The Portland daily press., 1888-12-05
GENERAL NEWS.

The epidemic Of yellow fever at Gaines
vile, Fla, Is declared to be over.
The switehmen's strike in indianapolis is
declared of.
There was one new case and no deaths In
Jacksonville yesterday.
Witherill, the outlaw, was shot by a mob
which broke into the jail at Canon City,
Col, Monday night, and then hanged
Major General Ayres, u. s.. A, died at
Fort Hamilton, N. T., yesterday, aged 81
years.
General Harrison is going to take two
days rest. and will spend the time In a
grouse shooting expedition.
Three train men were killed by a collision
between freight trains on the Grand Trunk
near Niagara Falls, Monday morning.
James O'Neil, Of Haverhill. Mass, went
home drunk last night and shot his wife four
times. She will probably die. O'Neil was
locked up.
The latest from Hayti Is that Legitime
hopes TO secure the recognition OF his gov
ernment by removing Minister Preston and
and Consul Bislett, at New York, and ap-
pointing two Of his followers.
The case Of the directors Of the Boston,
Concord & Montreal against the Boston q
Maine will be argued at Concord next Tues
day. The directors sue to recover possession
Of their road.
William f. Delsman, one of the captOrs Of
Jefferson Davis, has sued the government
for S293, his share Of the reward. lie claims
that he lost the draft sent him at the time,
and the money was never paid.
Yesterday was lively In the New York cof
fee exchange. Brazilian advices were that
the crop was 25 per cent short, while the
stock Of the world Is million bags below
last years total The market closed from
10 II cents pound higher than the opening
figures.
As the fast mail train on the New York
Central passed through Herkimer, N. Y,
yesterday morning. two girls were discover
ed on the track in great danger. Flagman
Waiver, seeing their peril, rushed TO their
rescue and succeeded In saving them, but was
himself crushed to death.
The story that Mr.. and Mrs. Cleveland are
planning 10 go abroad upon long tour aIteI
they leave the White House, Is pronounced
by those supposed 10 kn0w''a clean cut fake"
IL X rumOred, however, that Mr.. Cleveland
may establish his home In New Jersey, and
this perhaps gave rise TO the report that be
would visit foreign parts.
A despatch from Charleston, w. Va, says
that the recount In jefferson county is com
pleted Ii shows that Anderson, Demo
crat for Congress from the third district,
gained 25 votes In Charleston, which elects
him by II. Fleming, Democratic candidate
for Governor, gained Is votes. This will, 1t
Is believed, give the Democrats the governor
also.
The New York sun yesterday morning de-
voted half page to recital Of the wrongs
of the helpless Aleuts of Alaska, who. IL Is
claimed, are at the mercy OF the agents OF
the monopoly known as the Alaska CONNER
cial Company, which company, under the
lease from the government OF the United
States, controls large part Of the coasts and
islands Of that Territory.
In the big storm Of last week the schooner
A. 5. Brooks. which was wrecked off Glou-
eester, drifted into Boston harbOr and was
beached at Deer Island. Some OF the in
mates Of the house OF industry on the island,
who were detailed 10 watch the wreck, dis
covered a barrel OF whiskey on board. They
captured that wniskey, aud on the afternoon
sOners. Altar the inmates were all glorious
" full the oiHcers discovered the half empty
barrel.