The Portland daily press., 1885-09-28
GEN ERAL NEWS.

A case Of small pox has been discovered in
Maynard, Mass.
Harry Tattnall, the noted landscape artist died
in Wilmington, Del, Saturday night.
Thirty.two deaths from small pox occurred in
Montreal yesterday.
The yacht Puritan arrived at Marblehead Mass
early yesterday morning from New York.
Ex-Gov. Talbot, of Lowell Mass, was slightly
more comfortable yesterday, and his physicians
feel encouraged.
and 529 West 22d street. New York city, was this
morning destroyed by fire. Loss 100000.
The business portion of the town OF Bucking-
ham, ILL.,, comprising % two-story frame buildings
was burned Saturday morning. Loss $4,000.
Sir Richard Sutton and Sir William Levnge, of
the cutter Genesta, sailed Saturday morning for
Europe from New York.
The excitement in Indiana over the forged town
ship orders is growing daily as fresh revelations
are made Another batch, amounting to SIS, 900,
has come to light.
The Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows, after being
in session in Baltimore since Monday, adjourned
Saturday afternoon, sine die. 1t will meet next
year in Boston
The large mill of the ContoocoolS Manufactur.
ing & Mechanics Company, at PenacOok, N. H.,
which has been stopped since Jan. 1st, viii start
up with 200 operatives Oct. 1st
Mrs. James Brown, of Troy, n. ", soon after
rising Saturday, said that she was near DEATH and
she returned to bed and died few moments after
wards She was aged 1o5 years and months
5.
on the railroad track Saturday, when spark from
a passing locomotive set fire to her clothing and
she was burned to death.
Lucius Parker the Oldest of Connecticut's man
ufacturers of cotton cloth, died yesterday in
North Manchester, Conn, at the age of II, from
softening OF the brain.
Nora o'Brien, aged 20, a lodging house keeper,
at No. 20 Rochester street, Boston, was thrown
down stairs and instantly killed Saturday night by
Bridget HennesSey, one of her dodgers, who was
drunk Mrs. Hennessey has so far escaped
Hon. Levi P. Morton ex-minister to France and
Alfred Smith, the millionaire real estate agent
to present Newport r., l., with land for public
park. Each mans gift will amount to between
$4,000 and 100000.
Two intoxicated men in St. Louis, Mo-, Satur-
day, fought bloody duel and both fell dead. They
clasped their left hands, while with revolvers in
their right hands they emptied the barrels into
each others bodies.
Rock, in New York harbor but owing to many OF
the cases of dynamite being spoiled by corrOding
they VIII nave TO be replaced by others, and the
explosion has been postponed two weeks.
The First Congregational Society of Meriden,
Conn.,, the largest and most important of this de-
nomination in Connecticut, yesterday voted at a
special meeting to extend call to Rev. DIR. Mears
OF Worcester Mass.
last ended. AT meeting held last night the lead
ers declared the strike off. The announcement
will be started today at June prices. The strike
was inaugurated July 1st.
A lad, Is years old, named Michael picket, was
with other boys building bonfire in East Sagi-
nav, Mich, near his home Saturday evening, when
Jacob Steubenvall came along and ordered the
boys to stop and they not doing so he shot and in
stantly killed Picket. Steubenvall has been ar
rested.
At Goes Station, three miles from Xenia o.
Mrs. Parsons missed her four-year-old daughter
Friday evening. Making search she found the
child's dead body beneath a bull dog that had
killed the child and was eating its flesh. The dog
had to be killed before the childs body could be
recovered
Ter, went TO his boarding house Saturday, intoxi-
Gated. While eating his dinner, he took big
mouthful of sweet potato, which stuck in his
throat and choked him to death before medical
aid could be summoned.
Judge Waldo Coburn, of the Supreme Judicial
Court, died Saturday morning, of heart trouble at
his residence in Dedham Mass. He was born in
Dedham, Nov. 18th, and was commissioned by
Gov Long Nov. 10, 1882. He was regarded as
one of the ablest, most successful and popular
judges of that commonwealth.
Anna Drinker a well known authoress who
wrote under the nom-de-plume of Edith Nav 81
has been released from the State insane asylum at
Harrisburg, Pa, where she had been confined for
ten years, and is now an inmate of the Gonzales
cents Retreat, near Green Mills Delaware coln-
ty. She formerly occupied high position in liter
ary and social circles in Philadelphia, New York
and Washington. After writing her best poems
she lost her reason.
In the United States Circuit Court for the South
ern district of New York, at Syracuse, Saturday
Judge Wallace denied the application of the
Western Union Telegraph Company for prelimi-
nary injunction to restrain the Baltimore & Ohio
Telegraph Company for infringing upon the sec
ond claim OF reisSued letters patent granted to
Joseph r. Stearns, assigned to the complainant
for duplex telegraph apparatus. The Judge holds
that it is the duty Of the court to DENY preliminary
relef and to leave complainant to the ordinary re-
lief at the final hearing.