The Portland daily press., 1883-12-17
GEN ERAL NEWS.

The Kansas City, Mo. Times building was
damaged 81, 200 Dy fire Saturday night.
The trestle used in erecting the new canal
bridge at Crescent, N. Y, fell Friday. Five
men upon it fell twenty feet into the canal and
all we're more or less injured.
The estimated loss on the Standard Theatre
building, New York, is about $35 900; insured
damaged SIS, 900, and costumes of four operas
damaged $4,000. Personal property of act
ors and employees valued at $4,000, was burned.
Chicago police made raid Saturday on
gambling houses and arrested eighty persons.
A little daughter OF Thomas Keegan, of
Greenbush, N Y, whie protecting younger
sister Friday from taunts of playmates, was
struck on the forehead by piece of brick.
Saturday lockjaw set in and soon resulted in
death.
William d. Fox, lof Mobile, Ala, beat his
wife while she was in bed Saturday. He then
poured kerosene on the woman and bed, and
set both on fire. The woman was fatally in
jureI. Fox is in jail.
DIR. Albert G. e. Goerson of Philadelphia,
was Saturday sentenced to be hanged for the
murder of his wife.
purchase of $4,000 ounces of silver for coinage
into dimes at the Philadelphia mint A great
demand for coin of this denomination has aris-
en- of late in all parts of the country.
The Acting Secretary of the Treasury has
decided that towed barges on International
streams and rivers are lot liable to registra-
ton.
Policeman Conroy of New York, Saturday
was convicted of murder in the first degree,
and will be sentenced Thursday.
Nuts eave-trough factory in Chicago was
destroyed By fire Friday night. Loss $40, 600;
one-fourth insured.
The Concordia National Bank of Concordia,
Kansas, has been authorized to commence
business with capital of $4,000.
Gerald Massey, the English literateur, has
sued the New York Times for Sc, 900, for libel,
because of criticisms on his new lecture, Man
in Search of His Soul.'
Robert M. Rodgers, prominent farmer of
Galipolis, o., has skipped for the West, leav-
ing behind debts amounting to over 1900;
also several forged notes on his father amount
ing to nearly $4,000.
Dr. Calvin Ellis of Boston, died Friday, af-
Ter long illness. From 1868 to 1867, he occu-
pied the chair of cinics at the Harvard Medi-
cal School. He was a member of the Massa-
chusetts Medical School and of the American
Academy Of Arts and Sciences.
Saturday afternoon, Orren Smith, agent OF
the Bacon paper mill in LAWRENCE, Mass, was
canght by a revolving shaft and whirled
around it several times before the machinery
could be stopped. receiving injuries that will
result fatally.
Charles II. Walkers sugar house, near
franklin, was burned last night. Loss $50, 600
This was the largest refinery in the State OF
Louisiana, outside of New Orleans
1t is announced that Miss Marion Booth
| daughter of the late Junius Brutus Booth will
| bring suit in Boston to break her fathers will
| on the ground Of invalidity. By the will
| Booth left his entire estate to his widow.
Charles T. Wetherbee, engineer of the
| Marlboro, Mass fiIe department., died yester
day from injuries received at fire in Geddes
| dye house Dec. Sd.
| In consequence of the recent break in prices
of cotton goods, leaving, it is claimed, no mar
| gin for profit, notices of a reduction of wages
! will be posted te-day in many of the leading
| mills in Rhode Island,
| A despatch from Santa Fe says the Navajo
| Indians are leaving their preservation and run
| ming off stock,
Gen. Roger A. Pryor, who assisted in O'Don
| nell's defence, arrived in New York yesterday
! by steamer Germanic.
Two boys, ten years old, were drowned il
| the Blackstone river at Manville, R. L., yes
terday afternoon, by breaking through the ice