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BRIEF MENTION OF NEWS Happenings of the World from Pole to Pole. TOLD IN A FEW SECONDS OF TIME. The Developments of Each Day During the Week Caught Fresh from the Busy Wires and Carefully Edited and Condensed for Our Readers. A gale at Syracuse Monday night blew down a large two story frame building. wrecking it completely. Anthony Arent, of New York, has been found guilty at Montreal of failing to provide for his wife. Sentence has been suspended. One hundred and two morphine pills were swallowed at Washington by Belle Adams, who said she did not wish to live longer. Physicians placed her out of danger, It is reported that John E. Ashe, who rasdeputy superintendent of public works under James Shanahan, will be appointed to succeed Edward Hannan by Governorelect Flower. The demurrer of Charles A. Newton, charged with violating the civil service act. has been overruled by the United States supreme court, and then sent to the criminal court for trial. The low water in the Kennebec is caus. ing great distress in the cities and towns along its banks. Mills are shutting down daily. The city of Augusta is in dark ness, as the low water has caused the elec tric company to shut down. Mayor Nathaniel Mathews, Jr., has been unanimously renominated by the Demo crats of Boston John O'Neil, of Waterbury, Conn., drank carbolic acid, mistaking it for whisky. He died in great agony. President Harrison, accompanied by exSenator Sewell, of New Jersey_left Washing Nov. 16 for Bengles, Md., on a hunting trip of two or three days. Chief of Police Freat, of Great Falls. Mon., was killed, and Jacob Harris, Joe Leonard and two others were wounded in a drunken fight on an excursion train from Helena to Neihart, Mon. Lebbeus H. Rogers, one of the bonds men of Captain Howgate, who embezzled a large sum of money from the government while chief of the signal service, will be compelled, according to a supreme court decision, to pay $115,000 to the government. Contractor Cortening, of Woodhaven, L I., is missing. It is said he owes em ployees $500 for work in laying the Woodhaven water pipes. Dr. John Clarkson Jay died at his home in Rye, N.Y., Nov. 16. Donn Piatt died at his Ohio home Nov. 12. At Philadelphia Barlow's cotton and shoddy warehouse was damaged $25,000 by fire. The Depauw Plate Glass company has been incorporated in Indiana. The company will operate the old plant at New Albany, Ind., and the new one at Alex andria, which will cover forty acres, and will employ 2,000 men. There is an epidemic of smallpox on Harris Neck, Liberty county, twenty miles north of Darien. Rev. J. Loring Pratt, pastor of the Congregational church at Strong, Me., s dead. Bolby's machine shop and Brewer's store at Sunbury, Pa., were burned. Leonardo Lorubbio shot Vincenzo Riverito at 47 Baxter street, New York, at the request of Rose Dadurno, with whom Riverito had lived when in this country seven years ago. The death of Mary Grief in Chicago is said by the anarchists to have been caused by the police raid upon her father's saloon, and they are making threats of revenge. Charles R. Baldwin, mayor of Bridge port, Conn., was arrested, charged with having obtained $2,700 fraudulently. The complainant is Mrs. Sarah E. Kelly. The Rev. Dr. Charles A. Briggs reaffirmed the doctrine of progressive sanctification in his sermon at the West End Presbyterian church, New York. Gordon L. Ford, one of the most honored and best known of Brooklyn's citizens, died at his home, 97 Clark street, Nov. 14. The Sandwich (N. H.) Savings bank has closed its doors. Other banks in the state were in no way affected. Frederic Taylor, a New York Republican, has written an open letter to John Claflin assigning bossism and extreme protectionism as the causes of the recent Republican defeat, and urging that the party undertake a reduction of the McKinley tariff. Thomas Joseph and William Jones, little boys, found $800 in money hidden in the woods near Miner's Mills, Pa. A second flag has been presented to patriotic Schoolmistres Conners, of Ladoga, d Ind., by the G. A. R. S. of V. and Patriotic Order of Sons of America. Sophia Schmitshen, one of a notorious band of thieves at Chicago, scratched out the eye of a young girl on whom she had made an unprovoked assault, Allen G. Thurman celebrated his seven y-eighth birthday at Columbus, O., Nov. 18. Owing to the recent death of Mrs. Thurman there were no public demonstrations. Suit has been brought by the state of Iowa against the state of Illinois to ascer w tain in whose jurisdiction a strip of territ tory along the Mississippi between the state lies, Masked robbers entered the store of the Farmers' Trading company at Spokane is Falls, Wash. and holding the employees at le d the point of a pistol, stole $2,000 in money and valuable jewelry. o A confidence man who had prepared to al swindle banks throughout New York state by representing himself as William Lumbard, cashier of the Wheatland (Cal.) bank, a e was arrested at Binghamton, N.Y. to Ex-Governor Hoard. of Wisconsin, stated rbefore the Iowa State anger association at Waterloo. Ia., that he had proof that is the Hiscock oleomargarine bill had failed in to pass the last congress because certain to senators had been bribed. in T.T. Gardner has been re-elected presiy dent of the Kentucky Farmers' Alliance. a Of the 461 convicts released by the east Tennessee miners, 203 have been captured. Of those at large forty are in Memphis. of The New York, Maine and New Brunsof wick Steamship company has passed into the hands of a receiver. he Advices from Stockton, Cal. say the contractors on the Mountain ailroad, Fresno county, have discharged all their id white laborers and have substituted Chinese. tBy a fire in the coal shaft at North re Springfield, Ills. six miners were rendered 10 insensible by gas, two of whom may not ty recover. Fourteen others escaped. County Clerk Conway Removed.
