The Portland daily press., 1884-04-28
GENERAL NEWS.

The Brevoort House, New York city, was dam
aged about 900 by fire Saturday night
The formal opening of the Mexican Central rail-
road has been postponed to May 10th.
Advices from Western Texas are to the effect that
cattle are suffering and large numbers dying from
want of water and grass, the drouth having been
very severe in that section. Myriads of caterpillars
vegetables.
No information has been received at the Indian
Bureau concerning the reported Navajo outbreak
and the report is generally discredited in Washing,
ton.
A fume was burst Saturday at Contocook. N. II
on account OF an overflow of water and all the
mills on the stream, numbering 49, were stopped by
an overplus OF water.
Mrs. Amelia Barnett of Phillipsburg. Pa. locked
the doors of her house Saturday then emf tha
Threats of her two children one two years and the
other tive months old. She then gave an alarm
cut her own throat and threw herself on the bed by
the side of her children. The Oldest child is dead
and tne others are mortally wounded.
Two men in New York city, Saturday "blew ont
the gas, and both were suffocated.
The bolt and nut manufacturers of the United
States have formed pool for the purpose of re-
stricting production and establishing profitable
selling rates A meeting will be held in Philadel-
phla about May to revise the rates and discounts
and to limit the time fixed for the pool agreement.
The jury at Northampton have sustained the
Dickson will, declaring Saturday that he was of
sound mind. They were out 16 hours At first
they stood nine for the will and three against it,
William j. Phillips, Of the New York Produce
Exchange, who failed Friday, has abseonded, it
house receipts for large quantities of -four and done
other fraudulent acts.
Seventeen priests were ordained and eight candi-
1atel ADMITTED to minor orders, in West Hoboken,
n. j., yesterday.
Edward E. Lincoln was arrested in Laconia. n
H., Saturday, charged with fraud in obtaining sub
Scorpions Tor magazine and offering valuable
premiums, there being no such periodical pub
lished. FN0
collision occurred near Harmarville, ON the West
Pennsylvania railroad, about midnight SATURDAY.
night, between passenger train and freight
probably fatally.
Judge Miner. county Judge of Garfield county.
Coll, committed suicide Saturday by drowning.
Family troubles caused the act.
public house kept by Nora Grant at AIber-
quorque, New Mexico. was badly wrecked by piant
powder Saturday night, but the occupants were NOT
hurt. The powder was placed by some unknown
person.
Gen: Sherman last night sent Gov. Crittenden the
formal declaration of his appointment to the brga-
dership OF the militia of the Eastern division of
Missouri.
The grain elevators of Smith, Hippen & CO and
Hudnut Co. at Pekin, H., were DESTROYED by fire
Saturday night. Loss $4,000. - --0
Two murderers wore taken from Jail at Monroe
La, last night by citizens and hanged
Dick Putnam shot and killed his wife yvbilo ;5,re
in buggy near Jordan n. Y, Yesterday afternoo55
and then shot and killed himsslf Jealousv was The
cause. W
Col. Robert g. lngersoll delivered his new lecture
on Orthodoxy at the Academy of Music. New York.
last night before an audience which crowded the
Steamer Grand Pacific, while going throuOb the
bridge at Burlington, Iowa, Yesterday afternoon.
struck pier and tore hole in her hull She sank
in ~ feet OF water and will probably prove total
loss. She was valued at $4,000. No lives were
lost. -
Arbitration committees representing the Carpet
Manufacturers Association and the Carpet Weayers
Protective Union held meeting Friday EVENING in
Philadelphia and agreed to make no change in the |
schedule of prices. " - '-''