The Portland daily press., 1888-05-01
GENERAL NEWS.

Sunday half dozen prominent members
of DR.. Porter's Episcopal church at Charles
ton, South Carolina, seeded and rented
pews in Grace church. DIR. Porter has been
one of the staunchest advocates of Bishop
Howe in claiming the right Of the colored
delegates to admission to the convention
The convention meets at Anderson next
week and lively times are expected.
All the druggists of Davenport, Iowa, have
united in giving formal notice that they will
not sell or dispense alcoholic liquors of any
kind for any purpose whatever. This action
is general throughout the State.
The bricklayers and masons of Fall River,
Mass, have stopped work because of re-
fusal by the contractors to accede to their
demands for nine hour day.
The printers employed by the Union Print
ing Company at New Haven, Conn. are
locked out. Their places are temporarily
filled by men from the morning papers. The
trouble is over the apprentice question.
Mary Banfeld of Milton, N. H., aged co.
committed suicide by hanging herself in a
barn Sunday evening. Ill health was the
cause.
The steam saw mill owned by Sargent g.
Goodnough, and operated by G. W. Sawin,
Loss, $1,000; insurance, $780,.
A notorious horse thief known as Captain
yinks, who broke Jail at Ashland, Kansas,
Thursday, was shot dead by a sheriff's posse
Sunday. He was arrested three weeks ago
when three others Of his gang were hanged.
John Calvin Neal, one of the most promi-
nent Masons in New Hampshire is dead. He
was leading clothier at Franklin Falls.
w, +. Cowan, a brakeman on the Boston
& Lowell road, was struck by an overhead
bridge yesterday, and will probably die.
Farrar & Co.'s lasters at Danvers, Mass,
are out TO resist a cut in wages. 1t is ru-
mored the hrm will remove to New Hamp-
shire.
A two years old son of A. ]. Howieson, of
Stowe, VT, was given morphine by mistake,
and died after being unconscious for two
hours.
Petitions bearing nearly 800 names were
presented to the seiectmen of Exeter, N. H.,
last night asking that the prohibitory law
be enforced The selectmen will take i'm
mediate steps, notifying all liquor dealers to
stop selling at once and permanently.
All the flint glass works in the Pittsburg
district fired up yesterday.
Floods at Eau Claire, Wis, have driven
fully 100 families from their homes.
Captain w. A. Anderson. who crossed the
ocean in the d0ry Nautilus, is having a
smaller boat built and will repeat the voyage
this summer. If
The Pope Manufacturing Company has
been defeated in its fight in Chicago with
its licensees. The case will 60 lon appeal to
the United States Supreme Court.
The New York Reform Club offers a $3.50
prize for the best practical paper on sour
local interest in tariff REFORM" printed in a
newspaper anywhere in the United States
before September 1st, and also further re-
ward of 500 to the newspaper print ng the
said best article.
]. Frank Crockett, of Laconia, N. H., was
the first witness for the defence in the suit of
the Boston and Maine to recover possession
of the Boston, Concord and Montreal. He
had examined the road and found ten new,
and three unsafe bridges. The others were
in fair condition.
There was a large gathering Of Democrats
in Concord. N. H., last night, to attend the
convention today. Frank Jones and A. w.
SnlliWay will be two of the delegates at
large to st. Louis. The others will probably
be Harry Bingham and j. G. Moore.
Charles Rickerds, New York policeman,
was arrested Yesterday in the act of stealing
some silverware, and IL hours later had been
sentenced to 10 years Imprisonment and was
in convict's stripes.
The Pacific Coast Steamship Company's
steamer Queen of the Pacific, plying between
San Francisco and Southern coast ports, was
sunk near Port Hartford yesterday morning
No lives were lost
fierce hand to hand battle occurred Sun
nav night on an east bound Southern Pacific
express at Valentine station, Texas, result
inc in tbe death of Conductor Charles Ser
veT and Samuel Z. Taylor, a cattle man,
| Tavlor GOT on at Valentine in a drunken
| condition and Server attacked him to eject
him from the car. Taylor stabbed the CON
| ductor fatally and was mortally shot in re-
| turn.