The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-02-04
GENERAL NEWS.


A telegram from Oneida, New York, to officers Of
the window glass workers association at Pittsburg
Pennsylvania, announces the sett ,ement OF the
strike there on the same basis adopted In the West
work.
Saturday, Head Constable noyle, Of Harbor
Glaee y; r., notoriety, and i've Orange prisoners,
Durango and Charles French epga gel in the recent
riot, ere commit for trial beIole the SUPP eme
court on charge of murder
The interest Il the Kentucky senatorial contest il
at a ahi Q heat. With Sweeney wi hdrawn the
deadlock would seem to br broken but Car Isle
will take his place, and the deadlock Will continue
J here is much ak Carlisle, and his chances ap.
pear better ,han ever before
Miss Loui Dingler. daughter Of the chief of the
Fannma canal woik ks, died at Panama, of yellow
fever, On tn 22d iJ was her eghi eenth biri hday
The rumor that the steamship City Of Rome was
to be transferred to the Guion line proves to have
The Denver & Rio Graude Railway Company's
round house In LIE 'dvle burned Friday The
damage ls $oOOOO partially covered by Insurance.
Mrs. George Evans, who, ia 1873, inaueu fated
the ceremony Of Memorial day by strewiug flowers
in Arlington cemetery, was buried Saturday in Des
Moines, Iowa under the auspices of the Grand Ar
my. All the local posts turned out
No more budies have been found In the ruins of
the gasoline explosion at Alliance, Q. No body is
sing and name will be addedto the list of the
killed or wounded.
While the members Of Masonic fraternities were
assembled in rski, Hall at Guilford, N. Y, yes
teruay, preparing to attend funeral, the floor of
the hail. which Is in the third story gave way, pre-
cpitating seventy men to the floor below. Luckily
no one was injured.
Briiget Kelley died in Utica N. Y, last evening,
aged 1O6,
Eli whitney. president of the whitney Arms
Company of New Haven, Conn, is seriously i'll.
Hon. Thomas Kinsella, chief editor of the
Brooklyn Eagle is very i'll and hopes of his recovery
are abandoned,
Sixty-two new pupils for the Indian training
school at Carlisle, Pa, arrived there Saturday
morning.
In a skating race in Brooklyn. N. r., Saturday,
PaulSen a IAN hAQt
ords for twenty-five miles. doing that distance in
hour 80 minute s and II seconds.
The United States district attorney, Saturday,
be- an suit against the Brighton Ranch Company Of
Lincoln, Neb., which fenced with wire 81 900
acres of grazing lands belonging to the public do
main.
The proposition to establish wine and card
room at the Boston Art Club was defeated Saturday
night after lively discussion by vote of 1853 to
The warehouse attached to the elevator own ed by
the Fergus Falls Flour Mills Company, at MINI cap
oils Mnn, burst Saturday. evening, letting out
10000 bushels o. wheat, which now lies mingled
with the wreck Of the elevator Loss $70,000.
The Hamburg American Packet Company, having
offered to transport i'll its own steamer 10 New York
without pay the bodirs of the DeLong party Secre-
tary Chandler has directed the officer III charge
OF the bodies to return in one of their steamers, if
ne has not already engaged passage by some other
line.
The Rt. Rev. Mgr. Host'ot, D. D., rector of the
American College at Rome, died Friday. DR.. Host
lot was born in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Unknown parties fred three shots Saturday, at
Rev. FatEe er ] Drushy, pastor of the Polish Roman
Catholic Church in Grand Rapids, Mich, but did
not hit him.
A visit to the wrecked steamer City of Columbus
bg divers on Saturday, shows that she is in about
tne same position as week ago. No bodies were
tounl,
Officers raided gambling saloon in Arlington,
Mass, yesterday, captured he proprietors and sew
enteen Others in the midst of their games and Sc
cured the Law out.
A despatch from Austin, Texas, says that 81 ate
Senator Terrill received an ANONYMOUS lette er,
tlreatQninQ ffaa We nj wi 7
BY the legislature all the wafer in the State of
Texas enclosed in pastures would be poisoned. The
letter created seasatton in view of mys erious
disease tn t is sw, eping IN numbers OF cattle in
certain sections of the State.
he ale aud beer sold last year in the States of
New York Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wis onsn Iilino s.
and Missouri, amounted-to Y, ,528 297 barrels, ac-
eorn1Dg to The Brewers Journal.
The numb r of deaths in Boston last week was
l73, 81 females and 81 males
From the first report Of Charles /. Gibbs master
OF The lighthouse steamer Verbena, concerning the
wreck OF the City OF Columbus. it would appear
that Shoal existea of Gay Head, which was not
marked on the charts. A more careful examination
however. shows that this is not the case, but tar
the buoy drifted in shore three hundred wards
r. T. sjohnson, agent OF the onion Pacific railroad
absconded tn $1S 900 sent BY express 70 the rail-
road contractor &C Walla walla, W. T. johnson
has been arrested.
Twenty-eight cadets at Annapolis academy. have
been reported to the secretary of the navy as de-
fcent n their studies and they will either be dr. p
ped or their designations accepted,
An important capture Of gang of burglars was
Ecade in Bridgeport, Conn, Friday night.
After attaining height of twenty-three feet
the Allegheny at PiItsDurg, Pa. began falling
Saturday, authorized the trustees purchase from
Receiver Rich of the Trust Company, six per cent.
village bonds, 1877, payable in twenty years, to
the amount OF 1000, az premium of $1,000.