The Portland daily press., 1884-12-19
GENERAL NEWS.

At Omaha yesterday the Thermometer was report
ed a. loo below at st. Paul 200 below, at Dubuque
2to below, and ut Fargo 800 below.
Two boys while playing with matches among some
cotton bales belonging to the Cohannet Mills in the
Old Colony freight depot at Taunton, Mass. yester-
day afternoon, caused twenty bales Of cotton to be
spoiled.
james Nicholson of Boston, who shot and killed
his wife in april last, was yesterday convicted of
murder in the first degree. He is but twenty-seVen
years old.
The weather in Chicago yesterday was the severest
that has been experienced this winter. aud the
is true throughout the entire Western and North
western States. At Q a. IN. in Chicago the Their
mometer stood l2o below.
j I'm Brady Of Plymouth, Mass who was SEN
tencsd 10 the Massachusetts State prison June 80,
1888, for three years for arson was pardoned yes.
terday.
Rev Robt. T. JONES' pastor of the Park Baptist
church in Ithaca n. Y was arrested yesterday for
illegal vp'Dg at The last election. lie was not
naturalized and took an active part In elecioneer-
ing for Cievelaf d. which caused feeling in his
church. The affair causes sensation there.
Yesterday mornings train west on the East
Brandywine and WaynesbuTg railroad WAS wrecked
by a broken rail at Rsea's Road, Pa. The engine
crushed beneath it. The engineer killed and
the fireman seriously injured. No passengers were
hurt.
In Hall county Ga. Wednesday night, desper-
ate fight occurred between depu marshas and
two moonshiners, Anderson Grant AID an
named P ater both Of the moonshineTs being killeds
Inc uW6lliDR mouse OF Kew EDWARD ADD0bt, pas
tor of st. James Episcopal church. Cambridge,
Mass, entered early Wednesday evening
through a second story window by means of a lad
der, and jewery and small articles stolen of the
value of $500.
The board of directors of the Union Base Ball AS
sociation held executive session in St. Louis yes
terday, and awarded the championship pennant to
the ST. Louis club.
The fashionable jewelry establishment of Napo-
leon Lefebnre, in Montreal. was robbed Wednesday
evening. The safe was blown open with gunpowder
and from S1,i 900 u 600 OF diamonds, watches
and jewery were carried of. The store is directly
facing the police station. but of the detectives
or constables heard the explosion.
W. F. H. Whittemore, oil dealers, "a Broad
street. Boston. offer their creditors cents on 81
and the offer will probably be accepted.
at an auction sale of Ferdinand Wards library
in New York yesterday the BIRDS of America,r BY
Audobon, in niue volumes, was bought by M. Bay-
ard Brown for $3.50.
Tuesday last an explosion occurred in one of the
buildings OF the Metallic Cap Company, near Be-
thayves station, Pa, the Bound Brook railroad
instantly killing g. NJ. Hughes superintendent OF
the company, aud boy named George Owens.
The snow blockade at Portland, Oregon. con.
tinues. Street cars have stopped running and no
traius have arrived there since Mondsy.
Wednesday started on the bennington
Count, Savings Bank at Bennington, VT. by some
one whose purpose it is harl to comprehend. Less
than $4,000 were withdrawn, after which conf
dence restored.
The trial of John F. Hayes of Boston who was
arraigned in the United States Court for
illegal voting resulted ia verdict of guilty on four
counts of the indictment
Charles Hathaway of the firm Of C. L. Hath
away s. Co. of Boston, widely known as manufac.
turers Of leather dressing died in Brockt0n Mass
| Wednesday night aged 60.