The Portland daily press., 1890-06-10
GEN ERAL NEWS.

Twelve buildings were destroyed by fire
in Colchester, Ct, yesterday; loss $4,000.
Two men were carried over the falls at St.
John, N. b., Sunday. There is no trace of
men or boat.
Cattle are dying by hundreds ON the New
Mexico ranges. The long, dry winter caused
great scarcity of feed.
Willie Bowman, an 11-years old boy Of
Cleveland, Ohio. committed suicide by TAX
ing poison Sunday.
There is considerable excitement in Clare
mont, n. H., over the poisoning of Is dogs
within the last few days. Many of the an
imals were valuable.
Recorder Smyth in the general sessions
court in New York yesterday morning sen
tional Bank wrecking fame to Imprisonment
at hard labor for seven years and six
months
The board of directors of the New York
Central q Hudson River Railroad Company
have authorized the issue of 1900 OCo in
four per cent gold debenture bonds, the
principal due in 1905, the proceeds to be used
for betterments and equipments.
A runaway horse in Fall River, Mass,
yesterday, leaped through an open horse car,
boarding 1t at one side and alighting on the
other. Miss Jennie Burke was dangerously
injured aud George ii. Pacoud badly hurt.
At a meeting of the Baptist Ministers AS
oOOidttOn III DUobUu, JtSbtIudy, IeGf. w. w.
Downs of Bowdoin Square Baptist church
presented petition for reinstatement to the
| privileges of the association and the petition
| was referred to committee.
The Missouri Pacific, and Atchinson, To-
| peka d Santa Fe, have agreed to cut cattle
rates to all Texas points from St. Louis,
Chicago and Kansas City, 60 per cent The
| reduction was made in retaliation for the
| Missouri, Kansas IL Texas cutting rates on
| corn last week.
Edmund Courebo of Maplesville, r. L,
who was bitten by strange dog five weeks
| ago, Las gone to the Pasteur Institute, New
York, suffering with hydr0phobia.
y, A case of yellow fever is reported at the
| Chandelier Island station, Louisiana. The
| patient recently arrived from Rio de Jane
| rio. AS the hospital reports direct to Wash.
ington, little is known regarding the case
Fred w. Blake, dealer in patent leather
tips, Haverhill, has gone away leaving
many unpaid bills behind him.
The danger of general strike in the
building trades has been ayerted In New
| York.
| Hyde g. Betmen's Volks theatre, Brook
| lyn, burned this morning. Loss 100000.
A letter will be sent this week to all the
| wool manufacturers and merchants and
wholesale dry goods merchants of the coun-
| try, by the recently organized Wool Con-
sumers' Association, urging them to join in
| the movement Tor Tree wool or greatly re-
| duced duties.
| A number of persons who refused to an
swer census questions were before an Unit
| ed States commissioner in New York yester.
| day. Many answered the questions and
were discharged, but few were held.
| The Indians on the Keshena reservation
| in Wisconsin threaten trouble when Agen.
| Kelsey succeeds Agent Jennings. From aut
| thentic reports received from the reservation
there seems to be MOI doubt that the un.
derlying trouble is church war. The res.
ervation has been for years in charge of the
Episcopal and Methodist churches, the Re-
man Catholics having charge of the Other
few years the Catholics have been trying tt
get foothold in Keshena, and have beer
assisted by Agent Jennings, who is a mem
| Der of that church.