The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-07-29
GEN ERAL NEWS.

A trust to control the Florida orange crop
is said to be in process of formation.
The Southern Pacific railroad has dis
charged $50 employees to lessen:expenses.
The twelfth annual Unitarian grove meet
ing commenced at Weirs, N. f., yesterday.
1t is reported that five men were killed by
the explosion of a traction engine near Wa
bash, Ind, Saturday.
Chas. S. Oyster, noted politician of Inde
pendence, Mo-. is reported to be $4,000
| short in his accounts.
chief have been found near Methuen, Mass,
| and it is feared murder has been COM
| mitted.
| The sixteenth annual session of the New
| England Spiritualsts' Campmeetng Associ-
alton opened at Lake Pleasant, Mass, yes
| terday.
A syndicate of English capitalists, known
| as the International Gas Company, is trying,
| it is said, to secure control of Brooklyn's gas
| franchises
Barnum's agent has chartered the City of
Rome and Furnessia to take the greatest
| show on earth to England this fall. The
| price is 100000.
Residents of Sawyer's Mills, few miles
from Wilkesbarre, Pa, are alarmed by the
| settling of large area of ground over the
| Enterprise Colliery.
During the flood in West Virginia, a cir
| Gus was wrecked and one woman drowned.
| Salisbury on the Timgart river was virtually
wiped out of existence.
| The differences between the Southern Pa
| cifc and the Canadian Pacific are likely to
| result in the collapse of the Trans-C -Continen-
tai Railway Association.
Wesley Elkins, aged II, has confessed to
| killing his father and step mother In Eiks-
| tonshire, Ia, Wednesday. He had some
difficulty with his father.
1t is rumored that there is shortage of
| $4,000 in the Williams fund of Michigan
| University at Ann Arbor, Mich, caused by
| the late treasurer, Zina Pitcher King.
Settlers Set ,;,das near the l GolvilIe Agency, W. T.,
dians have burned eight square miles of hay
land and threatened the lives of the people.
The Lamag Co., one of the largest house
furnishing and plumbing establishments in
New England outside of Boston, made an
assignment to Jacob M. Lewis Saturday af-
| terno0n.
A story is published in New York that the
notorious Madame Ristell, supposed to have
committed suicide in 1873, is living in Paris
and that the body supposed to be hers was
that Of woman who had died during an
operation for criminal purposes.
James W. Smith was found guilty of GRIM
lnally assantlng az tin his eight Years old adopted
verdict was announced, Smith stabbed him
self with pocket knife at the same time
protesting his innocence. His wound is
not fatal.
The next launchings of new war vessels
will doubtless be those of the Bennington
and Concord, which should occur some time
during the month of August. Next month
| bids will be opened and contracts awarded
for the five rapid-fire cruisers, the 2OOe and
5000 ton vessels.
At Scotville, Pa, a delegate convention
representing the entire Connellsville coke re-
gion was held Saturday. 1t was resolved
that unless the demand for increased wages
is acceded to between this and August. every
| worker in the Connellsyille coke region will
be ordered on strike.
Rev. j. I'll. Camp, Baptist missionary
has returned from Africa where he has hee1n
in portion of the region traversed bv tn.
Stanley expedition. The last report Mr
Camp had from Stanley was that the ex
plorer and Emin Pasha had started for Zan
ZlDar ana that Emin was to accompany hin
to Europe.
Gen. Paine has written letters to tn,
Messrs. Auchncloss, owners of the slon,
| Katrina; Mr.. G. Oliver Iselin. owner of tht
sloOp Titania; Mr. Archibald Rogers o
the cutter Bedouin, and Mr.. j. Roger Max
, well Of the sloop Shamrock, in relation t
{ racing their yachts against the Valkyrie, il
case she comes to this country, and it is al
most needless to say that all of the letter
nave met with ready response in all case
5 except that of the Shamrock. 1t is under
stood that the owners of the Katrina, Titar
la and Bedouin are very willing to arrang
3. matches with the Earl of Dunraven, or hi
8 | representatives here.