The Portland daily press., 1900-07-07
BRIEF JOTTINGS.

WillistOn church tomorrow evening.
Rev. DR.. Fem will lecture tomorrow
evening on How the Revolution in Chi
ma Prepares the way Tor Civilization and
Religion
On the remaining Sunday evenings in
July the pastor Of the Free street Baptist
church, DR.. Wilson, will preach a series
OF sermons on "Four Chapters in the
Story of Life:'' July 8, Breaking
Home Ties;2 July 15, GIn the Swing of
the World; July %, Dark Days." July
20, Home Again" The public is cordi-
ally invited.
Yesterday morning Mr.. NeWcomb, a
driver on one of Clark's Ice teams was
taking piece of ice from the cart near
the Maohigonne engine house, when by
an accident one of thu wheels OF the
heavily loaded cart passed over his foot
and crushed it badly. The foot was just
about well from previous accident and
this second injury will make recovery
slower than it otherwise would be. The
man was ta ken to his home at Cash COR
ner.
In the United States District court be-
fore Judge Webb, petitions have been
filed by William A. Derrah, Portland ;
Herbert E. Merrill, Auburn; John E.
Macfaohern, Gardiner; Fulton B. Pen
dexter, Portland Joseph H. Dow, Port
land.
Yesterday Judge Peabody of the Cum
berland Probate court gave hearing on
the three cross petitions OF Lucy A. Ma
son of Somersworth N. H., for the ap-
pointment of her daughter, Mrs. Wett of
that city, of Thomas Dyer of Portland,
ct ais, for the appointment Of Augustus
F. Moult1n of this city, and of Edward
F. Gowel Of Brunswick for his own ap-
poinment as guardian of James Lougee
of Scarboro, alleged to be of insufficient
mental capacity for the management of
his estate, amounting to about $16, OO0.
Among the counsel engaged in the hear
ing were Col William f. Pierce Of Som
ersworth, N H, Edward f. GowelI of
Berwick, A. G. Dresser and Clark B.
Eastman of Portland. The decision was
reserved.
The report of the monthly committee
of the Overseers of the Poor for June
shows the following figures: Number OF
families assisted, 1853; number of persons,
645; number of persons admitted to city
institutions during the month, 10; born,
2; died, 8; discharged, IA; runaway, 1 !;
present number in old Portland house,
1O7; in city hospital, 40; in Deering house,
27 Total, ia.
The construction of the Union Mutual
block on Exchange street is progressing
rapidly. The roof will be on by Septem-
Der and the block placed in readiness for
occupation by next February.
The Casco National bank will COM
mencs today to close for business at noon,
every Saturday during the months of
July and August.
The Portland Cadets, Company B of
the First Regiment, will be inspected
Monday evening, July 10th, by General
Hoyt
The employees of the postoffice are
busily engaged in making accounts of
the fiscal year which ended June 30
Postmaster Barker yesterday received a
letter from John Butcher who gave his
residence as 165 Blaumont street, Dallas,
Texas, asking for Information concern
ing Mrs. Sara Smith, whose husband was
James Smith, a shoemaker, who is sup
posed to have come to this city about
1880. No such person IS name appears in
the directory
A party of ladies and g g3ntlemen arrived
from New York yesterday morning and
stopped at the Congress Square hotel.
They lfet on the steamer Frank Jones
for Bar Harbor last evening. The party
was composed of people from New Jersey
and Texas.
The tiling in the rotunda Of the Fal
mouth hotel is being repaired. A crew CT
workmen was b1sily engaged in maxi
ing these repairs last evening and they
were the object Of considerable curiosity
from the guests of the hotel
Yesterday a well know driver of an ex
press team in this city met q man from
South Portland with whom he snapped
horses. The expressman states that his
horse is 80 years of age while the other
man says that an examination of the
teeth of his horse prove that the animal
is at least 35 years old.
Most of the Maine delegates to the Kan
sas City convention are expected to arrive
in Portland tomorrow. The en-.
thusiam was not generally manifested
yesterday by the Portland Democrats on
learning that Stevenson had been chosen
as the running mate of Bryan. The
opinion was quite freely expressed that
the convention could have done better by
selecting some eastern man to complete
the ticket with the boy orator.
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