The Portland daily press., 1897-07-29
BRIEFLY TOLD.

manuel hernandez, Uhe young american
who was tried by court martial in the
with bearing arms against the Spanish
government and adjudged guilty has been
sentenced by the Tribunal to imprison-
ment for life at hard labor.
The President made number of minor
appointments yesterday. They included
Daniel S. Winey of New York, commits
sioner OF immigration, port of New York;
Warner Sherwood and George W. Wanna
maker of New York, assistant appraiser
of New York.
Notices have been posted at the Middle
sex cotton mills, Lowell, announcing a
shut down for two weeks on August 6.
The steamer Cambria of the Windsor,
Detroit and 500 line which left Detroit
Tuesday noon, with one hundred passen-
gers for Sault Ste Marie, was wrecked
Wednesday morning on Lake Huron three
miles north of Sarnia. The passengers
were all saved.
Miss Grace Allen, s--the kansas school
teacher on trial at Chandler, o. t., was
acquitted yesterday on the charge of pois-
oning Miss Phronia Eckes, her rival, and
the iatter's mother.
Henry A. Holcomb, treasurer of the
Bennett and Columbia mills, New Bed
ford, was placed ON trial Wednesday OH q
charge of conspiracy to defraud the
corporations out of 100000.
A postoffiee has been established at
Gore in York county and Fred E. Russell
has been appointed postmaster.
John f. Devine of Foxboro, Mass, %
years of age, was almost instantly killed
last evening on South Main street,
Providence, by a fenderless electric car.
His skull was fractured, his neck was
broken and the body terribly mangled.
Dispatches from all over the Cana
dian provinces tell of great damage and
in some cases ruin wrought to corps by
the phenomenal rain of Monday and
Tuesday.
Over $4,000 was collected by the customs
officials on the baggage of the passengers
on the Majestic, which arrived i'll New
York Wednesday. Most of this is due to
the provision of the new tariff bill tax
ing all clothing in excess of 500 In value.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men have won their suit against the
receiver Of the Philadelphia, Reading &
New England railroad to prevent reduc-
ton of wages to the roadmen.
A despatch to the State Department.
from the United States consul at Mo-
zambique says that the French mail
steamer Alpee which cleared from Beirs
May 81 for Mozambique, has not been
heard from and it is feared that she has
foundered at sea. 1t is probable that she
had mails from the United States on
board.
Hon. Edward Wiggins master of the
State Grange. has called meeting of the
executive board for August 5 in Angus
ia. The matter of deciding upon place
of annual meeting of the State Grange
will be acted upon.
James Wray, the Australian profession
al sculler, who is now in Boston, has is
sued a challenge to row any man in the
world, bar Jake Gaudar, two or three
miles, for $500 aside.
Geo. B. Tincler, the great Irish runner,
has posted forfeit to bind a match to
run Everett McClelland of Pittsburr
any distance from three to 10 miles for
$3.50 to $500 side.
A despatch from Marseilles, France.
says that a violent storm set in early
Tuesday and has been raging ever since.
The seas run nSountain high and all the
mail steamers are overdue. Many vessels
are seeking shelter in the south coast
ports.