The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-07-11
GENERAL NEWS.

Heavy floods and much damage to proper
ty are reported from the Upper Monongahela
The Androscoggin County Republican
convention will be held at Auburn Tuesday,
Aug. 7th.
1t is believed in New York that an agree
ment has been reached by the Cable Com
panies to advance the rates to 25 cents word
The New Hampshire club of Boston to
the number Of over 175 yesterday morning
started on a simmer excursion to the Cats
kills.
Elaf Swanson shot Charles Anderson at
Branford, CT, Saturday last. Swanson left
town and next day Anderson died. Swanson
is now wanted on the charge of murder.
The date of the SagadahOc County Repub-
lican convention has not yet been fixed. 1t
will be held in Bath. probably, about the
Goth Of August
benjamin Risides house and barns at
Bethlehem, N. H., with portion of their
contents were burned Monday night. The
cause is unknown; the loss $780,
Fire destroyed eight blocks in the heart of
Suisun City California, Monday evening
Seven-elghts of the town was consumed. 1t
is impossible as yet to estimate the loss.
w. o. Parsons, prominent contractor,
has been arrested at Hedford, Ontario, on
charge of c0unterfeiting. A large quantity
of bogus bills and American silver was
found on his person.
n ldkSo uuulDck VI ptopIc fiollcQ JOnn
Zacher. the faster at Racine, Wisconsin,
Monday, it being the 50th day of his fast.
He has grown perceptibly weaker in the last
three days and his voice can hardly be heard.
A pear tree in Essex, Mass, which still
bears leaves and blossoms, and sometimes
fruit, was planted by John Cogswell, who
sailed from Bristol, England, May %, 1885,
and settled in the northern part Of Essex.
Fred A. Forsaith, manager of the Webster
house on Vaughan street, Portsmouth, went
to his room shortly after IL o'clock Monday
night, undressed, tied one end of strip Of
cloth to his right foot, the other to the trigger
of shot gun, placed the muzzle in his mouth
vacate the Webster house and the recent in
yestigation of a fire on the premises are said
to have caused the suicide.
The Republican State committee of New
York met in New York city yesterday and
elected Cornelius N. Bliss. chairman. The
as the place and date for holding the State
| convention.
1t is announced on authority in Fall River,
Mass, that Hon. X. I. Davis will withdraw
as candidate for denomination to Con-
| gress by the Republicans Of the first district,
| for personal reasons.
Dispatches from various points in central
| and southern Illinois say that the rainfall
| for the past As hours has been the heaviest
known for a long time, and, coming i'm
mediately after the great storm last week,
has done a vast amount Of damage.
BY the spreading of rails on ffty-foot
| trcstle near Cameron, Missouri, Monday eve
ming Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific con-
| structi0n train, with IL men. was precipita-
| ted to the ground distance Of 30 feet. The
foreman was killed outright. The engineer
| was scalded and died later, and brakeman
received injuries from which he will die.
The floods continue in West Virginia and
| the destruction to property all along the
| Little Kanawha and Ohio rivers Is greater
| than in 1884. The farms are flooded and
| hundreds of acres of growing crops are de-
| luged. Millions Of feet of timber are afloat
| going to destruction. Every stream is out Of
| It's banks.
The Republicans of Winthrop participated
| in jollihcation and swung fine Harrison
and Morton flag to the breeze on Monday
| evening. There was an enthusiastic crowd
| in attendance, and ringing addresses were
delivered by Hon. Herbert NJ. Heath, of Au-
gusta, and l.. 4. Carleton, Esq, of Winthrop.
| Winthrop Will make a brilliant showing
when her voters 90 to the polls.
| Early yesterday morning fire broke out in
the repair shops Of the New London & North
ern railroad at East New London, CT A large
storage building with its contents of season.
ed lumber for cars was entirely consumed.
Ihree freight cars were destroyed and a
| large amout OF valuable ship timber. The
total loss Is estimated at $4,000. The fire is
supposed to have been incendiary.
There were rumors about tie Fifth Avenue
Hotel, New York, during Monday evening
that Senator German, of Maryland, had been
asked to accept the chairmanship which in
| wolves the management of the Democratic
campaign and that he had refused. In con-
| sequence of Mr.. Germans refusal It Is
thought that CALVIN S. Briee, Of Ohio, VIII
be chairman.
The Monmons have achieved great
| triumph i'm preventing the reappointment of
| Judge Zane of Illinois as Chief Justlce OF
| Utah. The time Of Judge Zane had expired