The Portland daily press., 1885-12-23
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GENERAL NEWS.

The war claims commission at Ottawa Ont,
have decided 1900 claims. SO far the amount
paid out i'd Winnipeg on account OF the cam cam
paign, including claims liquidated, is So 100000.
Yesterday forenoon as Mrs. Eliza Tompklns
was walking along the street in New Bedford,
Mass, man snatched her satchel from her
hand and escaped. The Satchel contained about
$40.
There was one death from small pox in Mon
treal yesterday two deaths at the hospitals and
four in the suburbs
Alderman Donovan of Montreal has entered an
action against the Montreal Herald for $4,000
damages on the ground that the Herald published
speech alleged to have been made by Alderman
McShane in the city council detrimental to his
character, and Which speech nobody appeared to
have heard delivered.
The sheriff of New York posted notice in the
court house yesterday advertising for sale at
auction on the 2sth instant. the effects and plant
Of the Western Union Telegraph Company at its
building corner of Broadway and Dey street, ana
at its workshops, 81 New Church street, 10 satisfy
a tax levy of $126O00.
The Pennsylvania Coal Company. at Plttston,
Pa, has closed for an @ indefinite period several Of
its collieries which will throw over 1000 men
and boys out OF employment
The priests in the Roman Catholic diocese of
Montreal have received a letter from Bishop
Fabre forbidding them to meddle with politics in
any shape or form.
The following is a comparative statement of the
output of the Bell Telephone Co. for the month
ended Dec. 20, compared with the corresponding
month of last year. Gross output, 3069; increase
863; instruments returned 1472; decrease, 355; (;
net gain, ,597 increase, 1,21S.
Frank H. Scott, young man of Great Barring
ton, Mass charged with rape on Francis NJ
Winchell, 5 years old, was bound over to the
Superior Court by the District Court yesterday
afternoon.
Aunt LYDIA probably the oldest negress in New
Jersey, died yesterday morning in Phillipsburg,
aged ito. Sixty years ago, while slavery existed
In New JERSEY she was purchased for 81.
Gen. t. Parker, a well-known shoe manufactur-
er of Danvers, Mass, committed suicide yester,
Isxra ffnrnn Inv o.
and leaves family
Judge S. A. Goode of the 10th judicial district
court Of Louisiana, committed suicide Monday AT
his home on Ridgeland Plantation, In the parish
of Terre Bonne.
Fire broke out Monday evening in the cargo of
the German steamer HohenZollern, which is at
Bremen from Galveston. Fifty bales OF cotton
were damaged.
About O'Clock Yesterday morning fire occurred
i'll the Chenango House at Greene, Chenango
county, N. Y, and destroyed nine buildings
Three menwere injured, one seriously, by an eX-
plOsion.
First Comptroller Durham has disalowed an
item of $4,000 in the accounts of N. j. Colman,
commissioner of agriculture, on the ground that
theiamOunt used was charged Illegally TO the ap-
preparation account of the laboratory.
Pierre Laure, Bohemian named BarkowSli
and an unknown Pole were buried in gravel pit
at Cleveland, O., Yesterday. They were rescued
but are seriously injured.
j. w. Jordan of Muskagee, special agent for
the Cherokee strip, has just received message
from Fort Reno stating that the troops have the
cattle about all removed from Oklahoma, and are
ready to commence expellDg from the strip the
cattlemen who have not paid their lease money
and other intruderS as soon as Jordan arrives to
identify them.
Girard Murray, q years old, a medical student
who is completing his education at college ih
Virginia, attempted to kill his 16-year-old wife
Josie and himself in New York yesterday.
The organization of the Boston Post is now COM
pleted and it is announced that the new company
has a strong financial backing. New presses will
he ordered at once. and a change VIII soon be
made in the form and size of the paper, together
with the Introduction of new features. An even
Post in the future as in the past will advocate
the cause of the democracy.
In Chattanooga county, Ga.,. Monday. James
Startling was killing hogs, using a half-buried
hogshead as a scalding caldron. This caldron
was filled with rolling water. Startling attempted
to pitch hog into the caldron, but stumbled un-
ing liquid Though lifted out instantly, he was
literally boiled, the flesh dropping from his bones