The Portland daily press., 1889-08-21
ENERAL NEWS.

Welcome rain has put out most of the for
est fires in Montana.
Three men were killed in an explosion in
an Allegheny City, Pa, brewery yester-
day.
Robert Marvel, aged 70 years, died in
Indianapolis yesterday after fasting 81
days.
It'll now believed that there will be an
enormous rush of settlers into the Cherokee
strip in the spring.
WA. Marsh, dealer in general merchan-
disc at the Gilmanton Iron works, New
Hampshire, has assigned.
Everything is quiet at Richmond, Tex,
the scene of the recent riot but nobody can
be found to take the office of sheriff.
Many aliens who have been employed in
the New York city stables are being dis
charged because they are not citizens.
A general strike is threatened among the
bakers in New York and Brooklyn, the
bosses having combined against the union.
Indians are menacing the lives of the
whites at Demersville, Montana, and the
governor has been asked to send assistance.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company is
about to adopt policy toward its employees
to establish a pension system, the first of its
kind in the United States.
The Phoenix Woolen Company of East
Greenwich, r. L., has assigned, tho assign
ment being caused by the failure of Brown,
Steese and Clark of Boston.
Alfred Porter of Dover, N. H., student
of Dartmouth College was accidentally shot
he was camping out Monday night.
Marshal P. Twitchell, son of the American
consul, who committed the recent desperate
burglary at Kingston, Ont, has been released
on bail and gone to the United States.
The South Fork dam, the bursting of
which caused the Johnstown disaster is
likely to be rebuilt, but greatly reduced in
in size to prevent danger to life and proper
ty.
A despatch from Hayti, dated August 3D.
says that 1t was rum0red that Legitime had
agreed to Hippolyte's terms and would bt
allowed to leave the country, if he was not
murdered before he could get out.
Miss Lille Fellman was drowned in St
Joseph river, at Benton Harbor, Mich,
who had jumped into the water to rescue q
little boy from drowning. The lady and boy
were saved but Miss Fellman lost her life.
For several years there has been domiciled
at the Monterey County Hospital, Cal, an
Indian known by the name of "Old Gabriel
As to the exact day, month or year of his
birth proof is absent. but of the fact that he
there is quantity of proof.
VIM. Ball, colored minstrel, who fire.
queDtly visits Boston, Providence and othel
New England towns with the "four-in-hand
quartette" stabbed and killed negro tough
known as Black Hawk, porter in Bleekel
street dance hall, New York early yesterday
morning. He stated that the killing wa:
accidental.
The prayers of the people of South Dakots
were answered in the form of storm Sun
day night, the heaviest of the season and tht
first in over two months. 1t was accom-
panied by heavy wind and hail which die
some damage to small buildings, fruit an(
grain in some places. Farmers now say tha
the corn crop is safe.
The New York Press has made canvass
of the preference Of Governors of the State:
as to the site of the worlds fair in 1892
Answers have been received from 80 Of them
and they are emphatic that it should be IL
the East instead of the West, the vote being
q to II in that respect. Governor Burleigh
of Maine, voted for New York.
Frank Scrensen was fatally injured a
Nanticooke, Pa, yesterday morning Dy
trap which he had arranged to kill thieves
Some one had been stealing pigeons from hi
barn. Being unable to detect the thieves h'
arranged loaded revolver so that the open
ing of the door would cause the revolver Il
explode. He was himself the first to try the
trap and the bullet entered his body jus
below the heart.
OulItu CtdLto rlSu OOhmlootOhSl
Mcdonald has found foar fish in the Yellow
stone Park-the grayling, the black spotte!!
trout, whitefsh and bull trout. The blacl
spotted trout is an Asatic trout which ha
become prevalent in Pacific waters. It's dis
it has travelled over the main divide of tn,
Rocky mountains, 5000 feet high. In 15O
square miles of the Yellowstone Park Their
is not fish.
Andrew Carnegie, who has been Severel.
condemned for making reduction OF tn
wages of the workingmen in his Homestea,
Mills, has published statement in which h
says that the average pay for these men il
| the month of May was $40, or over SO pc
day, and that this was twice the wages pai'
similar workmen in English Mills. lie say
| that the new wages agreed upon make but
slight reduction, and that he still pays 8
| per cent more than is paid by English Mill
and as much as other similar mills in thi
| country.