The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-09-24
GENERAL NEWS.

An earthquake shock was experienced in
Greensboro, N. c., Friday. Houses shook as
II there had been an explosion, but no damage
was sustained.
1t is intended to put the steamboat Riverdale,
through the explosion of whose boilers several
persons were killed, ON the stocks and have
her practically rebuilt. She still lies sunk
near Clifton, Il. l.
Aunt Sally Stockwell of West Brattleboro'
VT, died Friday, aged 104 years and months
Mrs. Calvin .Goldwaith Of Nashua, N. H,
left her home Friday night, since which time
she has not been seen. Temporary insanity is
said to be the cause.
The passenger steamer Gem City was burned
at her wharf at st. Louis, Mo-, SATURDAY.. Loss
$4,000. She was the fastest boat on the river
and belonged to the st. Louis and st. Paul
Packet Company.
Railroads in Texas are to put on cars ex-
clusively for colored people to ride in
Next Tuesday and Wednesday the annual
session of the national council of the order of
United American Mechanics will occur at
Lynn, when representatives from many por-
tions of the United States are expected to be
in attendance.
Two hundred cords of wood were burned
near Epping, N. H., Friday night, by sparks
from locomotive.
Geo. H Davis's children set fire to his barn
Friday, which was totally consumed, together
with ten tons OF hay, lot of potatoes, farming
tools, etc.
The corporators of the Freewill Baptist
printing establishment, whose publishing
house has been located in Dover, N H., fifty
years, voted at their annual meeting Saturday
to remove their business to Boston, Mass.
A four year old son of Cross Cooke was
drowned in Hale's mill pond, South Grove
land, Mass, Friday afternoon.
At Mystic Park, the race in the 219 class,
~. .l.Ax 4 Il
morning and won by j. B. Thomas, George V. .
second, Zoe B. third.
Jacob W. Gebhardt of Pennington, N. j.,
who was arrested some months ago in New
York city, on charge of having betrayed a
young woman, has brought suit for libel
against the Sun for $4,000.
Thirteen convicts seven colored and six
white, were publicly whipped at Newcastle,
Del, Saturday. The cat was we'll laid on, but
blood was drawn only in one case.
-Four men were precipitatel sixty feet down
a Wilkesbarre, Pa, coal mine SATURDAY. and
drowned in twenty feet of water at the bottom
of the shaft.
AS yet no definite clue pointing to the mur-
derer of Rose Clark-Ambler at Stratford
Conn, has been made public.
A Chicago despatch says that reports gath
cred Friday night by the Associated Press
throught the great corn belt of the West show
that the anticipations Of general frost were
not realized.
Arrangements are being made by the Irish
National League for a series of mass meetings
in America, which will bo addressed by MANY
prominent nationalists, including Mr.. John
Redmond, who is now in Australia. Mr. Red
mond will return from Australia by way of
San Francisco, which he is expected to reach
in November.
Ira Jones, hardware dealer, of Austin,
Mimi. has failed for $25 600
The Tennessee, that run ashore in Ports.
moulh harbor, leaves for New York TODAY.
She leaks badly and will dock there for re-
pairs
Forest fires were raging fiercely Saturday
night in the suburbs of Nashua, N. H.. near
Dunstable, Mass, and over forty acres or more
were burned over before the blaze was put out
A New Haven, Conn.,, despatch states that
VIM. A. Norton, senior professor at the Shelf
field Scientific School, died Friday night.
aged 70. He was writer of scientific WORKS
Of wide reputation.
The New York Tribune has reduced the
price OF its Sunday issue from to 3 cents.
Ex-Congressman Andrew Sloan of Georgia
died at Silver City, N. M, Saturday.
United States steamer Alliance arrived at
st. John, N. B., Saturday night from Halifax.
She reports all well.
The Corean embassy, now in Boston, called
upon Gov. Butler at the State House Saturday.
They then went to the City Hall and were
received in the Mayors office by the Chairman
Of the Board of Aldermen and President of
| the Common Council.
David Ehiken, clerk of the Department OF
Public Works, New York, was taken into Gus
tody Saturday, and it is believed he is charged
with completely in recently discovered Croton
| water frauds.
Cornelius Tobin of Boston, who in 1877
| caused the death in South Boston of Mary Nc
Hagan by an assault with lighted lamp, and
| who was then sent to an insane asylum, COM
mitted suicide Saturday by taking Paris green.