The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-03-10
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIEs

movement is much liyelicr,
The report that the japanese premier
wishes 90 resign Is reiterated.
Anti-Tobacco trust manufacturers havo
begun war OF prices on the trust.
Paul Schulze, the late Northern Pacific
railway official embczzlcd 81 800
The Venezuelan congress thanked Presi.
dent Crcspo for his recent praiseworthy
| acts.
| Fire in tho workroom of the Capitol
I City wrapper works at Hartford did SluOO
| damage.
Charles Mccarthy, IA years old, was
| thrown from horse at Boston, fracturlng
his skull
The London Daily Telegraph denies that
warrant has been Issued for the arrest OF
Cecil Rhodes
Prince Henry of Orleans, the explorcl
has been decorated with the cross OF tho
Legion of Honor.
The Sherman County bank, Goodland
| Kan, closed its doors. Assets, 100000;
liabilities. $4,000.
Russia scared Japan and China by char
tering, Feb, 90, five Norwegian and Ger
man steamships at Shanghai
| The last of the testimony i'm the Pond
will hearing, except that 10 be put in in
rebuttal, was given yesterday at Hartford
Mrs. Chauncey Ives Filley, wife OF the
prominent Republican leader, died at St
Louis of pneumonia. She was 10 years OF
| age.
| George s. Hunt, one OF the wealthiest
and most prominent merchants of Port
land, Me, died very suddenly Of heart
| failure.
The board of directors of tho American
Anti-Saloon league decided to hold tho
first annual convention in Washington
| Dec TO 10, 1896.
Schooner Samuel w. Tilton was in
collision with the schooner Rhode Island
| and seriously injured her, II miles from
| Thatcher's island.
A barn in Suflleld. Conn, owned by
| Frank Miller, was burned, together with
| all its contents, horses, cows, hay and to-
I bacco. Loss. $500.
Thomas Brogan, about 30 years old, q
section hand on the Consolidated road
was run over and killed in the railroad
yard at Springfield, Mass.
May Meredith an actress, 81 years Old
was arrested at Boston for the alleged lar.
ceny of sealskin sacque and two dia-
monu rings In New YORK.
Melting snow and heavy rainfall have
caused serious floods in Switzerland. The
| Rhine has overhowcd at Locle and Mar
| teaux, inundating those places.
The sixth game In the chess match be-
tween Kemeny and Showalter was won
by Kemeny. The score now stands: Sho-
walter, 3; kemeny, 2; drawn, 1.
A two-story brick building on Front
street, Hartford occupied as "a stereheuse
for wool, paper stock and junk, was de-
stoyed by fire. The loss is $4,000.
The town meetings i'm Lvermore and
East Livermore, Me-, voted in favor of a
steer bridge across the Androscoggin river
to replace one carried away In the freshet
Wesley Pusswater shot and fatally
wounded his divorced wife at Mt Sterling
o., and then shot himself. probably Ia
tally. He objected TO her possible remar
riagc.
Chief Engineer a. 8. Green, Il. S. n,
retired, died at Washington. He served
in the bureau o( steam engineering during
the war and was regarded Us most eff
cent officer
DIR. w. II. Little. one OF the most prom.
inent and wealthy Gazens Of Cleveland
is dead, sgcd 80 years. Before thc war DR.
Little was ranked as one OF Ohio's most
noted abolitionsts
Thirty-cight cases OF measles have been
reported in Bridgeport, Conn, during th,
past week. The disease is conflned prn.
cipally To the section where the foreign
population is located.
The Yale Tennis association elected the
following officers: Prcs~ont, N A
y II ~
NJ. Chester, Washngton; secretary treas.
urcr, l.. G.. Billings, Washington.
Detective Kollert is shadowlng an
American who Is trying To dispose of
large number Of diamonds at Montreal
Kollcrt believes they may be part OF the
Burden diamonds sto,en in New York.
Rev. w. Il. Paxson, ID. D., superintcnd-
ent OF the American Sunday School
union work in the southwest for many
years, was stricken with paralysis ai
Orange, n. j. His recovery is doubtful.
An international billiard Tournament
between ScharlIer. Ives, ana either Garnlcr
or Plot, has been arranged The tourna
ment will be played in Chicago, Boston
and New York Ii Will commence in Chi
cago May Is.
Harvard has accepted the subject sent
by Yalc for the forthcoming joint debate
The subject Is: Resolved, That pcrma-
nent board of arbitration should be es-
tablshcd between the United States and
Great Britain"
The president held his first tri-wcekly
reception 10 tho public at the White
House yesterday, after suspension OF
nearly two years. About 200 persons took
advantage OF the opportunity to shake the
presidents hand,
As the Indiana was about 10 start from
Hampton Roads for Port Royal, & c.. to
be dockcd. the stem of one OF the high
pressure valves wa1 bent. and tho vessel
was Obliged to dcier her departure until
repairs can be made.
The senate committee on public lands
decided not TO recommend the passage OF
the Arizona lnnd bill over the veto OF the
president. but 90 recommend new bill to
meet the objections Of the president and
the secretary of the interior.
New England Corps United.