The Portland daily press., 1883-10-15
GENERAL NEWS.

for poisoning her husband has been acquitted.
Michigan's aggregate wheat product will be
23,147, ,135 bushels this year.
The conservation of Rev. David Buell.
Knickerbocker, ID. D.. as Bishop of Indiana,
took place in 81. Marks Episcopal chur ch,
Philadelphia, yesterday.
Mrs. Geo. G. Bonifacs we'll known actress,
died Saturday at her residence in North
Scituate, Mass.
Capt. Robert Beckwith, veteran OF the war
of 1872, died at the residence of his son in
Norwich, Conn, yesterday, aged 80. He en-
listed In the navy in 1872 was captured by the
British and confined in Halifax jail IS months,
or until the close of the war.
The report that the Grand Trunk, Central
Vermont and Delaware and Hudson railroad
companies had entered into a passenger pool
ing arrangement is automatically denied.
Lord Chief Justice Coleridge spent yesterday
in Philadelphia visiting points of local interest
The bodies of Jeremiah Shea, aged 20, mis-
sing since Friday and Thomas Cowan, aged
80, missing since Thursday, were found drown
ed in the canal at Lowell, Mass, yesterday.
State Treasurer Speer of Georgia, because
the Seate legislature refused to create de-
positary in New York, refuses to send money
there to pay maturing Georgia bonds, but will
require the bonds to be sent TO Atlrnta.
Rev. FL. W. Lyle and Rev. A. W. Mann,
deaf mutes, were ordained priests in the Prot
CobduO LplSCOpdl dL 1ulldQolpuld y6Sb6T-
day, the first deaf mutes ever ordained in this
country.
The revolutionary Socialists international
association began o five days convention in
Pittsburg. Pa, Saturday.
gas pipe passing through a stable in Gin
clnnati, o.. burst about 8 o'clock last night,
killiRg % horses. No person was injured.
The Shaw Glove Company's factory at
Highlandville, Mass, was totally destroyed by
fire yesterday morning. Estimated loss ON
building, $4,000; machinery and stock, $30,000
Insurance not known.
Mrs. Fanny Sprague, widow of Amasa
Sprague and mother of ex-Gov. Sprague, died
at Groton, Conn, Saturday night, aged nearly
81.
A heavy thunder storm passed over Ply
mouth, N. H.. Saturday night accompanied by
torrents OF rain and gale of wind from the
Southward. One house was struck by light
ming, and water pipes in the South part of the
town burst.
Martin Richmond's buildings, at Guilford,
Vt, with eight COWS, yoke of oxen, hay and
grain were burned by lightning yesterday
morning. Loss estimated at $4,000; insured
for $1,000.
The PAGER johnson, who paced mile on the
Chicago track Tuesday in 2,10, beating all
records in trotting or pacing, has just been
sold to Commodore N. W. Kittson OF St. Paul
for $4,000.
Mrs. Langtry, accompanied by her mother,
Mrs. LIE Breton, arrived at New York last
evening on the steamer Oregon. She brings
with her the play PERIL, new to this country
in which she will open at Burlington, Vt
The Jail at New Franklin, Howard county,
Mo-, was burned Friday night and negro
confined therein for larceny persisted.
Patrick Kelly, Michael Walsh, Lew Horan
and Martin Cruise were arrested at Scranton,
Pa, Friday night for passing counterfeit mon
ey. considerable quantity of counterfeit
silver coin was found in heir possession. They
we're arraigned to-day and held for trial in de-
fault of $4,000 bail.
A Bloomington, ILL.,, despatch states that T.
r. Snyder, ex-president of the defunct Chenoa
bank, Saturday, began suit against G. A. King
man for $4,000 damages for alleged malicious
prosecution, and for charging Snyder with the
crime of embezzlement of the bank funds af-
ter the failure Of the concern.
Edward Bradley and Joseph Canniff, each
aged % years, were killed early Saturday
morning while attempting to jump on train
on the Delaware, Lackawana & Western rail-
road at Scranton, Pa. Bradley was fearfully
mangled and died instantly.
The ive-year old son of James Rice, who is
now in Jail IN Chicago, charged with burglary,
| died Saturday from the effects of drinking
| whiskey given him by the mistress of Rice for
| the purpose of seeing how child would act
when drunk. The woman was not arrested.
William J. Mcfarland, said to be respect
| ably connected, and who for the last year has
held position in the general post-office, New
| York city, as clerk in the package depart
ment' was arrested Saturday for robbing the
mails. He was held to await the action of the
grand jury.
Edwin G. Walker, colored lawyer of Bos.
| ton, has entered libel suit against the Boston
| Post Publishing Company. The damages are
| laid at $4,000
The hog cholera is on the increase on Long
| NaNu Vorlr auio hos
temper is also raging there.
Sharpers tapped the telegraph wires Satur
| day, between Jerome Park and New York and
| sent bogus reports of the races in progress on
| the park Pool rooms all over the country on
these reports lost sums varying from $500 to
| $1,000.
SluggeF Sullivan failed to appear with his
| combination in Pennsylvania town Satur.
/ day Later he had to flee from the disappoint.
ed and indignant citizens.
The Lyceum Theatre in Chicago was DAM
aged $25, 900 by fire Saturday. An employe oi
the lessee perished in the flames.
The October corn report of the Department
of Agriculture gives the general average to be
| IS. The aggregate yield may reach 420 900,
0O0 bushels.
Judge Advocate General Swain sxpresse,
the opinion that the President will ultimately
| pardon Mason The petitions asking for hiI
release contain nine hundred thousand sigma.
lures.
Mayor Edison of New York Saturday removed
from the office of commissioner of accounts
VIM. z. Sherman. The ground for revomal
was the fact that Sherman had made public
his report on the Carroll frauds before the
Mayor had time to examine it.
In the Republican Senatorial Convention, al
Newark, Conn, Saturday, Hon. Talmadge
Baker was renominated Senator for the 18th
district
George @. Richards, prominent Boston fish
dealer who camps upon the shores OF Essex
River every year in the cunning season, is
missing. He left his camp Tuesday morning
to go cunning at the head of Ipswich Bay and
has not been heard from since.