The Portland daily press., 1889-03-30
GENERAL NEWS.

There Is still no choice in the Rhode Island
Legislature for United States Senator.
The cars Of the Portsmouth, n f., street
railway will probably be run by electricity.
j. ID. Townsend, prominent Dover, N.
H., man is dead, aged 81.
There were 204 failures in the United
States last week and 1876 for the correspond
ing week last year.
Col. and Mrs. Fred Grant are very much
pleased at the prospect Of a residence in
Austria. The ColonePs mother may accom-
pany them.
The body of James M. Cupitt has been
found in the river at Providence, f. l..
Cupitt had been murdered having been
stabbed through the neck.
The New York morning Journal saws that
ODonovan Rosa has issued call for a con-
yention of the friends of Ireland, to devise
means to overthrow the English government.
Burglars entered the house of John Put
nam, near Trenton. Mo-, Thursday night and
cruelty beat Mr.. and Mrs Putnam and two
servant girls in order to make them disclose
the hiding place OF any money which might
be in the house.
Thomas Powell, one of the oldest contrac
tors OF Maiden, Mass, died yesterday from
tne ehects OF Injuries received Monday at
the Salem street cemetery. The walls of a
tomb, which he was repairing, fell in upon
him. He was 6S years of age.
The report of the Attorney General of
Maine, for 1888, Is delayed by the failure of
the various County Attorneys to forward
statements Of the business done by them
during the past year. Fourteen Of these
county reports have thus far been received
The statement has been published that
Patrick Egan who has been appointed min
lister to Chill is not a citizen Of the United
States. A despatch from Lincoln, Neb.,
says this Is without foundation. Mr.. Egan
became naturalzed citizen of that city on
February 20. 1888.
The Bay Pilot, published at st. Andrews
for the past ten years by John S. Magee,
issued its last number last Thursday. A
new paper is to be started there soon, prob
ably about the first Of April. Ii will be
called the st. Andrews Beacon, and will be
published by Robert T.. Armstrong who has
for sometime been connected with the St.
John Evening Globe.
The Benton Consolidated Company has
filed complaint in the Superior Court, at
San Francisco. against the estate Of Seth
Cook, deceased, to recover S15,000,000. The
plaintiffs allege that the deceased by, COM
bnation with the board of directors CON
verted 900 of the company's shares to his
own use. The stock is valued at 500 per
share.
General Paine, Of Boston, the owner of tha
yacht Volunteer. was seen regarding Lord
Dunraven's challenge for the America's cnn,
he was asked IL he would put the Volunteer
against the English boat. He said that he
would not race the Volunteer and would not
put her In commission, and will not build a
new boat to compete with the Valkvrie
Lord Dunraven's new craft.
Inc colored Methodist conference Of the
Lexington district, Kentucky, closed its first
Gays session Wednesday night with a mur-
our; Inc church was crowded and Bishop
ANDREWS was In the pulpit. Ben Kills, who
rents pew In the church, left his seat for a
lew moments, and during his absence John
rage sat down in IT, When Kills returned