The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-03-22
GEN ERAL EW S.

An anti Confederate league is forming in
Newfoundland.
Seals are very abundant on the Newfound-
land coast. and men and women are catching
them in great numbers.
Prof James S. Booth, Of Philadelphia, the
eminent chemist, is dead.
A new syndicate of New York bankers
has purchased the S6,000,000 OF Rhode ISL
and bonds which the German syndicate
could not market Drexel, Morgan & Co.,
are reported to be in the deal.
A bill has been introduced into the New
York Senate limiting telephone rates to Va
per month in cities having over half mil
ion population.
Mrs. Rebecca Bennett was yesterday
chosen moderator at the town meeting IN
Lee. N. III. Mrs. James BuZZell was elected
superintendent of schools
The strike among the weavers in the cot
ton mills at Salmon Falls, n. H., has col
lapsed.
A coke train on the Pittsburg Virginia
and Charleston railroad ran into rock near
Green Spring, yesterday morning and the en-
tire train was precipitated over an embank-
ment into the river. distance OF 10 feet. A
brakeman was killed.
In the police court at Concord, N. H.. yes
terday forenoon, the saloon keepers who
complained against by Charles Ill. Thorn
dixie waived examination and were ordered
| to give S4OO pail In eacn case 10 await Jne
action of the grand jury.
Judge John w. Bacon, of the Massachu-
| setts supreme court, died suddenly at Taun-
| ton last evening Of apoplexy
Mrs Samuel Fairfield died in Haydenville.
| Mass, Tuesday night, aged 102 years.
Services in memory of the late Emperor
| William were held in New York last evening
| by German residents. Hon. Carl Schurz and
| Hon. John A. Bigelow were the speakers.
The Bell Telephone Company has ordered
| instruments i'm use by the Pan company In
| St. Louis to be discontinued, and threatens
action under the recent decision OF the su-
| preme court.
Ex-Sheriff George NJ Stiles, of Union
| County, N. j., committed suicide yesterday
morning by shooting himself at his home in
| Plainfield: Stiles was promenent hepuol-
sheriff. He was led to commit the, deed
| through the discovery of Irregularities In his
| accounts while he was sheriff.
The custom house expenses in New York
must be reduced 13 per cent. and It is stated
| that three or four hundred employees viii
lose their places Saturday next.
The Commercial National Bank of Du-
buque, Iowa, has closed its doors Stock
holders will lose half million dollars.
Pilot boats Enchantress and Phantom OF
| New York are still missing, and the Pilot
| Commissioners have given them up as lost
There were fourteen persons on the boats.
Prof. Elisha Gray will on Saturday next
give an exhibition in Chicago of his new tel
autograph, by means of which exact copie:
of messages, in any hand writing, can be re
nroduced at the distant end of wire. HS
Claims it can be successfully used for dis
tance Of 500 miles.
Col. Kesterlitzky in command of the Gus
tom house guards at Bavispe, Mexico, say
earthquakes are Of daily occurrence in anC
about Bavispe and are preceded by loud un-
dergronnd noises. 1t is believe that vol
cano will soon burst forth.
Jerome l.. Hill, prominent member eff th'
Union club of New York, and executor o
the Lottiner estate, valued at several mil
lions, who is charged with appropriatinl
$3.50, 600 in bonds belonging to the estate, Il
missing. 1t is believed he has fled to Canada