The Portland daily press., 1884-11-29
NERAL NEWS.

Coal sheds on Cottage street. Boston. fell yester-
day and buried two men. 1t will take two days to
reach them and it is not thought they are alive
-Four men all under twenty, belonging to gang
of burglars knownsuDder the title ofthe Young Buz
zsrds' gang were arrested Wednesday night at Leb-
anon, Pa. Stolen goods valued at nearly 81 900
were secured.
report has reached Baltimore that t9eorse Rris-
coe, negro, was lynched Wednesday night at New
Bridge. He charged with robbery and when
delivered TO the constable to be taken to Jail at An
napolis, a crowd waylaid the constable took Bris-
coe and hung him.
The business failures for the last seven days in
the United States were 222, in Canada 27, total
of 249. This is decrease of % as compared with
last week.
The Howe Sewing Machine Company works at
Bridgeport, Conn., shut down Wednesday night un-
til January ]. About 800 hands were thrown out
of employment
The official count of the vote for Presidential can
didates in Wisconsin gives Blaine 16 LAT; Cleve-
land lac, ,454; St. John 7.649 Butler 1857;
Blaine's plurality is thus shown to be Ia, 1893.
The deputation appointed by the Montreal carni-
val committee to wait upon President elect Ceve-
land and tender him an nvation to attend the car
niyal will leave for Albany next week.
VIM Barss, farmer of Chester, warren!co county
New York, was called to bis door Wednesday night,
seized by two mask ed men and bound They then
placed reyolvers at his head and compelled him to
give up his gold watch, after which they searched
The house and secured $500.
The national bank of Middletown New York has
failed and Its doors were closed YESTERDAY morning
Inc Iauule was caused Dy It's president, Thomas
King, p no accepted large drafts from Benjamin ID.
Brown grain dealer of Indianapolis Indiana and
Burlington, Iowa, without security. Mr. Brown
has made an assignment. The capital of the bank
was $780, 900 and the surplus S115,OO0. The ex-
tent of the loss is not yet definitely known. The
depositors will probably lose othiDg.
Mr.. syobh r. Goodwin, an old empleye of the Bos-
ton and Lowell Railroad and for the past nineteen
years Station Agent and Postmaster at Wilmington
was instantly killed yesterday morning while shack
ling cars in the depot yard. He very popular
ana efficient public servant, aud will be greatly
missed,
]. e. BroWnsoa, Of Montgomery Mass, indig-
naltly denied the sensational yarn printed about
himself N which it was said that he stood by his
wife and watched her die from the effects of dose
of Paris green sne bad taken. He says he exerted
himse'' hV every possible means hand to avoid
the fatal consequences.
The publisher of "Mark Twain's" new book offers
$500 reward for the conviction of the person who
tampered with of the illustrations. II the edi
ton had been printed wth tbs altered picture loss
of $25, 600 would have occurred.
1t is reported that Nancy Miller a widow living
south of Vandalia, Ill, who was in ill health and
destitute, thursday poisoned herself and Two chill
dren. All three are dying
Hon. Thomas @. Franklin, attorney general of
Pennsylvania under GoyernoIs Johnston aud Pol
lock- died in Lancaster Pa, last evening, aged IT,
Mr.. Franklin was delegate to the peace conYen-
tion in Washington in 1861
The relatives OF Carrie j. Welton, the Waterbury
Ct, girl who was frozen to death on Pixies Peak
have decided to contest her will on the ground OF
mental uusouadnesss