The Portland daily press., 1889-01-07
GENERAL NEWS.

Gen. Harrison did not have many callers
Saturday, the weather being very inclement.
Three men were killed by the falling of
cage in q shaft at MOrristOwn, Pa, Satur-
day.
Henry j. Stickney, the defaulting Boston
bookkeeper has been arrested in Denver.
E. j. Wetherell, husband of Emma Abbott,
the prma donna, died in Denver yesterday
OF pneumonia.
VIM. Mann, shot and killed his house
keeper, Carrie Jones' and himself, in New
York, yesterday.
Geo. S. Hare, D. d., presiding elder of the
POughkeepsie Methodist district, is dying of
spinal paralysis.
Hon. p. A. Collins has been elected lchair-
man of the Massachusetts Democratic Com
mittee.
Pa, has been arrested with complete outfit
OF counterfeiters tools in his possession.
The agreement between the Burlington
road and the striking engineers has been
submitted to Chief Arthur and approved.
Mrs. Parsons declared to her Chicago ad-
mirers yesterday that she would follow the
truth if it took her behind prison bars and
she had to die for it.
Steamer Kate Robinson struck a snag on
the YaZoo river, Saturday and sank in Is
minutes. No lives were lost. The boat was
valued at $4,000.
The managing editor of the Chicag
Arbeiter Zeitung has been arrested He is
charged with libel by Inspector Bonfeld
and Captain Shaack.
The explosion of boiler in grist mill at
New Hope, Warner County. w Va, Satur-
day killed five men.
Sullivan the Great left Boston for Toronto
yesterday to arrange for his fight with Kill
rain. Over 250 persons went to the depot to
see him off.
The Rug Manufacturing Company's hay
rack factory at Montague Centre. Mass,
burned last night Loss $780, 900; insured.
The British steamer Nonkna was sunk by
the steamer Main in Chesapeake Bay, Satur-
day. The Nonkna Will be raised. Her en-
gineer was killed and 6S cattle drowned.
The Boston, Halifax and Prince Edwards
Island line has advertised TO carry passen-
gers to Boston for 81. This cut is to meet
the competition of the Canada Atlantic lines
Twenty. firemen refused to sail in the
steamer Scythia, which left Boston for
Liverpool Saturday. alleging that she was
TOO heavily loaded, the water being above
PlimsalPs mark.
The Edison General Electrical Company
has Deen organized at Newark, n. j. Its
| capital is estimated at $12, 100000. Under it,
local companies will be discontinued and
their plants operated by the united concern.
The grand jury in Chicago recommends
| that the names of those bOodlers which were
cut into the corner stones of public buildings
while such men were in Office be erased or
that the word "boodler' be cut after them.
A burglar, entered Springfield, Mass,
| dry goods store Friday night He was seen
by the police and watched during a two
hours visit. After he had made large col
lection of choice articles, the officers stepped
in and nabbed him.
Captain f. M. Howes, of the steamer
Chatham, plying between Boston and Balti-
more, thinks that repetition of the accident
to the big five master, the Gov. Ames could
be prevented by shortening the foremast and
jigger mast. These masts are in the narrow
ing parts of the vessel and the angle of the
shrouds is consequently made more acute
thereby lessening the support.