The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-11-05
GENERAL NEWS.

Arthur B. johnson, a lawyer and we'll
known politician of Utica, N. Y, was found
dead in his Office Saturday morning with a pis-
tol ball in his breast. 1t is thought he COM
mitted suicide while suffering from depres-
sion.
A Canadian Pacific Railway express train
over the Port Arthur branch bore down a
heavy trestle work at Hawk Lake, Manitoba,
Friday, and precpitated the entire train into
the gorge below. No lives were lost. The
Dominion government had prohibited the run
ming Of trains on this branch for several years.
Adjutant General King reports that the me-
groes IN Texas are dissatisfied with exclusive
carssfor their accommodation, and say that
train men on the Texas Central, where the
system has just been inaugurated. are COM
PEELED to take the colored people out OF the
cars assigned to the whites.
At the election of officers of the National
Woman's Christian Temperance Union, in De-
troit, Mich. Saturday, Miss Frances E. Will
lard was unanimously reelected president.
Judge Hawes, in the Circuit Court, at Chi
cago, Saturday morning, sentenced man
named Zimmerman to six months in the coun-
ty Jail for the attempted bribery of juror in
the interest of the Northwestern Railroad,
which was being sued for personal damages
The great exposition of the New England
Manufacturers and Mechanics Institute, in
Bston, closed Saturday night with a very
large audience, at least $4,000 people being
present. The exhibition was the most credita-
BILE of the kind ever seen in New England,
and its profits aggregate $4,000.
Bishop Gilmour, in statement which he
has given to the press, denies the report that
three nuns had left the convent in Cleveland.
VIM. L. Dickinson, superintendent of schools
OF Jersey City, N. j., the past 20 years. died
Saturday.
Charles s. Lee was drowned in Boston har-
Dor Saturday afternoon while sailing with a
companion.
Noah Bishop, a veteran of 1912, died at Wa
terbury, Conn.,, Saturday, aged So.
j. Bancroft Davis will probably succeed
Judge Otto as official register of the United
State Supreme Court.
Louis G. Whittier, of the Manchester Loco
motive Works, is missing, with $3.50 which he
collected for rent
j. II. Parker of Chicago, general western
passenger agent of the Grand Trunk Railway,
has resigned.
P. W. Parkhurst, cashier of the Clyde Bank,
at Clyde, o., has absconded. The bank is
closed and a receiver has been appointed. He
got about $4,000.
Elery ii. Andrews, q clerk in the North
western National Bank of Chicago, con.
fessed three days ago TO the embezzlement OF
$500.
Friday, while Robert johnson, an employe
in Sweets oil refinery, at Parkersburg, Va,
while on the top of the still, the heat and
steam were thrown on, burning head and neck
horribly. He leaped from the still and re-
celved injuries which may prove fatal.
Rachel Layton, coIored, of Trenton, N. J.
died yesterday morning aged LOG.
Fire last night in Algiars La, destroyed
twenty houses. Loss $4,000.
Conner alias Faulkner, a noted eounterfeiter
and his wife were arrested near Frenchtown
Ind, Saturday.
George Perry of Portsmouth,, r. l., yester
day morning mistook lodger named Dick
Miller for burglar and shot him.
The Camp Cree half breeds are plundering
ranches at White Earth, OAK, and driving of
| cattle.
Commissioner General Morehead, of the
| worlds exposition to be held in New Orleans
next year. was in Boston, Saturday, in the in
| terest of the exhibition.
Thomas j. Gallagher of st. Louis has discov
| cred that Mary Churchill is working in the
laundry of an insane asylum, three miles from
! Indianapolis, Ind.