The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-06-24
BRIEFLY TOLD.

| The Republican convention of the
Fourth Indiana district has nominated
| Major Charles W. Lee, of Vevay, Ind, to
succeed the late Hon. W. S. Holman in
Congress-
| George NJ. Dudley has been appointed
deputy collector and cashier in the Bath
custom house, vice Lowell. VIM. @. lib
belts has been appointed shipping COM
missioner at Rockland under the civil
| service rules.
A horse was stolen from the stable of
| Charles Lane on Harris Hill in Mechanic
| Falls Tuesday night. The thieves also
called at the Ellingwood farm near by
and stole about bushel of oats. No clue
to the thieves as yet.
| Wednesday afternoon there left Bangor,
| in the British steamship Jacob Bright,
the largest cargo of lumber ever sent out
of the Penobscot river-abOut 2,600 900
feet of spruce deals bound for the United
Kingdom.
The spool bar trade, which is to break
| all previous records at Bangor, this year,
is Just about to begin, and five steamers
are already chartered for the shipment Of
| the white birch to the Scottish thread
mills.
| Considerable anxiety is felt at the non
arrival at Portsmouth, Eng, to take part
in the great naval review of the British
training brig Sea Lark. She was due
last Thursday, but has not been seen
since she left Davenport. It is believed
the brig experien ced the full force of the
recent gale, and being under sail and
manned by 13O boys, some mishap is
| feared.
| A bloody melee on the battlements o
Ryerson Physical labratory, in which
heads were thumped and backs belabored,
put an abrupt end to the senior class day
exercises at the University Of Chicago
yesterday. The fight was over class
flag.
Gen. James B. Gordon was unanimous
ly reelected general commanding officer
of the United States Confederate Vete-
rams Wednesday at Nashville. In spite
of this however, Gen. Gordon presented
| his resignation.
The residents of Amesbury were much
excited Wednesday by the report that
three dynamite bombs had been found on
Water street and the police have been
called upon to investigate the circum-
stances attending their presence there.
! Yale and Harvard have reached an
agreement upon the long standing ques-
ton Of time and place for the football
match next autumn. 1t has been agreed
to play the game on Saturday, Noyeln-
Der 18th at Cambridge. Paul Dashiel,
the old Lehigh player, will act as UNI
pire.
The intense heat continues at New Or
leans. Five deaths have been reported
today, among them being Bishop Dudley,
a well known cotton broker.
About $4,000 pounds of tea brought to
San Francisco since the first of May, was
not allowed to be imported, because it
did not come up to the standard of quail
ty established by the secretary of treasury.
The importers are protesting.
Senator Morgan of Alabama has intro
duced a bill to regulate the annexation
of Hawaii to the United States.
A special from Bamberg, S. c., says:
A difficulty occurred here Tuesday be-
tween Mr.. T. Herbert Wanamaker and
Charles F. Jones, in which Mr.. Wanna
maker shot Mr.. Jones in the head, killing
him Instantly. Mr.. Wanamaker is a
change.
AS Plague Commissioner Rand and
Lieut.. Ayers were leaving the governors
evening, held in honor of the Queens
jubilee, native who was hidden behind
some trees, shot both officers Lieut..
Ayers died of the wounds received, and
the condition Of Commissioner Rand is
most serious There is no doubt that
the shooting of Messrs. Ayers and Rand
was connected with the recent agitation
among the natives
Internal revenue disturbances have tax
| en- place at Oivedeo, capital Of the Span
ish province of that name. The gem
darmes who were detailed to suppress the
disorder fired upon the rioters, killed
two workmen and wounded five others.
A renewal of the disturbance is feared
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