The Portland daily press., 1885-09-16
GENERAL NEWS.

The Southampton woolen mills at South
ampton, Cumberland county, Nova Scotia,
were burned Monday night. Loss $4,000.
Jenkins Bowen, survivor of the war of
1912, died at Onondaga Hill, N. Y, yester-
day morning, aged 80 years.
The Willow Dale Company, manufacturers
of blankets, 1877 Devonshire street, Boston,
has failed.
By the bursting of large fly wheel in the
Greenville, Pa, yesterday morning, two en-
ployes named Andrew Blaine and John
Fleck were fatally injured.
Col. George Ward Nichols, president of the
College of Music in Cincinnati, died yester-
day morning; Col. Nichols served upon
Gen. w. L. Sherman's staff during the war
and wrote ''Sherman'S March to the Sea-
VIM. FL. Taylor and wife, the victims of
Mondays double tragedy in Worcester,
Mass, both died within fifteen minutes of
each other at about 1915 o'clock yesterday af
ternoon.
Belchertown, Mass, dedicated her soldiers
monument yesterday. The Grand Army
and Worcester counties were largely repre-
sented.
The Charlotte, n. Y, regatta, announced
for yesterday was postponed till today, on
account of rough water. Courtney will at
tempt to break the three mile record for a
special purse.
Thomas Blanchard, of Stoughton, was
yesterday morning elected a member Of the
Massachusetts Republican State Committee
from the First Norfolk senatorial district, in
place of Hon. Frank Hobart of Braintree
resigned.
Mrs. Cynthia Pierce, residing in North
Dartmouth, Mass, has entered a suit for
$4,000 damages against the Metropolitan
horse railroad company of Boston, for inill-
ries received a year ago.
In Toronto, Ont, yesterday, drunken
mother cut the throats of her three children
aged 8, 6 and years respectively. HOPES
are entertained that they may recover The
woman has been arrested.
The biennial convention of the ministers
institute began in Newport, R. l., yesterday,
and will continue till Thursday night, One
hundred and sixty clergymen of ali denomi-
nations are present.
Before the Supreme Court in Springfield,
Mass, today, Amen j. Adams, alias Charles
Adams, will be arraigned, charged with
numbering Moses b. Dickinson, at Amherst,
Nov. %, 1875. He was caught in Tennessee
after ten years, where he boasted of the
crime while intoxicated.
Hon Bradbury G. Hill fell backwards from
a Sulky on the track of the Woonsocket
*. - agricultural society fair grounds yes
terday morning, breaking his neck. Deceas-
ed was 76 years old, and was president of
ion Bank, and director of the Woonsocket
gas company.
A San Francisco coroner, yesterday, while
investigating in Chinatown for the cause of
a fearful stencil arising from cellar, discov-
cred over 300 dead bodies of Cinnamon in
different stages of decomposition, which had
been stolen from cemeteries. Several China
men were engaged in boiling down these
bodies, scraping the bones ,and packing
them for shipment to China.
A meeting of the National Association OF
General Ticket and Passenger Agents of the
United States and Canada was held in New
York city yesterday, at the Windsor Hotel
About 100 representatives were present, and
the session will last for two days. Only
routine business was transacted yesterday,
but it has been resolved to hold the next
meeting in Chicago in March, 1886.
Claire Virginia Cramer, niece of the late
Gen. Grant, was married in the mayors
office, New York city, yesterday, to Alphon-
so Bernhard of Paris, France, a well known
literateur and journalist of the French capt
tai. President Sanger, of the board of al
dermen, performed the ceremony Among
the witnesses was Jessie Seligman. The re-
ligious ceremony was performed previously
The bride is the daughter of Hon. M. J. era
mer, ex-Consul General to Denmark.