The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-01-13

AuO Chio udDdScES, ia dCCOTOduO0 WAN ShiSA
Justice Beardsley's recent decision in the Ber-
gen tunnel war, have issued "tunnel time ia.
ble," placing thereon their coal, freight and oil
trains, and ordering that no train OF the Della
ware, Lackawanna and Western road shall
have the right to enter the tunnel if train of
the Erie or branches is due in five minutes
The Delaware & Lackawanna trains are great
y delayed, and immediate appeal will be made
to Chief Justice Beardsley to state more dis
tinctly which trains, passenger or freight, or
both, he meant in his late descision.
An investigation into the charges against
Rev. DR.. Lanahan, assistant agent Of the Meth
and the Bishops of the Church, was begun
Thursday, at the missionary rooms of the
Broadway and 11th street mission. 1t was
strictly private, no one being admitted except
those officially engaged. Many prominent men
of the church from all parts of the country
were present.
The Jury in the great smuggling case 10 Bos.
ton, on Thursday, rendered verdict of guilty
against Dexter T. Mills and Samuel G. Lund.
In regard to the four other defendants, the jury
disagreed, and the government counsel agree
ing to mol pros the indictments, they were dis
charged. A motion for new trial for Mills
and Lund was filed. They are held in the or
iginal bail of $4,000 each.
Five masked rufians entered the store of
Thomas Scott, county surveyor at Sunot VAL
ley, Almeda county, CAL, shot his clerk, Otto
Ludwig, dead, robbed Scott and escaped.
A raid was made Thursday morning by Su.
pervisor butcher, on illicit whiskey stills in
Brooklyn, and large number Of them destroy.
ed. The Supervisor was assisted by 800 q. s.
troops, regulars.
Monday night the baggage car Of train be-
tween Baltimore and Washington was entered
by robbers, who broke into the baggage car and
threw off five trunks, and after riding more of
the baggage in the car, left the train and went
back to secure the trunks The detectives have
discovered that no clothing was taken, the OBJ
ject seeming to be to secure valuables. One
gentleman had $4,000 worth Of diamonds in
the car, which the thieves did not succeed in
getting. sa
Henry Ward Beecher has accepted the sal
airy of $40 900 for this year.
Jeremiah Howe, Of Lowell, Mass, foreman
Of Smiths screw mandatory, died Wednes-
day night, suddenly, from heart disease.
Ex-senator Henderson is said to be the lead.
ing Republican candidate for Senator from
Missouri, but it is doubtful whether the Repub-
lican vote can be united on anybody.
Two hundred recruits have left New York
for the Plains, and 800 are to be sent at once to
Atlanta.
Gable communication has been opened to
Penang, Singapore and Java.
Schooner Redington from Rockland for Rich
south of Cape Henry.
A delegation of Cherokee Indians are in
Washington. M..-.
The storm in California has cleared off cold.
The railroad to Oregon is now completed 122
miles above Sacramento and will reach the Or
egon line this year.
There is reason to believe that John Gilkins,
of Albany, is the robber of Halpine, the ex-
pressman, as he had formerly been in the em-
ploy of the company, and answ ers the desciip-
ton given by Halpine. he disappeared Tues
DR.. w. H. Roberts, a dentist, was killed at
Liberty, Va, Wednesday, by VIM. w. john
son, son of Hon. James Foote johnson. Five
shots were fired by the parties in front of the
hotel, one of which entered Roberts heart
johnson was committed to prison.
An explosion occurred in Renshaw colliery,
near Sheffield, Eng, Wednesday, by which
twenty-six persons were killed and nine in
jured.
The Tribune says in reference to the ihvesti-
cation Of the charges against DR.. Lanahan, of
the Methodist Episcopal Book Concern it is
whispered that there is a disposition on the
part of the majority Of the Book Committee to
keep the proceedings secret. I'VE would sug-
gest to these gentlemen that the day for secre-
cy is past. They have suffered too much in
light. already, and the sooner and fairer they
face it now the better for them, and for the
church whose interests. in part, they have in
charge"
Martin Shaw, employed in the weolen mills
at Franklin, N. H., was caught on the shaft on
Thursday, and fatally injured. He was about
30 years Of age, and leaves wife and child.
The magnificent dome Of the Hotel des In
valides has been shattered to fragments by
Prussian bomb which crashed through, carry
havoc and destruction to the interior of the
building.
A private letter from Capt. Selden, of the q.
9. revenue cutter Reliance, dated Sitka, Dec
I'd, mentions that he and crew of eight men
were instrumental in rescuine steamer from
shipwreck, on the morning of Nov %, that
had got aground in Peril Straits, one of the
most dangerous places on the coast OF Alaska.
The Indians brought the news Of the disaster
to Sitka, and Capt. Selden knowing thatif he
took the Reliance to the rescue, it would result
in her certain loss, concluded to 60 in a small
boat, and reached the steamer, which was
aground fifty miles from Sitka, after great diff
iculty, and after passing through a fearful
storm. The name of the steamer 10 not given.