The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-11-14
GENERAL NEWS.

Manchester, n H., celebrated the Repub-
lican victory last night.
The death roll of the Rochester fire now
numbers q, with II still missing.
Your troubles just begin, is ex-Gov. Fos-
ter's congratulatory despatch to Gen. Harri-
son from Ohio.
The sentence of Mrs. Robinson. the Somer-
vile murderer, has BEEN commuted to life
Imprisonment
Thomas l.. Bolts, New York insurance
agent, shot himself yesterday. Financial
troubles were the cause.
An epidemic of scarlet fever is raging in
jamestown, Oak, and schools and churches
are closed.
An excursion train was wrecked on the
Jersey Central road yesterday, and three
persons were seriously injured.
There were three new cases Of yellow fe-
yer and one death at Gainesville, Fla, yes
terday.
James Works, of Waterford, VT, who
passed his Tooth birthday last December,
died yesterday. probably Of apoplexy.
The steam barge II. 5. Hubbell was burned
on Lake Michigan yesterday, an exploding
lamp causing the fire. The crew escaped.
Daniel Greenleaf Thompson, the well
known. writer, succeeds Courtlandt Palmer
as president OF the Nineteenth Century Club,
Gov. Hill is being warned by the Western
democratic newspapers never to dare to
show his head in politics outside of New
York, If he wants to save it.
There was a destructive fire yesterday
morning In the Watson grain stores on Free
man street, Brooklyn, N. Y. The total loss
will reach $550.000
Three bodies were recovered yesterday
morning from Bryant's European Hotel, in
Chattanooga. Tenn, which was destroyed by
fire Sunday night.
rba Of fhn A
my of Sciences began at New Haven, Conn.,,
yesterday, and will continue three or four
days.
The friends of Isidor Rayner claim his
election in the Fifth Maryland district They
say that errors were made in counting the
vote.
Gov Gordon, of Georgia, said in his inau-
gural address Yesterday, that he did not be-
lieve Republican success meant the degrad-
ing of Southern States through the medium
of force bills.
Harrison's plurality in Michigan will be
nearly 22,000, which compares with only
about $500 for Blaine. The greenbackers
were back of it all, and Butler was back Of
the greenbackers
James Palmer pleaded not guilty to the
charge of numbering Henry p. Whitehouse
at Portsmouth yesterday. A jury was i'm
panelled and visited the scene of the crime
Gordon Corwith, a New York metal broker
is accused of having appropriated $3.50, 900,
while acting as broker for Nathaniel Corwith
d Co. A civil suit has been brought against
him.
In the transfer of silver dollars from New
Orleans to the new treasury vault at Wash
ington, $500 have been stolen. The money
was in charge of the Adams Express Conn
pany, on which the loss will probably fall
The Methodist bishops, Merritt, Andrews.
Vindee, Walden, Mallalieu, Fitzgerald, Joyce,
Newman and Goodsell, were banquetted in
Infantry Hall, Providence, r. l., last eve
ming, by the Methodists of Providence.
Three hundred plates were laid.
The directors of the Catholic University
Yesterday elected Rev. p. j. Garrigan Of
Fitchburg, Mass. vice rector of the Univer-
sity. The rector, Bishop Keane, was in
structed to proceed at once to Rome and sub
NIT the plans and statutes of the institution
to the Pope for his approval
Captain T. S. Logan, commanding the
United States troops at Fort Hancock. Texas.
on the Rio Grande, thought Monday that
of the river, and took with him some mem
bers Of his command and one civilian. They