The Portland daily press., 1885-08-14
GENERAL NEWS.

Manchester, N. H., has Thirteen club
Another seizure of Peoria, ILL.,, whiskey
was made yesterday in Philadelphia.
James Horace Jones was hanged at Troy
New 0rk, yesterday morning for the muir
der of his wife on July 8, 1884.
The tornado at Norwood, N. Y, Tuesday
night ragged over g. strip of territory Is miles
longsand of a mile in width Two persons
were killed and several wounded.
Phillips Exeter Academy is to have a new
gymnasium, 100 feet by 60, fully equipped
and costing $1,000 1t will be finished by
November.
Nearly block of business buildings and
tenement houses bounded by Warren street
and Neward and Railroad avenues, in JERSEY
City were destroyed by fire yesterday.
Nearly block of business buildings and
tenement houses were destroyed by fire in
Jersey City, N. J., yesterday. Loss 100000;
insurance about S50,000
Owing to an advance in print cloths prices
Of nearly all the Fall River mill stocks have
gone up several points, the estimated in
crease will amount to over $2,000,00O.
Hop Kee g. Co.. of San Francisco, the
largest wholesale Chinese manufactures of
boots and shoes on the Pacific coast have
failed. The liabilities are $4,000 and as
sets unknown.
The party of clergymen who are making a
tour OF Canada West on bicycles left Goder-
len, Ont., wednesday and arrived in STRAIT
ford yesterday where they met with grand
reception.
A Groton, VT, girl of IA went to sleep
January 7th and has slept ever since with
the exception of few minutes at time
When she takes little liquid food. She has
lost little flesh and seems to suffer no pain.
The strikers at the Woonsocket Rubber
works at Millville, Mass, have forbidden the
boarding house and hotel keepers to board
The who aroxU Nxrbi1 fla i
going on.
., -Four laborers -on the Cayuga and Lake
Shore railroad near Ithaca, n. Y, yesterday,
sought refuge under an Overhanging cliff
during a rain storm, when a landslide occur
red and three of them were killed.
W, e. Frances bay gelding Harry Wilkes
n n philadelphia yesterday, defeated j.. l:
cases brown stallion Phallas for special
purse OF $1,000, best three in five, winning
nrst, second and fourth heats; time 216, 220,
2213, 2.1S3.
Yesterday forenoon while some cars were
Delng drawn out of the New York and New
England yard at Hartford, Conn, the dead
body of a boy named Rizy, the son of Prof.
+. Rizy, was found beside the track. 1t is
cars.
George Turner, ex-United States District
Judge of Virginia, and ex-Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court of Nevada, committed
suicide SUI cH at San Francisco Tuesday afternoon
by shooting himself through the head with a
revolver at the Lick House. He left letter
stating that i'll health was the cause of his
act, He leaves a widow and two children.
~ ~ late he has been practicing law in San
Francisco.
:, The. Central Pacific land office at San
Francisco, while making up map of the
railroad lands in Idaho and Utah, made the
strange discovery that Idaho claimed one
boundary line and Utah another, and that a
strip OF land D miles wide extending across
tne northern part of Utah was left. This,
Dy the survey, does not belong to either. The
surveys, used are those filed at Salt Lake
City and Boise City.