The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-07-08
MINOR TELEGRAMs.

Reed & Oooper's foundry in Elmira, N, Y,
was burned yesterday Loss $4,000.
Large fires are raging in the New Bruins wick
woods.
Efforts are being made to arrange match
between Courtney and Hanlon for $4,000 side.
There were fifteen sunstrokes in New York
Friday.
John Toomy, 40 years old, committed suicide
at worcester, Mass, yesterday.
Buzzel, the Ossipee murderer, has been SEN
fenced to be hung July /, 1879.
The Louisiana subcommittee were not in
session Saturday on account of the absence of
witnesses.
A woman named Patience Chase. 63 wears
old. died in the police station at Fall River
yesterday.
Lieut.: Albert Grippenburg of the Russian
navy, died at the Everett House, N. Y, Satur-
day night. OF heart disease, aged 33.
Kearney, the San Francisco agtator and
communist, is coming to Boston. 1t is said he
means to help Ben Rutler to the governorship
Our consul at Tangiers, Morocco, has been
ordered to interfere on behalf of the oppressed
lsraelites
Father Augustus J. McConomy, for Is years
chancellor of the diocese of Philadelphia, died
yesterday.
Mrs. james Willis was thrown from car
rage in Newburyport yesterday and her neck
broken.
James Gilmole Of Cincinnati, an employe of
the Y. s. Express Co.. is missing with some
$4,000 in money packages. The robbery. was
committed on the Fourth.
Albert Fisher an Evansville Ind, hotel
keeper, fearfully beat John Scantlen with a
beer mallet Saturday. Scantlen died yester.
day.
At Steubenvlle Ohio, Fourth of july night
John Stewart shot and killed saloon keeper
named McCann and his son because the former
had refused to sell him liquor.
The canoe Bubble Capt. Chas. E, Chase,
which is on 1900 mile cruise up the Hudson
and through the lakes to Quebec and back, ar
rived at Bellows Falls. VT, yesterday.
AT Independence, Iowa, Saturday night.
clarence Shaw shot and killed Matte Sher-
wood, the daughter of prominent citizen
He then killed himself. Jealousy was tie
cause.
meeting of sympathy for s. H. Haywood,
recently sent to Jail for circulating obscene lit
erature, was held in Providence last night.
Among the speakers was the Greenback candi-
date for governor at the late election.
A requisition was received and filed at the
Post Office Department Saturday for 1924, 195
worth OF postage stamps, the largest total
value ever received by the department. in one
day.
OR Fourth of July night two masked men
entered the house of DR.. Hasbrouck at Milton
on the Hudson and chloroformed and stripped
naked his sister, aged II. The perpetrators of
.no outidgo dIb Dell6VeQ 10 De young men liV-
ing 10 the neighborhood who have been un-
noticed by her.
a Texas mail wagon between Mekenett and
Mason was stopped by gang of men Friday
night and the mail robbed of the registered
packages, but the balance of the mail was un-
touched. 1t is supposed that the robbers,were
waiting for the paymaster who was to have |
taken the regular stage but did not
A correspondent who has returned to Charles
ton from his trip on the ship Azor to Africa.
says that the mortality on that vessel was due |
70 the nnclean habits OF the negroes, and to the
want of proper supplies and a ompetent physi- |
clan. The mortality would have been much |
greater except for the persistent preventive eff. |
forts of the captain of the vessel.
George Fessier, the absconding treasurer of |
Stark county, Ohio, arrived at Canton, Ohio. |
from Canada, Friday, and is now in jail. He |
brought about Sc, 600 with him. The balance |
a trial in Canton to going to a Canadian prison |
Tor carrying stolen goods, as bis money pack |
ages still retained the Stark county seal.