The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-11-14
MINOR TELEGRAMS,

| Philip Haley and his son James, while care
| lessly drilling out blasting charge at Hop
kinton, Mass, Wednesday, were terribly in
| jured.
| Sixteen thousand emigrants arrived at New
York during October, an increase of 5000 over
| October 1878.
| The portrait of Lord Percy, the gift of his
| grace the Duke of Northumberland. was pre-
| sented to the town of Lexington Wednesday
evening by Rev. E. g. Porter.
| AT Lowell the first opportunity was given
| Wednesday by the mayor and aldermen for
| the registration of female voters for school
| committee. There were 107 names entered.
Considerable damage is reported in Olean,
! N. Y, and vicinity of Bradford, Pa, by hur-
ricane Wednesday night.
| The Governor of Pennsylvania has refused
| to reprieve Charles Drew and Franklin Stick
| ler the Bober murderers, who are to be hang
ed at Lebanon today.
| Ross Huntington, editor of the Montreal
| Herald, died yesterday
The Department of Agriculture at Ottawa
| has not vet received any notification from
| Washington that an embargo has been placed
on the importation of Canadian cattle into the
| United States.
The jury in the Zeohman murder case in
Lebanon, Penn, has returned verdict of not
| guilty.
Atfales Young, son of the late Brigham
Young, is studying law i'll Paris.
It is understood that Senator Chandler did
not leave will.
+, Matte Potts, who recently walked from New
| Orleans, attempted suicide Wednesday in
| Philadelphia, owing to poverty and inability
to secure employment.
A Cincinnati despatch says that adivces from
| Pittsburg state that the river has risen sutfi-
GENTLY to dispel the fears of a coal famine.
Rear Admiral Kitty was buried at Baltimore
| yesterday.
Burglars entered the house of Joseph Kins-
ley in Chicago yesterday and when cornerad
! by him shot him fatally and escaped.
f. Robertson of Hinsdale, N. H., a traveller
| for an Eastern firm, dropped dead in Spring
field ILL.,, yesterday.
The project of a line of steamers from St.
John, n. B., to Great Brain is being consid-
! cred by committee of the common council of
that city.
The forgeries of John Kuberly of New York
| city, the brewers clerk, amount to $4,000.
He admits his guilt.
While poor woman went into the TOmbs
| yesterday to visit her husband her two child
rem, girls, were kidnapped by an unknown beg
| gar woman
The funeral of Prof Bernard Malon, organ
| izer of the Atlanta, Ca, public schools, was
attended yesterday by 10000 people.
Hon. j. 81. Pope. Minister of Agriculture of
| Canada, has sued the Examiner and A. Nc
Mester of Sherbrooke, Quebec, for libel.
| 4 barn and shed belonging to Edwin r.
Morse, containing a lot of farming implements,
four horses, three COWS and twelve hogs, were
destroyed by fire yesterday. Insured for S7251
in different companies. Total loss not yet as
| certained
Wagner's brewery at Elizabeth hrs been
seized for alleged violations of the revenue
laws 1t is charged that Wagner used the
same stamps several times on beer kegs.
| The strike of coal miners at Lasalle, ILL.,,
now embraces thousand men and but one col
| liery is running.
Frances Shronder of Syracuse, N. Y, under
Indictment for poisoning her mother and sus-
| pected of poisoning her father, has been
| charged by coroner's jury with having pois-
oned her aunt
Two thousand dollars worth of dry goods,
smuggled across the Canadian line, were
seized by the Canadian custom officers at FIRE.
! ligsburg yesterday.
| Ten Communicates and the Grand Com
mandery of Knights Templars made splen-
| did parade at Richmond. Va, yesterday.
| j. P. Ferguson, of Hopkinsville KY, shot
| j: H.. Coombs dead last evening for seducing
| his sister,