The Portland daily press., 1878-08-02

reau. About one o'clock crowd, numbering
200 white and colored men, armed with shovels,
picks and clubs, made their appearance on the
grounds and demanded that the laborsrs should
cease work. The pretext assigned was that the
msn were working too cheaply They were
supposed to be getting only IS cents per day,
while the rioters demanded that no laborers
should WORK for less than $1.5O per day. The
workmen at first paid no attention to the de-
mands of the rioters to stop work. whereupon
they were assailed with stones, and were forc-
bly, driven away, one of them being seriously
cut and bruised. The crowd increased with
surprising rapidity, and as the rumor spread
over the city, colored and white idlers gathered
from all directions. Having gained possession
of the ground the rioters posted upon the fences
notice that if any man worked for less than
$1.5O per day he would be killed. They then
arranged themselves along the sidewalks, and
groaned and Missed the two or three policemen
who had at this time come upon the ground.
The contractors had given notice to the police
authorities as soon as the troubles began, and
about three o'clock a lieutenant OF police, at
the head of the entire reserve force, made his
appearance and commanded the crowd to dis
perse, at the same time getting his men in po-
sition to charge upon the rioters. This was the
end of the matter as the crowd very soon disap-
peared in different directions, but with many
ominous mutterings and threats
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
A Cincinnati special states that at Cleve-
land, last Wednesday, fifteen girls, en-
ployed by Madame Somers dressmaker,
had milk for dinner. During the after
noon all were taken sick, including Madame
Somers. All were able to return to work the
next day except two sisters, Mary and Nettie
Dewitt, whom the physicians pronounce pois-
oaed. Monday Mary died in great agony.
Nettie is still alive but in very precarious
condition. The coroner ordered an analysis of
the milk.
A wagon containing John R. CRADLE,
Ferris CRADLE, Augustus Miller, Martin
Weaver of Millersbnrg, and Jos. Kemp
of Lyken, while crossing the Northern Gen.
trail railway at the former place was run
into by the Niagara express Tuesday morn
ing. 1t resulted in the death Of Weaver about
two hours afterwards. The others were more
or less injured, none seriously.
A party of masked men variously estimated
from 400 to 500 rode into Monroe, Louisiana,
at l o'clock Tuesday morning, forcibly
took from the parish Jail four colored men
charged with murder, and took them to the
court house square and hung them to limb
of an oak tree.
J.. F. Spaulding's Touring mill at Huntley
Station, ILL.,, was. burned Tuesday. Supposed
work of tramps. Loss $4,000.
A letter from Australia says the British ship
Lochard, from London for Melbourne with
cargo valued at $250,OOO was lost near Cape
Olway on the morning of June 1. Miss Evy
Carmichael was the only passenger saved out
of II, and midshipman named Pierce is the
sole survivor of a crew numbering 80.
There is lmuch destruction of reaping ma
chimes land other labor-saving implements in
Michigan by tramps. They have burned the
barn and wheat stacks of prominent farmer
near Battle Creek, and several self-acting bind
ers are reported injured near Burr Oak, st. Jo-
seph county.
Saturday night band of so-called lula
tors in Robertson county, N. Y, thirty in num-
Der, visited the house of John Dayton, re-
spectacle farmer, and killed him. They also
burned the house of the town marshal at
Mount Oliyet.
John Sheehan was arrested in New York
Saturday morning, suspected of aiding and
abetting the. murder of Eugene Sullivan in
Davidson's saloon at Portsmouth, N. H., on
the 18th Of April, 1860.
James Robinson, q moneyless book canvasser
hung himself at the Bowery hotel, New York,
Sunday
Lorenzo D. Perkins and wife were attacked
by Indians near Rattlesnake Springs, on the
Columbia river, and both were murdered Their
bodies were recovered by party of citizens
who went on the trail of the missing people.
Mrs. Lehman, In jail at Pittsield, Mass, &C.
cused of adultery, has confessed that she set fire
to the buildings of Jeremiah Buck in Pittsfeld.
Hubbard Zolera, grocer of Claremont, is
missing and it is feared he has been foully
dealt with.
The New York Times has two column story
of married lady of high position in Boston
having been taken in charge on board of
train from Rome to Albany by well dressed
scoundrels, who pretended she was insane and
that by request of her husband they were TAX
ing her to the Utica asylum. They success
fully imposed on the conductors and passen-
gers, whose protection the poor woman claimed.
She was taken to disreputable house in Utica,
chloroformed, outraged and stripped of her
diamonds ard all her clothing left there. The
hackman at Utica being known by the con-
ductor furnished clue to her whereabouts and
she was found by her husband in terrible con-
dition and taken to Boston. No names are
given.
FOREIGN NEWS.
The proposed commercial treaty be-
tween the United States AMI France pro-
vides that France shall admit American
products at the same rates as the most favored
nations, and that this country shall do the
same with French products.
The Turkish plenipotentiaries who came
to Vienna to complete negotiations for the
occupation OF Bosnia and Herzegovina, have
quarrelled, and Mehemet Ali has abruptly
quilted Vienna in disgust.
The Austrian troops have entered Bosnia.
It is officially announced that the Marquis of
Lorne, who was married in March, 1871, to the
Princess Louise, fourth daughter of Queen Vic
toria, has been appointed Lord Dufferin's sue
cessor as vicaroy of Canada. This young gen.
tleman, eldest son of his Grace of Argyll, who
is the poorest of all the Scottish Dukes, is thr-
ty-three- years old, and has been M. P. for Ar
CYL, in the Liberal interest, since 1868. Doubt
less the large salary will be acceptable to him.
In Parliament he has never opened his lips, ex-
cept to vote "aye" or mo- and his statesman.
ship is to be regarded rather with hope thah as
surance. He is not unacquainted with this
Western world of ours, for, as far back as 1867,
when he was only twenty-five years old, he
published "a Trip to the Tropics, and Home
through America" and this was followed, in
November, 1876, by peem called "Guido and
Lits, Tale of the Riviera" illustrated by en-
cravings from drawings by the Princess Louise,
his wife, and which was welcomed by thought
full critics, who accepted 1t not only as we'll
written, but giving promise of something bet
ter still. Bye-and-bye, let US hope, bis lord.
ships administration in Canada may justify his
appointment to the Viceroyalty, but, at present
what must be chiefly obvious is the broad fact
that young man, whose personal character is