The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-12-30
GENERAL NEWS.

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town flood were found Saturday.
General B. F. Brtler has given a flag to
the Butler school in Lowell Mass.
An explosion in foundry at Dallas, Tex
as, Saturday, horribly burned nine men,
Tie first genuine blizzard of the season
struck st. Cloud, Mimi, Saturday afternoon.
James Russell Lowell has been elected
president Of the Modern Languages Associ-
alton.
Hegelman won the 72-hours' race at Pitts
burg. making 1893 miles; GOlden's score was
392.
Recent discoveries of oil and natural gas
have caused considerable excitement in West
Virginia.
Seventy-fve cattle said to be "lumpy
jawed" were killed at the Chicago stock
yards yesterday.
A large shoe factory near Portland, Ore
gon, burned Saturday night. Loss, S35, 900 !;
insurance, $4,000.
Fire destroyed warehouse and 5000 bales
OF cotton at Yazoo City, Miss, Saturday.
Loss, $330000.
The wife of Judge Barrett of New York
has been admitted to private retreat for
the insane.
The steamers State of Alabama and Thing
valla have reached port after hard battle
with the boisterous waves.
Hodgson's hosiery mill and several other
UullulDBS III M6ToQlLn village, N. H., burned
Saturday night Loss, 100000.
William Major killed his wife, daughter
and granddaughter at Rochester, Mich,
Friday, and then killed himself.
Three lives were lost and several persons
seriously injured Friday night, at fire in a
building on Market street, in San Francisco.
Alexander Beck & Son, carpet manufac-
turers, Philadelphia, have assigned, with es-
timated liabilities of $130,000; assets $780,
600.
1t is reported that the town of Port Royal,
5. G., has been sold to an English syndicate.
The place has one of the finest harhors on
the Atlantic coast.
John 7. Coolidge, president of the Colum-
bia Bank in Boston, died there Saturday, it
is said, of la grippe, but there was compli-
cation of other troubles
At Chattanooga, Tenn, phenomenon can
now be seen which probably never occurred
before in that section. Peach trees are in
full bloom and strawberries, fresh from the
vines, were served on tables Christmas day.
Chu Fong, Chinese swindler was arrest
ed Friday night in New York, charged with
forgery. The total amount involved is be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000. He pleaded not
guilty, and was held without bail.
Saturday afternoon Frank Brooks shot his
mother, Johanna, dead, and then mortally
wounded himself, in their apartments in the
| rear OF lib Union avenue, Brooklyn. The
| murderer is q years old and the mother was
| 60.
Three persons were killed and several 9TH
ers seriously Injured Friday night Dy a hre
| in the old st. lgnatius church building in
| San Francisco A portion OF the structure
| was used as tenements.
Search of the ruins Of Boston's big fire for
| 6Jdies of the two missing firemen was aban-
doned Saturday night The search has been
thorough. and it is assured that their re-
mains will never be found.
/. Monasch, financial secretary of the
| Turner's Building and Loan Association, in
| Minneapolis, is short in his accounts 900.
| Monasch is anxious to make settlement,
and 1t IS not likely that criminal prosecution
will follow.
The body of Miss Sarah f. Nichols, who
| has been missing from her home In Lowell,
Mass, since Christmas, was found in the
| Merrimac river at Lawrence, yesterday.
| Miss Nichols was desD0ndent over the loss
of 90 ont of which she was recently
| swindled.
| Vincenzo Perfelto. an Italian physician,
was shot and killed at the corner OF Grand
and Mulberry streets. New York, Saturday
| night, by fellow ceuntryman named Ste
| phen Segorio. The murder was the result of
an old grudge, the exact nature OF which
| cannot be learned.
Since the death of N. C. Robinson, who
committed suicide in Manchester, N. H.,
1
| son, who was supposed to be single, had a
| wife living in Providence, whom he had de-
| serted % years ago. Robinson was under
| stood to be engaged to be married to Man
chester young lady at the time of his death
| Saturday morning, the citizens Of Pierre,
| s. D., were excited by the news that a lot of
| squatters had started new town on the OPP
| pOsite bank of the Missouri. The people
| who farm on the site selected by the squat
| ters objected, however, and made spirited
| attack on the newcomers, who were glad to
get off with their lives.
Andrew Carnegie has presented Bishop
| Phelan of Pittsburg with an accurate copy
| of the famous Madonna de Sisto," said to
be RaphaePs happiest effort. The original
is in the Dresden gallery, and, as the kings
of SaXony have always refused to permit a
single one of their art treasures to be dupli-
| Gated, this copy is of very great value.
1t is reported that the Vanderbilts have
caused to be prepared by Tiffany q Co, a
service of plate, valued at $4,000, aid will
present it to j. Pierpont Morgan, as Christ
mas tide remembrance. The gift is supposed
to be in recognition of MIR. Morgan's ser
vices in fnancering the West Shore and
other deals in the Vanderbilt interest.
Governor Goodell of New Hampshire has
| issued proclamation in which he alludes to
the great number of crimes recently caused
by the use of liquor, and warns all persons
engaged in violating the law to desist. The
governor calls on officers and citizens ''to
unite In one supreme effort to close and sup.
press every liquor saloon Of whatever de-
scripIion within our borders. Let no guilty
man escape"
A Collinsville, Pa. despatch says, with
the beginning of 1870 it Is quite likely a
movement will be inaugurated which will
rid the ColliHsville coke region of the Slavs
and Huns, two very undesirable classes OF
residents who have been more than usually
unruly during the year just closing. 1t is
rumored the order of United American Me-
chanics will begin crusade against them
which will eventually oust them from the
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