The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-12-29
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIES.

Raponda hotel at Raponda Lake. VT.
burned yesterday.
Chicago Buddhists protest against the
killing of vicious elephant
The funeral OF George o. Carpenter
took place at Boston yesterday.
Charges of corruption were made
against Brooklyn police yesterday.
Salaries of New ork aldermen are to
be reduced by the Greater New York
charter.
Cattle men won their fight with the
steamship lines. and cattle are now going
to Europe at low rates.
Yale defeated the Southwestern Bap-
tist university team. 38 to 4, In a football
game at jackson. Tenn.
The Pennsylvania railroad ferryboat
New Brunswick burned TO the waters
edge at Jersey City, N. j.
Some of the guns for the new defences
Of Boston harbor arrived at Fort War
rem yesterday.
The scarlet fever epidemic is SO preva-
lent at Merrimac. Mass, that the schools
have been closed.
Charles S. Campbell, Middle street
grocer at Portland Me-. made an as
slgnment yesterday.
White & Howe company, shoe dealers
a, Sioux City, Ia, have assigned. Cred
itors are mostly eastern shoe firms.
The Ohio division OF the United Nine
Workers of America is in session at
Columbus, and will ask for an increase
OF pay.
The European powers. headed by Rus
sia. have warned Turkey that coercion
viii be employed unless reforms begin
at once.
Ex-Queen Liliuokalani Of Hawaii has
taken a house In Brookline (Boston),
where she Will reside during her stay
In this country
Amide Lemieaux OF Westbrook, Me-,
a 3-year-old boy. drank cup of potash
that his mother had prepared for her
own use. He will die.
James Mahoney. 33 years old, en-
ployed in a stone yard at the South End,
Boston. was caught in fly wheel and
almost instantly killed.
The dwelling house owned and occu-
pied by William Heron on Winnipurkit
street, Lynn, Mass. burned by the over
turning Of lighted lamp. Loss about
$2500
The Lehigh cotton mills at Easton. Pa.
shut down yesterday, and viii probably
remain idle definitely. The owners state
that the mills might reopen about the
first of May. 1897.
The large furniture house OF Julius
Lansburg at Washington was destroyed
by fire last night The loss will amount
to about 100000. The loss on the stock
alone is placed at 100000, on which
there rs 5U,UUU Insurance.
Burning lumber in the South End
Doston) district sert $1,000 up in smoke.
The firemen worked fully eight hours
over the stubborn fire, which had started
from some unknown cause In the llxn-
Der loft owned by George A. Young.
AT the annual meetings of the several
national banks in Keene, N. H., yester-
day. the following semi-annual dividends
were declared. payable Jan. X Keene
bank, per cent; Citizens bank, 3h per
cent; Ashuelot and Cheshire. per cent.
1t Is officially announced that on Jan.
1 all of the officers OF the United States
Express company in Connecticut, Mas
sachusetts and Rhode Island and 30
offices In New York will pass into the
hands Of the Adams Express company.
SOStPh NdtuOh, Win
the store Of Joseph Duclos at Somers-
worth, N. H.. was held in $1,000 bonds for
the February term after a hearing yes
terday. The officers believe they can con-
meet him with several other burglaries
The executive committee OF the none
tary conference yesterday be gan sending
out from Indianapolis a call TO CONNER
cial organizations previously written to.
and not yet heard from. asking them to
send their lists OF delegates as soon as
possible.
Mark Batchelder. a farmer and guide.
was found at the roadside at Zebago,
Me, bruised and bleeding. lie died soon
after Ii is thought that ne had been
concerned In a drunken brawl. Two men
have been arrested on suspicion OF hay-
Ing been connected with Batchelder's
death.