The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-05-18
MINOR TELEGRAMs.

J. d. Morris member of Congress from Ohio
in 1857, died at Connorsville, Indiana, Satur-
day.
Mrs. Fannie Plimpton of Lowell, Mass, has
been missing from home since Tuesday, and
fears are entertained for her safety.
The jury IN the case of Gentleman, the Cath
Ollie priest accused of embeZzlemeDt in Phia-
delphia, could not agree aud were discharged.
O'Leary, the pedestrian, commenced his at
tempt to walk 500 miles in 156 hours at Chicago
at 80 p. M. yesterday. Up to 915 yesterday
morning he had accomplished 176 miles in
fourteen Eours and ten seconds.
Sunday night Alopzo jackson and Albert
Smith, with both of their wives and two chill
dren each, went over the falls in skiff, at
Zanesville, Ohio, drowning both women and
one child of the Jackson's and one of the
Smiths. 1t is said the men were drunk
Alexandra Mitchell, President of the Mil
waukee & st. Paul r. r. Co., has secured con-
troll of large majority of the capital stock of
the company. This will secure the defeat of
Russell Sage for vice president of the compa-
ny,
Gov. Tilden has slgned the general savings
ank bill.
The U. S. ship Antietam was sold at Phla-
delphia, yesterday, to Donald Mckay, for $5,-
500.
j. d. Morris, ex-member of Congress from
Ohio, died Sunday.
Base ball-Hartfords 5; Atlantics 0. Bos-
tons II; Athletics 0.
Jonathan Bohonan died at East Chelmsford
Yesterday afternoon from injuries in the head
inflicted by himself by revolver.
The jury in the case of William Cunning
ham charged with conspiracy to Kill his wife,
in New York, were unable to agree and were
discharged They were out twenty four hours.
Abraham Hawley of Acton, Mass, attempt
ed suicide in New York Sunday afternoon by
cutting his throat, He was sent to Bellevue
hospital.
A box containing valuable property, marked
Haake MRS. Sophie Haake of williamsburg
has been removed from the wreck of the steam
shin Schiller and landed in safety near the
scene of the disaster.
The saw mill of Weston 81 Co., at Fort Mad
isoD, Iowa, is burned. Loss $4,000; insured
$l2,500.
An ipcendiary fire at West Springfield,
Mass, yesterday morning, destroyed L. y. "
Brien's store and tenement house belonging
to the Agawam Canal Company. Loss 90 the
former $4,000 and on the latter $500; partially
insured
A Young Frenchman named Thos. Campbell
was thrown from runaway team in Marlboro,
village Sunday evening, breaking his neck ana
killing instantly.
At noon yesterday, fire was discovered in
the suburbs of Fort Edward, n. Y. Oh the road
to Sandy Hill, by which seventy stacks of
straw belonging to Hodgman & Palsers paper
mill were consumed. Loss $4,000; insurance
$4,000.
Nicholas Van Seychelles was yesterday Ie-
elected Grand Master OF the Rhode Island
lodge of Free Masons
House and barn in Comic Village, N. H.. be-
longing to Dodge. Bickford and Wentworth,
were burned last night. Loss $4,000.
Thomas Campbell of Keene was killed yes
terday BY being thrown from a carriage.
The boats commence locking in tie Cham
plain canal to day.
BY an explosion of alcohol in the wholesale
drug store of Geo. r. Clafiin in Providence,
yesterday, jesse Hale, a clerk was dangerous
~ burned, aud the building was set onihre and
damaged to the amount = several thousa nd
dollars.
Fifty laborers on the Lawrence water works
stuck yesterday for an advance of - cents
per day. They were discharged. They threat
en- to prevent men from working.
Mrs Catherine Donovan, a mill operative in
Lawrence, was ruD over last night and receiy-
ed injuries which are likely 10 prove fatal.