The Portland daily press., 1888-10-06

GENERAL NEWS.
Small pOx is spreading in Toronto.

Small pox is spreading in Toronto.
Monday will be Grange day and Tuesday
Governors day at the New England fair.
Ten thousand persons participated in the
Republican serenade in Brooklyn, N. Y,
last night.
VIM. S. Holbrook has been nominated for
Congress by the 11th District Massachusetts
Democrats.
John Sarsfield has been committed to Jail
at Dover, N. H., to await the actien Of the
grand jury on the charge Of wife murder.
There were 1S4 failures in the United
States and 27 in Canada this week, against a
total of 22O and 22S in the preceding two
weeks.
Phillip Palledeno, the Italian who mur-
dered his brother on the evening of June %,
1887, suffered the death penalty at Bridge
port, Ct, yesterday.
Two trains came together with terrific
crash near Oswego, N. ", yesterday. An
engineer was killed and three or four other
people were injured.
Mrs. Mary L. Garret, of Madina, o., was,
Thursday, sentenced to be hanged on Jan.
oath next for the murder Of her two imbecile
step-daughters last November.
Information has been received at Peters
burg, Va, that the damage by frost TO the TO
bacco crop in the south side section Of Vir-
ginia is very great, and that one-fourth of
the crop has been completely ruined
VIM. Fl. Ingham a New York broker, has
disappeared. He has been running a swind-
ling Investment syndicate, and Is believed to
have caused losses to investors amounting TO
100000. He had agents in many places.
The residence of Ezra w. Chaplin, North
boro, Mass, was completely wrecked by the
explosion Of the steam boiler in the cellar,
yesterday, causing loss Of $4,000. Nobody
was injured.
David Swan was fatally hurt and other
persons seriously injured at the Kingst ton,
Pa, fair grounds yesterday, horses in a
chariot race becoming unmanageable and
dragging the heavy chariot into the crowd.
The people in Ramsay county, Dakota, are
said to be on the brink Of starvation, the re-
cent frosts having destroyed thousands Of
bushels Of wheat, leaving the residents des-
titute.
The American Missionary Association will
hold its 42d annual meeting in Providence,
held In the Union Congregational church,
and will commence at 8 o'clock Tuesday af-
ternoon, Oct. 23
Captain Wiley, of the fruit steamer Lor-
EMO ID. Baker. says he was recently fined
$4c0 and subjected to outrageous indignities
in Jamaica on charge Of violating customs
laws. The attention of the State Depart.
ment has been called to the case.
The executive committee of the New York
Civil Service Reform Association has adopt
ed resolution denouncing the Benet crcu-
lar as "a violation Of the fundamental prin-
ciple which should govern appointments in
the public service"
Yesterday was a lively day in the Chicago
Produce Exchange, sudden rise creating a
whirl of excitement. There are fears that
Hutchinson will treat shorts in November
corn to similar dose to that which he gave
shorts in September wheat
A terrific explosion Of accumulated gas oc-
CURED in the new water works tunnel al
Cleveland, o., at an early hour yesterday
morning The main shaft is down 95 feet
and the explosion occurred at this depth in
the part of the tunnel leading out under the
lake. Five men were fatally burned, and
were taken out in dying condition.
Guyovanni B. Dendero surrendered him
self to patrolman on the street in Boston
yesterday morning, stating that he had kill
ed relative named Guyovanni DenderO
The crime was committed May 21st, at the
little hamlet Of Sara, is miles out of Genoa
Italy.
Mrs. Charles p. Fowler, of Pittsburg, Pa,
tells sensational story to the effect that her
father. Boston Buck, now in the penitentiary
Tor counterfeiting, has been made to appear
as a criminal because at the time of the war
ne would not become party to various Sc
cession schemes, among them being one to
turn the city Of Washington over to General
Robert Z. Lee at the time Of Lincoln's iDaug-
uratlon, 1t being intended to cause the muir
der OF the President.