The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-08-14
GEN ERAL NEWS.

Assistant Secretary Tichenor left Washing.
ton yesterday afternoon for Luray Springs,
Va.
Twenty deputy sheriffs are keeping the
death watch over five condemned murderers
in New York,
George Bancroft, the historian, and his
niece, Miss Carrie Bancroft, sailed for Europe
last Saturday.
Secretary Rusk has been elected an honor
airy member of the New Jersey State Veter-
mary Association.
The Gar of Russia has purchased new
dog to replace his favorite mastif, recently
killed in railway accident
Samuel Cox, an aged man belonging in
| Newmarket, is being held in Biddeford by
the city marshal. He is demented.
Miss Daisy Hampton. daughter of General
wade Hampton, is reported to have entered
a New York hospital to become nurse.
The employees of the Pennsylvania Steel
| Co. at Harrisburg were notified of au increase
| of wages yesterday. The increase is from
| q to 10 per cent.
Blondin has wagered $40, 900 that he can
walk a cable from the top of the Effel tower
to the central dome of the exhibition build
| ing In less than five minutes.
| The boiler in Thomas Anderson g. Co.'s
| stove factory at Dawson, KY, exploded Mon
day, Killing James jackson, Laton Menser
and Dennis Purdy, and wounding four others
A heavy cloud from the east met one from
the west at fremont station, New York and
Harlem railroad, last evening. Their burst
| ing caused flood in district half a mile
square and delayed trains.
The Illinois Secretary of State licensed
yesterday the Worlds Fair, 1892, Chicago"
for holding an international exposition or
world fair in Chicago to commemorate the
four hpndredth anniversary of the discovery
OF America.
An average of two bodies have been found
every day during the past week at Johns
town, Pa. and a great many more are in
cellars all over the town. AT the. present
rate Of cleaning up they will not all be ex-
humed this year.
Charles Award of Orange, Mass, is miss
ing. The woods for miles around have been
| carefully looked over and the river will be
dragged. Many think he has skipped for
| parts unknown. His wife is confident he
has been murdered.
The Huntington, Pa, car shops were burn
ed yesterday morning. Twenty-eight new
cars, built for the New York, Susquehanna
ana western railroad, together with a num-
neIof valuable patterns, were destroyed.
Ths loss is $4,000; insurance. $45. 900.
Hon. William M. Evarts is In Vermont,
spending few days at his summer resi-.
deBe. He is suffering from serious affec-
tIol OF the eyes, and is preparing to go to
EuIope to consult the leading Specialists
there to obtain relief.
General Van Vliet, the Oldest brigadier
general in the United States army now on the
retfed list, Is "a years of age ana has been 80
yeas in the service. He has ruddy face
! oVafowing with good humor. and bushy
gray hair worn long.
deborah Powers, the senior partner in the
bank of ID. Powers 81 Sons, Lansingburg, N.
T., is the Oldest banker in the country. This
| venerable, but active woman, is 80 years old
Sheis in full possession of her faculties, and
her business Shrewdness is as remarkable as
it was generation back.
The firm of j. G. Downs & Co., Ports
mouth, were arraigned before Judge Dufford
Yesterday morning, at the instance of Fish
and Game Inspector Chadwick of Manches.
| ter for exposing and selling understood lob.
sters. The parties were found guilty and
fined $50 and costs which was paid.
The New Hampshire Senate yesterday
morning adopted concurrent resolution
providing for final adjournment of the leg
islature August 16. The House has amended
the license bill permitting towns Of more
than 1000 inhabitants to license summer ho
tells and prohibiting the sale of liquor In
dwelling houses.
A fire broke out at Truckee, CAL, Monday
and burned thirty-ive buildings in the bust
ness portion of the town. The amount uf The
loss, which is necessarily very large, has mo-
yet been learned. The citizens of Trucket
have lately been ridding the town of ones
tlonaDie cnaracters, anu the Impression pre-
walls that the fire was started by incendiar
les.
Shortly after II o'clock yesterday tw,
young men entered the ticket brokers' offie,
of G. Loeb, Broadway, N. Y, and one n
them pulled q. revolver and called to Loeb &
throw up his hands; Loeb ran to the corne
behind the door and raped on the glass I,
give an alarm. The man with a Tevoive
fired, the ball grazing Loeb's left shoulder
The report of the shot attracted help and al
officer captured one man. f'
AT meeting of citizens of Baltimore yes
terday resolutions We're adopted setting fort
and magnitude of private Corporation q
individual city and should be held under tn
joint auspices Of the United States and tn