The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-08-13
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A hurricane did much damage at Coney
Island Friday. The new Manhattan railroad
was wrecked. Loss $4,000.
A letter from the widow of Judge Chrisholm
the victim OF Kemper county, Miss, massacre,
says the probate court OF that county has refus.
ed to settle up her husbands estate, and she is
thus prevented from leaving the scene of the
butchery of her family.
Madame Titiens is ill again London.
Bush & Austin's paint works at Forest Dale,
vt, were burned Friday morning. Loss $1O,-
600; partially insured, and twenty men thrown
out of employment
Leading business men in Chicago are con-
tIibutng to employ laboring on the public
thoroughfares. The subscriptions will afford q
hundred men one weeks work,
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad presents
claims for transportion of United States troops
from Washington to different points along its
line to protect it from strikers, No other rail-
road has made such charge. The matter is
referred to the Attorney General.
Thoms B. Ward, aged 60, was killed Friday
night at crossing near Crawford, N. J.,lby
the Philadelphia express. His horse was kill
ed and wagon wrecked.
James Charlton, a middle aged mechanic.
was killed on the Newark branch of the Erie
railroad, Friday morning.
Henry P. Delano, of Somerville, Mass, was
lost overheard from the yacht Voadicia, in Ip-
switch Bay, Saturday, and was drowned. He
26 years old and had been employed as clerk
at Henry A; Choats, druggist, near the Re-
we're House, Boston.
Marshal Purnell of Texas stands a fair
chance to recover. Gen. Briton's examination
ia progressing.
The convention OF iron and steel workers
elected j. Bishop of Pittsburg, President, and
board Of trustees.
President Hayes requests that no great dis
play be made during his New Hampshire visit.
de thinks while many people find so much
trouble to obtain bread, it would not be in good
taste to spend large SUMS entertaining the
President.
1t is reported that the main feature of the
prospective alliance between telegraph com.
panies, is that the receipts of both companies
are to be pooled and then divided in certain
proportions.
The decision of Justice Smith in the case
againft the New York excise commissioners,
for issuing licenses for sale of ale and beer in
quantities less than five gallons, was given
Saturday The complaint was dismiss ed and
the action of the commissions sustained.
A new oil spring on Dunkard Creek, in
Greene county, Pa, began flowing Saturday
morning, before plans were made to secure the
oil. The neighbors are building dams to hold
it while they dip it up.
Geo. Mcconnell of North Haverhill, On. H..
recovery is doubtful. The house was set on fire
and badly damaged.
w. M. Thompson, negro, committed for
brutal assault on a little white girl, at Mitch
ellis station, Va, was Thursday night taken
from jail by an organized company of GO men
and hanged to a tree a short distance from the
town, and a coroner's jury failed to identify
any on as participating in the hanging.
man named O'Donnell, who assaulted
woman in Boston yesterday, was shot and bad
ly injured in the thigh.
fire in the carpet ware-rooms of Edgar
Reeds, in Taunton, Mass, Saturday night
caused $4,000 damage to stock and few hun
dred dollars on building. Well insured.
Gabriel Acquist assaulted Jno. Motwell in
Boston, yesterday, with razor, infictng Sc.
we're wound in the throat
Four more suits on distiller bands have been
entered in the United States Circuit Court by
,he st. Louis government.