The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-12-15
GENERAL NEWS.

Corcoran, pitcher for the Chicago base bal
club having broken his contract with the clint
by signing with another, will be expelled from
the league.
Two sons of Sydney Weagle and two sons o.
Israel Weagle Of Denmark, Queens county
n. B., while skating on Grand Pre- Meadows
Thursday, went through the ice and wert
drowned.
q. U. steamship Shenandoah will leave Bos-
ton in week for the Pacific station.
Lewis f. Leste was sentenced to be hanged
at Wilmington, Delaware, yesterday and his
father to life imprisonment for murder OF Geo.
B. Taylor.
B. @. Wickham & Co.. bankers of Tioga,
Penn, failed yesterday.
Burt Ellis (colored) was hanged at Shelby,
N. O., yesterday for murder.
Owing to the short grain crop receipts and
hAsa. falla.a- off over 25 per cent. compared
with last year.
While the ship Albertine from Quebec was
being towed to Greenock harbor during gale
the line broke and the vessel was driven out
of sight and has not yet been found.
James Kirby was arraigned at New Bed.
ford yesterday for completely in the Russell
fraudulent insurance case. He made full
confession.
At Paola, Kansas, Thursday, George Orr, a
Munroe Trumble, an old blind man living
half mile from there and after short con-
versation shot and killed him. He also
brutally beat old Mrs. Tremble about the head
and face and fled after robbing the house of
$50. A posse of 25 citizens is searching for the
murderer.
A man named John Bonner, residing in the
vicinity of Rockville, Ind, locked his wife
out OF doors because she refused to supply
him with money to continue drunk. She
went to the woods with her children, and
while building fire her clothing caught fire
and she was burned to death.
A strike of 1000 coal miners in the third
pool of the Allegheny river has been ordered
for the Goth.
The United States consul general in Egypt
will be instructed to supervise the dsinfecion
of rags delivered for the United States.
1t is stated that DIR. Samuel A. Green will
be surgeon general on Gov. Robinson's staff.
Prof. Jacob Frederick Krouss, noted
oriental scholar, died at his residence in Bos-
ton yesterday, aged GA.
81. w. Swasey, a grocer of Laconia, N H.,
has failed. Claims sgainst him aggregate ST.
800.
During a riot between negro and italian
laborers at Blue Mountain tunnel at Pitts
burg, Pa, Thursday night, one negro was
killed and three badly wounded. The rioting
was renewed yesterday morning, but the
negroes were driven away and no further
trouble is apprehended.
The 263d anniversary of the landing of the
Pilgrims was celebrated at the church of the
Pilgrims, on Madison avenue, New York City,
last night. An address was made by Hon.
Schuyler Colfax.
At the regular meeting of the New England
Society last night in New York at Delmonico's g
the ticket nominated at the last meeting head
ed by Stewart L. Woodford was elected. The
membership now numbers 1864.
Hon. G. W. Ross, the newly appointed
minister of education of Ontario, was elected
yesterday by large majority.
Yesterday the Atlantic and North Carolina
Railroad was leased to an eastern syndicate for
80 years. The line extends from Gouldsboro
to Morehead. The terms of the lease require
the extension of the road to Fayetteville with
in four years.
John Rollins of Ashland, n. H., q veteran
# tho OF 1o1a, Aisa y~sts-A~y, aEea o1
The total number of immigrants for the II
months of 1888, is 536 ,430; for the same period
last year, 6S6,676.
Mrs Barbara Steiskall, aged "a years, living
with her daughter at Springfield, Mass, was
burned to death in West Springfield, yesterday
afternoon, while all the other occupants of the
house were absent.