The Portland daily press., 1881-09-19
MINOR TELHGRAMs.

The Carroll House block with stores under
meath in Carrollton, Mo-, was burned Friday.
The hotel was valued at $4,000.
The Jaquth opera house at Marion, ILL.,,
valued at $4,000, was burned Friday.
McAllister's seed store on Fulton street,
N Y, was burned Saturday. Loss, $4,000
Sergeant Mason, who attempted to shoot
Guiteau, has written an address to the people,
giving the reasons why he thought Guiteau
should be shot.
By the explosion of boiler in Gard & Co. Is
saw mill. near Monroe, Iowa, e. N. Garnant
was killed and M. L. Gard fatally injured.
A special from Workman, Tex, says Frank
Lucky, negro, was taken from the city prison
on Thursday night and hung by mob.
Internal revenue receipts Saturday, $685.
BAG; customs, 1871, 1859; receipts of national
bank notes, 1922 000
Lizzie Dunn, an employe in mill in Low
ell was found drowned in the Merrimac river
Saturday morning.
Mrs. Sanford Manchester, aged %, commit
ted suicide at Attleboro', Mass, Saturday, by
taking poison.
Thomas H. Allen, wealthy pork packer o;
Springfield, Mass, hanged himself Saturday.
He was respondent.
Detectives have gone to Montreal in search
of ex-Secretary Stuart of the Brooklyn Board
of Education.
Ex-P Postmaster Brady has gone to Canada
with his family.
Steamer Erastus Corning, reported missing,
has arrived at New Haven al right.
Frederick Schipple, 40 years old, who was
accidentally shot in the leg on the 18th inst
by Andrew Weshacher, his employer, who
was using revolver on some roughs who at
tackled him. died Friday in Roosevelt Hospital
Weisbacher at the same time shot and killed
bis young daughter Frances, and was acquitted
at the inquest on the latter.
Charles p Crosby, President of the Michi-
gar Fire Relief Committee, had forwarded up
to Friday evening $33, 800 for the relief of the
sufferers.
Subscriptions aggregating over $1,000 were
reported in New York Saturday toward the
Michigan fire relief fund. This makes the
total sum now collected there over Sal 900.
p Ell. Wingarder, notorious counterfeiter,
was shot by his mistress in Oakland ON Friday.
Congressman J. Hyatt Smith has resigned
the pastorate of the Lee Avenue Baptist
church in Brooklyn.
Rev. Messrs. Waterbury and Burdett, and
Mrs. and Miss Brandt sailed from New York
Saturday for Asia to engage in missionary
work.
A Duluth despatch reports violent hurri-
cane which destroyed large quantities of tim
Der, blew down coal sheds and several
dwellings.
Forest fires are raging in the vicinity of Car
thage, N. Y, and many farmers have lost their
crops and buildings. Three men who went
into the woods have not been heard from.
Some ~ houses in the Irish settlement are re-
ported burned.
In his speech to Congress Friday the Presi-
dent OF the Mexican republic referred to the
wounding of President Garfield, ''the upright
and virtuous citizen who exercises the chief
magistracy of the United States" as a most
deplorable misfortune. He predicted the sup
preston of the frontier raids.
The New York Democratic State Convention
VIII be held in New York city, Oct. 10.
The last rail between Boston and Hudson
RIVER VIA New York & New England road was
lad Saturday night, and q train left last night
with the president and directors for the River.
Geo. Smith of Pembroke, Mass, while
dru Thursday, beat his wife SO severely that
the ph ysicians think she cannot recover. Smith
has FED.