The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-08-15
GENERAL NEWS.

Jake Kilrain was arrested in Baltimore
yesterday morning.
Rev. Archibald Mclean of Cincinnati has
been elected President of Bethany College.
Mrs. Manning, widow of the late Secretary
Manning, is spending the summer in Switzer-
land.
Ex-Minister Strauss, who recently return
ed from Turkey, says that there are 500
American schools in that country.
The executive committee of Bates College
have chosen w. II. Hartshorn of 1886 in
structor in physics and geology, the depart
ment of the late Prof. Stanley.
Frank Jones, Daniel Marcy, j. A. Walker,
and e. S. Fay of Portsmouth, and j. ID. Cup
py, f. A. Christy and Benz. f. Neatly of
Dover, were yesterday elected directors of
the Portsmouth d Dover railroad. Frank
Jones was elected president, George l..
Treadwell treasurer, and Calvin Page clerk.
Wad-el-N'jumi, the commander-in. chief Of
the Arab invaders, who was killed at Toski,
was one of the bravest and most successful
of the Mahdi's lieutenants. He it was who
defeated and destroyed Hicks Pasha and
his army. He also led the dervishes who
captured Khartoum and killed Gen. Gordon.
The Atlanta Constitution replies sharply
to Secretary Fairchild's statements In regard
to the case of Penny, the negro clerk in the
Atlanta post office. The Constitution ac-
cuses the Secretary of falsifying; and
makes bad display of temper generally.
The committee of the National League of
Republican Clubs, at its session in Saratoga
yesterday, considered a plan for a tour of
towns along the way. Gov Foraker, Major
Mckinley and others have volunteered to
speak. The New York Tribune was made
the official organ of the clubs.
Commissioner Tanner has decided that he
is not candidate for the position of COM
nf
nounees his intention of not accepting the
nomination should it be made. The COM
missioner of pensions gives as his reasons
for declining the post that the office requires
the commander to travel great deal.
The atmosphere for miles around Port
land, Oregon, is thick with smoke and cin-
ders and burning brands are falling in
showers All the northwest country seems
to be burning up in forest fires. 1t is estim-
ated that the total damage will be $500, 900.
The fires are burning all along the railroad
lines and rivers and at night they illuminate
houses, with stables and buildings filed with
wheat of this years crop have burned.
Several thousand cords of wood have also
been consumed.
DIR. John w. Palmer. prominent physi-
cion of Detroit, Mich, has been experiment
ing with the elixir of life" and with remark
able results His patients were 90 and 10
years old respectively. The elder ma was
decrepit and had been in failing health for
years. The first injection seemed to put new
life into him, and with the second admins
tration the effect has been remarkable. He
walks erect, has the appearance of long life
ahead of him and says he feels stronger than
for years. The younger man did not indi-
cate such pronounced results on tn e first
trial, but with the second he showed the re-
juvenating effects, and asserts his belief
that sthe new remedy is life preseryer, if
not a cure-all. DR.. Palmer says: Il have
what this discovery may result in. This
do know: Its immediate effect is to exhila-
rate and tone up, and l believe in many
cases it may save life in bridging over a
crisis. The preparation is in no sense dam
gerous, for an antiseptic enters into its COM
position and its base is from the healthiest
of animals