The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-01-25
GENERAL NEWS.

Among other public bequests the will of j. D.
Farnsworth, just probated in Boston, gives $780,,
900 to Wellesley Female College for building to
be used as college Of fine arts
Wolf Meltan, aged 23 years. Russian rag
picker of New Haven, Conn, by mistake Thurs
day night drank oil of vitrio instead of whiskey.
and died this morning.
Barker won game in the championship checker
match at Providence Thursday. The previous
nineteen games were all drawn.
No news has yet been received from the entomb-
ed miners at the Nanticoke, Pa, mine.
The situation in the Pennsylvania coke regions
remains unchanged. Less than 1000 of the 10000
ovens in that region are in operation.
Thos. Gilroy was stabbed by Robert Bradley
during a barroom fight yesterday morning in New
York and died soon afterward Bradley was ar
rested.
Rev. DR.. j. P. Strcler, professor of moral phil
osophy and bellies letters at Washington and Lee
University, died In Staunton, Va, Saturday night,
of softening OF the brain.
clerk employed in the agricultural warehouse
of the Ames Plow Co., of Boston, has confessed
that he was the one who blew open the safe In the
office some time ago and took out the money box
which was afterwards found in the attic.
.Cartersville, the county seat of Barlow county
Ca, is In state of intense excitement. Saturday
night some desperate character placed dynamite
cartridge in front of the veranda of U. S. Commits
sOner Collins house and caused its explosion.
The FIRST case of trichine ever known In Nor
wich, Conn.,, occurred last week. John, Maggie,
Ney wspe sra from eatng II fa sat marx
purchased of grocer. They are all very sick and
the result Of the disease is still uncertain.
EMIL j. Segfreit an employee of branch office
OF the New York post office was arrested Saturday
having been caught In the act of throwing regis
tered letter into the sewer. He was observed to
take the registered letter from the safe and when
seen started to run away but was caught in the
street.
Capt. JOAN A. Driscoll, a Boston representative
of the FsAjan brotherhood, was In New York city
Saturday In secret consultation with O'Donovan
Rosa, concerning the new "Fenian explosive"
said to be twenty times more powerful than dyna-
mite This agent of destruction it is sald is to be
used freely in England If the latter does not grant
Ireland Home Rule by peaceful means,
The Pennsylvania railroad company has created
a new department of its service, to be known S
the Pennsylvania Railroad Relief Department, the
object Of which is relief fund for the benefit of
its employees in case of accident or sickness,
and their families in Of death. Members of the
tund are to contribute according to salary, from
75 cents to 1915 monthly.
Calvin Pratt who fradulently obtained over
So 900 by means Of fOrgerieS on the Pacific Bank
of San Francisco, and fed to japan, returned IN
charge of Detective Ceffey, on the steamer City OF
New York, which arrived yesterday.
Herbert Nichols, a brakeman on the Worcester,
Nashua aud Rochester railroad was arresteG ln
Nashua, N. H., yesterday, charged with stealing
q package containing $500. some SoT0 Was
found under carpet and it is thought the re-
lnainaer will be yet recovered,