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

The Governor of Texas Saturday issued procla-
Nation establishing quarantine on the coast of
Texas, beginning May 1st 1t applies to vessels from
any port south of The 25th degree of north latitude
Vessels with clean bills of health and no sickne
board will be detained outside for twenty days,
and ether craft for the entire At Galveston
however, the goes of vsssels with clean bills f
health and ho sick ess on board may bs immediate
ly discharged in the disinfectant warehouse at the
quarantine STATEN for 20 days detention.
In the United States Court at Burlington, VT,
Saturday, John Kaanan of SVanton, was sentenced
to 80 mCnths in the State prison for forging a-
davit In a pension case.
Robert Smith and his wife were suffocated by coal
gas at New Bed ord, Mass Saturday.
George II. Mills of Brooklyn, N Y, who was
recently convicted of murder in the first degree for
having stabbed and killed his wife, was Saturday
sentenced to be hanged on April lS.
Two freight trains on the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy road collided Saturday morning between
Millington and Millbrook. Both trains o
wrecked and one engineer and fireman fatally in
jured.
Contributions in Philadelphia for the flood suffer-
ers aggregate $4,000.
The insurance on the burned chemical works of
Powers & Weightmau is $2S9,8O0.
Saturday morning Mayor Bartlett of San Francis
co forwarded S3 90 to Mayor ia obs of Louisville,
KY for distribution among the sufferers of the late
floods.
The stockholders of the Watertown, Mass Ma
tIonal Bank have voted to reduce the capital stock
from $500, 900 to 100000 on account of the i'm
paiment of its capital by the defalcaion of Cashier
Abbott The assets Of the bank over its liabilities
are Si40, 900, good condition.
Through the efforts # Walter Camp the Yale
Athletic Association have decided to I'd third day
to their winter games, to be held March 9th and
8th, and probably 18th.
A Uniontown, Pa, despatch states that suits have
be n entered against he CorDelsville Iron and
Coal Company by ave widows whose husbands were
killed by the recent explosion at the West Leisser
ing shaft. Damages are laid at 5000 in each
case.
The petition recently circulated among creditors
of the Pacific Bank Boston, asking for an iHves' j.
CATION of the ALE ged collusion of Bank Examiner
OF said bank to defraud creui'ors was sent to Cons
gresham Morse at Washington Saturday with 100
signatures.
The signal tower and engine house of the Cum
berland Valley Railroad at Harrisburg, Pa, were
burned last night. oss heavy
Francis j. Smith, CITY Treasurer of Bayonne n.
j.. was taken into custody last night on charge Of
embezzlement, his accounts wing been txam ned,
and an apparent shortage of nearly $4,000 dis
covered.
Major Lewis President of the New Haven Conn,
Chan ber of Commerce, has called NEE lug of the
Chamber Tuesday to take action properly reward
the men who saved the crew of the schooner Jane
last Friday.
The wreck Of the steamer City of Columbus has
entirely disappea ed.
Twenty-f ,ur operators in the Western Union
telegraph flee at Gaivest n, Tex trlck Saturday
for extia pay, and only two men remained al their
work.
\ Several remonstrances were made at New Haven,
Conn. Satur ay, in the Superior CouIt against
winding up of the American National Life and
Tru,t Company an 4 he American Mutual Insurance
Company. decision was reserved by Judge Stods
dard.