The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-10-08
MINOR TELEGRAvIS

sunday night Map Smith, aged 26, suicided
IN State prison by hanging.
Cheeseman's furniture factory in New York
was burned yesterday morning. Loss heavy.
The report printed in the Indiana newspap-
ers OF the capture of Ali Murjid, is contradicted
Cooper's saw mills at Bloomfield, Ont, have
been burned. Loss $4,000.
A writ of attachment has been issued against
Savage q Lyman jewellers, Montreal, for e10,
900.
Innians are stealing stock and murd erin Q
settlers near Guadaloupe river, Texas A gen
eral raid is feared.
A Rio Janeiro despatch says the American
bark Midas, Capt. Frost, Antwerp for Imbetic,
has been wrecked.
The lumber and planning mill of Samuel s.
Booth of Norwich, VT, was burned by incep.
diary Sunday night Loss $25, 900.
John Shanahan shot Joseph Miller Sunday
morning at Franklinville, Md, for seducpg
the formers sister.
The Grand jury at Montreal have indicted
several Orangemen for making trouble on the
18th of July last.
A work train on the Toledo & Afbor railroad
was thrown from the track yesterday, killing
Robert Nash, the conductor, also the brake e.
man, and iDjuring number of men.
The Ancient and Honorable Artillery of
Boston celebrated their fall field day by an ex-
cursion to bingham, where they decorated the
grave OF the late Gov. Andrews.
The Democratic state central committee have
received letter from Judge Abbott, accepting
the nomination for Governor of Massachusetts
In Colboro, n. H., W. B. Lot well-to-do
farmer, sged 63, suicided Saturday BY cutting
his throat. Mind impaired by sunstroke two
years ago.
Edward Reinhard has been arrested in New
York for alleged completely in the murder of
the young woman whose body was found in
barrel on Staten Island.
The New York Post says gold has advanced
TO lOO 5o and 100 81. The advance, it says, is
due TO apprehensions of Greenback successes
at the fall elections.
A Yankton, Dakota, despatch says that a
destructive prairie fire has traversed from Is to
is counties between Jim river and the Missouri
The destruction to property is large, but no de.
tails have been received.
A Kingston, jam, despatch says the insur-
rectlon at Santa Cruz is quelled and the ring
leaders captured. The cause of the insurrec-
ton is said to be disagreement between the
negroes and planters regarding labor contracts.
Gen. Wallace, recently appointed Governor
OF New Mexico, has notified the President of
continued disturbances and lawlessness in Lu.
cold county, in that territory, and requests aid
ofthe United States army to preserve peace.
Minister Noyes writes to the state depart.
ment extollDg the Paris exhibition and the
American exhibitors. He states that the
Americans take more prizes according to the
number of their exhibitions than any other
country.
The adjourned meeting in Boston yesterday
forenoon of the stockholders of the Eastern
RAILROAD ratified the new leases of the Eas-
Tern Railroad of New Hampshire and the
Portsmouth, Great Falls & Conwyy railroad
by nearly a unanimous vote.
Col. Thomas A. Scott in a letter to the
stockholders of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co.
says that all CHARGES or allegations that that
20 or any OF its officers are directly or indictly
interested in the production, buying, selling or
traffickiDg in any way in oil, are without foun-
datiou