The Portland daily press., 1875-04-17
MINOR TELEGRAMs,

Croker, Bliss & Co.'S chair factory at She
boygan was burned Thursday. Loss $4,000
insurance $4,000.
Yeaton & Anderson's paper mill at Column
bus, o., vas burned Thursday.
1t is not probable that Sharkey will be sur
numbered to the New York authorities.
Another half million of Boss Tweed's prop
erty has been attached in Winchester county,
n. Y.
The Great Falls strike has exhausted itself
and Thursday the manufacturing company had
more spinners than they needed. The largest
portion of the strikers have gone back to work
and many have left town.
Commodore John B. Marchand, ION the re-
tired list, died at Carlisle, Pa, on the 10Th
instant.
Internal revenue receipts yesterday were
$236,571.
On Monday delegation of the New York
Chamber of Commerce will leave tor Concord
to attend the celebration.
The customs receipts yesterday were $780,
537.
Widow Mary A. Mason, aged 70 years, COM
mitted suicide at Pawtucket, r. l., yesterday,
by hanging.
Recorder Hacket, yesterday, sentenced Chas.
Harris, professional burglar, to state prison
for Is years.
Damage to the amount of $4,000 resulted
from a collision between freight trains in the
Bergen tunnel, Thursday night. No lives
were lost.
Gen. Sherman will not be able to attend the
Concord celebration.
The first steamer of the season arrived at
OSwego yesterday.
John Hunter has been sentenced to IA years
Imprisonment at st. Catharines for iucendiar-
ism with intent to defraud the Hartford Insur'
ance Company.
A. ..c~ Of
the bondholders of the Northers Pacific rail.
road, Thursday, G. w. Rice of Worcester, and
| III. A. Houston of Philadelphia, resigned and
| j. H. Hutchinson of Philadelphia, was sub
stituted COR the latter.
The loss by the fire at Liverpool n. S., We'd
nesday, is estimated at $4,000.
Judge Drummond in the U. S. district court
at Chicago, has reaffirmed the opinion that the
court has jurisdiction in the Chicago, Danyille
| 81 Vincennes railroad case.
Carl Englehoffen, a German lawyer of Phil
adephia, was found dead in his house, yester-
| day, under mysterious circumstances. HIS
wife has disappeared
Rev H. S. Kelsey, a prominent member OF
the n. III. Methodist Conference, has received
a call to the Congregational church at Hollis,
and will undoubtedly accept
David e. Harris, aged IA, was thrown from
a wagon at Exeter, H., yesterday, and had
both legs broken.
Schooner Walaka, which went ashore at Bay
View, has been got off. Damage $4,000.
ga sneak thief snatched $4,000 in bills from
the cou inter- of the North National Bank, BoS-
ton, yesterday, while the owners attention
was diverted. He was captured and the money
recovered.
Frank Leavitt was run over at the b. q M
railroad depotin Boston, yesterday, and fatally
injured.
Of fha fra6u1an Mt
Palisades Insurance Company, has been SEN
fenced to two years imprisonment for conspir'
acy.
Scpio Bryant and Elijah Atkinson, (colored)
were hung at Beaufort, S. c., yesterday, fol
the double crime of murder and arson. Bot h
made full confessions.
Considerable excitement prevails among the
colored population OF South Carolina over a
rumor that Burch, a mulatto, who murdered a
white policeman, is to be pardoned by the col
ored Lieut.. Governor while the Governor is
away at the Concord centennial.
The wife of DR.. G. Ii. Higbee, a prominent
physician of st. Paul, MINI, committed sui
eide yesterday by taking strychnine.
Gen. Albert Mason was convicted in New
York. yesterday, of having counterfeit money
in his pos session, and remanded for sentence.
Mr. Beecher conducted the Plymouth church
prayer meeting last night. There was very
large attendance but nothing unusual oc.
cured.
Rhode Island General Assembly adjourned
yesterday sine ie
Brown, negro, was hanged at Greenburg
La, yesterday, for murder.
Capt, Mix of the second cavalry, sent out af.
ter the mining party at Harvey's Peak, has Sc.
cured the whole of them.
Heavy SHOWS are reported in the Black Hills
and high water.
n SiOuv opI Sc
ported to have left for the Shoshone country.
Francis Harris was hanged at Commerce
Mo, yesterday, for murder.
Henry Gambs, public administrator of ST.
Louis, who absconded last November $50, 900 in
debt, has returned and is settling up