The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-03-23
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The still of the Maverick Petroleum
Works at East Boston were destroyed By fire
Monday night. Loss $4,000. Patrick McLuagh-
lin was burned to death.
Mr.. Kimball, keeper of club-room in Lynn
jumped from a train Tuesday morning and
was instantly killed.
Aaron Burrill attempted to get on morn
ing train at Bergen, N. j., Tuesday morning,
and fell under the wheels and was cut 20
pieces.
Inthe British House of Commons the Post
master general explained the cause of the de-
lay in the telegraph service by saying that the
reduction of tolls over-crowded the lines, and,
further, that the lines were frequently and
maliciously cut
A large building on Crosby street, New
York, and a tenement house adjoining, were
burned Tuesday morning. The loss is esti-
mated at $168000. Among the losers are Phe-
a"A e CALENDER, billiard table makers, who
lose over $780, Several s....;l..s xsro +rrp
ed out of their homes, with the loss of their
furniture.
The Prussian Chambers have passed to a
second reading bill to prohibit the separate
States of the German Confederation from is
suing bank notes.
&C. Johnson, a Boston produce broker, was
killed Monday near Brockport, N. Y, by his
head coming in contact with bridge while he
was walking on the deck of a railroad car
The House Naval Committee will recon-
mend the sale of the Brooklyn Navy Yard,
putting the proceeds in the Treasury and divid-
ing the material among other yards.
By boiler explosion at Minorsville, Penn.
several men were killed and others wounded.
The passengers of the steamer Samaria
which arrived at Queenstown at o'clock
Monday evening, complain of the captain of a
steamer which they suppose to have been the
Manhattan. 1t seems that the steamer passed
within a short distance of the Samaria several
days ago, and though her signals of distress
were flying, the captain ignored them.
Bishop Edward Thompson of the Methodist
Episcopal Church died Tuesday morning at
Wheeling. He was resident of st. Louis and
West Virginia Conference, held at Charleston
Kanawha county, last week, and was on his
way to Jersey City to officiate in conference
when overtsHe-, hsr sickness
Among the business before the Massachu-
sets House is resolve directing the Railroad
Commissioners to prepare some plan for regu-
lating the rates Of fare and freight on the rail-
roads and compel them to carry on the express
business, and bill to enable Boston to have
one or more public parks by the appointment
of mixed State and city commission for the
purpose. In the Senate bill was reported to
unite the cities of Boston and Charlestown,
subject to confirmation by vote of the two
cities.
The London commercial journals comment
upon the excessive imports of American wheat
and -four during the past week. Statistics
show that the receipts of wheat from the West
ern States this year aggregate g. 900 quar-
tiers more than any previous year.
Associate Justice Strong has been assigned
to the Third Judicial District, embracing
Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware
Associate Justice Bradley will be assigned to
the Fifth Judicial District, comprising Geor-
gia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana
and Texas. This district has for some time
past been attached to the Sixth District. to
which Judge Swayne has recently been re-
assigned
All was quiet at Richmond Tuesday The
funeral of Richard Bush, the policeman who
was killed on Sunday, took place. In the pro-
cession were Mayor Ellison, the City Council
and twenty-five policemen. The City Council
met and passed resolution in memory of DO
liceman Bush, in which the interference of
Gen. Candy, by which Mayor Cahoon's resist
ence to the legally elected Mayor was prolong-
ed under military protection, was denounced.
An appropriation was made for Bush's family.
Mayor Cahoon's motion for an injunction will
be heard in the United States District Court
Wednesday, before Judge Underwood. Mayor
Ellison has issued warrants for the arrest of
the parties concerned in the shooting of Ben
Scott
Hon. George w. Hendee, Governor of Yer
mont, is lying dangerously i'll of lung fever at
his home in Rutland.
il The New York Aldermen have voted some
$4,000 from the city treasury for Catholic
churches.
1t is stated that the frauds of Bailey, the abb
sconding Collector, reach halt million of dol
lars, including among other items ten thous-
and dollars of fees paid by merchants for fees
to eaugers or spIrrus. wtIcn Bailey was Col
lector of the Fourth District of New York, a
special agent of the Treasury reported that his
accounts were $4,000 "short," but Secretary
McCuoch was persuaded to overlook it, He
has of late enjoyed the especial protection of
Commissioner Delano, but at last Secretary
Boutwell, had his official actions examined,
and he at once absconded.
The Fall River Neps contains the names of
upwards of thirty persons injured by the acct
dent last Sunday at the new Catholic church.
No person was killed, but one or two, it is
feared, are fatally injured. The greater mum.
Der of those injured were children, and many
of them belong in families but poorly able to
bear the expense attending medical treatment.
Of the eleven who had limbs broken, five are
children of poor widows
Particulars received in reference to the assas-
sination of Judge Charlton at Decatur, Ala,
show that he was foreman of the Grand Jury
OF the United States District Court at Hunts
vie, and mas very active in rfocurin, indict-
ments against the Ku-Klux: ,hat he had visit
cd at Louisville, KY, and retulnlng via Nash
vile, arrived at Decatur about three o'clock in
the morning; proceeding to the house of Sepa-
tor Kinds, he was shot from ambush with
buckshot, and instantly killed, within a short
distance of the house.
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