The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-01-28
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIEs.

Ex-P President Aavler OF SWltzerland is
dead.
Western roads are doing a good grain
business.
Chicago business men predict q distinct
revival of trade.
Horace w. Cook committed suicide In
Cambridge, Mass.
Relief work in a number OF Armenian
villages is progressing.
The leading witness against Baron Won
Hammerstein has absconded.
New York bankers report the bond issue
as encouraging, but unsettled.
The British ship Foyle, beached at tho
Horse Shoe, lies easy at present.
English and American capitalists are
buying up coffee lands In Mexico.
The incorporation of the International
American bank seems a certainty.
George Johnston Is on trial at Boston
charged with shooting Francis Dowd.
King Menelek demands as the price OF
peace that Italy renounce her protectorate.
Burglars bound an cmploye and tried
to rob u safe in a Hyde Park (Mass.) gro
Gerry.
The Conservative party of Canada is
unable to redeem its pledges about Mani.
toba.
II. j. Bakenham, British minister at
Buenos Ayres, has been transferred to
Stockholm.
Rev. Il. B. Hargrove, pastor Of the Meth.
odist church at C~oldwater, Miss, dropped
dead in his pulpit.
Captain Thomas Smythe of the revenue
cutter Colfax died ut Wilmington, N. C.
He was 62 years old.
w. Jacobs, George Props and Thomas
Higgins were drowned at Sewell, W. Va,
while crossing New river.
John Haynes, at one time proprietor Of
tho Quinpebasset House. Norridgewock,
Me-, is dead, aged 20 years.
Hazel, the 2-year-old daughter of G. j.
Merrill of Green Lake, Me-, ate three NOR
phine pills and died within two hours.
The business block of Putnam a. White
and Rice block at Houlton, Me, were de-
stroyed by fire. The loss will DO heavy.
The Venezuelan minister at Washing.
ton deilies that German warships arc
going TO Porto Cabello with hostile In
tent.
At n grade crossing In Northampton,
Mass, William ID. Carroll, aged go, was
struck and killed by q Boston and Maine
train.
Free delivery mail service will be ex.
tended to Is postoffices on April /, includ-
ing Amherst, Mass, Laconia, N. H., and
Rockville, Conn.
The snowstorm of Saturday has proved
a boom for the lumbermen throughout
Vermont, and good Shedding Is reported in
the logging districts.
Pierre Gustaye Brunei, a distinguished
French l%itterateur, died mt Bordeaux. He
was born in Bordeaux Nov. Is, 1907. His
works are very numerous.
A remarkable weather record has been
established at Gloversville, N. Y. The
thermometer was absolutely stationary
for 81 hours at "a above zero.
A challenge has been sent to Charles b.
Macdonald, the leading light OF the Chi
Gag Golf club, by Arthur III. Fem Of the
Palmetto club, near Aiken, ;. q.
u. Brooks, Boston," who committed
suicide at the Park Avenue hotel, New
York, has been identified as Joseph Bruok-
heimer, n pawnbrokcr Of New York.
Four hundred members of the Boston
Congregational club attended the annual
meeting and banquet. Arthur III. Well
aAai VI aPhNNh WIS Nffooth IitoAhohts
The annual convention OF the Maine
branch of the American Federation of
Labor began at Auburn. Biddeford was
selected as the place for the next oonven-
ton.
The Enterprise Publishing company of
Hudson, Mass, has purchased The WON
ans Home Journal from Mrs. q A. Wood,
and will hereafter Issue It from The En-
terprise office.
Rev. @. w. Bispham OF the Church OF
st. Michael, Washington, is to become an
assistant at Trinity Protestant Episcopal
church n New Haven, making tn rec as
sistants IN all.
The Catholic church, which has been In
course on construction at Truro, Mass, for
n year, was dedicated yesterday By Bishop
Harkins of Providence, assisted by Rev.
Father Ferra Of Proyincetown, Mass.
The King, Richardson Publishing com
pany filed articles OF incorporation In III
county clerks Office NJ Elizabeth, N. j.
The subscribed stock Is s2OO, 900, and the
company will do business In Springfield,
Mass. and Crawford. n. J.