The Portland daily press., 1889-10-26
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The dphtheria Is abating at Dover, N. III.
Professor Leo Lesquereux. the eminent
botaDis. is dead.
The window glass manufacturers have de-.
cided to advance prices per cent.
A large part of the business portion of Port
Leyden, n. z, was burned yesterday.
There were 1888 failures in the United
States last week, against 222 for the same
week last year.
Mr. Ibraine. who shot and killed Grover
Snea in Brooklyn, N. T.. has been sentenced
to be executed. -
Mrs. E. A. Lunt, mother of Neil Burgess,
the comedian, died at her home in DorcheS-
ter, Mass, Wednesday.
A man has been arrested for forgery in
Philadelphia who Is suspected to be Iascott,
the murderer of Millionaire Smell of Chicago.
The Pan American delegates were enter
tained in Minneapolis yesterday, the pro
gramme including dinner and reception.
A sharper has secured $1,000 from Edwin
Booth by means of letter purp0rting to ask
assistance for former stage manager for
the great actor.
A despatch from Cincinnati reports that
Hon. Allan G. Thurman was taken sudden
ly and severely i'll while speaking there
Thursday night
Emperor William has new Prussian
crown. Its frame is of gold and the dia-
monds which form part of its decorations
weigh $50 carets
G. G. Cook, the colored student who was
chosen prize orator at Cornell, has declined
faction and that no choice of candidates was
offered.
A freight train was derailed by wreckers
at Kokonow on the Lake Erie and Western
yesterday. Some oil tanks exploded and
Engineer Mehl, Fireman Bennett and Brake
man Spellman were burned to death.
Newton R. Hatch, ex-cashier in the New
press Company, was arrested in Chicago
Thursday night, charged with the embeZzle-
ment of $4,000 of the c0mpany's funds year
ago.
George Grouchy, young Boston man, last
summer saved wealthy, Providence mer-
chant from drowning, The merchant mas
testified to his gratitude by giving Grouchy
500 in cash and note for $1,000 payable
when Grouchy attains his majority.
A collision occurred yesterday morning at
Ventura, Iowa, on the Iowa and Minnesota
divisiun of the Milwaukee and st. Paul road
between passenger train and freight.
Both engines were partly wrecked and five
injured.
The site of an Indian village has been
unearthed by DR.. Theodore j. Wolfe on a
mound by the shore of Highland Lake, near
WinSted, ct. Many interesting specimens
of ornamental work, fragments of pottery of
beautiful design and implements of war and
industry have been dug up.
Captain J. II. Wallace, prominent citi-
zen OF Faulkton, Dakota, sent out by the
commission of Faulk county, one of the
| drought striken sections of Dakota to solicit
| aid for the suffering farmers, is now in Chi
| cago. To a reporter he said that in conse.
| quence of the unusually dry season the crops
were a complete failure and the people were
| In destitute condition. with a long, cold
winter before them.
Robert Westendorf was sentenced Thurs
| day at Rockford, H., to two months in jai
| and to pay $4,000 fine and to stand commit
ted until he paid, having been found guilty O.
| selling liquOr without license. Patrick
| Dewney, who gave glass of liquor with ey
ery cracker he sold for dime, was sentenced
| to four months in jail and to pay fine O
| 500.
Secretary Tracy has concluded work Oh
| the estimates for the naval establishment TO
the year 1901, and they will 60 to the Secre
| tary of the Treasury as soon as copy ,ol
them can be made. The appropriations, fol
the year 1889.90 were, in round numbers
S22,450,000 This included several million
for construction of new vessels now unde
way or projected, 1t is understood that TN
| estimates, as finally passed by Secretar,
Tracy, show an increase of about $3,OOO,OO
over those of last year, chiefly for new worl
on vessels and improvements and addition
to navy yards. Estimates for the office ex
penses are understood to be reduced.