The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-02-27
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIEs.


shot himself.
The wife of Rev. j. ID. Fulton died at
Somerville, Mass
Edison will try to obtain a shadowgraph
of the human skull
Secretary Carlisle yet may become q
presidential candidate.
Ontario Conservatives are against the
Manitoba remedial bill.
Chicago railroad managers deny that
they have an 1894 blacklist.
A Brooklyn man says he can build
bicycle boat TO cross the Atlantic.
Boston would be given 6,05o00o Of the
proposed coast defense appropriation.
The French cabinets fate Is centered
now in the proposed income tax debate.
The Hotel Hughes and the postoffice st
Slater, Mo-. were burned. Loss. $4,000.
Salem Mass Daughters of the Revolu.
tion celebrated the anniversary of 'Leslie's
Retreat"
A house at Maiden, Mass, was burned
as the result of an attempt at thawing
out watespipe.
The Holland Patent Union free school
and academy at Syracuse was destroyed
by fire. Loss, $4,000
The Lloyds fire insurance companies In
New York are to be prosecuted for doing
alleged illegal business.
Harvard defeated Brown In the final
game Of the Dual Ice Polo league series at
Cambridge, Mass, 8 to 4.
The British schooner Carita at Boston
reports the loss of Morris Fitzgerald, who
was swept from the vessel.
Chester Stewards, formerly station
agent of the Boston and Maine railroad,
was killed by train at Portsmouth, N. II.
Steam collier Harrisburg was towed
back to Boston. having lost her propeller,
which broke off and sank In Boston har-
Dor.
Cecil Rhodes will embark at Suez on
Saturday direct for Beira, a steamer hav-
ing been especially chartered for the pur-
pose.
A six-club professional baseball organ
ization, to be known as the Eastern Inter-
national league, will be formed at Mon.
treal.
The passenger depot of the New York,
New Haven and Hartford railroad at Ber-
lin, Conn, was destroyed by fire. Loss
about $1,000.
Aersene Houssaye, the celebrated
French litterateur, died Mt Paris. He was
born March %, 1915. His writings I'LL
several volumes.
In boxing exhibition at Holyoke,
Mass, Stanton Abbott and Tom Moriarity
fought 20 rounds to draw. The affair
was rather tame.
Schooner Jennie F. Wiley of Thomas
ton, Me-, bound from Rockport, Me-. for
Port au Prince, with a cargo Of ice, put in
at Boston leaking
The second game In the chess match at
Philadelphia between Showalter and
Kemeny for the championship OF this
country ended in a draw.
Thomas J. Shry yock, Republican, Of Bal
timore, was elected state treasurer Of
Maryland, to succeed Speyer Jones, Dem
ocrat, the present incumbent.
Funeral services over the remains OF the
late ex.Congressman Harter were held at
the family residence and at st. Luke's
Lutheran church at Mansfield, o.
Rev. Blanche p Wright of New York
has accepted call from the Universaiist
society of Livermore Falls, Me, and will
take charge OF the pastorate April 1.
Mike Madden, who won fame with the
Boston National League baseball team rs
pitcher n few years ago, Is dying OF
pulmonary trouble at Portland, Me.
While S. w. Wood, '9S, of Bangor, Me-,
was being initiated into the institute OF
1770 mt Harvard college, he fell, fracturing
his arm and dslocating the shoulder.
The action of the postoflice department
I'm refusing the use of the mails TO various
bond md investment companies was sus-
tained in an opinion rendered by Attorney
General Harmon.
Arthur j. Long aged 25, committed
suicide by throwing himself from Rose
dale bridge at Toronto, n distance of 100
. feet. into n rocky ravine below, where he
was dashed 10 pieces
At Fall River, Mass, Mary Widbin,
charged with breaking and entering ard
larceny of $500 from the house of Edward
X. Hathaway was held under 5000 bonds
for the superior court.
The Southern New Hampshire Bar asso-
citation held its annual meeting at Nashua
opening with an address by President
Burns, followed by the annual historical
address by Judge Putnam.
The fifth annual meeting OF the Maine
State Bar association was held Mt Bangor
There was n large attendance from all
over the state. Herbert NJ. Heath of Au-
gusta was elected president
Samuel Edison, father of Thomas A.
Edison, the inventor, died Mt Norwalk, o.,
after sickness of several weeks. aged 81
years Mr. Edison was born in Nova
Scotia, and had lived I'm Milan. o., 40
years
b. H. Owen, aged %. organizer OF the
Order of Railway Telegraphers, who had
made his headquarters at Roanoke, Va,
for a year, was found dead in his room in
that city. IL Is supposed to be n case of
suicide.
At SanborrNille, N H., the dedication
Of the new town hall, which cost 500, 600,
brought together representative body II
residents OF northern New Hampshire.
The exercises were OF an interesting ma
ture. A banquet and a ball brought the
event TO close.
Charles l.. Colby of New York, prom
inent railroad man, died In the First Bap-
tist church ~ Newton, Mass, Immediately
after delivering an eloquent tribute to his
mother, one OF the founders of the For
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