The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-04-20

of certain Democratic members Of the House
for some time past who were intending to
hold it thinking they could uss it with much
more effect after the Cincinnati convention if he
were nominated. The story was also known to
certain western editors among them Medill of
the Chicago Tribune, Smith of the Cincinnati
Gazette and Halstead of the Commercial. In
deed it is charged that these men conspired
some time ago to put the story into circulation
in favor of rival candidate, but this MIR.
Medill indignantly denies. 1t is said Mr.
Blaine will not demand congress ional inves-
tgation, believing that the Democrats wouid
drag it out for the purpose OF lnJurlns MS
chances at the Cincinnati convention.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
William Reynolds, stock dealer, Tell from a
train while crossing the Ohio river at Steuben-
vile, Thursday, and was drowned. He had
$4,000 on his person.
Floods have done considerable damage in
some portions of the west. At East Saginaw,
Michigan, large area is inundated and large
amount of lumber and shingles have been
swept away. At Buck Bridge, Boliver county,
Miss, levee broke and the whole alluvial re.
gion is submerged. The Merrimac has been
very high and considerable damage was appre-
hended, but the waters have now subsidized.
A special dispatch from Poughkeepsie says
that natural reservoir of water in Sugar Loaf
Mountain on the Hudson, near the northern
entrance of the highlands, has burst the side
of the mountain asunder, throwing an avail
anche of earth and rock on the railroad track.
Trees thirty feet in height were carried to dis
ance of a thousand feet. Scores of people Wis.
tied the spot yesterday, but not one could sat
isfactoriy explain the occurrence. 1t was not
a land slide. 1t certainly looked like an erup-
ton. for to all appearances thousands of tons
of earth must have been forced upward and
outward to the cove below.
At Keyport, N. j., Wednesday night, negro
murdered his mistress, cutting her throat.
The old Greeley mansion in the woods at
Chappaqua, which was unoccupied and unfur-
nished, was totally destroyed by fire Sunday
evening.
Smith & Parkers planning mill at Anthony,
Mimi, was burned Wednesday evening. Loss
$4,000. ...
Charles Hassler of Westfield, Mass, was
buried in an old well Thursday and when taken
out was dead.
Thomas o. Somervlle, New York lawyer,
implicated in the Safe Burglary, has been ar
rested.
John White, captain of the schooner Grimes,
of Whitehaven, Conn.,, was drowned Friday
morning near Staten Island.
Albert McCragen, 16 years old, was drowned
Thursday afternoon by the upsetting of a
canoe in the Merrimac river, two miles below
Lawrence.
A. j. Williams and N. Seibert, two commits
sioners of Luzerne county, Pa, were arrest
ed Thursday for defalcations, and Louis Gers
bacher, a third commissioner, has fled to Can
ada.
Marvel Daval & Co.'s machine shop in Fall
River was burned Friday. Loss $4,000; in
surance $4,000.
The business portion of the town of Fulton,
No., was burned Thursday by incendaries.
Loss 800 900; insurance small.
A waterspout at Fountain, MINI, occurred
Friday, carrying off bridges, OVERLOOKING
houses and flooding the main street to the
depth Of five feet. Damage $4,000.
John Sullivan, blind, and Catherine Bowler,
| deaf, were run over by the cars while walking
on the track of the Providence & Worcester
road at Blackstone Friday.
Considerable anxiety is felt concerning the
fishing schooner Kearsarge, Capt. Burchell, OF
Gloucester. She has been absent upwards of
four weeks on trip to Georges banks. She
was reported as having left the banks Mon
day the Sd inst, the day before the last heavy
gale in company with other vessels which
have arrived. 1t is feared that she foundered.
Patrick Hartwell committed suicide at Salem
Friday night. ~
Several dwelling houses and stables at Me-
chanicsburg, Pa, were burned Friday. Loss
$4,000.
Agang Of counterleters of fifty cent cur
rency was arrested at Cincinnati, Saturday and
their machinery captured.
John f. Sell, the defaulting teller of the Sc
curity Savings Bank, was arrested last Satur-
day.
One hundred feet of the land on Kansas river
opposite Lawrence, gave way Saturday and
| carried two spans of the bridge. Loss $4,000.
Holiness boot factory in Westboro, Mass,
was burned Saturday morning. Loss $50, 900
| to $4,000.
Samuel Hamilton of East Wareham, Mass,
was killed on the schooner Thos. Borden, Sat-
urday by blow from falling block.
Josephine Rodman of Boston was arrested
Sunday charged with beating her year old
child SO severely that it died.
-Four masked men took negro named Jim
Taylor from Jail at Danerville, KY, Sun
day morning, and hanged him to tree. Tay-
| lor had outraged a child.
Miss Maria Wright, sister of John O. Wright
Il nf EifnhhurO ohnut old oft hor
brothers house Saturday night and has not
been seen since. She left note stating that
she was tired of living. Ponds have been drag.
| ged but her body has not been found.
A boat containing three boys,o COy's Pond,
Beverly, Mass, capsized Saturday, and two
| of them, named Merrill and Pierce, were
| drowned
Delands drug store at Cambridge City, (Ia.)
was burned Sunday night. Loss 100000.
VARIOUS MATTERS.
Gen. John Mcdonald has just been sentenc-
ed by Judge Treat of the U. S. District Court
of st. Louis, to five years in the penitentiary
and fine of $4,000. w. o. Avery got two
years and fine of $1,000. Both were whisky
ring conspirators.
Dom Pedro, Emperor of Brazil, accompan-
leu ny tue LupEcSs, arrived al new Iork DAT
urday. He declined formal welcome, pre-
ferring to travel in coznito. Sunday he attend
ed St. Patrick's Cathedral, and in the evening
heard Moody at the Hippodrome.
The funeral of A. T.Stewart took place Thurs
day and was largely attended. Mr.. Stewards
will has been made public. He gives the ma
jority of his estate to his wife. To his execu-
tor, Judge Hilton, he gives 100000. He
makes no public bequest, but requests his
widow to carry out certain charitable schemes
which he began in his lifetime. His estate is
variously estimated from $3O,OOO,OOO to $780,,
100000
BRIEF MENTION.
Ex-Gov. Thurston Polk, of Missouri, died
Saturday'--Tbe Boston Post has been sold
to the gentlemen who have managed it for
same time past.--Dexter Brothers, exten.
sIve cotton manufacturers in Pawtucket have
made an assignment S. G. Nam of
Boston has sued Ben Butler for 100000 for
alleged violation of contract relative to certain