The Portland daily press., 1896-11-21
BRIEFLY TOLD.

American ship Patrician was
abandoned at seas August %.
| Alfred CaIon stone mason was killed
in quarry at Berlin, N. H., Friday
night.
| Edward J.Ivory, alias Bell, the alleged
| Irish American dynamiter, was formally
Committed for trial in the criminal court.
Old Bailey.
| r. B. Dun & Co.'S. Weekly Review
OF Trade says: Failures for the week,
344, in the United States against $40 last
year.
| The italian government officially con.
firms the report that the treaty between
| Italy and Brazil has been signed by both
of the parties thereto
Mrs. Ann Oatley. the old woman who
killed four year old Mary Ann Brennan
at Fall River Thursday has been declared
insane and committed to the Taunton
insane asylum.
The announcement is made that the
Pope has appointed Rev. DR.. Thomas j.
Comfy, rector of the church of Sacred
Heart, Worcester, Mass, to succeed
Bishop j. keane as rector of the Catholic
University at Washington.
Leroy Poland, alias Melville Dorr.
who was arrested in Oxford county
charged with stealing horse at Gid Or
chard, pleaded guilty in the Municipal
court Friday and was bound over to tn
Supreme court. He couldn't get bail
A block on Superior street. Cleveland,
Ohio, owned by ex-Congressinan r. G.
PARSONS, aud occupied by W. H.
Lucketemeyer & Sons. wholesale hard
ware, was burned Friday. Loss on build
Ing, s75, 600; on stock, 500, 900. Insured.
The National Democratic State Central
committee of Kentucky, met Thursd ay.
tYoDRrAI Au0RnNr yy q
decided to maintain the party organiza-
tlon in Kentucky. An address was
issued.
At the CoAs Co. Teachers Insti tn.
ton, at Portsmouth, N. II , Friday a
paper on Teachers Reading Circles'
was read by VIM. II. Winslow superin-
tendent of schools Of Bath.
Mail advice received at Kingston, Ja,,
confirms the rumors of the existencs of
political troubles in Hayti, emanating
from financial scandals. A revolution
is feared as q result.
Daniel L. Randall,a well known cit
zen of Portsmouth, N. H., died sudden
~ last evening of neuralgia OF the heart,
aged 6S He was many years captain of
the watch at the navy yard. He leaves
wife three sons and two daughters.
Joseph ii. Blood, bricklayer, aged
%, has confessed to setting fire to the
barn of Arthur Whitaker in Needham,
Mass, March "a, 1895. He was hsld u
$1,000 bonds for the grand jury. The
off ers are satisfied that he is connected
with other recent fires.
I All the leading gas companies of New
YORK city EN- hracing the New York and
East River, Equita BILE and the Standard
Companies are reported to have conclud-
ed to form n trust. The com bined capital
Is about $50, 600, 000 1t il further report
cd that the Standard Oil Co. is at the
back OF the movement.
Detectives have arrested three men who
are susreoted to have been connected
with the death of Frank p. Arbuokle of
Denver, who was found dying in the
street Thursday. The prisoners are
George Stevens a reputsd gambler,
Joseph Davidson and Frederick Menper.
1t is reported that Rev. Ho race G.
Kelley. some time pastor of the ConRre-
gational church of Millville. N. Y. who
eloped with Miss Susie LindIey, a young
mem her OF his flock, leaving his wife, is
preaching in Boston under an assumed
name. Citizens promise to tar and
feather Kelley should be return.
The National Hardware Assoc iation of
the United States ut Philadelphia Fri.
day elected these officers: president, ".
W. Supple, Philadelphia; first vice presi-
dent, ii. II. Bishop, Cleveland; second
vice president John Allen, Chicago: exc
outive committee. W. Cham berlain, Port
land, Me-, and Others
The proceedings of the Pan-Amer,can
medical congress- which is in session Al
City of Mexico terminated Friday. This
next meeting will be held at Caracas
Venezuela in 1899. The doctors have been
accorded an enthusiastic reception by ali
classes from president Diazz downward
They are much pleased with the results
of the congress.
he Norwegian brig S. N. Hansen
from Apalicola, Fla, arrived Friday at
Garston, Eng, and brought to port three
of the Grew of the American brig Mary
T. Kimball, captain Bowers, from Mo.
bile August 80 for Guantanamo. The
m en- were picked up October in lati-
tude W north, longitude "A west The
Kimban foundered September go. Her
captain and four of her crew were lost.
Every season brings a new crop of
cough remedies, but they cannot com