The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-02-24
TELEGRArisfC BREyITIEs.

for president.
Romulus Gay New Haven's eccentric
her NIT Is dead.
Defaulter Foster Of Concord, n. H., was
held in S3l 900 bail.
Reed is said TO be losing and Quay gain
ing ground in the south.
Butler defeated Lawson in an eight
round fight in Lynn, Mass.
Frank White was crI he'd to death by a
ferry boat at Chelsea, Mass.
Republicans of Rutland, VT, nominated
John w. Stearns for mayor.
Professor Edison forced the cathode rays
through an eight-inch plank.
Ex-President Harrison has arrived in
New York from indianapolis.
Governor General Weyler claims several
victories over Cuban insurgents.
Flaherty of Lowell, Mass, defeated Nc
Bride in eight rounds in New York
Tie proprietor OF Sutton wooden mills,
In Worcester, Mass, shot an employe.
An ineendary fire at the Brighton
(Mass. } abattoir caused $40. 600 damage.
Mahers hackers are going 70 challenge
Fitzsimmons for another battle for $1,000
q side.
Joseph Askey, Boston and Maine en-
gineer, was killed at the Somerville Mass
roundhouse.
ii. ID. Sisson of Pittsfeld was elected
division commander Of the Massachusetts,
Sons Of Veterans.
The Confederate museum was opened at
Richmond in the old Davis mansion with
brilliant program.
Professor Holden of Lick observatory is
Of the opinion that Perrine's comet will
not strike the earth
A young man who registered as "H. J.
Gum, Boston," was found dead with his
throat cut at Jersey City hotel.
Mrs. Mamie Field, wife OF Marshall
Fold, the Chicago merchant, died at her
villa in Nice, at Pes Maritimes, France.
Mrs. Jane ID. Storrs wife of DIR. Nc.
lancthon Storrs, leading physician and
surgeon of Hartford died of pneumonia
Thomas II. johnson, a Harlem IN. "
real estate dealer, shot himself through
the head. Business reverses are given as
the cause.
Notices were posted in all the large
woolen mills of Rockville, Conn, tha,
commencing today the working hours will
be two-thirds time.
tration between the United States and
Great, Britain at general religious meet.
ing of Yale university.
Hanford Woiner Edison, instructor OF
rhetoric and clocution az Williams college,
has become insane Physicians believe
that the case is incurabc
+. f. Webb was nominated rs the Re.
publican candidate for mayor Of Water.
Vile, Me- Wallace B. Smith was nomi.
Mated rs the Democratic candidate.
Speaker Reed has received %5pounC
salmon from J. b. Montgomery, one OF
his friends in Portland, Or. 1t is one OF
the rccord-breakng products OF the IN.
nous salmon fisheries Of the Columbia
George r.. Kelso, husband Of Mrs Edith
Kelso, who killed her two children and
attempted suicide at New York, has Sc
cured the services Of experts who will ex-
anime Mrs. Kelso as to her mental state.
Lora NJ, 2-year-old daughter Of Royal
Nj. Stetson, of Fitchburg. Mass, ate 10
tablets which she mistook for candy.
Each tablet contained quarter OF grain
of strychnine. The child died in great
agony.
Lillian Lyons. the 1i-year-old daughter
OF Daniel Lyons, was burned 20 death at
Brooklyn. The fire started through tho
accidental explosion Of an oil stove. The
girl, who was an cpieptic, suffered tho
greatest Ggonies.
The race for the championship Of tho
Hudson River Ice Yacht club was won by
the Dragon. which was sailed by CAPITA
Norman Wright The wind was ligh.
and the winning yacht covered the nine
miles I'm % minutes
George Davis died nj Wilmington, n.
e., aged 40. He once represented North
Carolina in the Confederate senate, and
was also attorney general Of the Confeder.
ate states. lie was famed for his or0tory
and generally popular.
The recent cold snap which was ap.
parently u godseni 90 the ice dealers
niong the HudsMl is again handicapped
by another thaw. Unless some phenom-
enally cold weather comes soon, the pros
-pect OF an leo famine are very much In
evidence.