The Portland daily press., 1889-12-31
GEN ERAL NEWS.

Max Starman, an Hungarian. is sick in
New York with typbus fever. He has been
in the country three weeks.
Daniel Slate & Co., manufacturers of
blank books, New IVY, York, have suspended
assignment of j. B. Sheffield & Son.
j. S. Coleman, commissioner of the de-
paftment OF street cleaning, New York city.
has resigned. He says that the present
bad condition of the streets is not the fault
of his department, but is due to abuses
which are matters of public notorieiy.
Passengers on the Chesapeake 6 Ohio
train which was wrecked Saturday, have
signed statement that in their opinion the
wreck was caused by rotten ties. The Door
condition of the road is alleged to have been
no secret.
A young man who passed as George A.
Parker, veterinary surgeon Boston, re-
Gently swindled Portsm uth livery stable
keepers and the proprietor of the Langdnn
House. He borrowed money Of the stable
keepers and rem up big bill at the hotel.
Then he cleared out.
Red Sendall and Choctaw Pete, two noto-
riOus Indian outlaws, took possession of
Iichuvawa on Christmas day and ran the
town until they were shot dead by stranger.
The outlaws killed the town marshal when
he attempted to arrest them.
The general term of court in the fifth New
York department has decided, in the case of
murderer Kemmler, that the law providing
Tor execution by electricity is constitutional.
Airumor was circulated in Chicago yester-
day that an Illinois Central train had been
wrecked and IL persons killed. The report
was without foundation.
Edward Hanlan is out with his reply to
the challenge of Jake Gaudaur, in which he
says he will row Gaudaur single scull shell
race for $1,000 to $1,000, the race to be rowed
before next July.
The Massachusetts supreme court has
given conclusive decision in favor of the
Martin Cash Carrier Company, in the suit
brought by the Lamson & Ames and the
Martin d Hill companies for a conveyance to
them of Martins patents.
An appeal for aid comes from the people
| of Sherman county in the western part OF
| Kansas. Their houses for the most part are
mere shells, and the crops in many cases
have been failures.
branch of the Boston & Maine railroad, yes
| terday morning, left the rails at Rollinsford
| on account of misplaced switch. The pas.
| seDgers were badly frightened and no one
| was hurt
Bark Santee, Capt Steele, from Accra
| west coast Of Africa, August 2Sth, for Bos
| ton, which had been given up for lost, ar
rived off Tarpaulin cove yesterday morning
Timothy ONeil, the six-year-old son OF
| John O'Neil of Dover, n. H., died yesterday
morning of diphthera. 1t was the last cast
| of the disease in the city.
Advices from the West are that Saturdays
| snow storm extended over a wide area. Al
| Winona, Mimi, rain fell in sheets, instead
| of snow. When the rain stopped The mer.
| curry fell 80 degrees in three hours at Other
| points, electrical disturbance followed the
| fall of snow.
The cold wave caused plunge of 40 de
| grees in "A hours at Chicago.
Insurance Commissioner Merritt of Massa
| chusetts Is out in an open letter to President
| w. IL. Beers, of the New York Life In
surance Company, one Of the three larges
| life insurance companies in the world, point
| ing out what he calls the unlawful action OF
that company. He charges the company
with issuing misleading policy and making
an unfair discrimination.
| Wednesday next. the 9th anniversary oi
the proclamation Of emancipation, and attel
| Just quarter OF century of actual freedom
the colored people of South Carolina will
plant Sian post on their road to progress
aud development by opening to the world
| the first fair of the ColOred Agricultural and
| Mechanical Society of South Carolina at
| Columbia.
NJ. G Patterson, of Decatur, ILL.,, who had
| a 81, 800 contract for the brickwOrk of a
new building at the Soldiers Orphans
| Home, has been mysteri0usly missing ever
| since last Tuesday evening" He is believed
| to have been robbed and murdered.