The Portland daily press., 1883-12-08
GENERAL NEWS

A sleeping car attached to the Chicago ex-
press, which left New York at 8 o'clock Thurs
DAY night, caught fire near Castleton, and two
men were injured in escaping.
A despatch from Pierre, Dakota, says con-
vention was held ths re- Thursday, for the pur-
pose of devising plans fer tho opening Of the
Sioux reservation to settlers.
Rev. E. Ferris Bishop, of Bridgeport, Conn,
president of the Naugatuck railroad, died yes
terday morning. He was also director of the
Bridgeport Steamboat Company, and for many
years rector of the Church of the Nativity at
North Bridgeport, which he built at his own
expense, at a cost of $25 900, and recently pre-
sented the same to the Bridgeport Orphan
Asylum. The deceased was largely engaged
in early years in constructing railroads in the
West. He leaves an estate valued at $150, 900.
The brother of the late Mr.. Arthur Schol-
field, of New York, called upon Mayor Palmer
of Boston, yesterday, and stated that the heirs
at-law would waive all claims and take the
necessary steps to place in possession of the
city the sum Of $4,000, bequeathed by Arthur
Scholfield for the benefit of the Boston Public
Library.
The directors of the late Southern Exposi-
ton at Louisville, KY, have decided to hold
another in 1884. The dates will be so arrang-
ed as not TO conflict with the Worlds Exposi.
ton in New Orleans. An additional fund OF
$780, 900 will be raised.
j. w. Mackay, formerly employed in N. 81.
Fairbanks house, was arrested in Chicago yes
terday, while attempting to negotiate forged
draft for $12, 1000.
Yesterday complaint was entered to select
men Of Clifford, N. H, that there was case Of
small pox in French family in Lake Village.
Burglars entered the post office and Hub.
bard's variety store in Lake Village, N. n.
Thursday night. The post Office safe wa:
broken into and about 800 in money, some
postage stamps and goods taken. Local par.
ties are suspected.
The governors and State officers of Rhode
Island and Massachusetts made perambula
tion of the new Northern boundary line be-
tweon those States yesterday, and afterwards
dined together at Woonsocket.
The Farmers Congress, which has been il
session at Louisville, KY, after selecting Nash
vile, Tenn. as the next place of meeting ant
finishing up important details, adjourned yes
terday.
A St. Johns, N. F., despatch says that yes
terday, while the Warford family were cross
ing from their home in the Southwest arm o
Notre Dame Bay to Little Bay, sudden squal
capsized the skitf, and all of the five occupant
were drowned.
James NJ. Underwood, for the murder O.
Robert J. Pendergrass, wealthy planter o
Yell county, was hanged yesterday at Darda
nell, Ark, in the presence Of three Thousand
pectators.
Al citizens meeting in indianapolis Ind.
last night, energetic measures were taken t
secure the holding of the National Republican
Convention in that city.
Weslay Rosey, the negro who assaulted a lit
tie girl, and to prevent the iynching OF WHOM
the militia was sent to Birmingham. Ala, b.
the governor, was yesterday found guilty ant
sensencsd to be hanged.
The State Register OF Des Moines Ia, to
day will publish letter from Hon. John A
Kasson, declining a reelection to Congress.