The Portland daily press., 1884-03-24
GENERAL NEWS.

The frs. through train of Pullman cars with
passengers left the City OF Mexico Saturday for
Chicago permission from the government having
been received.
Rev. Henry Morgan, one of the notables Of Bos-
ton, died Saturday aged 59, OF pneumonia. For
twenty-five years he waged relentless war upon
Hon. Augustus schell, prominent politician of
New York, is very i'll He cannot live many hours
The French Canadian nailers employed by the
Wareh4m (Mass.) Nail Company to take the place
of the striking nailers have all been induc d 10
return toiCanada and the factory has shut down.
Fitch Weed prominent citizen of Saugus
Mass. residing in that part Of the town known as
Cliftondale, thrown from his carriage Saturday
afternoon and killed.
The rubber works at Woonsocket, R. L.. and at
Millville which have been running ON short time
for the past three months, shut down entirely
Saturday night, throwing about 600 persons out Of
The New Haven, Conn. Organ COMPANY. owing
to temporary financial cuba rassment, has sus-
pended business ope aons, and Saturday the stoek-
holders fled petiioa in the Probate Court asking
that Luzen B. Morris be appointed trustee.
An expl sion occurred in the fireworks establish
nent of Diehl & Co., in Cncinnati,r Saturday morn
ing. Three men were seriously bdrned and died
shortly afterward.
In Greene, Iowa an ice gorge two miles long
formed in the Shell Rock River, which gave way
Saturday, carrying with it the large agricultural
the lam Of the Wanitah Mills
The convention of the National Association OF
in Cincinnati, on March 25 promises to be fully
attended.
An up passenger train on the Milwaukee road ran
into an emgrant train at Red Wing, Mum, Satur.
day, wrecking two coaches and engines. About Is
persons were injured, but none fatally.
A block If seven torres was burned at Hillsboro'
Texas Saturday morning. Loss $4,000
French Communists, Rus sian Nihlists and Ger
man Socialists united in celebrating asst night the
thirteenth anniversary of the faris Commune at
the Germauic Assembly Rooms in New York city.
Speeches were made by Justus Chowab A. Olderini,
Victor Druvy and Herr Most
sophia b. Hall, the oldest resident of New Lon.
don, Conn.,, died saturday, aged lO2 She was
born in Baltimore and has lived in New London
eighty-eght years Desiah " bipple aged 96 is
now the Oldest resident.
Mrs. Vim w. Ransier shot dead her lover Adam
Suttler, while walking on the street in Syracuse,
n. Y, Saturday night. Mrs. Ransier wished to part
with Suttler. who insisted upon accompanynp her
The directors of the Charter Oak PARK AT Hart
ford, Conn have voted to offer aSlO 900 pnrse for
the 2.20 class horses at the circuit meeting next
summer.
The GatIing Gun Company of Hartford Conn.
has received order for ten more onns for the
Chinese governn' ent to be delivered in sYtv days
John Jay CISCO, well known banker died In New
York city yesterday, aged 20. He was an assist ant
treasurer OF the United States during the civil war.
EsIt is rumortd that serious accident occurred
yester ay on the Texas Pacific railway near Big
Steamer 1hetis recently purchased by the United
States government at Du dee Scotland for the
terday.
Fire is raging in the Newcastle coal mine at Ia
coma, ". l., the most valuable of these belonging
TO the oregon improvement Company 1t is be-
food the mine.