The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-10-24
MINOR TELEGRAMs.

Mr. Grant, of the Grant Locomotive Works
in Paterson, N. j., is to start Immediately for
Russia, to see if he cannot make some compro-
mise with the Gear in regard to the contract
which the former has been unable to fulfil.
In suit brought by the Crispent Society, to
recover money from its members, the Supreme
Court of Massachusetts, has decided the order
to be legal one and entitled to its prerOga-
tiyes.
The works in Dublin, Ireland. of the Alli-
ance Gas Company were burned yesterday
morning. The military were called on to aid
the iremen. The loss is very heavy but no
lives were lost.
A Catholic church case is now on trial in
Portsmouth, N. H., involving the right of par
ties to attend service who refuse to contribute
to its support.
The committee of the Democratic Conven-
sachusetts have declined to join the Seelye
movement, and have nominated Henry Z. Hill
of Gardner, for Congress.
The seventh annual convention of the Young
Mems Christian Association of New Hamp-
shire is in session at Manchester.
A. n. Laidlow, President of the Oriental
Insurance Company, Jersey City, printed card
to discontinue action under the charter until
the securities are made satisfactory to the Sec
rotary of State. Wilson, Secretary of the COM
pany. waited on the Secretary of State yester-
day to negotiate for permission for the compa-
ny to continue on reduced capital.
Incendiary fire at Newton, Mass yesterday
destroyed dwelling honse. Loss $4,000; in
surance $4,000.
Commodore William Inman of the Navy De-
partment, died yesterday.
The new minister of militia is returned for
Digby, N. S., by large majority, and McGreg-
or, ministerialst has been elected for Essex
county.
A clerk in the Ottawa post Office has been
sentenced to five years imprisonment for steal
ing money from letters.
The court has commenced taking testimony
" Simpsons SIM s grist, carding and oatmeal mill at
Duncanvie, Ontario, was burned last night.
Loss $4,000
A respectable looking American has been ar
rested in Constantinople for perpetratng a
heavy fraud on the Imperial Ottoman Bank
1t is rumored that other swndlers are operating
in Turkish cities.
DR.. W. M. Palmer of Cornellville Pa, has
been arrested in London for attempting 20 de-
fraud wealthy Englishman
Internal revenue receipts yesterday were
$S13,673
The Twin, double.decked vessel, built to
overcome seasicknesS and to ply between Dover
and Calais, has made her trial trip and is sue
cess, neither pitching nor rolling.
The Council of Nice has passed a resolution
expressing the profoundest attachment to
France.
Phoenix wooden mills at Senaca Falls, n. Y,
was burned yesterday. Loss 1000; partially
insured.
The Seashore Seminary at Hinshore, Mass.
was burned Thursday.
President Grant and suite were in Harris
burg yesterday.
Ex-Gov. Harris Flanagan of Arkansas, died
yesterday. -
The loss by the burning of the Dublin gas
works is estimated at $4,000.
S. D. f. Gates store and barn in Hartford,
Conn.,, were burned yesterday. Loss $4,000.
Fully insursd.
The coroner's jury in the case of Kate Rel
ley, recently murdered in Boston, brought in a
verdict against her husband.
kirkpatrick with his party, has returned from
their labors on the line of the Canada Pacific
1t is practicable seventy miles north of Lake
SUPERIOR,
In the celebrated case of Doll and Tryon vs.
Philadelphia q Reading Coal and Iron Compa-
ny, suit to recover property worth $4,000, 600,
verdict has been rendered for plaintiffs
During the trial of his assailants at Mobile,
Hester, the detective, was recognized by Capt
Semmes as one Of his crew on the Alabama.
Semmes saps he shot messmate while asleep
and escaped. 1t appears in evidence that the
subpenas for witnesses Of the conspiracy against
Hester were issued four weeks before the crime
is alleged to have been committed.
An Italian named Angelo Antonio, has been
arrested in New York for numbering eight per-
sons in Italy in 1867
Commander Austin Penaergrast of the ship
Potomac, is dead.
Official election returns in Ohio make no
change in the result
Cyrus Lufkin of Peabody, caught his foot In
the track of the B. & A. Railroad. in Boston,
yesterday, and before he could extricate it a
passing train crushed it off.
An unknown man with journal in his pock-
ct with the name "Frlcke, was killed on the
track cs-;~,c Ill -