The Portland daily press., 1897-09-02
BRIEFLY TOLpa

An outbreak is reported among the
Moplahs or fanatica Mohammedans of
the Malaba coast. 1t has not YET assumed
serious proportions. NIalabar is a district
the west coast of India, but the term
Malaba coast is also applied to the west
coast of India in general.
A special from Paris, published in Lon
don yesterday, says that cries OF down
with England were raised outside the
British embassy in Paris Tuesday night,
because that building was not Illuminated
in honor of the return of President Faure
to the French capital after his visit to
Russia. Two lads the despatch add were
arrested outside the embassy for partici-
pating in the demonstration and were
subsequently released with cautions.
Military movements in India are re-
ported from many places and rapid
progress is being made in the organiza-
tion of the Punitive expedition being sent
against the insurgent tribesmen.
Colonel Gordon's column of troops from
Peshawur has arrived safely at Kohat
without having met with any opposition
upon the part of the insurgents. The
Afridis, according to the latest reports
have apparently left the Khyber pass.
| The British post at Gazrbund, Beluch-
istan, which was held by native levies,
was attacked on Sunday night last by a
number of Brahus, who murdered and
robbed the Leves and some travellers who
had sought refuge there. Many new
| signs OF Ciisaffection are reported from
var Gus points along the Indian bo rder.
| A cablegram announced that the Ameri.
can line steamer St. Paul, Captain
Jamison, which sailed from New York
last Wednesday, August %, clearing the
bar at .3S a, m., and the lightship
twenty minutes later, arrived at South
| Hurst Castle, twenty miles below South
ampton at 81 yesterday morning. If the
| time is taken at the Needles, the point at
which records are received, the St. Paul
has made the passage in about six days,
| twelve hours and seven minutes. This
time lowers the eastward record made on
her last trip ending August II, by about
| record is held by the Hamburg liner
Furst Bismarck, days. 10 hours and So
minutes.
The following notice was posted in the
bank of England yesterday: "The secre-
tary of state for India, in council, gives
notice that the sale of bills OF exchange
on Calcutta, Bombay and Madras has
been suspended for period of not less
| than ten weeks" The government has
very little money in India to draw on,
owing to the famine and plague, having
rendered the collection of taxes slow and
the present time might be opportune to
accustom the Indians to the use of gold
| instead of silver, though it would not
have been attempted had not the scarcity
of money arisen.
The upper part of the Boundary house
at Milltown, Me-, owned by Wheeler &
| Smart, was badly damaged by fire We'd
| nesday afternoon. The loss is quite heavy
and is partially insured.
l. Do1 Il,
| two fishermen who strayed from the
schooner Hattie f. Knowlton off Nova
Scotia coast, during thick fog, arrived
at Boston, yesterday, on the steamer Bos-
ton, from Yarmouth, n S. The men
rowed to Jordan river, r. S., and made
their way to Yarmouth, where the United
States consul furnished them with trans
portation to Boston.
Mary Clark, waitress in restaurant
at Sayin Rock, West Haven, Conn, WAS
criminally assaulted early yesterday
morning by a colored man named Stephen
jackson. Jackson later drowned himself
to escape lynching which he feared
would be his fate if captured. At ]. 80
o'c1ock police officers were attracted by
a woman's 8 screams and hastened to u pier
where they found the young woman
struggling violently with Jackson. The
colored man jumped from the pier into
the water. The officers guarded the beach,
but nothing more was seen of jackson
until daylight when his body was found
floating near the scene. 1t is believed he
deliberately drowned himself. The Clark
woman is badly scratched but her injuries
are not serious. Jackson was about 30
years of age.
August of 1897 was the banner export
month in the history of the port of Balti-
more. There value amounted to the
enormous sum of $40, ,243 391, figure never
before reached. Grain formed the largest
part, aggregating 9, 23O, $50 bushels, break
of this character There were forty seven
full cargeos of grain. France received
sixteen. Belgium eight. Ireland nine,
Holland six, England four, Norway two,
Denmark two. The ship Knight Bachelor
took to Antwerp 1876, ,699 bushels, the
largest cargo of grain that ever left an