The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-07-15
GEN ERAl NEWS.

Two men were drowned Saturday near
Baltimore by cloudburst.
The patent leather manufacturers are tax
ing steps to the formation of trust.
Three prisoners were suffocated during
fire In the Jail at Jacksonville, Ore, Friday.
James Dugan, a Providence coal HEAVIER
died Saturday from lockjaw, the result of
fight.
Trouble is threatened in Oklahoma City
between the friends and opponents of the
city government.
William p. Swope, a well known attorney,
of Philadelphia, is an embezzler to the
amount of $4,000.
The Ohio Steel Company of Cleveland,
Ohio, has been formed into an English COM
pany with capital of 100000.
In a race for forty-foot sloop yachts sailed
Saturday at Marblehead, Mass. the Minerva
won, with Papoose second and Verona third.
Geo. w. Moore, manager of the Rocking
ham House, Bears Head Beach, N. e.. COM
mitted suicide Friday evening.
The Consolidated Oil Company's tanks at
st. Joseph, Mo-, were burned by lightning
yesterday. Loss $4,000; insured.
A cloudburst occurred near Fort Robinson,
Neb., Saturday, and woodch0pper and
three children were drowned in the flood.
The Birmingham [Ala.l Courier, owned
and edited by colorod men, denounces Presi-
dent Harrsons policy towards the negro.
Anegro was hanged atSummervlle, Tenn,
Saturday, for murder, The crowd stood
ankle deep In water for hours TO witness the
drop"
Hon, R. G, hOu Of Michigan, recently ap.
pointed United States consul at ValDOralSO.
has stated that under no circumstances would
he accept the appointment
John M,Knight Q leading PrOhIbIlIOnIst
andaspeCIal constable Ol the town Of East
Greenwich, R. |, Is Eunder arrest OF Wake.
field for drunkenness andreVellhs,
Ice cream which lad been kept over night
in zinc freezers. poisoned 200 persons. at
picnic at Suley's Bay. near Montreal, Thurs
day No deaths are reported, but some of
the patients are not out OF danger.
DR.. Wilson b. White of Boston, shot his
young wife Saturday and then shot and
killed himself. Mrs. White will recover
Domestic difficulty and consequent aberra-
tion was the cause.
The contract for the new Congress sional
library building at Washington has been
awarded to the New England Granite Com
pany of Hartford, Conn.,, at $1,200,000, and
1t will be cut at Concord, N. H., the granite
being taken from the quarries of Sargent e.
Sullivan.
The straw board trust is in danger of being
abandoned, by reason of decline of $12 to
$13 per ton during the past few days in the
manufactured article. 1t was generally sup
posed that this trust was one of the strongest
ever formed, since it has been in existence
for nearly five years without any disturbing
influence to interfere with its plans.
Cardinal Gibbons has prepared for the Cos
mopoltan Magazine of New York an inter-
esting paper on the dignity, Right and Res
possibility of Labor" He says that a con-
3ented and happy working class is the best
safeguard for the republic, while ill-paid and
enslaved population of Rome in the time of
Augustus Caesar, would be constant menace
and reproach to the country. Cardinal Glib
bons believes in the right Of workingmen to
combine for their mutual protection.
Augustus Rosenberg of Someryille, Mass.
aged 40, shot and killed his mistress, Mrs.
Catharine Smith and her l6 year old son.
Saturday. Rosenberg also shot and danger
0usly wounded two Younger sons of Mrs.
Sn;,s chs. In leaving the house, while evil
Sentlv intending to escape, Rosenberg fell on
y Vii, niia of lumber and was killed. Mrs, Smiths
S1shand is supposed te have committed sui
n;de hv iumping from one of the Portland
Siuo &c. ~ Packet Company's boats two years
ago. Rosenberg was probably insane.