The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-07-10
BRIEFLY TOLD.

The report that W, B.. Cody, buffalo
Billy is dead is without foundation.
Robert H. Martin, form erly treasurer
of the Columbia University at Washing
ton, who was arrested last May on charges
of embezzling $13, $50 of the university
funds, was yesterday indicted and will be
arraigned in few days.
Thomas F. Bayard of Wilmington,
DEL, former ambassador to the Court of
st. James, is booked to sail for England
on the American liner St. Louis, next
Wednesday.
Ex-Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii will
leave Washington today for the summer,
going first to New York, and later to
Cape May, Newport and other eastern re-
sorts. In the autumn she perhaps may
return to Honolulu.
President Mckinley will pass his yaca-
tion on the shores of Lake Champlain.
He leaves Washington August l.
The ambassadors of the Powers have
been reconstructed by their respective gov
ernments about the despatch of another
note to the Turkish government reiterat-
ing their demand for an explicit reply on
the Greco Turk frontier question.
Mary Ann Lease says: "The silver
question is an issue of the past and will
never again serve as the leading issue for
the reform element in politics. Socialism
is the hope of the country and in the next
campaign the fight will be made for in
dustrial emancipation of the people.
Three highwaymen armed with revolt
yers, held up a trolley car on the Cicero
and Proviso line at Chicago Thursday
night and robbed the conductor, motor
man and the passengers of their watches
and money.
The fact that diplomatic relations Bbe-
tween Japan and the United States are
strained may be responsible for the sudden
orders received by Capt. Barker of the
battleship Oregon.
George Hamilton, the Seeetary of State
for India, replying in the House of Com
mons Friday as to the number of persons
killed during the recent rioting in the
vicinity of Calcutta, said that about seven
persons were killed and that about 20
were wounded during the riots. Accord
ing to native reports no less than 1,500
persons were killed during the disturb
ance about Calcutta.
The Frankfort Zeitung today publishes
despatch from Constantinople saying
that Emperor William through the Ger
man ambassador there, Baron Saurma
Won Jeltsch, has expressed the hope that
the Sultan will not resist the desire of the
Powers, for the evacuation of Thessaly by
the Turkish troops.
AS result of the recent investigation
of the immigration office at Boston the
services of Vim. +. Murray Thomas j.
Doyle and Edmond Cussen, immigration
inspectors, have been discontinued for tn
good of the service.
1t can be announced on authority that
with the presentation to the Senate Of the
large list of diplomatic and consular
nominations which will go to the capitol
Saturday or Monday, the President will
decline positively to make another ap.
pointment to places OF this character until
notice ia inspired by desire to spare use-
less opportunities by seekers after diplo-
matte and consular places.
DR.. Samuel B. Halliday, pastor of the
Beecher Memorial church in Rockaway
avenue, Brooklyn, and formerly assistant
to the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, in the
Plymouth church in Brooklyn, died at
Orange yesterday. On Monday last, he
was stricken with paralysis. He was un-
conscious most of the time until his death.
Mr., William Gillette, the American
playwright and actor, has been dangerous
ly i'll for more than week in London,
and has been confined to his bed the most
of the time He will be compelled to re-
tire from the stage for the present and
to relinquish playwriting Indefinitely.
AS soon as he is able to be moved, he will
return to the United States.
At $40 Friday afternoon Charles
Fabatier 20 years old, single and
Frenchman, called at the New York city
hall police station and informed the au-
thorities that he had stabbed his father,
Dr. Charles Fabatier, with dagger, kill
ing him and that he had left the body on
the bed in their apartments.
Edmund Davis, prominent Boston
LAWYER, shot himself at his home in Hyde
Park yesterday. Davis had been arrest
ed the night before charged with embez-
Element of trust funds in his care.
Robert Tuttle, the oldest retired mer-
chant in Skowhegan, died last evening,
aged 50 years. He was born in Turner,
Maine.
Orders have been sent from the Navy
Denartment at Washington to the com.
mandant of the navy yard at Portsmouth,
N. H., to have all the stores for torpedo
boats No. 9 and 10 assembled at this yard