The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-11-24
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
Ex-senator Rollins, who was stricken with
vertigo in Boston yesterday, was unconscious
at late hour last night.
On December 15, it is said Chicago syndi-
cate Will secure control of the four st. Louis
street railways.
The report that switchmen on the trunk
lines east of the Mississippi threaten to
strike unless their pay Is raised, is denied.
The Canadian Pacific road has made ar
rangements to run trains into Chicago over
the Wabash tracks.
Olaf Sunde, cashier of the New York Daily
News, is reported to have absconded with at
least $4,000, and perhaps $4,000
The Vermont House of Representatives
yesterday morning refused the Pitkin liquor
to 81.
Brigadier General Miles assumed com.
mand of the Division of the Pacific yesterday
morning. General Howard and Lieu tenant
Greble have left San Francisco for New
York.
The grand jury in Hudson county, N. j.,
have made presentment that they find the
use OF soft coal In locomotives nuisance.
They also object to the blowing of locomo-
tive whistles.
Pocomoke City, Maryland, was swept by
fire Thursday night All the business sec
tion was burned, and the loss will be half a
million dollars. The fire was discovered at
?, m, and strong wind sent the flames
rapidly from one building to another
Albert Shultz, of Altoona, Pa, aged 15,
returned last evening from hunting expe-
dltlon and thOughtlessy pointed his gun at
his nenhew, prattling baby, eight months
old. The gun was discharged, killing the
baby.
"A man in Denver. Col, who. ON the advice
OF pleasant fellow he met in New York, de-
cided to have $4,000 in gold exchanged for
currency and shipped to Denver, finds the
sharper has his money and he has package
of blank paper.
Perry Belmont is in Washington receiving
his, last instructions as minister to Spain,
He will probably follow diplomatic prece-
dents and sell the effects in his house on
Rhode Island avenue at public sale before he
leaves Washington.
A man who registered as f. S. Carleton, of
Boston, committed suicide by shooting at the
fayDyan House. Fabyans, yesterday morn
ing. The name registered was probably as
sumed, as on the watch pocket of his trous-
ers was the name s. c. Foster, the initials
indicating transposition.
j. E. Bedell, the New York real estate
clerk who swindled his employers and clients
his plea of guilty to State prison for 25 years
and months. G0ss, one of the policy deal
ers who got $4,000 out of Bedell, pleaded
guilty to felony, and was fined $1,000.
A special train bearing members of the
Boston Ideal Opera Company, was derailed
at Ashland. WIS.,, Thursday afternoon by an
open switch. The train was running S5
miles an hour. but only the engine and bag
gage car left the track. The passengers were
thrown into Tild excitement, but no one
save the engineer was hurt.
The failure Of j. w. Mcintosh & Co.,
bankers, 81 Milk street, Boston, was an
nounced yesterday morning. The firms ac-
counts are not yet made, and no statement of
the assets and liabilities can now be given.
The failure Is owing chiefly to the decline
IN Flint and Pere Marquette railroad securl-
ties.
Among the features of the st. Paul car
nlval this year will probably be Russian
toboggan slide, two towers being built and
the shutes extending from one to the other.
The leading tob0ggan clubs of New York
city VIII be asked to be present. A regular
Russian boar hunt Is also proposed and
many other Russian features.
H II. Scott, of Hinkley, Minn., village
president and county surveyor, killed Sidney
K. Irwin, an engineer at an eastern MinnesO-
ia railway water tank, Thursday. They
quarreled violently, and finally came to
blows. Scott drew revolver and shot Irwin
three times, killing him. The railroad men
threaten to lynch Scott.
Pittsburg road collided at Hammondsville,
Pa, at O'Clock yesterday morning. Both
engines and number of cars were demOl-
ished. One Of the engineers had leg crush
ed. The engineer and brakeman of the
other train are missing and are supposed to
be under the wreck.
The general term of the New York su-
preme court. yesterday, decided that the
American Bell Telephone Company, of Bos-
ton, Is liable to tax upon the business it
does In the State. A tax is claimed upon
business transacted in the State from 1882 to
1886, and judgment is given against the COM
pany for $34,4
The New York Worlds Indianapolis cor
respondent telegraphs an interview with
General Harrison, in which the latter denies
the truth of the published reports of state
ments made by him concerning the annex
had no talk with any one ON the subject of
the annexation of Canada, and has said
nothing about using the surplus in purchas-
the territory of the Dominion.
The extensive works of the Fort Wayne.
Ind. Electric Light Company were totally
destroyed by fire yesterday morning, with ali
| the costly machinery, engines, tools and pat
terms. The company is the most prominent
| of the arc light manufacturers in America.
| The amount of capital invested is fully half
| million dollars. The total loss amounts to
| over $500, 600; insurance $148,000.
| n CuCuldI ID pIlnttu III Tue NEW 0rK
| papers which is largely distributed in manu-
featuring districts among workingmen signed
Blocks of five." 1t urges the workingmen
| to form themselves into blocks of five for the
purpose of demanding legislation by Con-
| gress which will be of practical benefit to the
wage earners. The Republicans, it saws,
must be held to their promise of higher
| wages which it was claimed before the cleo
tion would follow Republican success.
George Burggraf, who runs meat market
| on the outskirts of Chicago, and resides in
the rear, was attacked Thursday night by
two burglars who entered his apartment and
almost murdered him. His cries for help
aroused his invalid wife. her mother and
sister, who came to Burggraf's assistance
| One burglar retreated but the other made a
desperate fight. He bit the fingers of the
women and cut them badly with knife. He
was hnally overpowered and tied with ropes
until the police arrived.
From present appearances the Valparaiso
Bank failure in Valparaiso Nebraska, is The
most gigantic swindle and defalcation ever
known in that quarter. It develops thai
Scoville, one OF its owners, has altered lnany
of the notes payable to the bank making the
amounts much more than they originally
were, and that he then deposited the note,
with other banks as collateral for none,
with which to speculate. Notes which wers
paid, and which should have been cancelled
have been used in the same manner SEQ
Vile and Crafts, after swindling the busi
ness men of the town and their friends ou
of as much money as possible, suddenlv de
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