The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-06-26
MINOR TELEGRAMs.

Moody has been invited to Washington,
Secretary McCrary left for Iowa last night.
G. Wiley Wells was yesterday appointed
consul at China.
Subscriptions in Halifax for the benefit of
the st. John sufferers amount to $4,000.
William j. Slit, founder of the Knicker-
booker spice mill in New York, died yesterday.
The funeral of Commodore Gouldsboro took
place at Philadelphia yesterday.
Gen. Sherman will leave Wednesday for
tour of inspection on the Yellowstone.
Military reunions commence in Providence
today and the city is filling up with visitors.
McLarens grist mill and wooden factory in
Perche, Quebec, was burned yesterday. Loss
$4,000.
Ex-State Treasurer Raines Of New York and
his mother were seriously injured yesterday by
a runaway horse.
Rev. E. D. Hopkins of st. Johnsbury. Vt.
was convicted of forgery yesterday. Case goes
to the Law Court.
W. 2. johnson of Washington, d. c., has
been appointed receiver of the National Bank
of Missouri.
Fannie Brown of Philadelphia has been SEN
fenced to years in state prison for abducting
Mary Masterton.
The wife of John Burrll of Boston killed
herself and child at Sing Sing Sunday. She
was insane
Sidney Dillon president of the Union Pacific
Il. R., was thrown from carriage at Salt Lake
the 18th, but not seriously injured.
The question of taxation of the net earnings
OF the Lake Shore raltoad will be settled out
side of the courts.
Glass day exercises at Middleton University
occurred yesterday. Salutatory address bv S,
81. Clarke. Ovation by w. f. Haven, History
by Nj. A. Bailey, Prophecy by G. p. Coburn.
DR.. Strausberg, the Russian railway specu-
lator, is to be taken to the debtors prison to
day. He has heretofore remained in his own
house under arrest
Forty-six Jewish firms of Cincinnati have
pledged themselves henceforth to entertain no
bust ness relations with the house of A. L.
Stewart & Co.
Col. Wilkins, collector os customs, refuses to
resign though requested to do so by the Pres-
dent. He has received numerous telesrams
from prominent Republicans urging him to
stick.
The Brooklyn Board of Aldermen.ihas con.
tirmed the nomination of Gen. Jourdan for
president OF the Board of Police; Gen. Slocum.
president of the Board of Works, and Dr.
James Crane, president of the Board of Health,
Several railroad strikers at Reading, PENN,
on Saturday night, attacked the men who had
taken their places, and fight with pistols and
knives eDsued. Two men were badly wound
ed.
Oliver Perry of New York was second mate
OF schooner Osprey when a boat containing
Iichborne and others was picked up off Brazil.
Perry believes Tchborne went to Australia in
the Osprey.
Two masked burglars entered Mrs. Van
Wagenen's house at New Patz, n. Y, Satur-
day night, bound and gagged her and chloro-
formed the children and then searched the
house, but failed to ind any money.
Moses Taylor. Samuel Sloan, Geo. f. Toll
man, John f. Aston, Isaac Bell, and Roswell
s: Ralston of New York Nathaniel Thayer and
Edward Austin of Boston and John V. Barron
Of Concord, N. H., were elected directors Of the
Michigan Central Railroad yesterday.
Mabel Leonard, the child who ran away
from Clara Morris's house. is living quietly
with her mother at Hoboken She saws she
ran away because Mr.. Harriott. Miss Morris's
husband, did not treat her mother well when
the latter came to visit Mabel
A fire at North Wilbraham, Mass, Sunday
afternoon, destroyed the Congregations
church, the village hotel, known as The "Allis
House," and other buildings. The fire was
first seen at O'Clock bursting from the belfry
of the church, where it was Of course set by an
incendiary, as. there had been no fire in the
church for weeks