The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-01-06
Will Erect a PsrochlaI School.
GEN ERAL NEWS.

The winter weat crop of Kansas is in fine
condition.
A band of Italian rufians are terrorizing
W. W. Va. PsOp'' az Alum oOVs' wayne county,
The Dueber Watch Company of Cincinnati
has assigned. Nominal assets S1,50O, 600 /;
liabilities, $450,000.
Senator Blair states that he is not candi-
date for United States district Judge to sue
ceed the late Hon. Daniel Clark.
Decker, Howell & Co., the New York
bankers, who were recently force d to sus-
pend, Will pay 100 cents on a dollar and con-
tInue business.
The present editor of Fibre and Fabric
was the hrst manager of an American mill to
give permission TO an Inventor to experiment
In his mill with electric lighting.
Mrs. Clifton, a widow, and three children
were starved or frozen to death during tue
recent blizzard in a house In Blue Hills,
kas., having been caught without food or
1uel. Two other children will probably die.
Patrolman Kearney, whose recent trial for
killing the boy, John Davenport, in Rox-
bury, resulted IN the disagreement Of the
Jury, resigned from the Boston force yester-
day morning, and his resignation was ac-
cepted.
A hundred men at the Crawford Lock
works, BranfOrd, CT, were notified by postal
card Saturday of their discharge. No cause
management OF the works probably accounts
for the action.
DuIlng the coming year a new parCchial
schoOl To be caught by the Order of Brothers
VIII De erected tor the children of French
speaking people at Lowell, Mass, St
JOseph's school, which accommodates !, $50
pupils, can no longer fill the needs OF the
people.
Great uneasineSs is felt along the lower
mississippi owing to the unfinished and un-
sale condition of the levees and the heavy
SHOWS with prospects of a thaw Work on
the leVees Is being rapidly pushed to prevent
IL possible repetition of last springs ais
astrOus overflow.
The Boothbay Railroad Company under
Its charter has organized by the election of
the following officers: Thomas Boyd, presi-
dent; =. d: Fisher, treasurer; G. 3. Kenni-
Alden BlassOm, g. b. Kennison, II. A.
richards, j.. q. Pool and A. r. NicKerson,
directors. The road is surveyed aud intend
ed to connect with the PenObscot Shore Line
at Newcastle, says the Lincoln County News.
Trouble is brewing over the organization
OF the Montana legislature. The difference
IL the mousse Will be as to the seats for five
disputed Silver Bow members The same
matter caused trouble in the election OF a
Senator last year. In the Senate the trouble
Will DO with the hold-oveT Democrats who,
the Republicans allege, are in contempt for
not attending the meetings of the Senate
anu are not entitled to seats. Neither side
evince disposition to give way.
The total cost of fishing vessel per ton
Tor hull aud spars, carpenters measurement.
Is $50 to S22 for vessel of about 100 tJDs,
FIT Ior sea with fishing supplies the cost
Is about $40 per ton more. This Is about the
cost at other places. A leading ship owner
OF Yarmouth places the cost uf ships of 1900
tons at from $36 t. S38 all complete. At
Annapolis prices Tor large vessels are some
what higher. For vessels built of spruce
beech. birch and maple, ironed with galvan
| lied iron, and copper fastened up TO within
| two feet OF loading line, and which would
class IL years in American Lloyds, the fol-
lowing cost prices are given: 200 regi>t red
tonnage, $50 per ton; 800 20 400 tonnage, S4S ;
400 to 800, $45 to Al; 800 to 1000, $40 to S42.