The Portland daily press., 1889-04-06
GEN ERAL N EWS.

Rev. DR.. McCoehi is rapidly improving In
health.
There are number Of cases of small pox
at Nanticoke, Pa.
Ex-Mayor John w. Hunter. of Brooklyn,
N. T., has suffered a stroke of paralysis.
Downs and Finch, the well known New
York shirt manufacturers, have assigned.
All uncertainty in the coke region in refer
ence to the threatened reduction in wages
has subsided.
The post office at Randolph, Ala, was
robbed OF S275 and quantity of stamps
Thursday night
VIM. Pray of Frankfort. Ind, shot and
Killed MS wife, yesterday, and fatally
wounded himself.
Fire yesterday morning destroyed six
blocks in the business portion of the town of
Attica, o. Loss, $4,000.
Steamship Leerdam, from Amsterdam, is
overdue at New York. 1t supposed that her
machinery has broken down.
Martin Thomas, leading grocer of Lam
caster, Pa, hanged himself Thursday night
as the result of financial troubles.
Herbert Handy, of Falmouth, Mass,
was accidentally shot and killed by Robert
Emmons, yesterday, while cunning.
Lowell, Mass, stone masons held meet
ing last night and voted to adhere to their
demand for 81 cents per hour and nine hours
a day.
Cal Mccarthy, of Jersey City, won the
featherweight championship of America af-
ter lighting 60 rounds with Mat Mccarthy,
last night
Fire in the renuing hnnse of George f.
Swift's packing establishment at mo -ssaek
yards in Chicago yesterday, caused damage
to the extent of $50,000
There is considerable excitement at Fort
Dodge, Ia, over the reported discovery of
silver on the farm OF Peter Kearon, six miles
north of that city. The find was made by a
well digger at the depth of ITO feet The
| vein is "a inches thick.
| Frederick Friederichsen, a prosperous
| horse dealer from Hamburg, Germany, was
robbed of $1,000 while asleep in Buschs
| Hotel. Hoboken. Thursday night.
Philo Remington, the senior partner of the
| rifle manufacturing firm of K. Remington &
| Sons, died at Silver Springs, Fla. died at ]
| O'Clock yesterday morning, aged 73.
The wife of a settler named Thompson,
living near Crescent Bay. w. T., was in
| stantly killed by tree falling on her during
| q storm Thursday. Thompson and his
| young child were knocked senseless.
| A freight train on the Savannah, Florida
| & Western railroad collided with a hand car,
| IN heavy fog, yesterday, wrecking the
train. Isaac Coleman, the fireman, was in
stantly killed, and James Perry, the conduc-
tor, fatally scalded.
The residents of Westyille, Long Island
are greatly troubled by the dOings of an un-
| known man. Several women, while on their
| way home after dark, have been badly
| frightened by having man suddenly sprine
from behind tree and catch them by the
arm. He seemed to content himself with
frightening them.
| The Delaware legislative committee, which
| is now investigating the school books defic.
iency, have discovered that. the State has
lost about $4,000 by going into the school
| book business. it was shown that the short.
| age covered period of six years, during
which time there was complete change in
| school books.
| Alard & Sons, of Paris and No. 304 Fifth
| avenue, New York, are accused of CARRYING
| on smuggling operations on a tremendous
scale, and quantity of goods has been
the customs officers. Their method, it is
| charged, was to substitute rich silks and
| tapestries for the hair in stufiing the up
holstered parts Of antique furniture and
so escape paying duty.
The members of the State board of rail
| road assessors in Kansas, who have lust re.
turned from a trip through Oklahoma. re.
| port army officers as saying that thousands
| of boomers are still concealed in the brush
and that if the whole United States army
were there it could not drive them out. The
| excitement in the territory is increasing
daily, and all southern Kansas is ablaze. The
assessors think that Oklahoma is not what Il
has been painted.
A war between the temperance people anG
saloon keepers Of River Falls WISH taker
a pew turn. A saloon keeper has had ar
rested on charge of false Imprisonment the
Rev, James Evans, pastor of the Methods
church; Rev. j. ID. Whitelaw. pastor of the
Congregational church DR.. E. w. Ashley
and three others. These men signed an in
| dictment against Saloon Keeper Drukee
but appealed the case IN fhes hesafp pnJip Jip JSf
The case was dismissed on a technicality
Now Drukee prosecutes the party for falst
Imprisonment.