
Foreign residents and Taxpayers Of Sa-
moa protest against supporting useless
officials.
Judge Brnwloy OF the United states
district court. Charleston, denounced the
fee system.
Fire in the Hudson machine and con
struction shop at Nashua, \. H., caused
$500 damage