The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-01-26
GENERAL NEWS.

Jacob Barth, teamster, was assaulted by
crowd of strikers at Pittsburg Pa, yesterday
ta n coSessv one Of the partv
was arrested by Stephen Beach, a letter carrier.
The body of Mrs. Andrew Tracy was found in
the street In Weymouth, Mass, yesterday, and 1t
connected with her DEATH An investigation is
proceeding.
jeremiah .kaeefff fffeaf 11Ittfe River Conn. He had
been sleeping in Scow near where he was found.
Sunday he was seen drunk.
At Fail River, Mass, yesterday the jury in the
case of Mary A. HennesSy VS.. the Bay State Bene-
ficiary Insurance Company to recover the amount
of policy on the life of one McGann, rendered a
verdict for the plaintiff for $5,439. This was
alleged to be graveyard case.
The attention of the Canadian government has
been called by the fishery officers and others to
the necessity OF taking prompt action to preserve
from destruction. The fish are becoming scarce
and small, and on the coast of Prince Edward
Island there has been great falling off.
The sanitary inspection of passengers and bag
gage on trains running between Montreal and st.
Adams, VT, which was made necessary by the
small pox epidemic in Montreal was discontinued
yesterday; The inspectors have been on duty
four months, and have vaccinated on an average
100 passengers per week.
Rabbi Samuel Griess, who has in the past Off
eiated at the livingston street synagogue in New
York city, Sunday evening ren0unced JpaafSLnI'
and was baptsed into the Christia9 latn: MI MI;
Griess, who Is native of p0sen. russia Was -
graduated at the Jewish thcOlOSlCd SeiLildilSo VI
Breslau and Berlin. He came TO New YORK CITY
about two years ago.
Tne Canadian Pacific express from winnipeg,
due at Ottawa Saturday morning, and which has
been showed up at White River was expected 10
reach its destination yesterday afternoon. Inc
weather north of Lake Superior has been unlyer-
sally severe, the thermometer ranging between
400 and 500 below zero.
The 9th avenue, N. Y, horse car drivers were
notified by the company yesterday that hereafter
their hours OF labor would be H. and that they
would be paid at the rate of 50 per day.
Another victim is counted by the Cedar street
fire in Manchester. N. H., Sunday night, Mrs
Michael Callahan dying yesterday after nine
hours intense suffering.
There is supposed to be an embezzler on board
the German steamer Donau from Bremen wnlcn
arrived in New York yesterday who is supposed
to have stolen four hundred thousand marks.
President Cleveland and many of his friends
were among the prominent people present az the
charity ball in Baltimore last night. The ball was
a brilliant affair.
The Canadian Fire Underwriters Association in
Montreal Yesterday passed a resolution declaring
the Montreal fire brigade was inefficient, and that
the water supply especially in the commercial
part of the city was inadequate.
The Boston Caledonian Club last evening cele.
brsted the 127th anniversary OF the birth OF
Robert Burns with banquet, speech making ana
dancing.
The New York and New England Railroad
Company are to hold meeting to-day in Boston
to take action on leasing the road to the New
York New Haven and Hartford