The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-02-12
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIEs.

Gladstone refused 81 a word to write q
magazine article.
Gold production in South Africa has
slightly decreased.
The New Jersey assembly may punish
the railroads in the Coal trust.
Three thousand Hovas are reported
killed by the French in Madagascar.
A German syndicate will take up Count
Zeppelin's recently Invented airship.
The sultan has invited the powers to
recognize Prince Ferdinand Of Bulgaria.
An attemps was made to blow open the
safe at the railroad station at Riverside,
Mass.
Steamer Havel, with the body Of Hon.
Theodore Runyon, sailed from Bremen to
New York.
The Massachusetts, Press association dis
cussed the libel laws, elected officers and
had a dinner.
The total amount OF gold deposited IN
New York for the new government bonds
Is now about s2l, 900, 900.
Edward X. Perley, for several years past
cashier Of the Appleton National bank,
Lowell, Mass, is dead, aged AZ.
The Lincoln Republican club OF Boston
passed resolutions endorsing the candidacy
of Thomas Il. Reed for the presidency.
The Boston Marine society has been
called upon TO help congress in making
changes in the present navigation laws.
Charles A. Grant (Rep.) Of Winthrop,
Mass, was elected representative to the
general court, vice George Il. Sleeper, re-
signed.
Samuel r. Honey states that he will rot
~ AanltInta fAr ~ 80 ~ want M "A
tional Democratic committeeman from
Rhode Island.
An unknown man jumped from a NOV
ing train at Melrose, Mass, aud was
crushed beneath the wheels. He was
about 40 years cid.
The Boston cycle board of trade, with "a
firms as its nucleus, was formed, with A.
o. Very as temporary chairman and John
+. Morrill, secretary.
Nearly 100 employees Of the Waterbury
Comm Watch company have been laid
off, owing TO an o~ver-supply of stock and
= poor demand for goods.
Schooner Alice Archer, with lumber, at
Bath, Me, had her port bow crushed in
by ice. The cargo alone prevented the
schooner from laundering.
Charles phares shot II. 7. Smith and
his wife at Newton, Ia, and then blew his
own brains out. Smith cannot live. Ne
cause for the deed is known.
Schooner Calvin Orcutt, coal laden,
from Philadelphia, put into Portsmouth,
n. H., badly damaged from tho storm and
with sails blown TO ribbons.
The steam lighter Alfred Lister, owned
by offal contractors for Brooklyn, sank in
New York bay. Her crew OF five men
took to u boat and were rescued.
The business blocks at Carbonate, Pa,
occupied by Purdy a. Sons, hardware
dealers, and the Fair dry goods emporium,
were destroyed by fire. Loss, $50, 900.
steamer Ubrikcn, from Galveston for
Erederiok's Haven, Denmark, put In at
Halifax with loss OF boat and deck dnni-
aged, having encountered q hurricane.
Various possible solutions OF the cur
rent cabinet crisis in Peru are indicated
as probable, one being that Senior PARA
should again assume the portfolio Of min
lister OF war.
The New York capitol commission re-.
ports that IL will take 81, 7l6,647 90 TO com
pleto tho capitol-Sl $3.50, $500 for contract
work, per bids submitted, and $500, 900. 80
for day labor.
The agent Of the Stone Worsted mill a.
Pascoag. II. l., has notified the weavers
who have struck on n reduction Of ~ per
tent hat the mill will start with new help
( they do not return.
The line officers OF uniform rank.
Knights of Pythias. assembled at Port
land, Me-, and organized n second regi.
ment for Maine, and formed the two
regiments tn'oa brigade.