The Portland daily press., 1885-09-21
GENERAL NEWS.

Saturday the grand total of the Grant monument
fund, in New York, reached $79915.
The family of Hon. Mr.. Tallmedge of Des
Moines, Ia, has fallen heir to an estate in Eng
land worth $1,500,000
At Creedmore, N. " SATURDAY., the interstate
militia match was won by the Pennsylvania team,
who scored 1914; Massachusetts I'd, with $50.
TlThe Mexican Congress has decided that deputy
Omaha, who shot the American, Hardie, must be
tried for murder.
The extensive ice houses of I. S. Habinger &
Co., in Fargo Village Mass, were consumed by
fire yesterday. Thirty thousand tons of ice are
lost.
An neendiary fire in Weymouth Mass, Satur-
day night, destroyed the lumber yard of j. b.
Rhines & Co. Loss about 100000; partially in
Sured.
Andrew Jerrenge, farmer living near Marion,
Ind, was murdered Saturday night His wife and
a son have been arrested on suspicion of having
committed the crime.
The conservation of Rev. jeremiah O'Sullivan,
pastor of ST. Peters Catholic church of Washing
ton as Bishop of the Diocese of Mobile, Alabama,
took place at that church yesterday.
William Bedford, an old citizen of Evansville
Ind, and well known in racing circles throughout
yesterday, by mad bull, and will probably die.
Miles county, Dakota, has been all burned over
by the prairie fires raging there, and the losses of
grain, nay and buildings will amount to several
thousand dollars The fire is supposed to have
been started by Indians.
At Bismarck, D. T., Saturday, the jury in the
Marquis DE Mores' murder trial, returned a ver-
dict OF not guilty. The jury was composed of
leading business men of the city, and the verdict
Is regarded as just one.
Some 300 of the employees of the Cleveland, o.,
Rolling Mill Company, who struck twelve weeks
backbone of the strike is broken, and the mills
will probably resume operation this week.
Samuel B: Waugh of Philadelphia, died in Mil
waukee, Wis, Saturday. He was one of the emil
nent artists of America, and probably the oldest.
He was born in Pennsylvania in 1910. The re-
mains will be taken to Philadelphia.
AT Hunters Point, L. L., fire early yesterday
mans three-story frame dwelling at Green Point.
when the flames were eXtlnguished the body of
Mrs. Brennan was found on the second fioar.
-Four men were out sailing yesterday on lake
in FoXbOro, Mass, when their boat eapsiZed and
Two OF them-William Riley and Thos. Monahan-
were drowned. The latter had brother frozen
to death on the same lake last winter.
A child in Dover, n H., yesterday, died Of
dlphtheria, and the attending physician notified
the board OF health of the fact in such manner
thai tp the report was soon widely circulated that
small pox was raging in the town. There was
quite panic for short time.
Cyrus Small was Saturday night appointed to be
superintendent of the Boston police, TO I'LL the
vacancy 9amy caused rS by the retirement OF sa samuel
inspector, 70 ill the vacancy caused by the re-
moval of William Ham.
1t has just been learned that Thomas Hubbell,
VINO lived near Toledo, o., and was thirteen years
ago, as was supposed, died and was buried, is
alive and intends to visit his old home. 1t seems
that his grave was robbed and the body sent to q
Michigan medical college where it was discovered
the man was alive His mind, however, was
aIIected and he was placed in an insane asylum:
He could not then tell anything about himself, but
has now recovered his senses
The steamship Republic of the White Star Line.
coHlded with the steamer Aurania Of the Cunard
Company Saturday in Gidney's channel. Both
vessels We're outward bound. The Republic had
her stem broken off about two feet above the
water nne, while the Aurania was damaged on
her port counter. The Aurania lowered a boat to
ascertain the extent of the Republics damage and
shortly afterwards proceeded on her voyage. The
Republic returned to New York.