The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-02-16
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BRIEFLY TOLD.

A couple of anarchists. Baptist Miller
and Jospeh Bernosconi. fought due
with revolvers in Chicago Sunday night.
Milleri was killed and Bernosooni ar
rested. The quarrel arose over the pr1n-
ciples of anarchy.
The report that the cotton mills of the
South would shut down, is denied
Chairman Hanna denies that Senator
Sherman was given the state department
to make q vacancy for him in the SEN
ate.
Three men held up saloon In Chica-
go Sunday night, compelling II men
present to empty their pockets and TAX
Ing the contents of the till. From tive
men Sl40 and four watches were taken.
The others were penntless The robbers
then made the II men crowd into
small closet, after which the door was
locked and the thieves fed.
United States Senator Bak or of K an
sas has written a letter to friends In
Leavenworth, in which he says: Civil
service, has been. in my opinion, extend
ed beyond reasonable bounds. In some
departments it is carried on to such an
extent that the drivers of two horse wag-
ons in the government service have to
pass an examination in polite literature
before they can obtain employment.
John Berry, the philanthropist and
merchant, died yesterday morning at
his home In Mount Vernon, N. Y. He
had been Ill for some time. he was 81
years old. Mr.. Berry was Democrat
and was prominent in politics. He was
treasurer of the village of Mount YER
non from 1879 until 1892 and was elected
to the State Assembly in the fall of 1873.
Lord and Lady Aberdeen, accompanied
by Lady Maraery. their daughter, and
their youngest son, Lord Archibald
Gordon, and Capt Wilberforce arrived
In Chicago Sunday afternoon. They
were net by Mrs. Potter Palmer. and
wers driven to the Palmer residence in
Lake Shore drive. The party left Mon-
day evening for Nashville.
Indignant citizens of Elmhurst, a
small town 20 miles west of Chicago,
early Sunday morning, burned the large
shed erected there by Barney Zachairas,
the Chicago gambler, in which pool sell
ing, faro, roulette and stud POKER have
fiourished for several ears. AS most every
day four or five hundred sports from
Chicago visited the resort
information has been receiv ed Of the
death OF Fullerton Boyd Malcolm. mis-
sionary to Korea, who was sent out by
Rev. D. D. Maclaren from the Wood
ward avenue Baptist OF Detroit in No
yember, 1898. The deceased died of
pneumonia January 8, at Chemulpo,
Korea. He was buried in the cemetery
in that place.
The treasury deficiency for the first
half of February is So, S5S, 500, and for
the seven and half months of the our
rent fiscal year to date SAT, 719, 300.
Lamson and Goodnow cutlery works at
Shelburne Falls, Mass started Monday
on full time. For the past year the men
have averaged little over three days a
week in the cutlery department..
Peter Maher defeate1 c. @. Smith at
the Empire Athletic club, Buffalo N.
Y. last night in the sixth round.
The twenty round boxing contest at 12e
mounds between Jack Downey of Brook
iyn. and George Dixon of Boston, at the
broadway Athletic club at New York
last night resulted in draw.
Seventy five or more men employed at
the iron pyrites mine al Davis, in Rowe,
Mass, are on strike. The men want
shorter hours and more pay.
The President has approved the act
autborizing the establishment of a life
saving station at or near Great Bears
Head on the coast Of New Hampshire.