The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-02-15
GENERAL NEWS.

Charles B. Staples OF Lskeville, Mass, held
for the murder of Patrick Cartin at Lake.
vile, has been discharged. with Zenas W.
Carver and bis wife, Mary NJ, who were also
held as accessories, the grand jury finding no
bill.
The Sound steamers have been greatly de-
layed by fogs. Freight is piled up on the
DOCKS and there are no steamers ready to be
loaded. The Fall River line has not had a
boat in New York in 4S hours; the Old Colony
was due Yesterday but up to noon nothing had
been heard from her. A large number of other
boats are due.
Mrs Emma Ehler, who was made notorious
in March last In connection with the murder
OF Wlllism H. Haversiick, broker, by her
brother, died from opium poisoning yesterday
morning in New York hospital. She doubt
less committed suicide.
At the meeting on the ice at Burlington.
Vt, yesterday, the 3 minute race was won in
I"three straight heats by Cumberland Boy; best
time, 2.3S
In the "Cape Cod Folks" libel case at Ply
mouth. Mass. the jury yesterday afternoon
found fer defendants On the FIRST count: on the
second count for the plaintff, and laid dam
ages at $1095.
The health of United States Minister Hunt
at st. Petersburg ia improving.
Miss Il. Glare of Newark, N. j., is reported
to be heir of an estate ia England, estimated
| at $2,000,000
Thomas Harrison, the "boy preacher ;" ia re-
ported to be engaged to Miss Griffith,
wealthy young lady of Indiana.
Sidney Allport, late general manager of the
Midland Railway, England, is to be- made a
baronet IN consideration of his eminent SER
| vices IN perfeeting railway travel in that coun-
| try.
| The largest steam yacht ever built is being
! constructed for Baron Rothschild. She is 247
| feet long and 27 feet beam, aud is expected to
| be the fastest as well as the largest steam
| yacht in the world.
! Captain Gabrielson, Lieatenants Rhodes and
Kennedy, and Engineer Beckwith of the
| United States revenue cutter Dexter will dine
| with the Commercial Club in Boston at the
| Parker House, tomorrow.
| Yesterdays fish receipts at Gloucester,
Mass, were 27 600 pounds of Georges Goldfish
| and 16 800 pounds fresh halbut.
| The New York brokers wijlsen $4,000, left
| over from last years flood fund, to help re-
| lieve the distressed.
| Another Sandy Hook pilot, Francis E. Hus-
eey, Is dead One of his brothers, a pilot, per
| lshed on a vessel several years ago.
The site OF the new stock exchange building,
| in New York city, has not vet been selected.
| More than 100 proposals hsve been received,
| taking in property located all the way from
| Duane street to the Battery.
| The first of the 5eason--s 10-pound striped
| bass has been caught in the Harlem river,
| near Blackwells Island.
A prominent horse dealer states that the
disease that is attacking horses in New Jersey,
called azot@lna, Is oniy another name for
|
are exactly the same, as cases of it ara com
mon in New York city. 1t is not contagious.
The Supreme Court in Pr vidence, r. L.,
yesterday, gave the custody of his child to Il.
| G. Vetterlem of Philadelphia, holding that
| the divorce which the mother secured in In
diana was fraudulent
10 ascertain officially the extent to which
tne standard time has displaced local time, w.
=. Allen, the secretary of the railway time
| convention, has issued circulars to all the
| ha nun n
| III anyl on the liae of their roads which are
not governed by standard time
J. Q. Hatton OF Montreal having proved the
ownership OF $4,000 worth of bonds, the
court decided yesterday that he had right to
intervene in the suit of Stephens against the
Montreal, Portland and Boston Railroad Com
pany.
A stage coach loaded with passengers which
ieft Croville, Utah, over two weeks ago, has
not been heard of since. II is undoubtedly
buried in snow bank and the passengers are
feet deep.
The Arctic Mill, a part of the lQuidnick
company q property, at Providence, II. L., was
sold yesterday by the Union Company to Luz
cius Briggs of Glasgow, Conn.,, for $175,000
telegram from Arequipa announces that a
| water spout has caused immense damage in
that city aud environs. The loss is estimated at
lVo,ooO soles Several persons were drowned.
| rouslpg mass meeting was held In the
cooper Union, in New York city, last night,
to lndorse the bill Introduced into the Lsgis.
ature by Assemblyman Roosevelt which
gives the masor of New YoIk the sole power Of
appointing the heads of departments and do
Ing away with the appointing power of the
board of aldermen.
The weavers at the American Linen Mill,
IN Fall River, Mass, struck yesterday. stop
ping the mill. Eleven hundred hands are
ldle. The strikers demanded sufficient WARP
TO do full days work and better gaslight
which was refused.