The Portland daily press., 1888-04-17
GENERAL NEWS.

Aurion v. Chevers, Of Providence, r, l.,
has invented an organ in which glass tubes
are substituted for reed and metal pipes.
Frank Mexican, the newsboy injured in
the Boston q Maine accident at Bradford,
last winter, has gone to work again. The
road settled with him for $4,000.
The 27th anniversary of the departure of
the three months volunteers for the seat OF
war was celebrated in Marblehead. Mass,
yesterday.
The New York brewers instituted the
threatened lockout yesterday. The employees
wefe told that if they wished unemployment
as individuals who would recognize the man
ufacturers as their bosses, they could come
back. 1t is claimed that 10,Cc0 men are out
Advices from China state that the Chinese
Premier has demanded that the King of Co.
rea explain why the Corean Minister to the
to President Cleveland without the interven-
tion of the Chinese Minister.
Some excitement was caused on South
Main street in Providence yesterday morn
ing by the seizure of truck load of beer by
the chief Of the State police. The chief was
travelling in the street and noticed the truck
piled high and the driver delivering kegs at
various saloons.
The Vermont Railroad Commissioners be-
gan an investigation into the cause of the
Rockingham disaster yesterday. Officers
and employees of the road testified that there
had never been any indication of weakness
in the embankment when the accident oc-
CURED and it was apparently all right in the
night when the train jumped the track.
President Woodruff and the Latter Day
Saints In their conference at Salt Lake City
have taken such a course that many are in
clined TO believe them sincere in the aban-
donment of polygamy. President Woodruff
ignored the matter and an address advocat-
ing plural marriages was received with signs
of protest
In the New Hampshire Supreme Court
yesterday forenoon the respondents in near
ly all the liquor cases pleaded nolo conten-
dere, and in the proceedings .SI,5 under the
pro confesso" was entered. This is COM
plete backdown on the part of the liquor
sellers.
Ten young women in Harlem have chewed
gum for prize. 1t was at ball of the Bios
som Association in Harlem River Park. The
Miss Lottie Grimes. She chewed 18 boxes.
Miss Grimes is little woman with rich
dark complexion, dark hair and very bright
eyes, and hers was the smallest mouth Of al.
The last legislature of South Carolina voted
pension OF $5 per month to all disabled
Confederate veterans or their widows. Fifty
thousand dollars were appropriated and the
| State treasurer was authorized to borrow as
much money as was needed. The pension
| board is appalled, at the number of applica-
| tions pouring in and find that 100000 will
| be required to pay the pensions applied for.
Much anxiety is felt in Camden, Pa, as to
| the safety of party of four amateur yachts
men, who left that place ten days ago for q
| cunning cruise to Cold Spring Inlet. They
| expected to return in few days. A fifth
member of the party reached home last Mon
day, and said the party had encountered
very rough weather. He landed Monday,
and the others have not been heard from
| since.
A band of "White Caps" have made a
nightly raid In the country back of New Al
bany, Ind. They visited the house Of Mrs.
Jones, widow. and whipped soundly her
three boys because they would not work,
Then they visited Mrs. Wright, whom they
warned to leave the State, and lawyer
| from Leavenworth, who had been paying at
tentions to Mrs. Jones daughter, threatening
the latter with tar and feathers unless he
left for home within half an hour. He went
| at once.