The Portland daily press., 1897-08-07
BRIEFLY TOLD.

News has reached Seattle of the death
last April of Charles A. j. Blackstone, Geo.
Belcher and J. W. Malinqlle, miners, who
went TO Alaska in 1896, an d were frozen
to death in trying to make their way back
to Seattle.
Secretary of State SheI man, accom-
panied by his private secre tary, left Anna.
gansett, l.. l., Friday NOR ming for Wash
ington. The secretary appeared much
better in health than VIII en- he went to
Amagansett, a little over week ago.
Another warrant chargi ng bigamy has
been served on David Els worth Bates in
cell in the Chicago police station. 1t
was sworn out by James l.. Mccarthy,
who said he was the father of Mrs. Bates.
The police say Bates ma ried at least
seven women, all of W nom are living
and only one of them divorced.
Admiral Sicard has no titled the board
of trade and Commandan Remey of the
Portsmouth navy yard, that the fleet will
arrive there August IL, and will remain
four days. A brilliant reception has been
planned for Admiral Sicard and staff
August 10, which will De attended by
Governor Ramsdell and staff. The citi
zens are endeavoring to make it the
grandest event in the history of the city.
The first veto of an order by the mayor
that ever occurred in Saco happened Fri
day when Mayor Lord vetoed an order to
lay curbings on Free street, the order be-
ing passed at the last meeting OF the
city government held Monday night.
Coroner Hoeber rec. sived an anonymous
letter Friday to the eject that William
Guldensuppe is alive and that he is hiding
in order to harrass Mrs. Mack and Martin
Thorne. Neither the police nor the at
torneys for Thorne place any credence in
the letter.
Joseph Wheaton, 14,years of age, was
killed by lightning in Upper Sackville,
N. s., Friday.
The Union Pacific. officials are pluming
themselves on @ new long distance
record. Engineer Thomas Gorgan, with
engine S09, pulled special from Evans
ton, Wyo., to Omaha, 955 miles, in "a
hours, including all stops. This is
claimed as the record long run for a
single engine. The distance from North
platte to Omaha, 291 miles, was covered
Il 279 minutes, at the rate of 63. 40 miles
per hour.
Canada has begun to take means to en-,
force the alien labor laws against the
Americans
Self confessed as an embezzler, City
Clerk Bogart of Evanston, Wis, owner OF
five business establishments, and politi-
cal leader has disappeared. In two
months, according TO Mayor Dychc, he
has taken from the vaults of the city
clerk s'office $685.
The Paris Gaulois says that a pigeon
bearing instructions regarding Prof.
Andres balloon expedition across the
North Pole has been captured at Gradisca,
near Goritz, % miles from Triestse in
Austria Hungary.
Postmaster General Gary left yesterday
on his outing. He goes direct to Kenne-
b IMPORT Me-, and from there to Lake
Ohamplain, where he will join the presi-
detail party, probably next Saturday.
Because of what he considers an ex-
cessive assessment by the authorities OF
Mt. Pleasant township, in which his
Tarrytown property is located, William
Rockefeller has placed the property on the
market.
The New England Fish company of
Boston, which has been operating from
Vancouver, British Columbia for the past
two or three years. has sent request to
the Dominion government that they be
permitted to use American steamers
Hitherto they have chartered Canadian
vessels. Citizens are supporting the
petition as the company has spent $50 900
in wages and supplies during the halibut
fishing season,
G. H. Day has been appointed post
master at Lyman.
The reorganization of the Rowland
mills of New Bedford was completed
yesterday.
Peter McNally, the Boston swimmer
who attempted to swim the English chan
mel, arrived in Boston Friday on the
steamship St. Louis.