Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-05-27
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Grand Lodge OF Coed Templars.

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Grand Lodge OF Good Templars.
The Right WORTHY Grand Lodge Of Good
Templars, the representative order of the
largest temperance order in the world, are
holding their 10th annual session in the Mel
oman. Samuel d. Hastings of Madison,
Wis, presides. About $50 delegates and
members are in attendance, representing a
majority CT the |. S, England, Scotland,
Wales ard Canada. The annual report, read
by the secretary, claims 1 membership of over
100000. The great aim Of the order, as de-
cared in the report, is TO secure the passage
in every State and Territory of union laws
prohibiting the manufacture and sale Of intox-
ica!ing drinks and the result made snre and
permanent by an amnndment to the constitu-
ton of the L. 5. prohibiting their importa-
ton, manufacture and sale throughout the
land, Delegates from England, Wales and
other places represent the order as steadily
growing in membership and influence.
Women Suffrage Convention.
The sixth annual session Of the New Eng
land Women Suffrage Association was held
to- day in fremont Temple, and was presdel
over by Julia Ward Howe, the President, who
addressed the meeting, a. lid also Lucy Some,
lIuldah 3. Loud, Dr. blackwell, and other
well known advocates o. v"!Atn's rights
The resolutions adopted r,JoIce in the adj
RANGED public sentiment manifested by discus
sions and votes of the past winter in the leg
isatures of New England relative to women,
and especially on the action Of the Michigan
and Iowa legislatures in submitting the ques-
ton OF woman suffrage to the votes OF those
States, and pronounce the nineteen Senators
who voted against the resolve in the Massa-
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tn. Sutlragists Of Massachusetts,
The Boston Eight Hour ..ea&uc
held its 9TH annual session in horticultural
Hall to-day and was addressed by President
George l.. Mcneil, ira Stewart, l.. L. Cham
berlan, L. II. Haywood and other advocates
of the cause. One Of the resolves adopted
charges the government officials with cheat
ing the laboring men out of the fair and just
operation of the national s hour law, and call
upon President Grant to protect the faith of
the government. Another resolution declares,
that the conduct of ihe New York Police
Commissioners at Tompkins square was an
outrage upon the public opinion of the whole
world of workers, and the trades unions and
workingmen of the great metropolis should
demand nothing less than an official inyesti-
CATION by the legislature of New York, and
the punishment of the guilty
Waylaid, Robbed and Murdered.
The body of the woman found yesterday in
the water near Weymouth landing has been
Unidentified as Julia Hawkes., native of St.
John, n, b., where her husband died. Mrs,
Hawkes. has recently resided in Hanover and
had friends at Mount Wcllaston, whom she
occasionally visited. She left her house to go
to Boston to draw some money which she had
on deposit in the Five Cent savings bank, in
tending to apply it to the purchase of a house
in Hanover, for which she was to pay 5000.
Since that time she has not been seen alive
by any of her friends. There are very strong