The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-08-06
BRIEFLY TOLD.

In runaway at Waterville yesterday
morning Mrs. A. B. Fletcher and Mrs.
A. A.Small of China village were thrown
out of carriage. Mrs. Fletcher sustained
five fractures of right arm, bad body
bruises and possibly internal injuries.
smashed in, eye torn out, shoulder brok-
en- and probably internal injuries.
Sir Thomas Sanderson who, as the per-
manent under-secretary, ranks next to
Lord Salisbury i'll the foreign office. said
to a New York World correspondent:
81 do not believe that the British gov
eminent has submitted any proposition
to the American bimetallic ENJOYS.
The funeral of Nelson Dingley, ST.,
father of Congressman Dingley and F. l..
Dingley, was attended at the latter
home in Auburn Thursday afternoon,
Rev. G. S. Patton, pastor of the High
street Congregational church, officiating.
The funeral was private.
Mrs. Lee Coombs, a prominent. and
wealthy lady of Clay county, Kentucky,
shot and killed Miss Sallie Hooker,
belle of Clay county, Wednesday. Mrs.
Coombs left her home saying she would
be gone all day. She changed her mind,
however, and returned. Upon entering
her home she found her husband and
Miss Hooker in a compromising position
and the shooting followed.
Frank, the year old son of tax collec-
tor G. E. Duren Of Fairfield, died Thurs
day, morning from conclusion OF the
brain, caused by a blow from stick
in the hands of d playmate, about
week ago.
Alzada B. Dyer of Rockland, has been
granted a pension.
According to story printed in the
Chicago Times-Herald the efforts of lead
ing distillers and distributors to form a
combination to control the production
and price Of spirits have at last been sue
cessful.
1t is semi-officially announced that
Japan has suggested that Belgium be
selected to act as arbitrator in the CUES
tions in dispute between Hawaii and the
Japanese government.
F. I. Smith, the "Borax King" will
establish a million dollar refinery near
New York to employ 900 men. The Ding
ley tariff bill placed duty of So ton on
imported borax, giving Mr. Smith an op-
portunity to compete in New York with
borax imported from Turkey and South
America.
The Evening World says that John
Jacob Aston has donated $4,000 to pur-
chase Elmwood, the Cambridge, Mass.
home of James Russell Lowell, which
will be turned into memorial park and
be thrown open to the public.
The third annual reunion of the s'Sons
and Daughters of Nathan Lord, 1852, +"
was held at Berwick Thursday, and was
largely attended by members Of the fami-
ly and invited guests.
searching, the Washington police yester-
day morning, captured James Carr, a
young white man, who assaulted little
| Rose Robinson, an 11-year- old white girl
jeremiah 7. O'Sullivan, the we'll
known politician and editor, who was
recently relieved from jail, where he was
serving an Is months sentence for libel,
on account of i'll health, was discharged
from the Salem hospital Thursday
The London Evening News publishes a
letter from Calcutta volunteer, reiterat-
ing the statement that during the recent
riotilig there, the artillery fired point
blank at mob of 5000 mill hands who
were marching to join the rioters with
the result that 1900 of the natives were
killed.
Bishop Henry G. Potter of New York,
with a healthy glow on his face, but with
a dislocated shoulder, arrived on the Ger
manic Thursday from Liverpool.
No official notice has been received at
Washington of the reported selection OF
the King of the Belgians as arbitrator
but generally the selection is highly COM
mended.
John W. Holiday of Ohio, was Thurs
day appointed chief clerk of the railway
mail service. He has been employed in
the service some years and succeeds Alex
ander Grant of Michigan. appointed as
sistant general superintendent.
i The races at Pointe Claire, Que, be-
tween the yachts Aoca and Glencarin, II.
to decide which shall defend the Seawan-
eaaa cup took tRs place a Aoo Gfn e
second and third and G lencarin the fourth
and fifth races.
The British bark Martha G.. Craig and
cargo have been lost off Mostargas. OF
the crew only two mates and two seamen
were saved. The Martha 6. Craig left
Cardiff on May 30 for Rio Grande do Sui
in command of Capt. Davies.
Il The Middlesex mills, Lowell, which
manufactures wooden goods, will be closed
IN all departments from August to %.
Il Agent Saunders states that necessary re.
pairs require the shut down.
Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, United
States minister to Spain, who was pas
senger by the American line steamer
Paris, which arrived at Southampton
Wednesday, reached London Thursday,
and will remain there for week.
A despatch from Montevideo says that
a great popular meeting was held there
Thursday and addressed by well-known
speakers who advocated the conclusion of
peace with the revolutionists. Resolu-
lions to this effect were carried by a large
majority and the opinion of the meeting
will be brought formally to the attention
of the government.
Henry A. Rucker, the negro recently APP
pointed collector of internal revenue for
the district of Georgia, assumed charge
of the office Thursday. Six white men in
the collectors department. announced
that they would go out Of Office with Col
lector Trammell, declining to serve under
a negro collector. Rucker has selected
A. J. Smith. white man, to be his chief
deputy.
Peter Bons, the tramp, charged with
the murder OF Pearl Morrison at Crystal
Falls, Michigan, has made complete
confession, acknowledging that he as
saulted the girl and then strangled her
to death. The confession was secured by
a detective who visited Bons, clad in d
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