The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1898-12-09
THE WEEKS NEWS.
THURSDAY. DEC. l.

THURSDAY, DEC. 1.
Total number Of passengers on board
the Portland now appears to have been
l01; officers, crew and employees, 62;
total, 163-Admiral SIMPSONS report
of the operations about Santiago after
the battle made public by the depart
nent; he says the publications Of Shat
ter's kilograms were unwise and place
the navy in a false and invidious posi-
ton before the public-Suicide at Chi
cago Of Horace L. Bailey, formerly presi-
dent of Lynn Shoe company-Colonel
oliver H. Payne's steam yacht, finest in
the world, launched at Bath, Me
Lightkeeper Drayton at Marblehead
neck says the recent storm was the
worst he has seen in his long experience
Fishermen begin to arrive in Glouces-
ter from the Georges and tell of the fear
full gale-Hannis Taylor says we have
robbed Spain, and that we can hardly
justify our course in the eyes of the
world for the treaty ending the war
Central American union collapses,
as the states fall back into their
respective indepe1lence-New in
irmary at Harvard assured by the gift
OF James Stillman Of New York
Peace commissioners discuss Is arti-
cles of the peace treaty, but only three
were mutually agreed upon-Suicide
Of Willard F. Derby of Salem, Mass
Frank P. Graves, formerly a professor
at Tufts college, inaugurated president
Of the state university Of Washington
Mayor Quincy explains the public
bath system Of Boston TO Baltimore
Police disperse strikers at Marlboro
Mass, who were following non-union
employees; state board of arbitration
called in by Mayor Hoitt-Three bold
holdups in three Haverhill Chinese
laundrieS.
FRIDAY. DEC. 2.
Fifteen of the q bodies recovered from
the Portland have been identified;
search Of the sands is being carried on
most carefully-Boston common coun-
ell, in concurrence, raises policemens
salaries 5000 a year. after considerable
debate; charge that it is a matter of
politics-Governor Tanner of Illinois
indicted by grand jury for malfeasance
in office ce-Steamer Pentagoet has not
yet been reported, and owners have al
most abandoned hope of her reaching
port-Mrs. Richard w. Hurley of Pea
body Mass, while insane, murders one
Illness Of Butterworth will prevent the
trip of Yale graduate football players
through the south this Christmas
Gallows ready for Dominique Krath-
ofski, to be executed Dec. 80 at Spring
field, Mass-Noisy demonstration by
strikers toward a man and woman in
Marlboro, Mass-PosSible hitch in the
peace negotiations, as Sagasta is said
to have instructed his men to refuse
American requests, which include ces-
sion of cable and coaling station at
Ceuta-Launch at Bath, Me-, of steam
launch Aphrodite for Colonel Oliver H.
Massachusetts prison COM
mission blame Officer Abbott for the
escape of Reed, the bunco man
Firebug caught in Wanamaker's store
In Philadelphia and blaze extinguished
In time to prevent a panic-Emperor
William warmly welcomed in Berlin
Secretary Wilson, in his report. calls
attention to the necessity of investigat-
Ing agricultural conditions in our new
!slands-Steamer Gate City arrives
at Savannah, Ca, with comparatively
no damage from blizzard-Pollock Rip
Lightship towed into Philadelphia by the
steamship Observation-Disclosures
that the big schooner King Philip has
been wrecked on Peaked Hill bars
Chicago selected for meeting place Of
the Methodist general conference in 1900
-Demurrers in Quay case overruled
and Dec. IL fixed for beginning Of trial
Said that sentiment in Washington
70 crystalizing against an extra session.
SATURDAY, DEC. 3.
or the % bodies recovered from the
Portland, 19 have been identified; search
for others being carried on along Cape
Cod-Secretary Alger makes a volum-
inous report to the president covering
the operations Of the Spanish war
Anxiety for the United States gunboat
Scorpion, which has not been heard from
since Sunday, when she was supposed to
have left Havana-Steamshi Lon
donian six days overdue at London and
1t IS feared she has broken down or met
with diSaSter-PrObable that the
schooner King Philip struck on Peaked
Hill bars, trying to make by the cape
British schooner MartonmoOr picks up
rich prize at sea, the bark EscOcesa, with
cargo valued at s65 OO0-General Wood
formally opens the reorganized supreme
court OF Santiago province-Mrs
Mary II. Hurley committed to the Salem.
Mass, Jail on a charge Of numbering her
daughter-Harden's report on Filipino
finances says there is s45, ,000, 900 in circu-
lation on a silver basis, and an export
trade in 1897 OF $41. 900, 0,000-Opposition
gathering to the proposed increase of
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