The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-06-14
GENERAL NEWS.

Steamer Bermuda from St. Kits, which went
ashore at Amagansett the night of the 18th inst
has come off all right.
One hundred and fifty Irish and English miners
employed by H. c. Frlck & Co.'s Coke works in
Connelsville. Penn, threw down their picks Thurs
day and refused to work because the firm engaged
seven Hungarian miners. The company threatens
to discharge the strikers and trouble is expected
Marion Deems, young man who boarded with
Louis Stranger, was shot and killed in Baltimore
yesterday morning by his landlord who mistook him
for burglar.
1t is probable that the knitting mill manufac-
turers in the vicinity of Troy N Twill decline the
proposition for general stoppage of their mills for
q certain period to control production.
The executive committee of the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company yesterday. in New York re-
solved to create insurance fund to be placed in
the Union Trust Company of 100000.
VIM. S. Harper, merchant was arrested in New
York Thursday night by the police charge of
embezzlement mace against him by Bean Brothers
of Cambridge Mass. He was handed over to de-
tective of that city and taken back there to answer
charges.
boro, Penn, yesterday. kilograms were received
from j. d. Weeks, president of the Western Ma
tonal Association at Pittsburg announcing suspen-
sion for two weeks and the anticipation of suspen-
sion of three months of the western mills.
Samuel W. Lewis was discharged yesterday from
the Maryland penitentiary in Baltimore by the ex-
reouisition from the governor of Massachusetts on
indictment for forgery in Boston. He left this
afternoon for Boston.
The yearly meeting of Friends was continued at
Newport this morning with very large attendance.
Acceptable epistles were received and read from
the yearly meetings of London, England, Ireland,
New York, Baltimore and Ohio.
The post office in East Boston was entered last
night by burglars who broke open the safe and took
about $500 worth of stamps and money.
The old Phillips place at Andover, has been sold
by auction for SO 900 to Rev. Phillips Brooks, who
was the only bidder.
Roding Snow, aged 10. was drowned yesterday
afternoon while bathing in Sandy Pond near
Nashua, N. H. His body was recovered.
A crowd of boys playing with broken telephone
wire dangling from polo near Seaside Park in
BRIDGEPORT, Conn.,, last night, threw the wire over
electric light wire and enticed one of their num-
ber Charles Schul thuss 3 years old, to take hold
of the suspended end He did so and was instantly
killed by the electric current.
Robert H. Glass, one OF the best known whaling
captains in New England, died in New London,
Conn.,, yesterday aged 60. He commanded schooner
Francis Allen when she rescued the crew of the
"Pilot's Bride from Desolation Island year ago
An explosion yesterday at LOOMS mills, three
miles north of Little Rock, Ark, destroyed must OF
the structure. One man was killed and three In
jured.
The trial of James e. Cramm for manslaughter in
killing John Schoheld at Fall River Mass, during
the recent labor troubles in that city began il
the superior court at New Bedford yesterday.
President Arthur left New York for West Poin
last night.
Richard Howard and three companions were
drowned last night in Toronto bay by squall up
setting their boat.