The Portland daily press., 1873-03-17
MINOR TELEGRAMs.

Donald Robertson, prominent railroad con-
ductor, died at Ottawa, Ont. Friday
Commodore w. X. Lahmer of the United
States navy, died at Baltimore, Saturday
Two men were suffocated by the fumes from,
petroleum in a cellar of an oil refinery in Lon
don, Ont
The proposed marriage of the Duke of Edin-
burg to a daughter of the late Gar of Russia,
is announced by an English paper.
The loss by fire at Parsersburgh will not ex-
ceed $4,000; insurance S25, 200.
Charles Clark murdered his wife Catherine
in Philadelphia, Saturday morning with an
axe He was arrested.
John Scully of Haverhill, Mass, was killed
on the railroad at Andover, Friday, while
walking on the track. He leaves wife and
fiva children.
Washington minors transfer Secretary Della
no to the Treasury Department and give the
ASSISTANT Secretaryship to ex-senator Sawyer
of South Carolina
Judge Leavitt, late United States District
Judge, died at Springfield, Ohio, Saturday
morning.
There is reported revival in Washington. of
Gen. Shields old scheme of making new
American State on the Mexican side Of the Rio
Grande, with San Louis as the capital and
Matamoras and Tampico as the seaports.
AT Jefferson City, Mo-, Friday Frank Hick-
OK testified that Mr.. Burger said that he was
wiling TO vote for an insurance bill if hun
dred dollar bill was put where he could find it.
The Supreme Court of Massachusetts has do
clined to grant the motion for new trial of
Games McElhaney, under sentence of death
for the murder OF his wife, and his execution
Will take place on the 21st, unles the Governor
further reprives him, of which there is little
prospect.
Senator Edmund of VT, sailed for Europe
Saturday.
A b. johnson late chief clerk of the light
house board, is to publish paper in New Jer-
sey. -.
Congressman are yet wandering about the de-
partments at Washington with numbers of pa
triotic constituents eager to serve the country
in most any official opacity.
Williams and Brown, ex-Sing Sing conyicts.
were sent to the Philadelphia penitentiary for
four years, Saturday, charged with an attempt
to rob bank.
The Alabama House of Representatives de-
teated civil rights bill similar to Mr.. Sum-
ner by 10 majority.
mere Bank of East Cambridge, Mass, has
been held to bail in $4,000 on the charge of
stealing the bank funds.
The Episcopal churches Of Cincinnati have
offered to defray the expense of bringing the
remains of Bishop McAlvaine from Italy t,
that CITY, n
A Cincinnati despatch says that gale pre-
vailed over that region Saturday, blowing at
the rate of 36 miles an hour, damaging tele-
graph lines.
In London, Saturday. Sc, $50, 900 of the first
mortgage bonds of the New York, Boston and
Montreal Railroad were offered and solu at two
per cent. premium.
James 7. Rhodes, a leading manufacturer
and business man of Providence, r. /, died
Sunday evening, aged 72 years.
The Quincy, H., agricultural works were
burned last night with a large amount of stock
and some 200 corn planters Loss S5O,OOO; in
sured for S35,O00.
The river and harbor of Milwaukee are now
free from ice. Steamer Sherman has arrived
from Chicago and propeller st. Joseph left for
Chicago Sunday.