The Portland daily press., 1890-10-28
GENERAL NEWS.

Amos Whitley & Co., Springfield, Ohio,
reaping works, are financially embarrassed.
They owe about 100000.
Suffering Oklahoma farmers have sent
one of their number to Topeka, Kan, to
solicit aid.
ing along the New Mexican line and has
murdered four persons. Cavalry Is In pur
suit.
Sir Julian PauncefOte says he shall renew
his proposition TO Secretary Blaine for the
settlement Of the Behring Sea dispute by
arbitration.
DR.. Justin E. Gregory. one Of the best
known physicians of Brooklyn. N. Y, died
yesterday from an overdose OF chlOroform
taken to relieve neuralgia.
The r. G. Peters Salt and Lumber Com
pany, Manistee, Mich. has liabilities OF
S5Si, ,397; assets $2,S03, ,932. r. g. Peters has
liabilities of 81 ,453. .2S5; assets S3.630,016.
A Santa Fe passenger train was held up
by two men near San Antonio, Texas, Sun
day. The robbers secured only S25 and
gold watch. One OF them was captured.
Gov.Gordon of Georgia has ordered the mil
itia of Ware county to be In readiness LOT
service should renewal Of the attack on
the premises Of L. B. Warn be threatened.
Edward Houck, while threatening TO XIII
his wife with Ratchet Saturday at oulIl-
van, Ind, was taken from his house oy i0ur
masked men who beat him severely ne
died yesterday.
Secretary Window has formally apP;roVta I;n, 81
the action of the worlds fair commission ~
Appointing board Of lady managers Ior the
CnInmhIa6 exposition. with allowances ana
salary as determined by the Doaru'
Rishop Richard Phelan Of the diocese OF
Plttsburg. Pa. has Just returned from ,deI Ire
land, He says that In Galway, DOnesal
and Kenmore the potato crop Is lost and the
ontlook for the winter Is most dreadful.
Ered Robinson of Alliance, Mich, was
shot and killed by Charles Thorlton Satur-
day. who accidentally wounded Miss Myrtle
Kerr. Thorlton and MISS Kerr were ABOUT
TO be married against her tatners 5 wishes
when Robinson interfered.
VIM. Sanders and Wm Martin, of Daniels
vile, Ga, fought duel with guns Sunday
afternoon. Sanders was Killed and Martin
fatally injured. A grudge or long standing
had existed between the men, who were
neighbors.
An unknown man ouarrelled early yester-
day morning on West 23d street, New York,
with Pauline Tarbaux, French girl, aged
26 She struck him on the head with some
heavy instrument, fracturing his skull. He
was taken to hospital unconscious aud will
probably die. The woman, who says she
acted in self defence, was arrested.
Judge John C. Sprain, who was among the
first TO render decision on an original pack
age case allowing importers to sell in Iowa.
now instructs the grand jury to indict ali
parties found selling within the state, and
holds that the Iowa prohibition law is In full
force and effect, the recent decision of the
Kansas court to the contrary notwithstand-
ing.
The full bench of the Massachusetts, Su-
preme Court yesterday sent down an i'm
portant decision in the cases involving the
legality of the method of taxation of mill
property in Lowell. The Supreme Court
says the property of every person must be
assessed at its fair value, irrespective of
what other like property Is valued at and
that If evidence was put in for the purpose
of getting at the prOportiOnate value as ais
tiect from actual value, it was an error and
the proceedings must be so amended rs to
get at the actual value.