The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-04-09
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

hopelessly insane.
The British battleship Renown made
record OF 1914 knots an hour.
Thomas II. Bunncy was appointed chief
of police of Pembroke. N. II.
The Savannah Grocery company build
ing and stock burned. Loss, 100000.
A dispatch from Salisbury. Matabele.
land, says that Cecil Rhodes Is sick with
fever.
The business portion of Rockford,
Mich, was wiped out by fire. Loss about
$4,000.
Columbia university Is to have new
building, Havcmeyer hall, at cost OF
S450,000.
Rev. d. Parker Morgan of New York Is
accused of plagiarism by Newark IN. J.)
clergyman.
BY the explosion of locomotive at Bar.
ranca, Peru, two men were killed and
several hurt.
The reported federation Of the Pbiladel.
phia street railway employees and the A.
II. u. Is confirmed.
A little son Of Abraham Silverstein OF
Boston was burned to death by the over.
turning of kerosene lamp
Osceola Cook was convicted OF simple
assault on David r. Lingane, a Provi
dence editor. Sentence WAS deferred.
The National India Rubber works at
Bristol, Il l., will be started next week,
after long shutdown, with 1000 hands.
b. The overseers OF Harvard university
voted against allowing graduates OF the
professional schools to vote for overseers
John Pope. vice president Of the Ameri
can Tobacco company, died at Richmond
after short sickness. He was million
aire.
There were $40 persons present at re-
ception rendered to Arctic explorers by
Kane lodge 454 II. and A. M. at New
York.
DR.. Albert +. Eddy, who disappeared
mysteriously from Pawtucket, X. l., has
been found at the home of his brother In
Greenville.
Seventy members of the Postmasters'
Association of New England met at Bos.
ton. The guests and members indulged In
short speeches apd good stories.
Dean Richardson of the Harvard medi.
cal school has requested each class to elect
officers who should confer with him on all
matters requiring consideration.
Ii Hung Chang has abandoned his
proposed American trip, but after tho
czars coronation ut Moscow ho will pro.
ceed to London to see Lord Salisbury.
At Des Molnes, tho case of j. @. Yetzer,
convicted of fraudulent banking, was af.
flrmed by the supreme court OF Iowa He
will go to the peniteptiary for five years.
While taking exercise at Memphis tho
race horses Addie Buchanan, Lcavitt and
H. In cnl.
ored exercise boy received fatal injuries.
An explosion occurred at tho sawmill oil
Dennis Boyd, situated nine miles north
of Newville, Pa, which resulted In the
death of two men and Injury Of four other
persons.
The Shelton (Conn.) cotton mills, owned
by the estate of Robert Adams Of New
York, who assigned some time ago, were
sold at auction to Robert Adams, Jr., oil
New York.
A majority of the 8 per cent bonds oil
the Central Vermont railroad have been
deposited under the reorganization agree.
mcnt and 1t Is expected that time limit
will soon be imposed.
The property on The Cliffs at Newport,
II. l., known as the Dutch garden, has
been sold. by Lewis L. Lorillard to New
York parties The consideration, it Is
understood, is 100000.
Edmund Morton, one Of the most prom.
inent brokers on the Chicago Stock Ex.
change, was unable to meet margin calls
yesterday. Under the rules 5000 shares
were sold for his account.
The city Of Lima is In very unhealthy
condition, and the large number OF deaths
are creating much alarm among the citi
zens. The officials arc Withholding tho
statistics on the subject
John Mailman, who resided at Glouccs-
ter. Mass, but who has been on visit to
his sisters at Liverpool. N. s., for the
psneflt of his health, committed suicide
thers by shooting himself.
Cotton mill No. 2 OF the Columbl
company, ut Highbridgc, N. H., will shut
down indefinitely April 10. There Is n
big stock OF Anisbed goods on hand, with
no prospects of immediate sales.
Mrs Elizabeth NJ Ludlow OF Worcester.
Mass, has presented to the trustees OF
Columbia college the estate of her late
son. Robert Center, Of New York, for the
purpose OF cndowing the Robert Ccnter
fund for instruction In music. The prop