The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-03-17
MINOR TELEGRAMs.

The new CITY governments of Manchester
and Concord, N. H., were both organized yes
terday.
Ellen A. George of Canterbury, N. H., who
was brutally outraged last January by one
Charles Stevens is reported to De fall1ng very
rapidly. Officers have gone to take her depo-
sition.
An infant was killed and several passen gers
injured by train on tia Peoria railroad being
thrown from the track by broken rail, Mon
day.
At Lacouia, N. H., Monday, portion of Pit
mon 81 Titon's store was crushed to the ground
by an ACCUMULATION of snow and ice on the
roof.
Rev. Elmer Fl. Capen of Providence, r. I.
has beer nominated President of Tufts College
and will accept. He is but thirty EIGHT years
of age.
The New York Board of Emigration has run
in debt $346. 600 the past year.
Eighteen cases of tobacco, consigned to An.
drew Bradshaw, were seized by the officers OF
the New York custom house at the freight de-
pot at Hudson and Laight street, on informal
ton furnished by agent Kimball OF Boston,
that they had been transported in bond from
Canada to Boston, and that their owners had
paid only $500 duty on them instead OF $40OO,
the amount the law calls for.
Charles Woodson, the boy who was stabbed
in a court room in st. Louis, Monday, was not
so badly wounded as at first supposed. The
wound proves to be slash instead of direct
stab, and not necessarily fatal.
The steamer Benefactor has been seized at
New York, on a libel of 100000 for sinking
schooner
The gauge Of the North Carolina railroad
has been changed to suit the gauge of the At
lanta Air Line. u
B. M. Mcclellan, Secretary of the N. Y.
Household Publishing Company is missing, but
the company claims to be able to meet all its
liabilities,
The remains of Capt Giuseppe Pierairo, the
captain of the Inflated Italian barque Giovanni,
were buried yesterday.
A despatch from Waco, Texas, of the 14th,
states that U. S. Attorney Evans on that date
sent to Marshal Purnell at Austin for 30 men to
protect him (Evans) in holding some counter.
feiters arrested there, but who with the aid OF
a mob had been released aud defed the U. s.
authorities. Purnell had left for Waco.
Five Italians were arrested at Belleville, ILL.,.
yesterday, and are believed TO be the murderers
of Francis Palermo. who was shot on Saturday
morning last at st. Louis.
Ship Stratton Audley. from San Francisco,
which went ashore at Kingston, Irela nd, but
| was foated, has been towed into Dublin.
The bark Maggie Brown, at Liverpool from
Charleston, was in collision on the passage and
was damaged.
Water in the Hudson is rising and there is a
prospect of the breaking up OF the ice.
The bill of the Pennsylvania House OF Rep
resentatives to repeal the local option law,pass-
| ed the Senate yesterday on its third reading
with stringent license law added. 1t is
| thought the House will not concur and local
option will thus stand
Mr. James Laurie, one of the Oldest civil
engineers in the country, died in Hartford yes
terday.
A severe tornado passed over Columbia, ..
| c., yesterday, and house was blown down and
two persons killed.
A J. Thomas of Camden, Ind, an operator
| in the Chicago Board of Trad e, attempted sui
| eide yesterday. He will die.
The bridge spanning the Susquehanna at
Pittston was swept away by flood last nlght
about ten minutes after passenger train had
crossed.
A snow storm ragged at Omaha yesterday and
roads are bockaded. The weather was intense
ly cold.
Marshal Packard teegraphs Gov. Kellogg
| that the arbitration gives the Conservatives
majority of in the House.
A. j. Howe, formerly a bank cashier, was
sentenced in New Haven yesterday, to hVe
years imprisonme It for decieving the Bank
Commissioners.
The dioceses of Georgia consent to Jaggar's
conservation, but object to DeKovan's.
The suit of DR.. Sch@ppe of Baltimore to get
possession of the estate of Miss Steinecke, com
menced two years ago, came up yesterday.