Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-02-10
NEWS By MAI.

The lower branch of the New Jersey legis-
lature, Wednesday morning. ratified the fif-
teenth amendment.
William Wickers, a farmer of Bangor,
Wisconsin, was shot dead by the sheriff while
resisting arrest.
The appointment of Blancque Bey as Tur-
kish minister to Greece, causes painful i'm
preston in Athens.
About twenty-five East Indiamen are on
the way to Boston from Calcutta, Manila,
China, Japan, Batavia, Padang, Arabia and
various other places. These vessels have i'm
mense cargoes of India goods Of all quslities.
On Monday night 1923, 900 in drafts and
checks, stolen from the messenger of the
Chatham National Bank, were found under
grating in Broadway, New York, where the
thief had evidently thrown them.
Further particulars of the terrible disaster
on the Hudson River Railroad swell the prob
able number of victims to twenty-five. The
railroad company did very little to help the
sufferers, and the conduct of the employees
was brutal in the extreme. The coroner's in
quest was begun Wednesday
II. A. Bogardus, after defeating John Tay-
on Tuesday, shot seventy-three birds in six
minutes thirty-Seven and half seconds. Tin
ker of Providence, was unable to fulfil his
engagement with Bogardus and Taylor was
his substitute.
In the Senate, Wednesday, the resolutions
OF the Oregon legislature rejecting the fif-
teenth amendment were presented. Consid-
cradle discussion ensused on the presentation
OF remonstrance from North Carolina
against the removal of Ex-Governor Vance's
political disabilities. A debate on the subject
of mixed schools in the District of Columbia
followed. In the House of Representatives
bills were reported for the removal of the
Brooklyn, kittery or Charlestown navy yards
or either of them. After some debate a bill
authorizing the arrning of a body of troops for
| Indian warfare in Texas was laid on the table.
Mr.. Hoar's bill was then taken up and de-
bated.
Samuel S. Stevens, who was tried and con-
victed at the December term of General Ses-
sions in New York, before Recorder Hackett,
on charge of grand larceny, he having
stolen $l1 900 in bonds from the Mayor Of
Belfast, Maine, hung himself Tuesday night
at the Tombs Prison. and was found dead the
next morning in his cell. The suicide was
accomplished with a sheet fastened to the door
of the cell. Stevens was about so years old.
The following letter to the Warden was found
on his body:
Before another morning dawns I shall
have gone on that journey from whence no
traveller returns that we have any authentic
account of. My brain for the last ten days
has been under fearful excitement, and am
resolved to put an end to an existence which
has become the most miserable for having
been convicted on a false charge by Axel
Hayford, Mayor of Belfast, Maine, Geo. w.
Buckman, of the same city, and Monroe
Young, of Ellsworth Maine" He concluded
by declaring his innocence and stigmatizing
the evidence against him false.
On aie margin of fragment of daily
newspaper was written the following:
IS meant to have added in the body of the
note, that l would not suffer the disgrace of
the State Prison for crime I was innocent
Of"
The daughter of Stevens arrived at the
Tombs Wednesday morning, in company with
some friends, and seemed to be overwhelmed
with sorrow over the fate of her father.
Stevens was not sentenced, and great efforts
were making to insure his release from prison
and the abandonment of the charge on which
he was convicted.