The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-10-11

" AioiAipoI VI ono AaSG legislature when
taken sick in February.
Central office detective VIM. Moora of
New York, who is under arrest susnacted
of having stabbed his wife to death ,ast
Wednesday, was Sunday committed to
the Tombs by Coroner Fitzpatrick.
The United States board of geographic
names which meets at Washington at
stated intervals. has just rendered de-
cisions determining the spelling of 14e
geographical names. These include a
number in Alaska including Klondike,
Lewes river, Taiya Commonly. spelled
Dyea,) etc.
There are reported to be eight cases of
diphtheria in Lewiston, widely scattered,
and three in Auburn. Much uneasiness
Is felt lest the disease becomes epidemic.
Sunday was the sixth anniversary of the
death Of Charles Stewart Parnell. Five
Thousand Nationalists paraded the streets
to the bleak Glasnevin cemetery where
they heaped high the grave Of their IA
nous and lamented leader with
flowers brought from all the counties of
Ireland =.-
The annual tournament of the San
Francisco Fly Casting club, W. d. Mans
field, the champion long distance caster.
who broke all existing records few
months ago by cast of III 1-2 feet, again
broke the world s record, increasing his
cast six inches.
Because her step mother reprimanded
her for staying out:late at night with a
lover, Mary Miller, seventeen years of age,
Sunday, committed suicide by drinking
carbolic acid at her home in New York.
The severest storm known for years was
the afternoon an unknown barkentine
was sighted off the port flying distress
signals, and the British warship Pelican,
sailed to her assistance 1t is feared shat
great damage has been done to the fleet
of fishing vessels now returning from
Labrador.
Major General Nelson A. Miles, com
manding the army, has returned to
Washington from his European tour Of
military observance. He came in late in
the afternoon and denied himself to call
ers.
At Cincinnati, Sunday, Frank Farty,
colored, shot and killed his wife, from
whom he had been separated six years,
then shot and mortally wounded his mis-
tress, Mamie Grey. He then gave himself
| up to the police.
1t Is rumored at Constantinople that
| bo, hoo- 1
Bassoarh, in the Pashalik Of Bagdad,
Asiatic Turkey ,and troops have been sent
to suppress the insurrection.
| A despatch from Jamrud, near the en-
trance to the Khyber Pass, says that the
hostile tribes men were active there Sun
day and fired on patrol Of dragons,
killing Captain Jones, British officer
and one private.
The Sultan has appointed the Minister
of Foreign Affairs, Tewfik Pasah as the
plenipotentiary of Turkey to negotiate
the def1nitive peace treaty with Greece.
L. P. Briggs, young man whose par.
ents live in New York, went to New
Haven on September 30 to enter the Shef
| Held Scientific school. He has not been
seen since the first or second day and his
absence cannot be accounted for.
Steamer La Bretagne has arrived at
New York from Havre.
| Charles II. Briggs. while walking on a
railroad track at Lynn, Mass, Saturday
night was knocked down by four mer
who robbed him of $13. One of the men
has been arrested.
| Lysander Battles, who lived near North
Randolph, VT, was SO crushed in a
| Oh Cofy yruIo L
died in two hours.
| A fall of two inches of snow in Mani
toba will, it is hoped, put out the danger.
Gus brush fires.
The biography of the late Lord Tenny-
son, the poet laureate, which has just been
published in London repeatedly refers to
his admiration for the United States.
Writing to Longfellow, Tennyson said !:
"We English and Americans should all
| be brothers, as none among other nations
can be and some of us. come what may,
will always be, so 1 trust"
1t has just leaked out in London that
Mrs. Langtry, who was being ostracized
at the Newmarket races and was not al
lowed to enter the Jockey club enclosure,
was restored to all the privileges of the
club through the interoession of the
Prince of Wales.
| W. .. G1lDerU mas announced GhaG he
will write no more plays. He is said to
be disheartened by the erroneous point of
| view from which criticism Is made.
There is no longer any doubt that the
| whaler Navarch OF New Bedford has been
lost IN the Arctic. Thirty men have prob
| ably perished. Sixteen persons, including
tho captain and his wife and two Of the
ships officers, were saved.
Judge Augustus M. Cunningham of the
second district of Kings county, New
York. is dead. He has been noted law
yer and was associated with Roger A.
Pryo in the Tilton-Beecher suit.
Fire in New Bedford, Saturday. de.
stroyed the mill of the New Bedford
Paper company. Loss about $25, 900, in
surance $4,000.
The large chair factory Of the Artemus
Merriam company at Westminster, Mass.
burned Friday night. Loss $50, ,O0O The
factory probably will not be rebuilt. The
house and barn of j. A. Baker were also
destroyed. Loss So, 600.
Fire caused $4,000 damage in the pot
terry of A. H. Hawes and Co. at North
Cambridge, Mass, Saturday.