The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-02-11
GENERAL NEWS.

The O'Dcnnell monument fund now amounts
to over $4,000.
Maxwell B. Ochltree of Wilmington, Del,
died SATURDAY from dose OF carbolic acid
taken by mistake for dose of assafoetida pre-
scribed by his physician.
Hon. Mr. Tallior was Saturday elected to
th. Quebec LEGISLATURE from the eastern divi-
sion of Montreal.
Walter j Hapqood, for II years assist ant
cashier of the Central National Bank in Wor-
cester. Mass, died OF pneumonia Saturday, sf-
ter weeks illness.
The N4w York police SATURDAY. arrested two
men accused OF the murder of james Young,
which occurred ten years ago in beer saloon
Of that city. The names of the accused are
Mickael Buckley and james Sheehan.
despatch from London announces the
death of Cetewayo, the famous Zlu chieftain,
who is said to have dird of heart disease.
There were 203 deaths in Boston last week.
Movements of shipping through Long Island
and Vinyard Sounds, ana from Cape Cod to
the Eastern shores have been seriously inter-
fered with the past week by dense fogs.
Mr.. Ringe. Secretary of the UnIed States
Plate Glass Insurance Company of Pennsyl-
vania. the COMPANY which Commi sioDer Tar
box refused authority to do business in Massa-
chusetts, has preferred charges sgsinst Com
missioner Tsrbox for his alleged injustice to
his pany.
Peter Carlson and SON, at LNgan, Utah, were
buried in snow slide Friday. Both were
found dead. Many passengers are snow bound
on the Rio Grande Road.
The old ship New Orleans, recently sold by
the government to New York parties, while
being dlsmantled on the stocks at Sacke IS
Harbor, collapsed Saturday morning Oae
man was instantly killed and three seriously
injured.
Two burglars attempted Friday Bight to
break into the residence of Captain j. H. Bos-
sier at Myertown, Penn and one Of them was
shot aud G. ptnred.
Two attempts to rob passengers on the Guern
sey cabs were made at Chicago Thursday
night by masked men.
A gasoline explosion in Bridgeport, Ohio,
drug store Saturday, resulted in burning a
block OF ten buildings. Loss $50 600
The end of the first week of the Fall River,
Mass, strikes finds thirteen mills shut down
and 600 operatives idle.
A collision occurred Saturday between two
freight trains on the Chicago, Burlington &
Qaiucy railroad, on br dge near Hawthorne,
Iowa, Conductor Cummings was killed and en-
gineer Kennedy severely ipjnred.
The fire in the Standard o works at Hunt
er's Point not SO destructive as at first sup
posed. Several tanks were Destroyed and some
small frame buildings on the dock on Hunters
Creek were a so burned, but the loss will not
exceed $50 900.
man who registered as Ernest Gunther OF
Pot m >uth, N. H., was arrested after des-
perate struggle, in liquor saloon In jersey
titv, N. j., Saturday evening" He bad stolen
$246 and was making his escape when the sa-
loon keeper and two others fought him until
officer arrived.
Fifty dealers at the Chicago stock yards who
last year handled S200.000000 worth Of cattle
have forwarded to Washington a protest
against the bill TO establish a bureau of auimal
industry.
Rev. Silas Smith, colored preacher of Mob
ery, Mo-, has been sentenced TO five years inn
prisonmeut for instigatipg the burning of
colored Baptist church in that city last Sep
tember.
The funeral of the late A. S. Matthews ex-
superintendent of the New York, Providence
and Boston railroad was held yesterday after
noon in the Congregational church at Storiug-
ton, in the presence of an immense concourse
of people including 700 employees of the railroad
cOmDduY.