The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-12-31
BRIEFLY r OLD.
winter,

At meeting OF the directors OIL GHe
Consolidated Traction company, of Pitts
burg, held Tuesday, it was decided to IN
crease the wages of the motormen and
| conductors from 16 2-3 per hour to 10
cents per hour to take effect January ],
| 1857. The company controls all OF the
street oar lines in Pittsburg except one.
An Ottawa, Ont, despatch says that a
proposal was recently submitted to the
Dominion government to bring out
Armenians to settle on land IN the
Canadian Northwest. Yesterday de-
spatch was sent to Mr.. Joseph Cnam per-
lain that the scheme could not be enter
tanned, as the Canadian government had
no funds from which the Armen1ans
might be assisted, and that 1T was con :
sidered imprudent to grant lands Ill
block for settlement.
Sheriff elect A. L. McFadden of Water
Vile made public the appointments of
his deputies. The list is the same as
under Sheriff Norton, with the exception
| of Charles W. Jones of China, Frank j.
Ham of Belgrade. j. F. Bean of Au-
guste, and Nathaniel Jaquith of Clinton,
who are new men.
Louisville special says: The board
of councllmen has adopted resolutions
calling upon Congress to recognize the
Cubans as free and independent people
| and to help them gain that freedom II
necessary by giving them Physical as
well as moral assistance.
Mrs, Nettie r. Craven, the claimant
to large portion of the estate OF the late
Senator Fair, is seriously i'll. 1t is said
that her malady is such that she may die
any time.
When called upon to surrender the
county books and funds in his possession
Tuesday night, Henry F. Strauss, county
II 80 -IoJD fr nj
com miuted suicide by taking poison. He
left letter stating that be was q de-
faulter to the amount Of So, 700. He was
"a years old.
Charles Benjamin Stevens, register OF
deeds for Middlesex county, Mass, died
ut his residence IN Cambridge Wednes-
day morning, aged IS years. He was nm
Odd Fellow, a Grand Army man and a
member of the Loyal Legion.
Burlington, Ia., special says that DR..
Charles Beardsley, at one time editor and
owner of 1.-THE Burlington Hawkeye," a
| former state senator, member OF the
coinage commission under President
Hayes in 1879, and who has been fourth
auditor of the treasury, and was prom1-
nent in eduoationa and church work,
died at his home there Tuesday, aged &C..
A special from Galveston, Texas, states
that thousand or mere persons in that
city arc suffering from la grippe, which
has been epidemic nearly two weeks.
There has been no appreciable increase in
| the death rate.
Articles of incorporation were fled
Wednesday at Trenton, n. j., by the
Honduras syndicate, company which
expects to secure concessions from the
government of Honduras and grants of
land for this operation of several railroad
systems. The oomCany's capital stock is
| $500, 900. Among the corporators are
Chauncey nj. Depew, John Jacob Aston
and Benjamin B Tracey.
! Archbishop Fabre, the head of the
Roman Catholic archdiocese of Montreal,
died shortly after eleven last night.
A slisht improvement is noted in the
condition of Mrs Henry Ward Beeoher.
DIR. Rial. reported to have been the
promoter of the revolt against Spanish
authority in the Philippine Islands, and
who was some time since returned 10
Manila from Barcelona, at the request
of military judge, was shot on the 28th.
The Hen and Chickens lightship. No.
2, has been replaced on the station on
Nantucket shoals.
Schooner Thomas B. Reed, from Bridge
water, s., ashore on Governors Island
flats the past five days, was 6oated yes
terday morning, apparently injured.