The Portland daily press., 1885-08-11
Foreign Notes.
GENERAL NEWS.

Steamer Zelandia arrived at San Francisco
yesterday with Maxwell, the murderer of
Prellon, on board.
At Carrolton, Mo-, Saturday, David Mark
les shot his divorced wife, and then blew out
his own brains.
Saturday evening George Miller, an insane
man, stabbed several persons in PlttSburg,
Pa. and then inflicted fatal wound upon
himself
At Usage Mission. Kansas, Sunday, the
Jury returned verdict of guilty in the case
of Mrs. Franklin Morris, on trial for the
murder of her mother.
Lucy Anna Sweet, II years of age, and
Crawford Allen Smith, 21 years old, of
Smithfield, R. l., were drowned while bath
ing at PawtuXet yesterday.
The liabilities of Chas. N. Carter & Co.,
cloak manufacturers and dealers in furs,
&C., IS Winter street. Boston, are about
$162, ,775, of which $33, ,02S is secured. The
unincumbered assets consist Of about $780,
600 in money.
At Frankfort, KY, yesterday a fire de-
stroyed a block of buildings including the
business houses of Sol Harris, Somer and
Owler, Peter Sawyer and E. III. Taylor q
Co. Loss $4,000.
The. biennial meeting of the subsidiary
high court of the Ancient Order of Foresters
of the United States is now being held in
Detroit, Mich. There are fully 5000 persons
in the city who have come to the meeting
DR.. VIM. Wood of East Windsor, Conn, a
prominent physician of Hartford county,
died Sunday, aged 63 years. He was one of
the most widely recognized authorities on
ornithology in the country and had very
valuable collection of birds and eggs.
Albert r. Herrick, liquor merchant of
No. 60 Williams street, whose family were
absent from home, was shot at his residence,
No. 239 Pearl street. Brooklyn, N. Y, yes
terday afternoon, and died from his wound
soon after.
-Four of the Mexicans who participated in
the notorious train robbery on the Mexican
National railroad. eighteen miles west of
Nuvo Laredo, in February 1888, have been
convicted and condemned to death by the
Mexican courts, and will be shot
During a thunder storm which passed over
Rock Rapids, Iowa, and vicinity, Sunday, a
farm house about 20 miles south of the town
was struck by lightning and all the inmates,
who were John Mcguire, his wife and three
children, were killed.
Col. Carroll d. Wright states that a rough
estimate of the population of Massachusetts
based on the returns which have been re
ceived for the census of 1885, will make the
number of inhabitants of Massachusetts l, :
$4,000, a gain of about 100000 on the United
States census of 1880.
During the firing of national salute
Saturday night at Paris ILL.,, a premature
discharge of a cannon killed Spencer Jones,
tore one arm off Henry Flint, chief of the
fire department, and badly wounded the
other. Mike Wagner was also seriously in
jured.
A curious fly has appeared in Franklin,
Mass, which is causing a good deal of
speculation. The insects gather in patches
from the size of silver dollar to eight
inches in diameter on trees. There are from
one to 90 patches ON single tree. They run,
but do not flV although the large ones have
long wings. As yet the trees do not appear
to be injured.
Captain John M. Farshey, of the Calves
ton, Texas, artillery, died suddenly Sunday
morning from congestion of the brain. He
was forty years old Capt. Farshey personal
ly supervised the firing of the salutes on
Saturday in memory of Gen. Grant, and
through the exposure and excitement in
cident to the occasion contracted the trouble
which resulted in his death.