The Portland daily press., 1889-02-06

Vermont Odd Fellows are holding their
annual sessions at Montpelier.
A heavy hail storm did great damage in the
vicinity of Lexington, Va, last evening.
Frank p. Webster is under arrest at Con-
cord, N. H., charged with Deaking and en-
tering in Penacook in 1888
Dimmock Willis, aged SO, of Rockville,
Conn, took laudaLum Monday night to pro-
duce sleep. He took too much and is dead.
Edward johnson is under arrest in West
Virginia and will be brought to Palmer,
Mass, where he is wanted for robbery.
The 1890 train from Boston, struck and
killed an unknown woman at Lynn, yester-
pay.
Fire in the building at S41 Broadway, N.
Y, last night did $4,000 damage. The fire
started in Osel d. Co.'s japanese art store.
W. Sawtelle, locomotive engineer, on the
Lowell road, was killed by the derailing and
overturning of his engine Monday night.
The New England Agricultural Society
yesterday passed resolution recommending
DIR. Lorlng to PresideDt-elect Harrison as
Secretary OF Agriculture. Worcester, Mass,
Is the next place of exhibition.
The employment of negro tobacco strippers
in a Marion, Ill, factory has led to trouble
with the white help. Shots have been fired
at the house of the negro boss.
Col. George III. Tilden of New York, has
appealed to the Supreme Court against the
adverse decision of the Lower Court in his
suit to break the will Of bis uncle, Hon. Sam
uel j. Tilden.
Decision has been rendered in the United
States Circuit Court in New York in favor
of the Bell Telephone Company against the
Wallace Electric Telephone Company for in
fringement If patent.
The Central Pacific railroad has received
its title to 1867 acres of land in Livermore
Valley, California, which betw, en- the wears
nd 1879 tran { fa rrQd hu EaDo-
missioner of the General Land Office to the
State of California, and by it sold to various
parties.
The new Howe Manufacturing Company
of Bridgeport, Conn.,, will go out of business
owing to lack Of profit. caused by sharp COM
petition. Several hundred hands lose work.
The company made sewing machines and
light castings.
The Boston Association of BOwdoin Alum
nj will hold its twenty-frst annual reunion
and dinner at the Boston Tavern on Wednes-
day, February 13. Gen. Chamberlain and
President Hyde are to be present, and Cblef
Justice Fuller Is expected.
death from wilful negligence caused by
the influence over the parents OF M. a. Eli
oft and Miss M. A. Campbell, OF Des Moines,
Iowa, who profess to be Christian nealers
is the verdict of a coroner's jury In tne case
of Dakota child, whose parents trleu 10
cure il of inflammation OF the bowels Dy
prayer.
A trial of the phonograph, in connection
with the long distance telephone, was mace
Monday night between the operating room
Of the American Telephone and Telegraph
Company, in New York, and the Franklin
Institute in Philadelphia. An audience Oh
several hundred persons at the latter place
was entertained by cornet solos and songs.
The entertainment was entirely successful.
The revenue cutter Richard Rush has
Drought to San Francisco the British schoon-
sr Pathfinder and the American schooner
| William w. Rich, both of which vessels
were captured In brakes bay while illegally
engaged in sealing Both schooners cleared
from Victoria, B. G. 1t was reported Mon
DAY night that these vessels we're seized for
smuggling opium, but this it seemswas with