The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-12-13
TELEGRAPIMC ITEMS.

TELEGRAPIHC ITEMS.
Salt Lake despatch says the weather is
mid and the roads are open.
:, In Providence, Tuesday morning, William H.
roster dropped dead in the street of heart dis
ease A son and daughter of Mr.. Foster per-
lshed IN the Revere disaster last summer
julien, the musician, has absconded from
new York with the proceeds of the late concert
ana ball to the Grand Duke and owing his mu-
sicians $1,000.
In Salt Lake City some twenty men and wo-
men arrested in a house of i'll fame and who
were fined a hundred dollars each, have appeal
ed to the United States courts.
Onslow Gilman's house and outbuildings in
$4,000.
The contractors train on the Northern Pa
enc railroad ran off the track. Geo A. Brack-
ett, contractor had his leg broken and anoth-
er named d. G. Shepard had his shoulder dis
located.
The Ocean Bank of New York, in which
Tweed was director, has exploded and its bills
are thrown out at the Clearing House.
A preliminary meeting of the members of
the Geneva conference takes place at once for
the notifications of the powers of the arbitra-
tors England offered to dispense with this
Dut our government insisted on it.
Eight children in the Orphan Asylum in
brooklyn, and a reporter were attacked by
smallpox, Monday, and sent to the hospital.
A young girl belonging to Ware, Mass. was
taken charge of by the New York police to-day
ana Will be returned home.
John Petit and Izzy Lazarus, convicted of
illegal registration in New York, have been
sentenced respectively to two and half and
one year in the State prison.
1t appears that Samuel Wallace, who was
arrested in New York as swindler, was col
onel In Shermans army, and is held ON charge
OF uttering forged check.
Kelley and Gormeple, convicted murderers at
10Th.
Some citizens of the town of Eron, Ohio,
monday unsuccessfully attempted to lynch two
murderers who were arrested for killing Ed
ward Cummings last week.
A railway bridge on the indianapolis Rail-
road, south of Connersville Ind, was burned
this morning. Loss, $4,000.
VIM Hall, who was drowned in New York,
Saturday, was respected citizen of Lawrence,
Mass. 1t is supposed that he fell from the
wharf while passing to the boat to return home.
Michael Mcmahon, of Lowell, age 80, was
killed Tuesday by falling under car which was
being showed on a side track.
Bolts, who was to be hung on the 21st inst,
for the murder of Pet Halstead, has been re-
proved by Gov. Randolph till Jan. 26th
j.. MORGAN, of San Jose, Cal, has been con-
vlcted OF rape ON young Spanish girl whom he
put under the influence of chloroform.
The clearinghouse of A. L. & WIG. Brown
lumber manufacturers, Whitefield N. H., was
burned Tuesday afternoon. Loss, $4,000; insur-
ed for $4,000.
Among the combinations made by the SEN
ate, yesterday, was those of the nominations of
Gen. Arthur as Collector of New York, Mr.
BANCROFT, Minister to the German Empire and
John w. Douglass as Internal Revenue Com
missioner
The ATTEMPT to construe the onnosition of the
Republican Senators to Mr. TrumbulPs Re-
trenchment Committee resolution into hostility
to the civil service reform or the desire of the
administration to conceal frauds, is lawyers
trick. The opposition arises from a difference
OF opinion concerning means, not ends.