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The Portland daily press., 1884-10-09

Capt. Otis L. Cutler, native of Lewiston,
died at Suffern, N. Y, on Monday, at the age
OF 60 He was in business in Lowell number
OF years, leaving to enter the army which
marched against Mexico. After the war he
went to California, where he remained until
gold excitement was over. Then he returned
to Lewiston and lived at his old home several
years. His next venture was as a railrosd
contractor in Missouri, and when the war of
the Rebellion broke out he was still in the
West. During the war he was engaged in buy
ing horses for the government, and of late
years he has bsen in business as a broker on
Wall street, He made an extensive fortune.
The Portland daily press., 1884-10-09

Letters-missive have been issued for coun-
Gil to meet at the Congregational church, Oct
l4tb, TO ordain and in stall Mr.. Charles H.
Percival. Mr.. Percival has labored in Wis.
casset year with great success.
The Portland daily press., 1884-10-09

x Rise.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-04-11
CAUSED BY A SWITCHMAN.

A Railroad Employees Love of Drink
Causes One Death and Many Injuries.
BELLEvILLE, ILL.,, April About eight
o'clock last evening serious railroad acct
dent occurred here, in which one person
was killed instantly and twelve were dan
gerously wounded. AS a passenger
train on the GAINESVILLE & Nash
vile Railroad backed out of the
depot it ran through an open switch,
and the last coach was thrown down a
twenty-toot embankment 1t was found
that the switchman had abandoned the
switch for a few minutes to go into a
neighboring saloon for drink. John Com
stock had his head crushed, killing him in
stantly. The following is list of the in
lured: r. Gibbons, p. M. Anderson, j. A.
Mohrer, wife and six children; three Of the
children will probably die; John Barton,
wife and FIVE children, Miss Rosa Barton,
Annie Hoffman, G. B. Morris and wife,
James A. Larkin, Mrs. Miller, d. Nair,
j. Fl. Cross. All the injured were taken to
the Thomas House and the other hotels,
and are under the care of the Belleville
physicians. Bissell, the conductor of the
train, says that all the fault rests with the
switchman, who ran away fearing that he
would be lynched.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-04-11
A RIVER HORROR.
Fourteen Persons Lose Their Lives by the
Burning of the Steamer Rebecca Ever
ingham on the Chattahoochee River
Har0ism of the Pilots SON.

Fourteen Persons Lose Their Lives by the
Burning of the Steamer Rebecca Ever
ingham on the Chattahoochee River
Her0ism of the Pilots Son.
COLUMBUS, Ga, April Fourteen per-
sons lost their lives yesterday morning by
the burning of the steamer Rebecca Ever
ingham, Captain George Whiteside, at Fitz-
gerald Landing. on the Chattahoochee Riy-
er, forty miles below this city. The fire
originated in the stern of the steamer and it
is thought from an electric lamp spark. The
vessel had sixteen cabin and nine deck pas
sengers besides full crew. The flames
spread so rapidly that even before the men
on watch could alarm the first passengers
the whole vessel was ablaze. Many pas
sengers rushed from their cabins in their
night-cothes and succeeded in escaping by
the gang plank, though several were severe
ly burned.
Of the passengers on the boat at the time
of the fire, the following are known to be
lost or are missing: Miss Avant of Cuth-
bert; Miss Simpson, Of Fort Gaines; j. B.
Yates, of Bainbridge; w. L. Kennedy, of
Eufaulia; Julia Adams, a colored maid;
Dolph Thomas, firemen; Robert Griffin,
a steyedore; Randall Singer, Ackland; A. s.
Stephens, deck-hand; D. D. Williams, of
Lagrange; colored woman and child, names
unknown; two white men, unknown. Cap
tain George II. Whitesides, the Command
er, was painfully burned. Ali the officers
did their duty nobly, while the conduct of
the pilot, George L. Lapham, and his son,
lad of fourteen years, was specially COM
mended, they having remained on board
and materially assisted in landing the pas
sengers.
Three hundred and seven bales of cotton
and small miscellaneous freight were
burned. The boat was valued at $24, 600,
with no insurance. She belonged to the
Central line, and piled on the Chattahoochee
River between Columbus and Apolachicola
Bay on the gulf coast.
About four o'clock yesterday morning the
engineer on watch rang an alarm signal to
the pilot who called to the officers on
watch and asked if he must go to the shore.
He was at once ordered to do SO. The
pilot signaled the engineer to work for the
shore, but got no response. He then head
ed the boat for the Georgia side,
and the momentum she had carried
her almost to the banks. The pilot on
watch ordered his young son, Frank Lap
ham, youth sixteen years old, to jump
overheard with line and swim ashore and
make the boat fast to tree With unsur-
passed heroism the boy sprang into the riv-
er, struck for the shore and reached it safe
ly, and tied the boat up. LII the meantime
the fre-alarm was rang by Pilot George
Lapham, and the passengers aroused from
their sleep to find the boat in flames. All
h,,f fI1oo
GERS on the boat were heroic in the perform.
ance of their duty and suffered great peril,
and nearly all of them were wounded or
burned. The flames wrapped the boat in
their fiery embrace and seemed TO lick it
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-04-11
BLOWN UP ON LAKE ERIE.
Three Men Killed and Several Injured by
the Explosion of a Tugs Boiler.

Three Men Killed and Several Injured by
the Explosion of Tugs Boiler.
CLEVELAND, o., April 7.--About nine
o'clock Saturday night the tug Peter Smith
left this port on her first trip for the eason.
She was bound for Toledo, and had in tow
barges belonging to Patrick Smith, the
owner of the tug. She was manned
by six men-Captain, John Hob
son; Mate, Tom Dewyer; Engineers,
Perew and KadeD, and Dennis and John
Sullivan, deck hands. Captain Smith,
master of the schooner Sherman, accom-
panied the crew to aid them. About mid
night, when the tug and her tow reached
point six miles out and a short distance this
side of Black River, her engines began
working badly, and her boilers were evil
IDENTIFY suffering from some unknown
injury. The first crew, consisting of
Perew, Kaden and Captain Smith, were
on duty while the other four men
were asleep. At seven O'Clock the
tug reached Black River and headed
toward Vermilli0n, where a landing was to
be made. Shortly after this a terrible ex-
plosion was heard by those on shore, and a
cloud of black smoke could be seen on the
lake. The tug Telephone, which was lying
at Vermillion, steamed out, and shortly aft
erwards what remained of the tug Peter
Smith was reached. On the wreck were
found four men, some of them badly in
jured. and these were taken aboard the Tel
ephone. The other three men were either
killed outright or drowned, and their bodies
could not be found.
Captain Hobson escaped without a
scratch. The Peter Smith was one Of half
a dozen tugs owned by Pat Smith, of this
city. She was valued at $s,O0O and was
rebuilt and new boilers placed in her only
last summer. Another OF Smiths tugs was
sent to the scene and returned late last
night with the injured, all of whom will re-
cover.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-04-11
A FOREST IN FLAMES.

The Turpentine- Producing District of
North Carolina Swept by a Disastrous
Fire.
RALEIGH, N. c., April 5.-The greatest
fire ever known has ragged for three days
in the vast forests of yellow pine which
stretch well nigh unbroken from Sanford,
fifty miles from Raleigh to points north
west, and south sixty miles, beyond the
South Carolina border. The forests are
what are known as virgin, and from them
comes nearly all the turpentine marketed at
Wilmington, N. G.
The trees are of enormous size, and
at points where the turpentine orchards :"
are located are blazed for miles. Covered
with resin, these hundreds of thousands of
trees offered rare opportunity to four OF
five fires which broke out Tuesday morn
ing. The fires were caused by burning
brush. Before noon storm came
up. The wind blew nearly a hurricane.
In half an hour after this high wind
arose, the flames were racing like demons
through the woods. Vast masses of fire
were actually forced through the air by the
sweeping gale. The tops Of half burned
pines were thrown great distances and fell
in the middle of cleared fields. The fire
lowered to an amazing hight and so vivid
was the glare that it made all objects plain
at great distances. People were terribly
alarmed. At Blues Crossing and Keyser
they gathered in large numbers and
fought the flames with such en-
ergy and desperation that these
places escaped with little damage.
Many dozen Observation-Disclosures are COM
pletely destroyed, as we'll as large quanti-
ties of resin, turpentine, and other naval
stores. The fire has extended beyond Ham,
let into South Carolina. It's full sweep is
over distance of fifty or sixty miles. No
news of any loss of life has yet been re-
ceiyed.. Many persons have lost clothing,
and some were badly scorched by the fierce
flames. 1t is by far the most disastrous fire
ever known in the North Carolina turpen-
tine forests
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-04-11
After the Flood the Buffalo Gnat.

New ORLEANS, La, April 4.--The Mis-
sissippi continues to fall slowly from Vicks-
burg to the gulf, but is yet very high. The
fall in front of New Orleans from the high
est point reached is over foot. Planters
in the inundated parishes are now hopeful
that the overflow water will run off
in time to permit the planting of full
crop. In some sections of North Louisiana
land is beginning to be seen in spots. The
dreaded Buffalo gnat, which always follows
an overflow, has made its appearance, but
little damage has yet been done in Louisi-
ana. Thousands of working stock have
been killed in Mississippi Another week
of dry weather and the river business will
resume its ordinary course. Urgent calls
for assistance come from the inundated sec
tons, and the work for relief is being ac-
lively pushed.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-04-11
News Copyright.

CINCINNATI. O., April 5.-The Epqottre:-
says editorially: The trumpeters for the
Newspaper Copyright law subsidized for a
while, but are now at it again. 1t is graft
flying that their prospects are no better now
than they were before, and it is still more
gratifying to know that they are likely to
get worse instead of better. The press of
the country, particularly the rural press,
which would be the greatest sufferers by
such law, have been awakened to the
threatened outrage, and are talking to their
Representatives in Congress in their usual
straightforward and vigorous manner Such
a gag as is contemplated by this law is
against the North American style of doing
business, and it is pleasant to know that
a very decided smack in the face is in store
for If ,,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-04-11
THE NEWS.
Compiled from Late Dispatches.
xLYTITth Congress.

THURSDAY, April IA petition was
presented in the Senate from eight thou.
sand citizens of the Western States asking
for a pension of at least eight dollars in
money for each honorably-discharge sol
dier and sailor Of the late war. The Edu-
cational bill was further debated. In the
House joint resolution was adopted au-
thorizing the loan of flags and bunting for
the fair at Richmond in aid of disabled
Confederate veterans. The Indian Appro-
priation bill was considered.
FRIDAY, April 4. = In the Senate a
bill was reported for the appointment Of
a commission to mark the boundary line
between Indian Territory and Texas. A
petit ion was presented from the Chicago
Board of Trade against the further coin
age of silver dollars. A bill was intro
duced to authorize the reappointment
and retirement of disabled Off
GERS honorably discharged from
the regular army. A joint reso-
luton was submitted making an appropri-
tion of 500, 900 for the protection of levees
on the lower Mississippi. Speeches on the
Education bill were made. In the House
bill was reported providing for the adjust.
ment of Congressional land grants within
the borders Of Kansas. The Indian APP
preparation bill was passed. An evening
session was held for the consideration of
the pension bills.
SATURDAY, April ga bill was passed
in the Senate making it a felony to
pretend to be an officer or employee of the
Government. The Education bill was de-
bated, and several amendments were of
fered and lost, after which it was decided
to dispose of the bill on the 7th. In the
House the Agricultural Appropriation bill
was passed, with an amendment increas-
ing by $4,000 the appropriation for the
distribution of seeds and plants. Amend
ments by the Senate to the House bill
making it a felony to personate Govern
ment officer or employee were concurred in.
MONDAY, April TIN tho Senate the
Education bill, which appropriates ST.
100000, was passed-33 to 11-with amend.
ments that the amount to be distrib-
uted shall be $7,OOO,O 900 the first year, $780,.
100000 the second, and SIS, 100000 the third,
then diminishing 100000 yearly,
that all children have an equal
opportunity for education, ard that the
money shall be used only for common
schools not sectarian i'll character. In the
House a motion to suspend the rules and
pass the bill restoring the duty of 1867 on
wool was defeated by 119 to 126. A reso-
luton declaring it unwise to reduce the
tax on whisky was adopted by 179 to 33.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-04-11
LATER.

IT was announced on the Sth that Bismarck
had withdrawn from the Prussian Min
istry, giving as reasons therefor that he
was seventy years of age, his nerves were
in bad condition, and the work required
was too arduous for him to perform.
JOHN DILLMAN, who murdered his wife,
was hanged at Easton, Pa, on the 9Th.
THE jail at Cincinnati was on the 9Th
guarded by fifty extra policemen, who had
charge of the Calling gun. The manager
of the dramatic festival said many persons
were actually afraid to visit the city for
fear of being shot.
Vt, has been closed by the bark examin-
er. Speculation in stocks caused the
trouble.
A PARTY of eleven negroes from Nc
Dowell's plantation started to cross the
river at Vicksburg, Miss, on the Sth after
stock belonging to their employer. When
about half way across the skif upset and
six Of the men were drowned. The re-
mainder were rescued.
LEE, PoTTs & Co., pork-packers of Rich
mond, Va, failed on the 9Th for 5000, 1000,
and T. R. Jenkins & Sons, provision mer-
chants of Baltimore, made an assignment
for over $4,000.
A NUMBER of prominent white Republic
ans of Georgia met at Atlanta ON the 8th
and laid tho foundation for what they pro-
pose to call the Wing party of 1884.
THE Versailles CO., Exchange Bank
closed its doors ON the Sth. The losses,
about $4,000, would fall upon the stock
holders.
AN old feud between the Breen and
OConnor families, living near Junction
City, Kan. resulted in the fatal shooting
of Tim O'Connor and one of the Breens on
the Sth.
SENATOR BLAIR's Educational bill as
passed recently by the United States Sem
ate will give to Illinois schools 81, 1S5, 100;
to Iowa, Kansas and Michigan, 100000
each; and to Wisconsin, 100000.
THE New Hampshire Prohibition State
Convention met on the Sth at Manchester
and renewed fealty to the cause, declared
in favor of woman suffrage, and called for
new National party in the spirit of these
declarations.
The Arkansas Republicans met in State
Convention at Little Rock on the 9Th and
elected delegates to the National Conven-
ton favorable to President Arthur.
A LENGTHY debate on the Naval Appro.
priation bill occupied the time of the
United States Senate on the 9Th, but no
action was taken. In the House bills were
passed declaring that the Supreme Court
| of each Territory shall consist of Chief
Justice and three associates, and provid-
ing that Governors of Territories must
have been for two years residents thereof
| before their appointment.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-04-11
The East.

On the Sd the remains of the late James
H. Partridge, formerly United States Min
lister to Peru, who committed suicide in
Alicante, Spain, arrived in New York.
In the neighborhood of Shenandoah, Pa,
the mining bosses have discharged all the
Hungarians in their employ.
AT Scranton, Pa, on the Sd five Poland
ers looking for work were struck by an
engine and instantly killed.
MRS. GALE and daughter, of Loyal
Hanna, Pa, died of trichiniasis on the Sd,
and Mr.. Gale and another daughter were
not expected to recover.
GEORGE JONES, a negro lad, was hanged
at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 3D., for murder,
and John and George Stephenson were
executed at Regina, Northwest Territory
A FEW days ago Peter vigne. confined in
the lookup at Waterville, Me-, fred the
building and persisted in the flames.
AT the recent Rhode Island election
Bourn, the Republican candidate for Gov.
ernor, received majority of $500, against
1900 majority last year.
AFTER three months session the Con.
necticut Legislature adjourned sine die
on the 4th.
The other day William A. Hall, ex-
Chief Clerk of the Comptroller's Office in
New York City, was sentenced to twelve
years. Imprisonment for forgery and en-
bezzlement.
1T was reported on the 4th that many
small craft had been wrecked by a gale
which swept Chesapeake Bay the previous
three days.
EDWARD HOUSE, of Northeast, N. Y,
while firing at mark recently shot his
wife dead.
THE other morning William Buey &
Co.'s powder-mill at Shamokin, Pa, blew
up, shaking houses and breaking windows
within aradius of mile and half. Super
inteudent Young was burned beyond rec
ognition.
FIRE few days ago destroyed the st.
George apartment house at New York, a
seven-story structure occupied by fourteen
families, involving loss of $4,000. Four
iremen were seriously burned, and there
were number of narrow escapes.
THE wife of L. U. Beach, a physician,
was found dead in her home at Altoona,
Pa, on the 7th, with her throat cut. Her
husband was arrested for the crime and
confessed that he did the deed. He was
thought TO be insane.
THE failure is reported OF Pettingill &
Everett, importers and shipping mer.
chants Of Boston, for $lo2 1000,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-04-11
Three Boys Killed by an Express
Train.

CINCINNATI, April IA heartrending
accident occurred about four o'clock Satur-
day evening on the Cincinnati, Hamilton &
Dayton Railroad at Spring Grove avenue
crossing. Three boys, who are the sons of
prominent citizens, were in a one-horse
spring wagon, and attempted to cross the
track ahead of an approaching ex-
press train. They were struck
by the engine, and all of them in
stantly killed. Their bodies were fearfully
mangIed. The oldest boy, aged fourteen,
was tine son of John o. Moore, commission
merchant at 1873 West Sixth street; the
next thirteen, was the son Of j. c. Heppie,
commission merchant at 10 and A West
Second street; the last, twelve years Of age,
was the son of c. w. Mackelfresh, tin and
sheet-iron works at 15S Central avenue.
The engine doing the fatal work was 70.
II, the same which killed the six persons
last Fourth Of July at the same crossing.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-04-11
MASKED VILLAINY.
An Old Mans Family Gagged, His Son
Killed and His Money Stolen.

An Old Mans Family Gagged, His Son
Killed and His Money Stolen.
EAST TAwAs, Mich, April Friday
night three masked men went to the resi-
dence of Carl Schultz, living about three
miles from here, and taking a rail from the
fence battered In the front door. Schultz,
jumping from his bed, was knocked down
by the first robber, two others following.
The family were aroused and tried to
escape, but were pushed back and
kept in the house and badly pun
meled. They succeeded while the
robbers were ransacking a chest for gold in
escaping to neighbours. Schultz was shot
at but missed, the ball penetrating the head
of his son-in the socket of his left eye
killing him instantly. A second shot was
fired at the daughter, without injury, as a
lamp which had been burning went out. A
black cloth was over the face Of one of the
robbers and Miss Schultz tore it off. One
was large man, with short, brown mus
tache. Mrs. Schultz was badly bruised, the
daughters face cut, and Mr.. Schultz's eyes
badly pounded The inquest was adjourned
until to-day, awaiting the post-mortem.
The robbers succeeded in getting away with
2,1O0 marks in gold. They left hat and
dark lantern.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-04-11

Grand Army of the Republic. arrived at
the battle-ground of Shiloh, Tenn, on the
18th, to celebrate the twenty-secend anni-
versary of that victory.
A RECENT fire destroyed the Merchants
Bank and several stores and Offices at Pen.
sacola, Fla, few days ago.
]. w. TALLMADGE, of Milwaukee, re-
ceived reports on the 7th FROM the differ.
ent States and from Government agents to
the effect that the condition of winter
wheat was excellent, promising bounti.
full harvest.
THROUGHOUT Iowa and portions of Illi'
nois a snog-storm prevailed en- the 18th.
A FEW days ago John Hogan, hermit,
was found dead in his cabin near Tallu-
lah, Ga. In pouch strapped to his leg
was found $1,000, and large sums were
subsequently found concealed elsewhere.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-04-11
Monopoly Organized in Barbed Wire.

ST. LOUIS. No., April 4.-The Age of Steel
publishes full particulars respecting the
formation of company to control theman
facture of barbed wire in the United States
The combination embraces nearly all the
large barbed-wire manufacturers in the
country, and was incorporated under the
laws of Illinois last December with capital
stock of 100000 divided into 20, 900
shares, 1900 of which represent preferred
and $4,000 the common stock. The object
of the combination is to maintain remunera-
tive prices for barbed wire, and by having a
common purchasing agent to keep prices Of
raw material within proper bounds.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-04-11
A Wife on Short Notice.

RED WING, Mimi, April A wealthy
Scandinavian from Bismarck, D. T., ar
rived in this city this week and said he
wanted wife. At the depot he met for
the first time a gentleman to whom he
offered two hundred dollars If he would
find him wife on short notice. This friend
took him to his own house and introduced
him to his daughter. The bargain was
quickly consummated, and, as a guarantee
of good faith, the man from Dakota has
transferred forty thousand dollars worth
of Bismarck property to his intended bride.
The marriage will take place o-morro ".