The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-12-27
GENERAL NEWS.

The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern
railroad company, December, being partly es-
timsted, shows gross earnings $18 8550,000 the
same in 1882 being $18, ,z25, ,639 The net earn
ing are VI ,575 ,0O0 the same in 1882 being ST.
167 1892.
Gen. Mackenzie, commander of the depart
ment of Texas, is afflicted with mental trouble
occasioned by nervous prostration. He has
been relieved of his command temporarily and
affairs of his department are now directed by
General Schofeld.
A Long Branch freight train on the Penn
sylvania railroad, bound westward, ran off the
track at Long Branch Tuesday morning
Frederick Pihno, the engineer was killed The
train was thrown down high bank and total
ly wrecked. The cause was snow and the
track spreading.
A special from Malone, N. Y, saws that
VIM. Hatfield, an escaped. convict from the
Michigan State prison, Was arrested Tuesday,
by Sheriff Stockwell. Hatfield drew knife
and stabbed the sheriff and Allen Stockwell, /,
his son. He then ran, but was captured after
being shot~shrough the thigh. The sheriff and
his son are not dangerously hurt.
Rev. W. f. Slocum, of the Union Congrega-
tional church of Salisbury, Mass, has accented
call to the Third Congregational church,
in Baltimore Md.
1t has been discovered that VIM. j.. Hutch
ins, meat dealer, who absconded from Merid-
en-, Conn, last Thursday, took with him the
wife of John Wilkinson. She took money be-
longing to her husband and leaves two chill
dren. HutchiDgs leaves three children. His
debts will amount to about $4,000
At Middletown, N. Y, yesterday, the jury
IN the case OF Aigham charged with murder
ing Eames the. Vacuum brake inventor last
night rendered verdict of not guilty.
The Standard fire office of London, among
whose United States trustees is General Grant
has decided to withdraw its agency from this
country and has reinsured all its outstanding
risks in the Irving Insurance company OF
New York.
/ Archbishop Pereee of New Orleans, La,
who has been in failing health is gradually
sinking and his death is expected any mo.
ment.
The clerk Of the Supreme court at Concord
N. H., yesterday issued venires for a special
panel of 76 jurors for service at the tr ial of
Harold L. Mason, now in Jail here under in
dictment for murder in the first degree fol
shooting his brother-in-law, Rousam S, Tilton
at Pittsield last April, which is assigned tt
commence July 21st.
Lawrence, Kansas saloon keepers have given
up the fight against the prohibitory law, and
saloons are closed up, back doors as we'll as
front
A despatch from Telluride via Montrose
Dec. 24th, says: AT noon to-day a snow slide
came down Marshall basin, carrying off the
were fourteen men, eight of whom were killed
outright and two injured. Four of the meI
dug themselves out. A large body of mer
will leave here in the morning for the scene OF
the disaster. The mail carrier from Silverton
to Rines ands Ouray due here last Friday is
supposed to have been lost in crossing the
range.
Mrs Matte Eddy, known as Exit. the
tramp" the only female tramp printer in the
United States, died in Cleveland Monday ,aged
John S. Austalz and his two daughters
| while attempting to cross the New York, Lake
| Erie and Western railroad near Burlington, o.
in sleigh Tuesday, were struck by an expr esE
| train and all were killed.
| At. st. Louis, Mo-, while Mrs. General Sher
| man and her daughter Rachel, were returning
| from church, their horses ran away, and the
carriage oolllded With lamp post. The ladies
were taken from the wreck, uniniured, but
| considerably skaken up.