The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-04-03
GENERAL NEWS.

The bedy of a man about So years Of age was
found Tuesday on Harding beach. Mass. He was
5 feet inches TALL brown hair and moustaehe and
wore god ring on his 4 tie ii ger marked r. TO NJ
He Is probably an officer or captain Of some i'll
fated vessel.
The, Connecticut House yesterday passed the
biennial session amendment TIA TO 40, tho neces-
esry two birds vte for submission to the people
The Senate mad previously passed it 20 to 1.
Yesterday In the criminal court at Washington
Judge Wylie In the case Of W. Jones charged with
assault with intont to kill Chas. j. Guiteau on
November 2lst, set April 18th as the day for the
trial refusing to enter nolle prose qui
Information has been received at the head
quarters OF the army, from the United States Con-
sui Gen raj at sIatamoras concerning the paches
t. Nor, bern Mexico which ter DIS to Strengthen the
lief that httle Charley McCornac was KILLED by
about 20 Juc 8.
A out six inches of snow fell throughout Ontario
IuesdaS night. At London cold east wind pre-
Wallet all day. About o'clock driving binding
snow squail set In accompanied by out pc lis of
thund and remarkably vivid lightning The
storm lasted all the evening.
A large number of Northern men are in North
Carolina looking for homes and desirable invest
msnts.
Zukertort won eight out of twelve games of chess
which he played biindfold in Pittsburgh on Monday
The lower Mississippi has risen niLe inches in
two days, and the extent of the flooded district is
increasing.
Gen. Butler has accepted an invitation to deliver
an CRATIC on Decoration Day at the Academy of
Music In New York city.
Harry Eichelberger fell into an iron tank con-
tanning 900 barrels of oil at Bradford Pa. Tues
day, q was drowned.
Queen Victoria has expressed through Minister
Lowell her thanks TO the President for his express
sion OF sympathy on account of the death of the
Duke OF Albany.
Charles Dunn, boarder at the Hawthorne
House, N H., found dead In bed yesterday
forenoon from gas poisoning. Dunn aged co. q
native of Dover, and leaves two sons at North An
dover.
J. F. Randall Postmaster at Newcastle, KY, is a
defaulter to the amount of $500 and has disappear
ed government agent Is In possession Of the
Congressional district committee met In Newbury-
port yeste' day forenoon and called convention to
meet at NewburyporG May 14th to elect delegates
to the National conveL tion.
G. Welmers, alias Schubert. resident of Hous-
ton, Texas for the past year, has been arrested,
charged with embezzIng see, 20 while treasurer
Oh 81. Clair county Illinois 1t is alleged that he
left wife In Illinois but married again in Houston.
The New Hampshire Greenback State convention
Will be held at Manchester Sept. lst
The liabilities OF Seymour. Lyman & Gulan of
Hew York cit wholesale toy merchants, are $172,-
$685. actual assets $50 ,634.
Seven trackmen we're badly hurt at Wernersville
Pa, Tuesday night by the evrrturning Of their hand
car which they had hitched TO fast express train.
Anthony O'Donnell Of Pittsburg, Pa. will shortly
enter suit against the Guion Steamship Company
tor 100000 damages. Mr. O'Donnell alleges that
his wife who took passage in the steamship ArizoAa
died from neglect while en- route to America.
The Typographical Union of Toronto, Ont, has
petitioned Parliament to enact law restricting
Chinese emigrating TO Canada.
At meeting of directors of the Chicago & North
Western Company in New York, yesterday. there
was discussed proposition to absorb he Blair sys-
tenn of roads now leased by the company and to
issue 1914, 000, 900 common stock represent the
same. The matter was finally lodged with COM
mittee for action
There is probability that the trial of Samon, tn
Laconia, N H., murderer, will not be resumed this
term owing to an examination being made by DIR.
Bancroft OF Concord, pertaining to Samon's sanity
at this time and at the time of the murder last TALL
Crowds of people have been in attendance during
the week to witness Samon's trial.
The river at Bismarck, Dakota is falling steadily
Advices from Buford report long fields of heavy
ice there but the outlook Is more hopeful.
Moses Davis of Concord N. f., a veteran Of the
war of 1872, died yesterday, aged SO.