The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-09-27
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strike region at Hazleton and the oay
passed Off quietly and without lnci, lncloeniI.
The failure Of the coroner's jury to arrive
at a verdict is variously commented upon.
Another meeting Of the jury Is to Dc nsiu -.
this evening when it is expected Veroico
will be rendered.
The British schooner Hattie P, arrived
at Boston Sunday from Salmon river, ~.
S., and captain Frontain reported that on
last Friday morning at 5 O'Clock When
100 miles east of Boston light. the cook'
Melbourne Devau, 90 years Of age, single;
was struck by the foreboom, knocked
overheard and drowned.
The pastor of the ST. Johns Catholic
church at Clinton, Mass, announced yes
terday that the church cemetery would %
taken by the Metropolitan water WORKS
to be included in the great Nashua reser-
voir. The taking of the cemetery Involves
the removal of all the bodies and tombs
in the cemetery. Within its limits De-
tween 1000 and 4500 bodies are inferred.
The cemetery was set out in 1847 and for
30 years has been the only burial place for
the communicates of St. John churoh
new cemetery purchased in Lancaster
will now be used.
President Mckinley and family at
tended services at the Adams Congrega-
tional church with Mr.. Plunkett. Miss
hdpol AChlnley Sstilg SOLO uur1uS .io
services Attorney General and Mrs. Nc
Kenna attended high mass at St. Thomas
church. Rev. I. j. Cullen of the Paul1st
fathers of New York who is conducting a
mission at Adams, preached the sermon.
The President and Attorney General
McKenna will visit Williamstown today,
calling ON DR.. Franklin Carter,
president of Williams college.
So many crimes are reported in London
that it Is declared that nothing like it has
been known since the days of Jack the
Ripper.
The medical press of Great Britain is
warning the public against danger OF an
epidemic of influenza.
Desperate fighting is reported to be in
progress in Guatemala. Barrios is said
to have executed ono of his leading op-
ponents. Vast American interests are
endangered.
Mrs. Henrietta S. Richardson Of Brook.
lyn, n. Y, has brought suit against the
heirs at law of Edmund Davis, the Hyde
Park, Mass, lawyer, and also against
life insurance companies in which he
held policies aggregating $65, coo. She
claims that Davis appropriated $l4, 900 or
her money to his own use.
Twelve men were killed by cave-in
in Mexican mine Saturday.
Conflicts between Protestant and Cat h.
olio converts to Christianity in Taichow,
China are SO serious that British gun
boat has been sent there.
Two passengers from the bark May
Flint have been landed by steamer at
Philadelphia. The ship sailed on August
2S from Philadelphia for Japan with oil
She encountered hurricane Septem ber
and ber rigging was destroyed. The
captain and crew remained on board and
will try to navigate the vessel to some
port
Fire in the American building at Wat
erbury, ct. did $25, 900 damage Saturday.
Through the instigation of the local
law and order league, the Berlin, N. H,
police, Saturday raided Is places In whica
it is alleged liquor has been sold. q
The barkentine Herbert Fuller has ar
rived at Apolachicola, Fla, from Natal
She is in command of Capt. Henry Nash,
brother of the murdered captain.
The Paris newspaper, the Gaulois has
revived the stories that various European
countries are preparing to interfere in the
affairs of Spain and the United States
At the meeting of the Canadian ANA
teur Athletic association in Toronto, Sat-
for the 100 yards run to ten seconds fiat
and for the 900 yards to 81 seconds.
The ministers of Chill and Japan in
Washington Saturday signed the first
treaty between the two countries.
Mrs Martin Moore Avery, the socialist
labor agitator, has been adjudged guilty
in the West Roxbury, Mass, police court
of lettering in a public place and of OBJ
structing travel and fined $40 on each
charge. She did not move on when told
to do SO by policeman.
Proceedings, are being taken in the
Federal courts in Chicago to take the
whisky trust out of the receivers hands.
The trial board finds that the gunboat
Helena, like the Wilmington, is a good
ship in all but one particular. She lacks
steerage way in a following sea and q
beam wind.
More new cases of yellow fever were
reported in New Orleans Saturday, yet
there were only two deaths. Several are
in critical condition.
q Fred l.. Bailey, aged 81, fell from an
electric car in Boston Saturday. He frac.
tured his skull and lived only a few
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