The Portland daily press., 1877-06-07
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1t is now rumored that n. P. Bunks has
been offered the French mission.
Gen. Sheridan and Senator Blaine were in
New York yesterday.
Mrs. Sherman, the posoner, was returned to
prison yesterday.
The Mystic Park races were postponed yes.
terday on account of bad weather.
j. W. Clark of Middlefeld, Mass, commit.
ted suicide yesterday by shooting.
Fred Blanchard of Pownal, VT, aged 40
unmarried, hanged himselfin barn at Chesire
yesterday. Insane.
Edward McCarty of Scranton stabbed his
wife fatally in quarrel yesterday. He was
threatened with lynching, but escaped.
A tornado near Easton, Pennsylvania, Tues
day night, killed three persons and did con-
siderable other damage.
A Detroit despatch says there was rain
Throughout Michigan Tuesday, andI all danger
from forest fires is considered past.
Collector Arthur testified before the custom
house committee that the abuses complained of
by witnesses existed six or ten years ago. but
were long since abolished.
The strike among the laborers at the Penn
sylvania railroad, in the freight department.
has been compromised and the laborers have
resumed work.
The tolls on the N New York canals for May
amounted to $50, 1913, against $1S0,44 in the
same month last year. Receipts from wheat,
corn and barley at tide water during Nav were
1880 tons lessithan in May, 1876.
A train on the Hooking Valley railroad, be-
tween Sugar Grove and Millville, Ohio, iumped
the track yesterday. throwing the locomotive
into the river. wrecking the baggage and one
passenger car, and slightly injuring four per-
sons.
The New Hampshire House yesterday elected
Augustus A. Woolson of Lisbon, Speaker:
Charles Q: Danforth, Concord, Clerk; Charles
u. Cummings, Sergeant-at-Arms. The Senate
gate of Haverhill, Clerk.
A lot of white laborers assembled in front of
the city hall in New Orleans, and were violent
and threatening The trouble was that an
ordinance had been passed that city work
should be done by contract, and they were
chance. ="
The will of Mrs. Maria Alden Welcb. who
recently died in Brooklyn at the age of IS.
gives her old chair, which came to this country
IN the ship Ann, in 1923, which at that time
was the property of Mrs. Alice Southworth,
and afterwards the property of the descendants
of John Alden, to the Pilgrim Sociatv of
Plymouth, Mass.
Y.M.C.A.
LOUISVILLE, June 6.-The 22d annual inter.
national convention of Young Mems Christian
Association convened today. Russell Stursiss
OF Boston, called the convention to order. He
reviewed the success that has ATTENDED the
associations labor at all points during the year
and of the increasing responsibility resting
upon the further prosecution of the work The
following officers were elected:
PreSldent-JOhn V. Farwell of Chicago
Vice observation-disclosures. Wilkes of Ontario.
Jennings of Pennsylvania, Black of GEORGIA.
Cheeves of Ohio, Mcdonald of New Jersey.
Armstrong of Alabama, Lipse of Nebraska,
Field of Indiana.
observation-disclosures. Horton of Indiana
paws OF Alabama, Chaplin of Iowa, Palmer of
A1nKansas, Lewis of Massachusetts,.
Mr. Sturgis introduced Mr. Farwell, Presi-
uent eect, VINO made brief speech, thanking
tue convention for the honor conferred and
congratuiatlng them upon the favorable aus
pces under which they had assembled.
Jas. Stokes, jr., of New York, presented the
report of the executive committee The report
gave detailed statement of the work Of the
committee the past year and statistics of gen.
eral association work. In 1866 there were but
% associations, which were isolated organiza-
tons. Now there are over thousand organ
lzations, bound together under international,
state and provincial committees, with over
100, 900 members Then there was not an asso.
citation building. Now there are 49, valued at
Two million dollars, and with other property
S SH ne by the associations, aggregate almost
$o,O0O,OOO. The expenditures of the committee
Ior the year was $4,000. The state association
Expenses paid amount to about $500 OOO.
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