The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-01-14
GENERAL NEWS.

Eli Ketchum, farmer of Grant county, In
diana, shot and killed John Lemon, Friday.
Family trouble was the cause.
The war department has been informed that
the mental condition of General Mackenzie,
who was injured by exposure to severe wealth
er, is considerably improved
The remains of Herr Lasker, started for Eu-
rope Saturday on the steamer Neckar.
1t showed at High Point, North Carolina
and vicinity nearly all last week. Friday
night another storm set in and the ground was
covered to depth of from 10 to l5 inches on a
level.
Jeremiah R. Knight Of Providence, r. l.,
vas arrested Friday night for drunkenness.
Saturday while waiting in an ante-room
of the police court the door opened suddenly
and he fell over backward, fractured his SIX ull
aud died
An Odd Fellow visiting card found in a
dead mans pocket saved the body of Massa-
chusetts member of the order from being
placed in pauper's grave in Minneapolis,
MINI.
A plot to burn the Forster grammar school
house in Somerville, Mass, while the forenoon
session was in progress, was discovered BY the
jAnitor Saturday afternoon. A fire was found
briskly burning in the south side of the base
ment in some Rubbish papers and near the
wood wood. The jaRiter succeeded in exiiu-
gushing the fire.
JanoS ObaITs cOuuuCtOE Oh H0lgnt
train, was killei at Windsor vt,
Saturday morning while making up a train
He slipped and fell between the cars and his
neck was broken. He resided at White
River junction, was about 30 years old and mar
ried, with one child.
VIM. Mesgber, aged 45, fell 10 feet from a
second story doorway in Woonsocket, r.
Friday afternoon, striking on his head and
side. He was taken up paralyzed and uncen-
scious, and died In three hours. He was mar
ried last Thanksgiving day.
An order published at Ottawa in regard to
importation OF swine for breeding purposes
provides that they shall come from the West
ern States through Canadian quarantine at
Point Edward, where they shall remain for q
days,
Nothing had been heard of the whereabouts
of Mr.. Delmonico up to midnight Saturday
ank his friends have given up all hopes Of
finding him alive.
The schools in Contoocook, N. H., are all
closed in consequence of an epidemic.
The fftieth anniversary of the ordination of
Cardinal McClosky was celebrated Saturday
at the Cathedral in New York, with all the
pomp and magnifcence that is peculiar to such
festivities OF the Roman Catholic Church.
Information has been received from Sweden,
that by new law which went into effect Jan.
/, the stamp tax on drafts drawn in Sweden
has been greatly reduced.
John Mcdonald, young man residing in
the Boston Highland district was Saturday
morning probably fatally beaten about the
head by four men who robbed him of one dollar
and ten cents
John William Wallace, president of the
Pennsylvania Historical Society, died at his
residence in Philadelphia, Saturday, aged 6S
years.
Charles B. Staples of Taunton, Enos w.
Carver, and Mary M. Carver of Lakeville,
Mass, charged with the murder of Patrick
Carlln OF the latter town ON Sunday, Dec. 30th
were committed to Jail SATURDAY afternoon to
await the action of the grand jury.
Judge Wallace, Saturday afternoon, held an
inquest on the body of Henry Barton, fatally
assaulted on the evening of Dec. 22d1at dance
at the house of one Hurst in Shirley, Mass,
by M. H. Gately. The verdict was that Bar
ton came to his death by wounds over the left
eye where he struck with a fiat iron thrown by
Gately.