The Portland daily press., 1897-07-31

pOllCy holders OF Uno Na6SdcnuS6bGS jooue-
fit Association in relation to the condit-
ion of payments.
DR.. Andrews has accepted the presiden-
cy of a new university founded by John
Brisbane Walker. 1t is to be modelled
after the Chautauqua school and be con-
Quoted by correspondence.
The Indignation of the natives Of In
d1a against the government for its sum-
mary policy of repression increases. They
say that the government Is going to con-
vert India to a second Ireland by Il pro-
gram of coercion and that no one is safe
Manuel Fernandez Chaquello, the
young American, who was tried in Ha-
vana by court martial on the 22d on
charge OF filibustering, has not yet been
sentenced, although the prosecutor asked
for the imposition of the capital penalty
In consequence of Consul General Lees
Intervention, the matter is still in sus-
pense and has been referred to Madrid.
B; F. Mckinley, uncle of President
Mckinley, has been appointed assistant
postmaster Of San Francisco by Post
master Montague.
cargoes of grain at Philadelphia, New
York, Baltimore and Newport News for
points in the United Kingdom and Eu-
rope, making asday' record, which, it is
claimed, has never been equalled. To
fill.these vessels it will require over 4,0O0,-
600 bushels of grain
Gable dispatches from Melbourne state
that the steamer Tasmania bound from
Wellington to Sydney, N. s. W., struck
a rock off Cape Mazi, between the towns
of Napier and Osborne, New Zealand,
and sank in three hours. The passengers
and crew were saved.
A reception is to be rendered to Edward
Ten Eyck, winner of the diamond sculls
! at the Henley regatta, in Fanuil hall Bos-
ton. Tuesday, August 8. Every boat club
in and around Boston will be represented
at the reception and the affair will be
in charge of the New England Amateur
Rowing association.
The Republican national committee is
maintaining its headquarters at Wash
ington, during the summer and keeping
force of employees at work getting out
documents for use in those states of Which
| the campaign next fall will be of national
character.
A special from Washington, says: Offic-
| ial information received in Washington
indicates that Great Britain will consent
to join In an international monetary con-
| ference, to be held in Washington next
winter.
Twa Lehigh trains collided at Depew
Junction. New York, yesterday, killing
| George Ellensbee, engineer and Charles
| Eddy, fireman. James Ratcliff, another
| fireman, was slightly injured. Eddy's
body was recovered, but Ellenbee's is still
under the wreck.
M. M. Garland, president of the Anal
gamated Association of Iron and Steel
W orkers, spent Thursday in Muncie
in conferences with the Midland Steel
nd tod ~ Il:
some differences that resulted in the big
plant resuming work lin all departments
Friday.
board of police commissioners of New
York, because, as he says, he did not ap-
prove the spy system in getting evidence
against disorleriy houses. Ths resigna-
tion was accepted by Mayor Grant
The British ship Tasmania, Capt,
Graham, from Calcutta, ran upon. sunken
rocks off Cape Maria at the northern
| yesterday morning and sank Immediate
| ly. All on board were saved.
| The British foreign office has notified
Ambassador Hay that Great Britain has
| accepted the proposition of the United
| States for an international conference on
the question of pelagic sealing in the
! Behring Sea, to be held in Washington
! during the coming autumn.
A freight train was stalled in Lewis
| Itunnell, West Virginia, Friday morning
on the Chesapeake and Ohio, and the
crew was overcome by foul airs. Conduo-
tor Edward Bray is dead and Sam Hamil-
ton, Edward Womack and Tom Kane
wood are in precarious condition.
Word comes from Washington from
Secretary Sherman at Amagansett, L. 1.
that his health has improved very much
since he arrived at that place. He will
leave for Boston in day or two and this
trip will be followed by sea voyage.
N. C. Sawyer of Vermont, E. B. Smith
of Massachusetts,, Homer Riggs of New
York, S. R. Brackett of Maine and j. S.
Patterson of New Jersey have been re-
instated as special examiners of the pen
sion bureau.
A despatch from Lisbon says that the
situation at Oporto is alarming. Minis
ters fear an attempt ataarevolution.
Maxine Matinee was hanged at Flores
vile, Texas, in the Wilson county jail
Friday afternoon for triple murder, COM
Jesus GARLIC and wife, an aged couple,
and Juanita Acosta, 1S, whom he first
ravished.
The commercial treaty between Great
Britain and the German Zollverein, which
has been in force since May 8, 1865, was
denounced yesterday by Great Britain
and ceases to be operative year hence.
The scaffolding of bridge at Schwar-
fenberg, Austria, on which were num-
Der of workmen. Friday fell, precipitating
15 of the men into the river. Despite the
efforts made to rescue, 10 of the unfortu-
nate men were swept away and drowned.
LIE Soir of Brussels publishes speci al
edition announcing that the British gov
ernment has denounced the commercial
treaty with Belgium. This announce
ment has caused much excitement in
commercial circles.
A despatch from Constantinople says
| that the signing of the preliminaries of
peace awaits only the reply of the Greek
government fixing the dates for the pay
ment of indemnity.
After two days of investigation of the
killing of P. II. Patterson, who was shot
| in front Of the altar in q negro Baptist
church in Montgomery, Ala, Wednesday
the coroner's jury returned a verdict of
death by the hand of GeorgeW. Pritchard,
and that Rev. A. J. Stokes, Rev. P. T.
Brown William Rracey Mace Co]eman