The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-09-03
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| ton, Mr.. James R. Roosevelt, the former
secretary of the United States elI in..s
here, and the team of English cr lehiIuv,s
which Mr.. p. Iii. Warner of the Mlduio;;1 ,,A
Cricket club is taking over with Ino toh nn
| teHtion of playing series OF ihaOo-'0'
| with the American clubs.
The Queen Regent of Spain will receive
| the United States minister, Gen. stewart
l.. Woodford on September H. H.
Woodford arrived at San Sebastian, sn 10
| summer residence of the court, Wednesday,
afternoon
Eugene V. Debs spoke for over an IN h our
Wednesday night at St. Louis to l2oV p ~
pie assem- Ied in National hall under wa aS
auspices of the Social Democracy. Ho sa tas
The supreme court of the Unlted S. tn,,a
is breeder of revolution and lew ma MA
| by side and fighting for the cause Oh NJ ~ =
manity. l am anxious; / am ready. ~
time is ripe and it Is coming surely.
The speaker then lauded the anarchls,hss
who We're hanged at Chicago and saiu
that some day his wife may mourn MS
| loss as did the widows OF those four nion
They are martyrs and the time vii ~
come when the world will pay trl1u.o W
1nelr names and memories ne auoeu'
The city funds of Duluth, Mimi, are
practically exhausted and the city. en- lu
F-SJ ~ w pIODdUly uOU 10 pow
severa! days to come. The embarrassment
IS attributed to law passed at the laso
legislature allowing taxpayers until Jun is'
OF the next year in which to pay tnelr
1897 taxes. The heads of one-third OF the
police force were severed yesterday anu
I'VE engine houses of the fire department
VIII pc boarded up and all park and ouner
pubic improvements will be stopped.
Operations were resumed yesterday
@4.I~s
Ing departments of the Everett mills, at
Lawrence, Mass. The operatives employed
In the other departments will be 6acS 10
work on Tuesday next. The mills nave
been shut down since July ~ during
which time new boilers have been put In.
When all departments have been running
lsoo operatives are employed.
President N. E. Ingalls, of the big
Four and the Chesapeake & Ohio rail-
Pullman Palace Car company to con-
struct as early as possible 1000 box freight
cars, 1000 each for the Big -Four and the
Chesapeake & Ohio railroads, at cost OF
81 900, 600.
A dispatch from Montreux, IA miles
from Geneva, Switzerland, announces that
an asylum for the insane, which was IN
course of erection here has collapsed,
burying number of workingmen in the
ItlluS. " u 10 Uu6 ulIuC lllO lhCSoNsoO NsNo
sent the bodies of seven men had been re-
covered and seven others, seriously
wounded, had been removed from the
wrecked building.
One hundredEpounds of dynamite in the
care of the town selectmen of Stafford
Spring, for the purpose of blasting in con-
nection with the road improvements, were
exploded early yesterday morning,
probably by lightning, causing loss of
| Jall I>,r% +o1x
injuring no one.
the opening of the new cable line via
Hayti and Para to Brazil, Uruguay, Par
aguay and the Argentine Republic, to-
gether with a reduction in cable tolls to
all the points named. The tolls from New
York to Rio Janeiro Bahia and all points
except Para in Brazil, are $l.20 word
under the new schedule, against 81.
under the former cables schedules. The
rate to Para is 81 a word against former
rate of s1.35. The general reduction to
the cities in the respective countries is es-
timated at rs per cent.
A fire in the paper mill of Manning &
Paine on Upper River street, Troy, N. Y,
early yesterday called out the whole fire
department. The fire was caused by the
bursting Of an electric light dynamo, Mr.
Manning said the loss would probably
reach 100000; insurance $65,000.
The receipts of wheat in Portland, Ore
gon. for the first three days this week We're
over 500 cars, an amount that Is without
precedents early in the season, These
heavy receipts are causing anxiety in
some quarters for the necssarry sail tom
mage.
The steamer Del Norte has arrived at
San Francisco from Duth Harbor and the
Pribyloff islands, Alaska, with 10000
skins for the North American company.
The state of Oregon is without dis
trict attorney as the conmi ssion of D. B.
Murphy, who was appointed by President
Cleveland, expired at midnight Thus
far the congressional delegation has failed
to agree upon candidate.
A State Senator Joseph Mullen, Repub-
lican senator from Watertown, was found
dead in bed at the University club New
| York. A bottle was found by the side of
| the body the contents of which were I'M
| known. The coroner's Office was notified
and an investigation will be made into
| the circumstances attending the senator s
death, Senator Mullen was prominent
lawyer.
| The works of the De Metz Umbrella
and Bicycle Handle company at West
! Bridgton, Staten Island was destroyed by
fire at an early hour yesterday morning,
| The loss is said to be between $50, 900 and
| SIS, 900, about equally divided between
Barrett Nephews & Co. ,Ithe owners of the
buildings, and the De Metz company,
who occupied them.
The Dominion line steamer Canada
from Liverpool, arrived at quarantine at
Boston at O'Clock yesterday morning
Among the large number of passengers
was Gen. Charles j. Paine, who with
United States Senator Walcott of Colorado
and ex-Vice President Adlai E. Steven.
son, formed the monetary commission
appointed to visit Europe in the interest
of bi-metalism.
| On account of the unfavorable weather
the races scheduled for Charter Oak Park
yesterday afternoon have been postponed
until today, when the $4,000 special race
between Star Pointer and Joe PatcheI
will occur.
| The Comptroller ofCurrency was advised
of the failure of the First National bank
of Greensburg, Ind. yesterday. It had 6
capital stock Of 500, ;on July rs the de
posits were Ss4 900. Examiner Packard
has been instructed to take charge. This
| is the first failure reported to the comp
| troller for some time.