The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-04-08
BRIEFLY TOLD.

The street railway strike at Buffalo
has hzzled out.
Count Mattel. the eminent homoepath-
IL died at Bologna yesterday.
The Democratic Lebanon county COM
mittee of Pennsylvania elected delegates
ana endorsed Ex-Governor Pattison for
President.
The Asasbet Wooden mills at May
nard, Mass employing HOO hands, will
run but four days week until business
improves.
Information has been received in Cairo
that the Khalifadoes not contemplate an
attack upon Kassala. but he intends to
concentrate the Dervish forces at Berber.
The Page-Pavey New York oity COM
promise school bill passed the Assembly
yesterday afternoon by vote of SO yeas
to 43 nays. The bill goes to Mayor
Strong for his approval or disapproval.
The Northampton county Democratic
committee of Pennsylvania selected to the
state convention and instructed for ex-
Governor Patterson, ten delegates, for
Presidential nomination.
The Manchester, England, Guardian
publishes despatch reporting an out
break in Corea resulting in number of
kings father, Tai Wen Kun.
OOQuu0IH I dClnC Ul1lGldlS Salu Uutt6
was no foundation whatever for the story
to the effect that conspiracy had been
discovered to hold up the Wander bilt-
Oepew train and abduct Cornelius Van
derbilt.
In twelve hours nearly ten inches of
anow fell in Monticello, N Y, yesterday
and at ten O'Clock the storm was at its
height. A heavy fall of snow in April
is an unusual occurrence in Sullivan
county.
The Demill girls college at Oshawa,
Ont, was burned to the ground Monday
night. Most of the students and faculty
| were absent, the college being closed for
| the Easter holidays. Loss 1926, 600, in
sured.
Hotel Louisiana, Chicago, was burned
to the ground Monday night. The Louis
| lana was one of the great Worlds Fair
hostelrieS covering two acres of ground
and was four stories high. 1t has been
| unoccupied for some ii me.
| Captain Sheldon, of Yale, has answered
the letter sent him by Captain Merwiu
of the University of California track
team, asking entrance to the contest be-
his regret that the Yale team cannot give
| their consent
| A report received at the Navy Depart.
ment at Washington, Monday, from ma
| val surgeon on duty in China, contained
| the information that the black plag Ut
had broken out in Hong Kong. Fol
commercial reasons the authorities have
endeavored to keep thu fact secret.
The Society of the Army of the Pc
| tomao will hold the twenty-seventh an.
nual reunion at Burlington, Vt, the
10th and 18th of September. Genera,
Orland Smith will be the orator and Cap
tain Jack Crawford the poet
William P. B. Sohmitt, furniture man,
ufacturer of Baltimore. made deed Of
trust Tuesday for the benefit of his
creditors. The bond will be filed for
$40, 900, indicating assets Of half that
amount. The liabilities are not known.
1t is understood they are large.
1t has been ascertained that the rumol
circulated in Johannesburg Monday to
the effect that the British government
| had agreed to cancel the convention Of
1884, and to recognize the full indepen-
dence Of the Transvaal, is without foun
dation in fact.
The announcement that Chapla ain FREQ
+. Sherman, U. S. N, son of John Sher
man, had become a Roman Catholic, has
attracted considerable attention. Chan.
| lain Sherman was once rector of St
Thomas's church, Lawrance. For seyera
months he'has been on duty at theNewpor
training station awaiting orders and is
now at that station. Mr.. Sherman i.
married and has one child, a boy of ter
years,