The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-09-14
GENERAL NEWS.

The wheat and oat crops in the vicinity of Que
bee are far short Of those of last year.
The funeral services over the remains of the
late Rear Admiral John W. Livingston, U. S. N,
took place in New York yesterday afternoon at
Grace church nterment was in Greenwood.
d. w. Frazer, for twelve years auditor of
yesterday in the rear of his store at Pierre City.
Chinese are suspected of having committed the
crime.
The secretary of the Grant monument fund in
New York Saturday, sent brass memorial tablet
OF the General to the Mayor of Gaena, ILL.,, which
will be placed in the CITY Hall or some of the
public buildings there
Capt. Anderson of Pottsville, Pa, chief of the
coal and iron police of that district, pronounces
the report from Shamokin, describing the alleged
laWleSSneSS and terrorism prevailing in that re-
gion absolutely baseless.
A locomotive and caboose on the Lexington g.
Southern .branch of the Missouri Pacific went
through bridge into the Little Usage river near
Pleasant Hill, Mo-, yesterday and engineer Fred
Karland Fireman P.sMcHanney were drowned
A large meeting of Irish-American citizens was
held in Cincinnati last evening, at which Judge
Fitzgerald presided. Several hundred dollars
were subscribed and $5080 were pledged to the
parliamentary fund and to secure home rule for
Ireland.
The corner stone of ST. Gregory's Roman Catho-
lie church in the northwestern section of Balti-
more, Nd, was laid yesterday afternoon in the
presence of fully 10000 persons Archbishop
Gibbons officiated and afterwards preached in the
chapel adjoining.
Geo. Marchiton of Albany, on the Modoc train
at GAINESVILLE; N. H., aWoke from sound sleep
and went to the car door. Before he was thor
oughly awakened he stepped off the train and was
dangerously hurt He has been deirious ever
since the accident.
In the Superior Criminal Court in Boston, Satur-
day, an Indictment in three counts was found
against Frank Mitchell, the husband of Ellen
Mitchell, sections of whose remains were found
floating in Boston harbor at different times and
places in July last.
Geo. Krumsiek of Worcester, Mass, was work.
ing on a heavy boiler on skids in Aliens boiler
Saturday N
in position for chopping it, when one of the skids
came down. letting the full weight of 5000 pounds
drop on the boys hip. His leg was badly crushed.
At Gainesville, Texas Friday morning, Charles
A. Taylor, a. young lawyer, became involved in a
difficulty with Henry Vesey, bar tender in the
pistols. resulting in the death of Taylor. Fesey
escaped and aposse is hunting for him.
A stage robbery is reported from near 40 Mile
Ranch, Montana, Friday night. Three. masked
men stopped the stage and secured the Wells
Fargo treasure box with 5000, en- route from Fort
Custer to Fort Mckinney; $4,000. government
money for the troops had been sent through only
a day or two before.
Fire yesterday morning at Nashua N. H., de-
stroyed the car house and contents of the Nashua,
Acton & Boston railroad, used as a StorehouSe by
the Nashua Bobbin and Shuttle Company, and the
adjoining shed containing IA empty Boston &
Lowell freight cars. Several tenements adjoining
were considerably damaged. Total loss $4,000.
Peter DAILY, Thomas Fitzpatrick and David j.
Naughton were arrested in New York yesterday
and held for trial. They are charged with having
blown out the front of Garry BrotnerS' store WITH
dynamite on February 1st. They were employed
in the store and it is said there had been diSSatis-
faction among the clerks
Captain John Livers U. S. a., retired, died sud
denly of apopleXy i'll Boston Saturday night, aged
rs years He was native Of Maryland, enlisted
in the regulars in 1928, served in the Creek, Sem
mole and Mexican wars and during the Mormon
trouble in 1857 During the war OF the rebellion
he was quartermaster at Fortress Monroe from
1862 to 1865
Mrs. E. A. Garfield, wife of an artist in Hast
ings, n. Y, was accidentally shot Friday night
and died at o'clock Saturday morning, Mr.. and
Mrs Garfield were about to retire. There was a
pistol under Mr.. Canfeld's pillow, and when he
pulled off the coyerd the pistol fell on the floor
and was discharged, the shot striking Mrs. Cam
field in the neck. Internal hemorrhage caused
sutfocation and death.
Margaret Imhoff of Toledo, o., has begun legal
proceedings to establish her title to greater por-
ton Of that section of Detroit, Mich, known as
the Dequlndre farm, valued at several millions OF
| dollars. The plaintiff claims to be lineal de-
| scendant Of Anthoine and Catherine Dequindre,
the founders Of the old Detroit French family OF
| that name to whom the United States government
| granted the land in question in 1907.
About 1870 O'Clock Saturday night Lewis Fon-
tame, a French Canadian, 80 years of age, en-
| ployed by the Bay State Brick Company in Cam
| bridge, Mass. rushed into his boarding house and
! WIN D0th hands pressed upon his abdomen eX-
| clalmed, That last blow has killed me-" He
| then tell to the floor and soon expired. Fontaine
is said to be of temperate habits and the prevail
ing theory is that he was assaulted for the pur-
| pose OF robbery.