The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-11-12
GENERAL NEWS.

The funeral services of the late ex-senator
Randolph were held in the, South street Pres
0yterian church, of Morristown, N. j., Satur-
day afternoon.
Michael Gullivan was held in $4,000 bail
Saturday, for murderous assault with a knife
upon James Sullivan, in Boston, Friday night.
Mayor Edison, of New York city, has signed
the resolution adopting the new standard
time.
Alpheus Merrill, Of Concord, N. H, was per-
haps fatally injured by being thrown from
bicycle Saturday.
Two more of the men injured by the blow
ing down OF a building in Buffalo, N. Y, died
Saturday. This makes six deaths, ami one
more will probably die.
When opposite Fort Pickering, Tenn. Fri
day night. the steamer James Lee ran over
skill containing man, his wife and two
children. All were drowned but one child,
aged 6 years, who was saved by clinging to
the skiff.
A construction train on the Troy & Green
field railroad, collided with freight train al
Zosr, Mass, Saturday. The engine of the for
mer train was lifted from the track and fell on
the other engine, and several cars were riled
promiscuonsly about. One brakeman was Sc
riously injured. The damage will be heavy.
The responsibility for the accident is not vet
placed.
While G. Miles, of Algoms Ia, was closing
the store of Owen &5 Mysr. Friday night he
fsfss tirea upon by two masked men, who eyi-
$sntly intended to rob him. Five bullets
pierced his body. At last accounts Miles was
still alive. There is great excitement, and a
posse is in search of the assailants.
Three children Of George E. Barnes, propri-
etor OF the Sageowatha House, Atlantic City,
N. j., while riding in phseton Saturday
morning, were struck by freight train at the
Arctic avenue crossing of the narrow gauge
railroad, aud all fatally injured. Two have
already died.
The New York iron market was greatly ex-
cited Saturday, over the decline in pig iron to
$3.50 per ton. This is the lowest point reach
ed, with one exception, since 1876. men,
Der of the Exchange said that nothing like a
panic was looked for.
United States officers, in Ashland. Mass.
Saturday, arrested six different persons there
for selling liquor and beer without having a
United States license.
The Washington Evening Star saws man
named Charles Clark, West 10Th street, New
York, who arrived in Washington last Thurs
day, asserts that he has positive information
from one of Mcsher's companions that Charlie
Ross was drowned in Newark Bay shortly af-
ter his abduction by Mcsher and Douglass
Warden Brush, of Sing Sing, N. Y, and
customs officer Won lasssl, charged with brib-
cry at Tuesdays election, were discharged Sat-
urday, owing to insufficient evidence
In Franklin county, N. Y. Friday night,
during terrific thunder storm, several dwell
ings and barns were struck by lightning and
destroyed. Men and teams were prostratsd by
the lightning.
The funeral Of the aged philanthropist, Ben
jamin Fitch, who founded the Home for Sol
diers' Orphans in Darien, Conn.,, the Home
for Old Soldiers in the same place, the Fitch
Creche, and the Fitch Institute in Buffalo,
took place Saturday, from his late residence on
Fifth Avenue, New York city. Rev. Lewis
French, of Noroton, Conn.,, conducted the SER
vices. Among the pall-bearers were John r.
Morris, Gen. d. n. Couch and ex-senator Tai
madge Baker of Connecticut. The remains
were taken to Noroton for interment.
Daniel e. Denham, well known jeweler of
Newport, q. L., was thrown from a carriage in
that city Saturday afternoon, by runaway
horse. He struck his head against lamp-post
and was probably fatally hurt.
G. Wilmot of Boston, a brakeman on night
freight train on the Boston & Albany railroad,
was caught between two cars near Grafton,
Friday night, and severely injured. He was
taken to the Massachusetts General Hospital.