The Portland daily press., 1870-04-23
News by the Lntest Nails.

News by the Lntest Nails
Thomas Crambisk and John G. Toy have
been held in Boston as principal aud accom-
pills to the murder Of Philip Houghton.
The United States Hotel at Warsaw, N. Y,
was burned Friday morning. Loss $1,000;
insured for $4,000.
Capt James r. Wheeler, U. S. Consul at
Kingston, Jamaica, died there April 9Th, of
congestion of the brain. Capt. w. was Lieu
tenant on board the Kearsarge when she sunk
the Alabama.
Albert s. Joselyn, sentenced in October last
to imprisonment for life for rape on an old la
dy in Lexington, Mass, and subsequently re-
clared insane and removed to the asylum at
Worcester, made his escape from the latter in
stitution several weeks since. He was discov-
cred Thursday in North Woburn He fired a
pistol on the officers sent to arrest him, when
be was shot by one of them, dying in a few
minutes.
The Washington Territory Republican Con-
vention met at Vancouver Friday and S. r.
| Garfield was unanimously nominated for Con-
gress.
| The schooner Champion was wrecked in
shoal water in Oregon Bay, and the captain
and two seamen were drowned
| The fall of pile of lumber in the yard Of
Angel & Steere in Providence Friday, caused
the death of Gilbert w. Steere, one of the firm,
and Simon w. Head an employee, both young
married men. A son of Corporal Castellane,
| aged four years, was drowned in we'll at Fort
| Adams on Monday.
The roofing works of Van Ordenon in New
York were burned with ZOO rolls of feltipg;
loss $8000-Wm. Welsh was arrested Thurs
day night for fatally beating Jane Collins last
week.-The building No. Broadway, occu-
pied by number of insurance companies and
Anceas billiard saloon, was damaged to the
amount of $4,000 by fire Thursday night Two
oclored dOmesties had narrow escape from
uffocation.-Charles Smider cut his wife's
throat and his own at Middletown, N. Y. He
had just returned from serving out sentence
in the State Prison, and was drupk.-Thomas
HallOran was arrested at Morristown, N. j.,
Thursday for numbering his wife on Wednes-
| day.-The New York police arrested number
of roughs while enjoying dog fight at Reddy
| the Blacksmith's saloon.
The Orleanists tnink that the Duke of Mont.
| pensier's chances for the throne are improved
| by his duel with Prince renri of Bourbon.
On the arrival Of train from the United
States at Montreal Thursday evening four men
| were arrested on suspicion Of Fenianism. The
| prisoners say they were returning to Quebec
from the States, where they had been working
| during the winter They were arrested under
the late act suspending the habeas corpus,
on the representations of Quartermaster Nc
Phail of the 51st battalion, at Heminsford
who travelled with them from the frontier.
A Quebec dispatch gays that the volunteers
are still under arms and drill twice day. both
here and at Point Levi. The muster rolls are
nearly filled. The Meganties and Quebec
battalions have offered their services for the
Red River expedition, with the understanding
that they shall be accepted intact as voun-
teers
The steamship Dorian, which arrived at New
York Friday from the Mediterranean, reports
that on the 10th inst, lat. 37 Ion. 70, she saw
a vessel on fire, supposed to be steamer,
burned to the waters age. A boat was launched
and pulled to her, but could learn nothing OF
the vessel or circumstances.
The French army, which has never voted be.
fore, is to vote on the plebisctum.
1t is reported in Madrid that duel has re-
Gently taken place between Gen. Prim and
Admiral Topete, the particulars of which have
been carefully kept from the public. General
Prim has certainly been suffering recently
from slight wound, and the story of the duel
which is generally discredited, probably arose
| from this Circumstance.
A London dispatch says the Fenians are un-
usually active Seizure of arms and other wal
material were made yesterday at Manchester
and Newcastle. Members of the Fenan or
the Office of the Pail Mall Gazette on account OF
the vigorous course taken by that journal in
favor of enforcing the law for the preservation
OF life and property in Ireland. The proprie-
tors of the Gazette called upon the police au-
rhorities for protection, aud every night since
that time heavy force has patrolled Craven
Northumberland and other streets in that vi
cinity. A house in that neighborhood is sup
posed to be the base of the Fenian operations
and is consequently closely watched.
The Fenian Congress in New York had an
animated debate Thursday over the PROPOSE
tions from the Chicago delegation for harmo-
nious union of the two factions. During the
discussion Major Fitz Patrick declared that the
proper way to deal with the Chicago delega.
tion would be to sling them out of the window
and Major Lindsay announced that one Irish.
man could whip hundred Canadians and
that the Fenians were going to do it. The de.
bate developed strong feeling in favor of an
| Immediate raid into Canada FT