The Portland daily press., 1888-10-23
GEN ERAL NJ EWS.

j. NJ. Wilson of Atlanta. Ca, county and
State tax collector, is short $4,000.
Assistant General Manager Gallup of the
Lake Shore road, died last night.
A despatch from Heidelburg says Mr..
Flood was better yesterday, but his recovery
is practically hopeless.
The coroner's jury censures the engineers
and fiagman, for the recent action on the
Lehigh road at Tamanend.
The cage in the main shaft Of the Wolfe
tone mine in Colorado, fell 800 feet Sunday.
Two men in it were instantly killed.
Justice Lawrence of the Supreme Court in
New York, yesterday handed down a decis-
ion sustaining the will Of Samuel j. Tilden.
Spike Murphy has been found guilty Of the
murder of Watchman Irons, at Providence,
r. l. Murphy's counsel have taken excep-
tions.
The first national convention of British
American Associations of the United States
met yesterday in Chicago. The object is 10
form an international association.
Two negroes were discovered in Washing
ton early yesterday morning carrying the
body of man who was buried Wednesday.
The negroes escaped.
District Assembly, No. &C, Knights of La
Dor, has petitiOned the President to recon-
mend law making gambling in the necessa-
ries of life unlawful.
Maggie Lloyd and Maggie Calvin. Green's
burg, Pa, servant girls, agreed to commit
ionable clothes. Maggie Lloyd kept the bar
gain. The other Maggie backed out.
The Richmond Terminal Company has ac-
cepted the option offered them on the stock
of the Georgia Central railroad, thus adding
$500 miles to the Richmond system and max
ing total of 9O00miles.
The Gaysville Manufacturing Company's
N h.,w.
day. Loss, $4,000; insurance, 100000. L.
B. KimbaPs store was also burned. Loss,
$4,000; insured.
Charles II. EbanD, we'll known postoffice
clerk in Boston, was arrested yesterday
morning charged with stealing from the
mails. When arrested IL stolen letters were
found in his pockets.
Captain +. Powell and a young man
named Warfield, while engaged Sunday in a
friendly wrestling bout on board an oyster
boat at Cooks Point, Delaware, fell over
board and both were drowned.
The general committee Of the Church Of
the Disciples in Boston, have voted recon-
incubation that the Rev. Charles G. Ames of
Philadelphia. be invited to become pastor to
succeed Rev. James Freeman Clarke, de-
ceased.
James j. Coogan, the Labor party's can
didate for mayor in New York, denies en-
pha.ically that there is any truth in the ru-
mors OF deals between the Labor party and
Tammany Hall or the county Democracy.
He is running to win, he says.
A despatch from Sault Ste. Marie, Michi-
gan, says that the steamer City lof Montreal
went to pieces Saturday evening at Mlchi-
picoten Island. The crew of 13, including
two ladies, took to the boats and got to the
island, suffering the greatest hardships un-
til they were picked up yesterday.
In the United States Supreme Court yes
terday afternoon, Justice Lamar delivered
the opinion in the Iowa liquor case affirming
the decision of the Supreme Court Of Iowa.
The Supreme Court holds with the State
Court that the manufacture of liquors is no
less a business within the State because the
manufacturer intends to export.