The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-08-04

House hllbustered through the morning hour /
to adjournment BANDS silver being voted on |
and then took up the bill for the transfer of |
the Indian bureau to the war department.. Mr. /
Lamar made political speech.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
A tenement house in Haverhill, Mass, was |
destroyed by an incendiary fire Friday night, |
and an old lady named Long burned to death. |
A carriage containing Major Geo. D. Sawyer |
and two others came in collision Saturday eve |
ming with the. Boston and Maine train at Alton |
Corner, N. FL. Charles jackson was fatally |
injured
The Milan House, at Milan Corner, N. H.,
was destroyed by fire Saturday.
A fire at Kent, O., Saturday, destroyed the
Earl Block. Loss $4,000.
VIM. E. Morrill,, who was assaulted robbed
and stabbed Friday night in Boston, by Jacob
johnson, died Saturday night. The murderer
is under arrest.
VIM, III. Cotterill, an English lawyer who
located in New York few years since, and is
said to have had Boston business connections.
has absconded with over $4,000.
Deacon Samuel button of Northfield Mass,
aged 65 years, was kicked to death Thursday
night by horse.
Jeremiah Fairbanks, assistant cashier of the
State National Bank of Elizabeth, N. j., is a
defanlter to the amount of $25,OOO.
The whaling bark Illinois of New Bedford,
was sunk in the North Pacific ocean April
18th by a collision with the Morengo steamer.
Insured for $4,000 in New York and Boston,
VIM. j. Forsaythe, an employe at the Read
ing coal yard at Newburyport, while loading
coal scow from vessel, fell 10 feet, striking
| his head and back so heavily on the deck as to
produce paralysis, and probably death. He is
a. heavy man weighing 200 pounds, aud is As
years old.
Joseph Perry. an elderly unmarried man and
/ noted fox hunter, living alone on the north
| ern border of Richmond, N. H., was shot in his
celer with three pistol bullets on Saturday
night. He was found alive, but unconscious,
| and will probably die. A loaded shot gun and
butcher knife near him indicated an attempt at
defence, or that he was driving his assailants
| out of the cellar. 1t is surmised that the muir
derers were lawless persons helping themselves
to cider. Later reports state that the vict tim has
| died.
A Little Rock, Ark, despatch says that
State Senator Loughboro' was found dead,
either suicided or accidentally killed.
| The Dederick hay press mandatory in AL
bany wasl burned Friday morning. Loss $50
600.
A fire early Friday morning in the east
side coal sheds of the Providence Gas Company
caused a lsss of from $4,000 to S 10000. No in.
surance.
j. O. Smith, fireman on the Cheshire rail-
road, was instantly killed Friday morning at
1 fhA idon tha Achu lot
De Golias' washboard factory at Batch ellors-
vile, Saratoga county, was burned Thursday.
Loss $4,000; insurance $4,000.
b. Compton, treasurer of Maryland, was
badly hurt on the Ohio Railroad yesterday by
collision between passenger and freight
| trains
| Mowry Lapham's mill and boarding house,in
Millbury, Mass, was burned Sa turday. Loss
| $4,000: insurance S1O0OO;
| A tornado passed over the northern portion
of st. Louis, Mo-, Saturday. doing much dam
| age to crops.
Nine persons were drowned at Hilsdale,
Mich, Tuesday, blythe upsetting of boat.
| BRIEF MENTION.
In the libel suit of the San Francisco Bulle-
tin vs.. the Alta it came out that the failure of
L
defalcation by the late President Ralston.-
The Ider won the ocean yacht race with the
Wanderer second and the Countess of Duffer-
elm third.--The Cocheco cotton mills at Do
yer N. H., have shut down for 30 days.
| Grasshoppers are devastating the country on
the western border of Minnesota. --Cornell
will send centennial crew to Philadelphia.
| Geo. William Curtis declines a nomination
for Governor of New York. Congressman
Seelye has been elected President of Amherst
College.--The outstanding o. S. Currency of
all descriptions amounts to S4O3, O22, 215.S9.-
The Massachusetts executive council have re-
Gently considered the question of committing
the sentence of death of Pomeroy to imprison-
| ment for life. Five members of the council
voted against the Communication and four in ia.
vor Gov. Rice is said to have expressed him
self in favor of commutation.--2OOON New
York longshoremen are on strike.--The
President has issued a proclamation declaring
that Colorado state.
FOREIGN.
The news from the Turco-Servian war is still
80 conflicting that it is impossible to get any
correct idea of the situation. Apparently the
Servians and Turks maintain about the same
relative positions as week ago. The only i'm
portant event of the week is the defeat and
capture of Osman Pacha by the Montenegrins.
1t is rumored-that the Russian General Won
| Kaufman has entered the Servian service Ex-
| Marshal Bazaine commands division of the
| Turkish army.
Greece is likely to take part in the conflict
on account of the outrages of the Bashi Ba-
zouks in Thessaly and Epirus.
There is little doubt but the present Sultan
will shortly abdicate and be succeeded by his
brother. One report says that he is dying.
There is considerable dissatisfaction in Ser
via over the ill success Of the army in the field
and Prince Karageorgewitch has issued proc
lamaton declaring that the deposition of
Prince Milan is necessary, and offering to save
the country
Mr.. Partridge, American consul at Siam, is |
charged with illegally imprisoning American |
merchants and missionaries. |
The Turkish army in Bosnia has committed |
the most inhuman massacres. Three hundred |
Christians were tortured and drowned in the |
villages of Peruvian and Timane. Twelve |
women were cut to pieces at Pavies. Sixty |
children were stoned ito death at Rathloo, and |
$50 girls were violated and murdered at Sacko- |
loo. Three thousand Christians were massa.
cred at Pryedor.
A famine is threatened in China in conse-
quence of the drought, the crops being des.
troysd over 800 square miles of country in
habted by 100000 people.
A disastrous inundation of Foo Chow and
the surrounding country commenced June 10
and ended June 49, the highest flood within
foreign remembrance. attended with great loss
of life, 5000 dead bodies having been estimated
near Foo Chow alone. Foreign prope slight
ly damaged.
Soderhann. maritime town of Sweden, on
the inlet of the Gulf of Bothnia was aim ost
totally destroyed by fire on the 22d, inst The
damage amounted to many million crowns and
great distress prevails.
POLITICAL.
The Illinois Democrats held their state con-
vention at Springfield last Thursday and nom
mated Lewis Stewart Of Wendall county for