The Portland daily press., 1880-12-13
MINOR TELEGRAMS.

John O'Neil, aged 45, Of Brooklyn, N. Y,
was fatally assaulted Saturday night by Ed
ward Geoghan
G. K. Wilmington, proprietor of the Vienna
bakery in Boston, was killed by the explosion
of the kneading machine Saturday.
Richards saw factory at Newark, N. j., was
burned Saturday. Loss $4,000.
At California, KY, Friday night, William
Stewart was shot dead by Sullivan Webster in
a quarrel.
The certificate of the electoral vote of Geor.
gia has been received by the Vice President.
Five more election judges have been indicted
in Virginia.
A party of Sioux chiefs are on the way to
Washington.
Rev. DIR. Goodell, pastor of the Pilgrim Con-
gregational church in St. Louis, was assaulted
Friday night by highway robbers, knocked
down and badly beaten.
"A syndicate has been formed to build the
Canada Pacific railroad. The capital stock is
So, ,000,000.
Edward Kenyon Taylor, member Of the third
class of the Annapolis naval academy, died
Friday night. He was native of Massachu-
Setts.
DR.. Carver has accepted Capt. Bogardus'
challenge for shooting match for $500
side.
$49O,997 in silver dollars were distributed
last week.
The total population of Utah is 545 ,9O7-
81, All males and 69,43O females.
A bill in exuity will be filed today in the U.
S. Circuit Court in Boston, praying for the re-
moval of 2. Chaffee, trustee of the estate of
ex-Gov. Sprague of Rhode Island.
Mary Tasker. aged 35, and Perry Diggs,
aged 10, both colored, jumped from the fifth
story of a burning building in Baltimore yes
terday, and the former was fatally hurt. The
latter will recover.
The Boston Advertiser has been sued for
100000 by Edward Crane, for an article re-
flecting on his connection with the Boston,
Hartford & Erie road.
Fred L. Almy, bookkeeper for E. T. Smith
& Co. OF Worcester, is defaulter in $4,000 or
$1,000.
Avis Pinkham, employed as table girl in a
boarding house in Lawrence, was shot and
killed y sterday by Knapton Wardman, until
recently overseer of the Washington mills.
Osgood, the Concord, Mass, State Prison
C nvict, who disappeared some time ago,
crawled out Friday from his place of con-
cealment in the hat shop. He was nearly
starved.
Ice cutting began in Hudson county, N. j.,
Saturday. s:.
A dispatch from Paris says the applications
for the Panama Canal shares in Europe render
necessary reduction of the allotment to one
third of the demands.
A Constantinope dispatch says the keepers
of the assassin Of Col. Commeraoff prove him
to be insane.
The school houses. in Jersey City were
closed Friday on account of the cold.
Two colored children at Memphis, who were
locked into lhe shanty -while the parents went
to work Saturday morning ses fire to tine place
and were burned to death.
The dry goods store of Benjamin Bliss in
Hartford. Conn, was robbed Friday night of
over $4,000 worth of goods.
Hubert o. Thompson, the new Commission
er of Public Works in New York, and William
G. Whitney, the new Corporation Counsel, are
natives of Boston, and Salem a. Wales, the
| new Park Commissioners a natives of Salem,
| Mass.
| Collector Merritt has issued an order prohib-
| iting the furnishing of any kind of liquors,
either gratuitously or byby purchase, to Gus.
| toms officers by steamship companies, as the
| practice OF so doing has become detrimental to
| the service. Ony officer violating this order
| will be Deremptorily dismissed.
| A count of seven days business of the Gin.
| cinnau postottice, ordered by the Postof1ce
| Department. makes the following showing:
Letters mailed, 2,793, ,2Sl; postal cards, S57Oa;
regular newspapers and magazines. 671 Alb
| city circulars and transient newspapers, 296,
206; packages merchandise, 1876.