The herald., 1896-04-03
WIRE WAITS

At the Republican convention for the
Twelfth Massachusetts congressional dis
trict yesterday District Attorney Harris
and Frederick Hall were elected to the ma
tional convention. A resolution indorsing
Reed was carried. A motion to indorse
Mckinley as second choice was lost.
The Portland, Or, Populist city conven-
Pennoyer for mayor. The Taxpayers
league convention meets tomorrow, and it
is understood Pennoyer will be endorsed
for mayor. Governor Pennoyer refused to
state whether he would accept the nom-
nation.
Augustus Hoppin of Providence, r. L.,
who was formerly one of the leading carl
caturists of America, is dead at Flushing,
L. l. He was member of the Rhode
Island bar. Among the books which Mr..
Hoppin illustrated were The Potiphar Pa
pers, Nothing to Wear and The Autocrat
of the Breakfast Table. Mr.. Hoppin also
wrote and illustrated a number of books.
Work at all the mines in the Cripple
Creek district owned by W. N. Station. ex-
cept the Independence, has been stopped.
About 200 men are thrown out of work
Mr.. 'Stratton said that freight and emelter
charges on his ore had been exorbitant,
and he would ship no more until he COM
pleted tho large reduction plant which he
is building. About half the force now in
doing development work.
special from Lincoln, Neb., says:
County Treasurer Maxey Cobb, who has
been missing for several days, was found
dead near town yesterday. He had taken
morphine. Financial reverses caused him
to commit suicide. Recently he had set
tied shortage OF several thousand dollars
growing out of the failure of bank in
which he had placed the funds.
The Pinkerton agency at Chicago yester-
day received word of the arrest in South
ampton, England, of Matt Adams, the
alleged defaulting district clerk of Denver,
Col. Adams, it is charged, fled from Dem
yer last November with about $4,000 be-
longing to the county of Arapahoe and to
various persons. He was prominent
Mason and Odd Fellow and G. A. r.
man. The indictments over him in Dem
yer are for perjury and for embezzlement.
."Brick'' Pomeroy. the noted printer,
editor and promoter, is dying of dropsy at
Blythebourne, L. l. Pomeroy made HIM
ing Pomeroy's Democrat at La Crosse,
Wis. His paper had a large circulation
and was noted for it's extreme views on
financial and other government question.
He afterwards founded a paper in New
York with disastrous results.
President Brewer of the Venezuelan
boundary commission came from Texas to
attend the meeting of the committee at
Washington yesterday. All the members
were present and great deal of business
was disposed of, mainly in the reception
and consideration of reports from individ-
nal members upon the results of investiga-
ton conducted by them in certain lines in
dicated by the committee.
Several years ago Brunswick, Ca, was
visited by conilagration which destroyed
1t, anil yesterday the disaster was almost
repeated. fire swept away many of the
the city, and for time it Was feared that
the whole town would burn. Loss about
100000, and the insurance is placed at
100000. The flames started on the
Brunswick & Western railroad wharves,
and within an hour the wharves, two large
warehouses, q number of cars including
the freight contained therein. were con-
sumed.