The Portland daily press., 1889-01-14
GEN ERAL NEWS.

Mrs. Jay Gould died from paralysis last
night.
The shoe factory of Smith, Pratt & Her.
rick. at Albany, n. Y, burned yesterday.
Loss $4,000 gNn
Two dozen American fishing vessels are re-
ported to have been fishing with travis in
side the three mile limit at McNut Island
near Shelburne.
| The Naval War College and the torpedo
| station at Newport, X. l., have been consoli-
| dated, and will hereafter be known as the
Naval Torpedo Station and War College"
Alexander T. McGile, d. D.. NJ. D.,
emeritus professor of ecclesiastical, hOmeliti
and pastoral theology at Princeton, is dead,
aged so.
The Virginia delegation called on General
Harrison Saturday, and urged the appoint
ment of General Malone to a cabinet posi-
tion. $780,
Thomas Axworthy, the defaulting city
treasurer of Cleveland, Ohio, will settle in
Toronto.
Ella Chamberlain, the whistling soloist, in
| tended to whistle in Worcester, Mass, last
night. A clergyman objected to her whist
| ling anything not sacred music, the mayor so
| directed, and the result was that Ella didn't
whistle at all.
The Atlas line steamer Asia, sailed from
New York Saturday for Hayti. She carried
a passengers Capt. Smith of Boston and two
men, who will be landed at Port au Prince
with directions from the owner of the Boston
steamer Haytian Republic to bring that YES
sci to Boston.
Schooner Carlton, which sailed from
Gloucester Nov. 18th with crew of eleven
men, and the schooner Joseph o., which sail
ed November IA with a crew of twelve men,
are supposed to have gone down in the No
vember gale.
The New York Tribune says number of
Republican congressman show preponder-
ance of sentimenC in favor of an extra ses-
sion of Congress this spring.
Hundreds of water rats, driven into a
house at Ellinsville, n. Y, by the rain, at
tackled woman named Simpson and her
babe Friday. Both woman and child were
badly bitten.
John Kelly, of Boston, seaman ON the brig
Elizabeth Winslow, fell from aloft Jan. 18th,
and was killed.
Frank, the 16 year old son of Chamas
Trenholm, of Milltown, N. B., was drowned
while playing polo on the ice in that place,
Saturday afternoon.
Mrs. j. S. Kellan and her nine years old
son Willie were murdered by a negro at
Pratt Mills, Ala, Saturday.
Gen. Greedy writes that under the doctrine
OF averages mild winter could be reason
ably looked for on account of the late spring
and summer of last year. He does not think.
however, that the present mild weather war
rants the prediction Of another late spring.
A gang of thieves has been broken up st
Wilton, Ct, three men being arrested. They
had property valued at $1,000 in their posses
sion.
The latest regarding the electric sugar re-
fning swindle is that Mrs. Olive Friend,
through her attorney, has taken a hand in
bringing suits. She has begun suit, by sum-
mons for $4,000 damages, against President
Cotterill aud Nelson Sutherland, the officer
who attached her property at Milan. Papers
were served on Sutherland, but Cotterill was
not found.
A letter from Panama of the 4th instant
says: 'sSince the departure of the last mail
confidence has been temporarily restored in
the future prospects of the Panama Canal
Company, principally owing perhaps to the
fact that the work is going on as usual. En-
Paris tend to keep up the spirits through
this trying period of anxiety for the
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