The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-03-25
GEN ERAl NEWS.

President Cleveland and his party arrived
at Havana Saturday
The Bullard Art Publishing Company of
Worcester, Mass, has failed.
Brooklyn Democrats will erect building
similar to Tammany Hall.
Placer gold is reported to have been dis
covered near Townsend, w. T.
The loss at Atlantic City, N. j., by the re-
cent storm will approximate $250,000.
Hon. John Scott, president of the Lehigh
Valley Railroad Company, is dead.
New York silk weavers are agitated over
a report that weavers are to be imported
from Switzerland by American manufacture
ers.
Jacob Cartwright struck and fatally in.
jured Henry Effer during a dispute over pol
itics in Mount Vernon, N. Y, saloon Fri
day night.
The skeleton of John Holden, an inventor
of Cumberland, Nd, has been found in a
cave in the mountains. Holden left home
seven years ago and committed suicide.
An attempt was made to burn the Cling
ham mill OF Arthur NJ Cram, at Walpole,
Mass, yesterday. This is the third attempt
of the kind within year.
A Wilkesbarre, Pa, woman. who kept her
husbands savings, $1,225, sewed in her
petticoats was visited by masked men Sat-
urday night who relieved her of the whole
amount.
John Teemer, the oarsman. has issued a
challenge to any oarsman in the world
Gaudaur pref to row series of races
OF three, four or five miles each, for $500 a
race.
-Four boys at Guzanne, W. Va, had ter
rlble fight with wild cats in the mountains
Friday. Two of the animals attacked tte
boys, who were badly bitten, but succeeded
in killing the animals.
The sale of the Bartholomay, Rochester
and Genesee breweres at Rochester, N. Y,
| to the great English syndicate has been coz
| summated. The price paid was nearly
| $4,000,000.
The American Sugar Refinery of San Fran
| cisco, have raised the prices of all grades of
| their sugars one-quarter of cent per pound
| and the California Refinery has made a raise
OF one-eighth cent per pound.
| A gang of tramps took possession of a
| Pittsburg & Lake Erie freight train Satur-
| day night and for six hours refused to allow
it to move. Officers at last arrived and ar
| rested II Of the tramps.
A bill passed by the Indiana legislature to
| secure uniformity in the screening and
weighing of coal, was rendered null and
| void by the omission of the enacting clause
| in the engrossing. The omission was evi
IDENTIFY Intentional.
A son and daughter of Senator Benjamin
+: Cook OF Gloucester, Mass, are seriously
i'll, and parties are suspected of putting Paris
green In the WELL A greenish substance
thought to be poison has been found in the
well, and the matter is being investigated.
The three-year-old son of Wilson l.. Pier
pont of East Farms, CT, district, died Fri
day night from the effect of carbolic acit
taken the day previous while playing with
his sisters. The boy found the bottle and
took the stuff to please the others while the
children were playing doctor
A despatch from New York says that w
ii. Clancy of Orono, Me-, has publicly chal
lenged Tom Madden to private fight to 3
finish for from one cent up to as much none,
as his friends may wish to put on him, ana
if Madden cannot raise the money Clanc,
will at any time fight him for fun. Clanc,
says in the challenge that he will 90 any
where and will be ready at a moments notice
The report sent out the first of the weeI
from Big Sandy, Mont, giving an account O
the gold excitement in Sweet Grass Hills
and stating that such large numbers wer
fi0cking to the new fields as to threaten fam
inc, is untrue. The Sweet Glass placer
have been worked for a number of years
and while considerable gold has been and
being taken out, there has been no rush /
the hills since 1873.