The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-04-29
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j. Il. Roberts, who has been prominent in
the labor reform movement in st. Louis for
some months past, has been fined 800 as va
grant.
Benz F. Brown has been sentenced to ten
years in the New Hampshire State Prison for
burning his saloon at Centre Harbor, with in
tent to defraud the insurance. There are 9TH
er indictments against him for similar offences.
Edmund Garfield, lumber merchant and one
of the wealthiest citizens OF Chicago, was kill
ed Thursday by falling down stairs.
The prize of $2O0,OOO in the last drawing of
the royal Havana lottery was sold by agents in
New York.
Agricul.uralists in Peru have formed COM
pany to import coolies from China, with q cap.
ital of $10,0000OO.
A fishing boat on the Hudson, near Hyde
Park, was run down Thursday night, and
Abram Atkins was drowned.
The citizens of Somerville have by a vote of
SAG to 179, voted to adopt city charter
Thomas Smith of Charlestown, Mass, was
killed on Thursday Dy falling down stairs.
Joel Perkins, charged with murder and in
cest, has been convicted at Litchfield, Conn.,,
of murder in the second degree, which will
send him to State Prison for life. At the same
place Frederick Hall, for murder, has been sem
fenced to be hanged.
The British government has suspended the
writ of habeas corpus in one district of the
county of Westmeath In Ireland.
United States steamer Kansas has Just re-
turned at Key West from the Tehuantepec ex-
ploring expedition, and confirms the report
that a practicable route for canal across the
Istbmus of Tehuantepec has been found.
Miss Linda Gilbert, one of the managers Of
the lottery scheme for the benefit of abandon.
ed women, has commenced a libel suit for $685.
600 against the Chicago Post.
Fires are reported in Brooklyn, Ottawa. Ill.,
n Nj
with a total loss of $4,000. In the last-men-
toned case eight persons narrowly escaped
death.
There is more evidence of the loss of the
bark Merrimack, Capt. Nichols, in Boston Bay
A ProvincetOwn dispatch reports the arriva
pick up in the bay water cask, a set of steps
and a gangway plank, the cask being painted
white, with blue hoops, and bearing the nam'
'Merrimack."
A letter from Raleigh, N c., says that Cleve
| land, Chatham, Cumberland and Rutherford
| counties of that State recently have been thu
| scene of several murders by the Ku-Klux
George Matthews, an aged negro, was dragged
| from his house and riddled with ifty-eight bull
lets. There is great excitement among the cit
| liens. LrF
| Over twenty valuable cows owned on farm
| in Westminster county, N. Y, have recently
died from some mysterious epidemic, which i
| man lately from infected districts in the east
President Lyman, of the Knickerbocker Lift
| Insurance Company, in -eply to complaints O
policy holders, states that the company wal
not responsible for the Misrepresentation o
| its agents, and that the rules of the company
| distinctly state that il the premium was no
paid at maturity the policy expires, and tina
the company has in every respect compiled
| with its contracts and agreements, its rule
and regulations, aud in no instance has it tax
en- undue advantage of any of its policy hold
ers.
Lieut.. Col. John G. Foster, o.. S. Engineers
| stationed at Boston, has been appointed a mem
Der of the commission to examine and repor
upon the SutrO Tunnel. Lieut.. Col Georg'
Thorn of Portland, will relieve Lieut.. Foster o
| all works of river and harbor Improvement:
and surveys, and Lieut.. Col. Duane, also o
| Portland, will have charge of the rest of Col
| Fosters works.
A letter has been found written by Senate
Albania in New York, and addressed to Ces
pedes, wherein he makes some terrible charge
against the Quesadists, CASTILLO, editor of thu
| Democratic, Jose Armas and Madame Villa
| verde. The publication of the letter has caus
ed intense excitement among the Cubans ant
Spaniards.
In the House of Commons on Thursday Dis
raeli, notwithstanding the concession of tn,
| government made an unsparing attack on tn,
budget He said that the government in fran
tically abandoning its other proposals to saw,
| sixpence on in comes had abandoned its de
| pendence on indirect taxation. While he de-
| precated further imports on agricultural inter
| ests equally deplored leaving the deficiency te
increase year by year. He said that the Chan
cellor OF the Exchequer in 1869 erred in giving
up indirect taxation, and he now sought to re-
place them by additional direct taxation.
The County Court of st. Louis has issued al
order for the payment of $4,000 for an eques
| trian statue of Gen. Nathaniel Lyon, now be.
ing made by j. Wilson Mcdonald of New
York. Connecticut has appropriated 3d.
| for the statue.
The statue of Prof. s. F. B. Morse, at New
York, the inventor of telegraph, will proba bl,
not be unveiled May Oath, but on June 8th.-
A steamer excursion will be given all the tele-
graphers in the city in the forenoon and the
statue unveiled at 4 P. NJ, to be followed by .
reception at-the Academy of Music
j. M. Ruth, manager of the Lawrence. lKas
Tribune, was found dead in bed ThursdoJ
morR'ng. He left note for his wife who wa,
VISITING IN Leavenworth, stating that he had
taken prescription of quinine at the direction
of DR.. Mendicott and requested her to have hi,
body examined if he died. A partial examin
alton OF the body showed traces of poison and
DIR MendicOtt has been arrested. Dr. Mepdi-
colts wife died very suddenly last summer and
he is suspected OF tbaviDg poisoned Ruth tc
clear the way for obtaining his wife, 1t is re.
ported that Mrs. Ruth has been arrested for
knowing something of the transaction. She
obtained divorce from her former husband in
or6er to marry Ruth.
A FISHING boat on the Hudson was run down
Tuesday night by steamer Sunnyside, and
Abraham Atkins was drowned. He leaves