The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-05-11
TELE.usAPIiIC BREvITIES.

De ORC beat Clearwater for the pool
championship.
Two children were drowned in Back
bay Portland, Me.
Fifteen hundred carpenters are on
strike in Newark. ~. j.
wefers equalled the worlds record for
100 yards at Washington.
Charles r. Deacon, veteran journalist
of Philadelphia. is dead.
Ashland, Wis, lost $500, 900 worth of
milling property and lumber by fire.
Rudyard Kipling alleges that his
brother-in-law has threatened his life.
j. Edward Addicks will head the Della
ware Republican delegation TO st. Louis.
The Merrimao Valley Teachers asso-
citation was organized at Manchester.
N. III.
Peter Connors, so years old. was
burned to death by a brush fire at Shir-
ley. Mass.
j. f. Barry Is to play Showalter of Ken
tucky for chess championship of the
United States.
Another indictment is said to have
been found against DIR. Moore of Man.
chester, N. III.
Daniel Shea, aged IL. while playing on
a raft, at Boston, fell into the water. and
was drowned.
TWO double track railroad bridges
near Blackstone, II. l., burned, causing
loss of $4,000
poughkeepsie has been selected as the
place where the big intercollegiate boat
race will be rowed.
Manchester IN. H. citizens are to cele-
brate the city's sem-centennial anniver-
sary in September.
Fire in the Kelley institute at Lex
ington, Mass, completely gutted the
building. Loss about $1,000.
Election riots, accompanied by con-
siderable bloodshed. have occurred at
Oruro, La Paz and Sicasica, Peru.
Two trains colided at Woodsville, N.
IT,, and three locomotives and 20 cars
were thrown down high embankment.
Charles II. Deacon OF the Philadelphia
and Reading Railroad company died at
Overbrook, Pa, OF cancer OF the stomach.
The city OF L'Anse, Mich. was wiped
out by fire Two hundred persons are
homeless. The total loss Is placed at
$3.50 900.
The Marseilles Land and Water Power
company and the Illinois River Paper
company owning property at Marseilles,
Ills. valued at Si50.000, assigned.
Patrolman Orlando Austin, SO years
old, who has served IN the Boston police
force for 80 years, dropped dead while
giving a prisoner Il cup of water in sta
ton.
Captain James u. Johnston died at
Savannah, I'm his 79th year. He was the
ranking o-icer OF the survivors of the
Confederate navy
The Italian chamber OF deputies. by
vote OF 27s to 1873. passed vote of con-
fidence In the government, and after
ward voted favorably upon the matter
OF supplementary credits for Africa.
The third annual championship games
between the athletic teams OF Cornell
and the University of Pennsylvania re-
suited I'm a victory for Pennsylvania,
which In all made 73 points TO Cornelrs
63
Mike McCrea, colored, was hanged at
Ozark, Ala. for the murder of Angus
McSwean ana wife. ON the soaffold, he
said that Mitchell Woolen, who was
hanged a year ago. was innocent. lie
confessed 60 the crime
Colonel +. X. Hahn OF New York COM
mitted suicide at Clifton Springs. N. Y,
by crawling under freight ira o..
Colonel Hahn was vice president of the
elevated railroad. and had
been stopping at a sanltarum for the
past six weeks.
Joseph III. Abbott died at Concord. N.
H., after n long sickness OF Rright's
disease. He was born I'm 1886. ON en-
Sering business life he became con-
nected with the Abbott. Downing COM
pany' and has been vice president of the
for 10 years.