The Portland daily press., 1888-10-15
GEN ERAL N EWS.

More money has been sent to Jacksonville
than is required for the fever sufferers.
Hon. John Wentworth of Chicago, famil-
iarly known as Long john" is dying of
softening of the brain.
Democratic business men of New York
had demonstration Saturday. There was
parade and speeches by Speaker Carlisle,
Secretary Fairchild and others.
| A special says that it is reported that the
steamer Ia llapoosa ran on a reef near the
| South American coast, and Will have to be
towed to London or New York.
Miss Paddock, an elderly lady of Somer-
vile, Mass, was struck by train on the
fltchburg road, Saturday, and fatally in
jured.
Mrs. Julia Gray. an elderly widow, resid-
ing in Fairfield, Conn.,, was burned to death
Friday night, her clothing taking fire from
the upsetting of kerosene lamp.
Twenty conductors and brakemen of the
Union Pacific railroad have been indicted in
| Wyoming Territory charged with the rob-
bing of freight trains of thousands of dol
lars worth of property.
| Between 1000 and 5000 people Witnessed
| the launching of the new gunboat Petrol at
the ship yards of the Columbian Iron Works
Saturday afternoon.
At johnson, Tenn, 10 miles east of Knox
vile, fourteen guests of Smiths Hotel are
reported to have been poisoned by some
thing eaten at supper. Three have died and
several others, it is feared, cannot recover
The road-sculling match in New York re-
suited as follows: Gaudaur wins the $500
prize, Ross gets the second prize, Plaisted
gets third prize of 800, and also the $3.50
| prize for the. greatest number of miles run
| during the night.
Saturday forenoon, William B. McCloskey,
a brakeman on the Worcester, Nashua q
| Portland Division of the Boston & Maine.
was crushed while shackling cars in Worces-
| ter. Mass. He died soon after in the city
| hospital.
| Early Saturday, Brooklyn police officer
was caught in the act of picking the pocket
| of sleeping man in Catherine street ferry
house. He was arrested, and later held for
examination at the Toombs police court. The
| evidence against him is conclusive The Of
| ficer is John Cullen.
team at West Barnstabe, Mass, Saturday
afternoon, containing Henry A. Cowell and
| wife, and Howard M. Lowell and wife, all of
| 0ysteryille. Cowell was killed instantly,
Lowell is reported dying, and the two ladies
received serious injuries, both external and
| internal.
Miss Annette Stillman, of Westerly, r. l.,
died Saturday from congestion of the lungs
caused by suppresslng cough, induced by
lnhallng the fumes OF red fire. She had just
passed the fire, which was burned during
political parade, when she met two drunken
men, and suppressed the coughing fit for
fear of attracting their attention.
A Boston despatch says The advance
| in flour is steadily increasing. This advance
began in August, and starting from about
$3.50 for best Minnesota brands, is now
quoted at IS and $S25, and st. Louis at So. Is
and $7.25. A representative of one of the
leading wholesale flour firms in the city saws
that he, expects no decline in prices for
long while.
| A woman, apparently foreigner. made
some small purchases in Chicago Friday
night, at Whiteford's drug store After She
had left, Mr.. Whiteford discovered parcel
] under the counter, from which smoke was
| issuing. Unwrapping the parcel he found
the hub of pulley wheel plugged at both
| ing fuse. He put out the fire of the fuse and
turned the bomb over to the police. who
| found it filled with dynamite.