The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-02-13
GENERAL NEWS.

Payment OF all bills by Atlantic City, New
Jersey, except those for police service, wa.
embarrassed by the recent legal constructio.
OF the word indebtedness" The legislature
being now in session. early relief will probably
be given by legislative action.
The city council of Portland, Oregon, Mon
day night passed resolution asking Congress
not to declare the land grant of the Northern
Pacific forfeited.
Yesterday morning on an elevated railroad
train IN New York, a man giving his name as
Victor ALdree, connected with a German
newspaper, was shot in the thigh by an un-
known woman. Nothing was found on the
woman to lead to her Identification. Andree
is a graduate of the University of Berlin and
has taught German, rhetoric and algebra In
New York. He came recommended very high.
ly from Germany, and was readily admitted tC
excellent society in New York.
When Thomas Aiken, railroad weigh mas.
ter reached home Monday night, he found his
wife lying dead on the floor with bullet
wound in her head. K. w. Feltzsr, book.
keeper boarding at Aiken's, was lying across
her body with two bullet wounds 10 his body
and unconscious. Feltzer had fred all of the
shots.
An unknown man, passenger on the Proyi-
dence of the Fall River line from Boston,
committed suicide Monday night while the
vessel was off Block Island, by Jumping over
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full beard and was dressed in dark overooat,
light pants and Derby hat.
Chancellor Rowell has decided to instruct
sss ss fsesayer the miaing property at
Mining Company, made in January. The
property is valued at 81 100000.
A company is being organized to cut canal
100 feet wide to connect Flushing Bay with
the headwaters of Newton Creek. The esti-
mated cost is S1,O00,0O0.
Gen. Sheridan has accepted an invitation to
review the procession in Brooklyn, N. Y, on
Decoration Day. The Brooklyn G.. A. R. will
participate in the parade, services and burial
of Leut-Commander DeLong and comr AIDES.
Alfred W. Mckinney, of Troy, N. Y, died
in Florida recently. and relatives started with
the body for New York, intending TO take it to
Troy, where the funeral was to take place on
Monday. The body has mysteriously disap-
peared, and Mrs. Mckinney is nearly prostrat-
ed with grief
The old Quaker Westinghouse in the village
of Oyster bay. L. l., with about acre of
land, which is to be sold, is over $50 years old,
and during the Revolutionary war was used as
a storehouse and quarters for British officers.
Severe gales and snow storms prevailed Mon
day in Scotland and North Wales.
The Dsnver Tribune was sold Monday to a
syndicate of New York gentlemen for $780,
900. 0. 81. Robbacker continues as editor-in.
CHl6I ana u. v. OklH as manager.
Robert Kit'ell, an Erie caller, fell from car
in the yard at S0squehanna, Monday afternoon
and was killed. While acting as brakeman
several years ago, he lost both arms.
In Antonia, Conn.,, on Sunday, Swede
named JessoD, ont of money, in debt for board
and jllted by his girl shot himself in the hip,
but not seriously When he saw he was not
fatally Injured he fred several other shots to
attract attention.
DR.. Wilson Of Salvation Army fame was in
Toronto Monday. He said that he was on his
way to Kingston to bid farewell to his friends
there, aud afterwsrd he would go to New
York to assist the Rev. Mr.. Rainsford of st.
Georges Church.
The Board of Railroad Commissioners, rx-
porting on the burning of the sleeping car Tol-
ono at Catskill on Dec. 6, censnre the railroad
company for employing the porters for so many
continuous hours as to impair their efficiency
as night watchmen.
A big fight occurred Monday at Wagon
Mound, N NJ, between sheep herders and
cowboys over the possession of cattle range
Several men are reported killed. Victor Mar
tinez, sheep grower of Taos, is one of the
dead.
The Capitol commissioners have selected the
plan submitted by Elbrock & Durham of
Chicago for the new State Capitol. 1t will
be of marble or granite, and will cost 81 ,000,-
600.
The Queen of Tahiti and Judge Mulvier,
went on board the steamer st. Laurent last
evening, ana tho vessel will sail for n avre ear
ly this morning. The French consul has en-
gagged passage for them under the name of
Monsieur aud Madam Murgier.
At the annual meeting last night in Mer-
dent, CT, of the Lincoln Club, composed of
leading coored men of Connections, resolu-
tions were passed endorsing Gen. John A. Lo-
gan as a presidential candidate.
The Rev. Nicholas Bjerring, of New York
city, was Monday enrolled as a minister of the
PRESBYTERIAN church on papers granted by the
Greek church.
George Thounies, a German, hanged himself
from the fanlight of his room, at $40 West
Thirty-ninth street, New York, Monday. His
daughter found him hanging dead against the
door. He was painter out nf work
A clerk went into The cellar of John Heiu-
fingers provision store, at 373 Bowery, New
York city, Monday, with q lighted candle.
The cellar was half full of gas and the explos.
lou which followed shook up the clerk and the
flooring.
George Freici. of New York, % years of age,
of 16l Second street, was caught in the ma
chinery of The Manhattan stamping factory. at
First avenue and Twenty street. Mon
day Both his legs and lett arm were broken,
and he died Tuesday night.
The satohel which policeman Cosgrove found
on the Battery sea all on Saturday night be-
longs to Mrs. Dean, the mother of Charles A.
Dean of Hartford, Mrs Dean is housekeeper
at the Ferris House, at Port Chester. She was
robbed of the satchel in Battery Park on Sat-
urday. Miss Lush, to whom it was coniectur-
ed, the sstchel might belong, is at her fathers
house in Rye.
The local committee of passenger agents of
the esstbound pool yesterday, in Chicago.
agreed 70 maintain rates until Wednesday
noon. They anticipate that By that time Com
missioner Fink will have withdrs wn the priv
iiege of ditferentia Rates allowed the Chicag
and Atlantic, or crowded away for the other
lines to meet the Grand Trunk cut to Chicago.
George and John Stevenson. half breeds, y III
be hanged at Regime Northwest Territory, on
Thursday, Tor the murder of Mccarthy, the
vernor-General having declined to inter
fere.
The Massachusetts, Senate yesterday passed
resolve providing Tor biennial elections, also