The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-06-09
TELEGRAPHIC BREViTIES.


Four new cotton mills are to be built
IN Shanghai.
Muzaffer- ed Din has been formally en-
throned as shah OF Persia.
John D. Rockefeller may enter into
competition with the steel pool.
Five women were abducted near Con-
stantinople and held for ransom.
w. ]. Young. millionaire lumberman
and philanthrc pist died at Lyons, Ia.
A New York rabbi says the time will
come when Israel will rule the world.
Barney Barnato and Cecil Rhodes may
turn to British Columbia mining regions
for profit.
The movement OF corn by western
roads was greater last week than for
three years.
The fatal trolley car accident in Brook
lyn is said TO have been caused by mis-
chievous boys
Fred A. Binns, 40 years old, was
drowned at Chelsea, Mass, by the up
setting of boat.
Fire broke out In Alfred Rooms flour
and grain mill in Kingston, Pa, and
caused a loss Of $40, 600.
BY routing the dervishes at Ferket, the
Egyptian army wins the opening battle
ttthe Soudan campaign.
New York banks must pay the balance
of s4500.000 on account of the last bond
Issue. on or before June 10.
George w. McNaify was drowned in
Mattawamkeag lake, Island Falls, Me,
by the capsizirg OF a canoe.
An unknown man. aged about go, was
killed by a train on the Boston and
Maine road at Somerville, Mass.
Count Won Rex. German minister, resi-
dent at Caracas, Venezuela, has been
promoted to the rank Of envoy.
The Walker Manufacturing company
OF Cleveland Is to join the General Elec-
tric- c-Westinghouse combination.
One boy was drowned and another Is
hardly likely to recover as q result of
bathing accident at Oswego. N. Y.
The Moore Manufacturing and
Foundry company of Milwaukee made
an assignment. Liabilities unknown.
Louis Deangelo, employed on the Ran
gor and Aroosiook railroad, was killed
by landslide throwing his body under
q train.
The old skating rink at Waltham,
Mass, was totally destroyed by fire.
Loss, $4,000. The fire was of incendiary
origin.
Boston labor men have received notice
from Eugene V. Debs that he has ac-
cepted an invitation TO speak In that city
on June Il.
Tammany leaders have decided to figAt
the effort of ''reformers' TO Introduce
Civil service rii4es- fin New Fork city de-
partments.
The employees OF the Quincy (Mass)
Cycle company went out on strike, al
lcging that they had received no pay for
some time.
The trustees OF Johns Hopkins uni
versity will demand in court the interest
on 600 of stock in the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad.
Ship Lydia, at Parrsbcro, N. S., picked
up on the Banks John Fyshe and John
jeffrey of the Gloucester (Mass) fish
Ing schooner Queen Ann.
Richardson, Howe & Lovejoy, manu-
facturers of ladies' and childrens' gar
ments, Boston, have made an assign
ment. Liabilities about S65,000.
Henrietta Crossman, the actress, was
granted a divorce at Youngstown, o.,
from William III. S. Brown OF New York,
and given the custody OF their child.
The bis department store Of James N.
McKendry & Co. at Toronto was guttcd
by fire. McSendry canied a stock val
red at $4,000. which is total loss.
II Is reported that the Maine Central
Railroad company has purchased land
in Oldtown. Me. and Is planning 10 erect
a new station and make other Improve
mcnts.
The Hamburg-American Steamship
company has decided TO establish
regular line OF passenger and freight
steamers between Hamburg and Gal
weston.
by the bursting OF cylinder in Cobb's
iron foundry, Brooklyn. two men were
injured 50 badly that they win probably
die. and three others received severe
etits and bruises