The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-03-12
NUGGETS OF NEWS.

The Clarksdale oil mill was burned yes
terday morning at Vicksburg. Miss, y ith
an immense quantity of seed. The loss
will approximate 800, 900 and Is only par
TALLY insured.
The senate OF Cambridge University, En-
gland by vote of 1855 TO III has rejected
the proposition to appoint committee
To consider the question OF comforting &C.
grees upon women.
A Pekin dispatch says the Amigo
German loan of 100, 900, 600 taels has been
issued at 94, with int crest at per cent.
The contract stipulates that the customs
administration is to remain unchanged.
Two of the assistants OF Miss Clara Bar
ton, president OF the American Red Cross
Society, have received permits TO proceed
to Alexandretta Miss Barton, however,
Will remain at Constantinople for the
present.
In the United States Circuit Court today
the case OF H. l.. Carpenter X Co. of Wor-
cester, against the Broad street Power
Company, for balance of account, was
ruled to Michael Houlihan, Charles +.
Wilcox and j. William Patstone.
The Paris Eclair today, commenting
on the Cuban resolutions of Congress,
says that in view of tire exaggerated
pretensions" of the United States, II IS
"difficnlt to see why European diplomats
cannot, at least, extend their good offices
to SPAIN"
The box factory of Otis w. Roberts at
arblehead, Mass, two story wooden
building, was destroyed by fire this after
noon. Loss $1,000; insurance 800. The
fire caught during the Loon hour from an
overheated stove.
In the suit of the Gold and Silver Ex-
traction Company, 1imited), at Salt
Lake, Utah, owners of the Macarthur Pro-
cess for the purpose of extraction of gold,
against the Mercur Mining Company,
the representatives of the contending par
ties have agrt ed upon compromise. The
Mercur Company recognizes the validity
OF the patent and in the future Will pay
q royalty.
The faculty OF the Kansas University
has suspended 80 students for periods
ranging from Is to so days. Those sus-
pended are the sophomore and freshmen
who participated in the class riot which
followed their attempt one night last
week to break up party given by the
Juniors in q downtown hall
1t is supposed that the estate of the late
Johl s. Holt of Woonsocket Is worth
about $500, 900, incluning bonds and
stocks and a mortgage of si25, 600 on the
Providence Athletic Assoc alton. BY the
will, which will come up for probate
Tuesday, April Z, the widow, children and
grandchildren derive the benefit.
At meeting OF the Governor and
| Council today 1t was announced that the
| evidence against the Manchester, N. ii.
police commissioners, submitted at the
recent hearing, was insufficient, and pc
| tition for their removal could not be
granted. Thursday, April Q, was appointed
Fast Day, and Saturday, May 2, as Arbor
Day.
A Paris dispatch says the railroad
| trains crossing the frontier from Italy
! are crowded with Italians who are leaving
| Africa. The latest advices from Massowah
are that the army of the Negrses have
| reached Entiscio. half way between
| Adowa and Adigrat. The forces of Osman
| Digna have arrived at Gulusit
TIE schooner Fairy Queen of Portland
Me-, Captain George Cushing, with q
| full fare of fish, went ashore on Niggel
Island off Biddeford Pool, during tn,
night, and is a total loss. The captain
and crew escaped in boat. The Fairy
| Queen is two-master OF As tons, owned
w usHluk lnChtuHcy vi IOItidH
She was built at Essex, Mass, in 1867.
Mayor W. q. Jenkins and the new city
| council of Portsmouth, N. H., were in
augurated at 10 O'Clock In the presence OF
a large gathering OF citizens, Mayor
Jenkins Inaugural address was quite
lengthy. 1t advised rigid observance
OF economy in appropriations and he
characterized the police commission re-
Gently appointed and about which there
has been much controversy as un-Ameri
can, un-Democratic and un-Republican
The permanent under secretary of State
| for foreign affairs at London, Sir Thomas
| Henry s. Anderson, was asked today i
the report cabled here from the United
States that a settlement OF the Vsne
zuelan question has heen reached was cor
rect. lie said that he would be glad Il
know that the Venezuelan dispute wa
settled. "But," he added, 81 know moth
ing about such settlement as the on
reported in New York having been reach
ed. For oil l know, however, a settle
ment may be near; but have not heare
| of its attainment"