The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-12-16
BRIEFLY TOLD.
4 Chicago is to have six days bicycle
race

| 4 Chicago Is to nave SIX days bicycle
race.
The Timothy Dry Goods and Garnet
| Company of Chattanooga, Tenn. as.
signed Tuesday. Liabilities, s57 $50;
assets between SlC0, coo and $50, 000 Tne
| assignment was forced by ths big cred
itors pushing the firm. The news of the
| firms en- parrassment has created aston
ishment in business circles.
Six cara of the Canadian Pacific rail-
| road. carving beef and mutton, left the
track at West Bronze. Tuesday morning.
One car crashed into the station and
badly wrecked il. Another went into
the river. Fonr cars complete were
yyreeked, All the train hands escaped in
jury.
The stockholders of the West End
Street. Railway Company of Boston. at
| a meeting Tuesday, ratified the lease
by the road OF the subway now being
constructed by the Boston Transit Com
mission.
The faculty of Wesleyan University is
Investigating a somewhat peculiar acct
dent so a student FAMED Curtis Bacon.
Tt is said that while being initiated
| into a secret society no was lowered
from the bridge ut Pamache and fell into
the river. striking upon some rocks and
| su fferiuQ severe injuries. The students
put ip a general denial to the statements.
| Samuel Cruttenden, d livery stable
keeper. at New Haven, Conn.,, assigned
Tuesday. He he's teen in business there
% years.
| Adyices from Bo9ota are to the effect
| that the Colombian Congress has ap-
proved the arrangement entered into by
| Che government with Mr.. Passmore,
agent of the British bondholders for the
payment OF the foreign debt. MIR. Pass
more sailed December 10 for New York.
| The Travelling Mems Bryan club of
| Lincoln, Neb., is arranging banquet to
| be rendered Mr.. Bryan on the evening of
| December %, prsvious to his departure
on his lecture tour.
Senator Allison is still too sick to be
| interviewed. His illaess has been far
more serious than has heen generally
known. He is nos yet able 30 sit up ex-
Dept for short time.
At largely attended meating Of Wis
| consin news print manufacturers Mon
day, the report of the represen tatives TO
the New York meeting last week, lonk-
ing to the formation of combination OF
paper makers, was heard.
| A despatch to the Madrid Impartial
from Manila the capital Of the Philippine
Islands, says that the rebellion in those
| islands is still spreading, and bands of
insurgents infest the outskirts of the
city of Manila. Advices from the Caro-
| line and Mariannes islands say that
risings are imminent there.
The American Wire Nail works at
Anderson, Ind, was put to it's fullest
capacity Monday night by additional
forces being added to tine galvanizing de-
partment. The Union Steol works at
Alexandria md the Anderson Window
Glass works, have also resumed with a
full force.
Alexander Salvini, actor and son of the
celebrated italian tragedian Tomasso
Salvini, died at Florence at 9 O'Clock
Tuesday IN )rning. A few months ago
Mr.. Savini married Miss Maud Dixon,
the leading woman of his company, who
was OF his bedside when he died. He WINS
born in Rome on December 81, 1861.
An ordinance calling for four cent fare
on all the street chr lines in Chicago,
YVES passed by the city council Monday
night. The vote was Overwhelmingly in
favor of the ordinance.
DR.. Frank Wilfreh Page of Boston,
was Yesterday appointed to the Office ct
superintendent of the Vermont state
insane asylum at Waterbury.
The lower Georgia House Tuesday
passed the Calvin antitrust bill which
prohibits any combination, trust or ar
rangsment by which full Competition in
the manufacture or sale or any comlnOu1-
ty is prevented. While the bill is direct
ed mainly against the oil, sugar, iron.
snuff and similar trusts, it's provisions
are far reaching.
The schooner Serena S. Kendall, Bangor
to Newport put in at Salon Tuesday,
leaking. She went on the fats where the
captain will endeavor at low water, TO
locate the leak and repair 1t.
Gov. Morton OF New York, has dis
missed the charges made some months
ago against Sheriff Edward j. II. Tam
sen of New York city. The governor
says the facts discussed on the investi-
CATION of the charges would not justify
his removing the sheriff. The charges
alleged that the sheriff was Incompetent
ana had bean guilty Of gross negligence
in tho performance Of his duties.
Sharkey testified in his own behalf
Tuesday in the FitzsimTnons suit. He
denied the charge of crook edness. He
also asserted that Fitz struck him in the
groin in the eighth round. Referee carp
testified that he saw Fitz strike Sharkey
in the groin.
At Solvay, a suburb of Syracuse, N.
Y, fortnight ago, Joseph Nowak, HIS
wife and five children were attacked by
sudden illness which excited much COM
nent. Tuesday, morning the entire family
were seized by similar illness. Two of
the family died in the afternoon The
physician pronounced the case one If
poisoning, but whether 1t Is due to de-
ftiorata u,urdar mr. nccidant 10 et pracant