The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-03-17
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIEs.

baseball club contract.
Notable changes in the reichsland are
promised Dy the kaiser.
The New York assembly will pass the
supplemental excise bill
Miss Louise Putnam, for 90 years a
teacher at Boston, Is dead.
Western roads find the freight traffic Is
rather dullcr than they desire.
The British warship Comus left Victoria,
B. c., orders and destination being un.
known.
The safety of navigation in Lake Erie
may be increased by Canada and the
United States.
Secretary Lamont has approved all the
plans for the proposed New York and
New Jersey bridge.
President Cleveland intends to extend
the civil service rules TO oil offices left In
the various departments.
The sunken schooner Winslow Morse
was raised Mt Winterport, Me-, and will
be taken to Bucksport for repairs.
The Philadelphia baseball team started
for Hampton, Va, where the players will
spend about two weeks practising.
The Portuguese minister Of finance in.
convert the entire Portuguese debt.
Rev. Il. K. Clark. ID, president of the
Christian Endeavor society," has become an
auxiliary member of the Salvation Army.
Cambridge, Mass, recognized the 50th
anniversary of its incorporation rs city
by the ringing of bells and display OF flags
The nature OF the proposals anent tho
Venezuelan dispute sent by the United
States to England will not be disclosed ut
present.
Crawford g. Crawford, bankers, Cam
eron, Tex, filed deed of assignment.
Assets about S?30,000, liabilities about
$4,000 less.
Attachments for claims amounting to
600 were filed against the Northwest
ern Milling and Power company at Spc-
kane, Wash.
At Portsmouth, n. H., United States
Marshal Campbell libclled the barge Enos
Soule of Baltimore for $40, 900 In favor OF
New York towboats.
O. B. Clason was inaugurated as mayor
of Gardiner. Me-, and the city offlc .ls
elected, nearly all OF the incumbcnts be-
ling retained in Office.
The Great Western Pin company Of To-
liabilities shows tho former to be $75.00O
and tho latter $4,000.
The Manitoba remedial bill was sub
mitted for approval to the bishops OF tho
Catholic churches before seen by tho
Dominion parliament.
All over north aud northwest Texas
'there was u heavy frost and ice formed an
eighth OF an inch thick. Fruit was killed
in all that part OF the state.
No license was voted Mt Groveland Mass.
--lS5 to 1872 The Ctizous' ticket. oppos-
ing Republicans. and consisting mostly OF
anita. p. A. candidates, was elected.
Granville +. Rogers, arrested in Halifax,
I'm court ut Somerviile, Mass, pleaded
guilty 10 the charge of stealing diam " d
valued at $500. His case was continued.
Owing TO northcastcrly snowstorm
yesterday the scheduled sailings OF Boston
steamers were abandoned. and the vessels
remain tied up at their respective wharves.
Steamer Scottish Prince has landed at
st. Michnels the crew OF the American
three.mnsted schooner Elisha Gibbs, which
had been abandoned in u sinking condi-
ton.
DIR. Winthrop Sargent, n widely known
resident of Roxbury (Boston). is dead,
aged 20 years. DIR. Sargent was one OF the
best known army surgeons during the
Civil War.
In the eighth game Of tho United States
chess championship match ut Philadelphia
Kcmeny succeeded In winning on the yoth
move. The score now stands: Showalter,
4; Kemcny, 81; drawn, /.
Executions on two Judgment notes. ng'
grcgating sS9,9i9 were issued against
James n. Long Bro. & Co, Philadelphia,
dealers In wooden goods. Both notes
were payable OF demand.
The Republicans swept Watertown,
Mass, in the annual election, their entire
ticket. excepting one constable, being
elected. The no-license majority OF ~ last
wear was irn~eased Co 32S.