The Portland daily press., 1888-07-21
GEN ERAL NEWS.


and he is c0nvalescing rapidly.
The New Hampshire State convention has
has been called to meet in Concord, Septem-
ber4,
George Bemis, living at No. 2l0 Dover
street, Boston, was accidentally shot by q
circus employe yesterday.
The Waldo county Republican eonven-
ton will be held in Belfast Thursday,
August O.
A United Labor district convention has
been called at Bangor, July 25, for the pur-
pose of nominating a candidate for Congress.
A rich discovery of gold has been made
near Ishpeming, Mich. In a shaft at the
Lake Superior Iron Company.
The court decides that the New York
church of Holy Trinity must be fined $1,000
for importing contract minister.
The National Teachers Association, in
session at San Francisco. have elected A. r.
Marble, Of Worcester, Mass, president.
DR.. Whitney, of st. Thomas, Ontario, re-
ceiyed fifty lashes, yesterday as part punish
ment for an assault ON his young niece. He
groaned and cried inglorlously.
The New York legislature has passed the
prison bill and bill abolishing the Board
Of AQueduct Commissioners and substituting
board Of which Mayor Hewitt is one.
John Curran, aged 80, living in South Bos-
ton, was found dead In a vacant lot on l
street, between X and l. streets yesterday
morning, with stab in the heart.
In the District Court at Providence yes
terday James Jewitt was bound over
without bail for the murder of Arthur Cra-
ven.
The furniture factory of Frederick Bolle,
West Twenty Seventh street, New York,
was burned yesterday morning. Loss $685.
600.
Fires in the woods near Coral, Mich, for
the past few days have done great damage.
Unless rain comes soon valuable timber Will
be destroyed.
Engineer Cooling, another of the alleged
Burlington dynamiters, gave bail in Chica-
90 Yesterday, but was Immediately arrested
on State warrant and taken to Aurora.
The United States steamer Charleston. the
first man-Of-war ever built on the Pacific
coast, was launched at San Francisco Thurs
day evening.
Excursion steamer Thomas p. Way.
burned to the waters edge at her dock at
Newark, N. j., yesterday morning. No
lives were lost. Loss, $4,000; fully in
sured.
Walter A. Shakley and Fred Terrault,
each 10 years of age, were caught breaking
Ii. Thursday night. They were held in $500
bond for the Supreme Court.
A well authenticated report has reached
Laredo, Texas, of a disastrous wreck of a
construction train on the Mexican National
road at Front, in which 10 men were killed.
No particulars are received.
The State Gazette of California for 1888
gives the State population at the present
time of over million and half, nearly
twice the population of 1880, according to the
official census.
Senator German Of Maryland says he re-
fused to be chairman of the Democratic
Executive Committee, because he had no
time to attend to the business, and not be-
cause he was out of sympathy with Cleve-
land.
Chebowa and Chapek, the Anarchists,
furnished bonds OF 5000 each Thursday eve
ming and were released. Kronek is still in
confinement and doubtless will so remain.
Inspector Boufeld says the case is complete
against the three men.
The House committee on manufactures
yesterday resumed the investigation into the
made by the counsel for the trust Of the
testimony they wish to present in rebuttal OF
the evidence already taken.
A despatch from Wheeling, West Virgin
la, at noon said that the loss Of life from the
flood Thursday night was 25. About 10
bodies have been found so far. The money
loss is S150000. First accounts were greatly
exaggerated.
Two firemen and seven deck hands were
killed Thursday night by the explosion of a
steam pipe ON the tow boat Canary, near
Westpori KY, IA miles above Louisville.
The Canary was returning TO Pittsburg with
empty coal barges. The dead men were all
from Pittsburg and vicinity.
The Prohibition State Convention at
Hutchinson, Kansas. Thursday, adopted a
platform and nominated full State ticket.
The platform advocates woman suffrage,
government control Of telegraphs and rail.
roads, reduction of the surplus, repeal OF
the liquor traffic. Rev. j. ID. Botkin OF
Wichita was named for governor, and II. j
Greedy of Abilene, for lieutenant governor
Schooner Jennie Edward was sunk al
anchor on the Grand Banks on the 14th in
slant by large steamer steering west-nOrth-
west. The crew can give no accurate des'
crlptlon OF the steamer owing to the fog. II
will be remembered that the steamship Fulda
which arrived in New York from Bremen,
Tuesday morning, collided with an unknown
schooner ON the banks Of Newfoundland on
the 14th inst. during dense fog.
The local volunteer military officers al
Winnipeg have orders to hold their com.
mands in readiness to proceed on short no
tice to British Columbia, thence northward
to the Skeena river to assist in quelling the
Indian uprising there. The latest report.
indicate serious state of affairs and lead Il
the belief that several warlike tribes of In
dians will join in an insurrection. Full in.
telligence is expected within day or two.
st. Clairsyille, Ohio, was visited Thursday
evening by a most terrific thunder storm
with violent winds and rainfall tha
eclipsed the average waterspout. GraiI
fields are laid in waste, shocked wheai
swept away and growing corn Is not to bt
seen anywhere in the region. The Bellaire
and st. Shirville and Northern railroads are
almost entirely washed out. Several narrow
escapes are reported and it is feared that a
number Of lives have been lost. 1t is inn
possible to estimate the loss but it is no les:
than 100000