The Portland daily press., 1882-03-06
FOREIGN.
MacLean Very Much Like Guiteau
FIGHTING BETWEEN FRENCH AND
INSURGENTS IN ALGIERS.
Forty Persons Killed by the Caving Of
Mine.

WINDSOR, March 4.-MacLean was driven to
the Town Hall yesterday in an open fly in
charge of Superintendent Hayes. He has a
wretched look and is a man very much of the
Guiteau type. He was unclean and unsbaven.
He has slight black moustache. he was
Immediately taken before the magistrates, the
Mayor of Windsor presiding. Mr.. Stevenson,
Solicitor to the Treasury, prosecuted. In reply
to the Mayor the prisoner said in the most off
hand manner and firm voice that his name was
ssNacLean, Roderick MacLean." Superntend-
ent Hayes then swore to the facts of the shoot
inc and also testified to the letter found on the
prisoner. The letter was read. 1t said that
the prisoner would not have done the crime
had 10 shillings been given to him instead of
the nsultingly small sum Of shillings He
was compelled to commit the crime against the
"bloated arlstocracy" headed by that old lady,
Mrs Vic" The witness further said that
this morning the prisoner wished to make
written statement, saying: 81 have complete
answer to the charge" He then wrote a let
ter In it the prisoner said he was not guilty
of shooting at the Queen with intent to do her
bodily harm. His object was only to cause
public alarm with the object of having his
and circumstances tended to prove the truth
of this statement. Had he cared to have In
iured the Queen he would have fred at her
when she was getting out of the carriage. As
it was he shot at the wheels, but the pistol
kicked and the bullet might have hit the car
riage door. The prisoner was remanded.
LONDON, March A solicitor has been re-
tanned by the friends of MacLean to defend
him at his forthcoming trial. According to
MacLean's own account he has sister mar
ried to Mr.. Harris, lessee of the Drury lane
theatre. The railway track off which the bull
let of NJ asL Lean s pistol glanced has been exam
ined by an expert. 1t appears that the shot ss
far as elevation was concerned was fired on a
elevation with the carriage.
It is reported that MacLean bears himself
-f-I1- -. l. Iso 1l1 VtA fish
press expresses much qualification at the
sympathy from America.
Special prayers and thanksgiving services in
nearly all churches and chapels of England
were held ay with reference the Queens
escape from the attempt upon her life. Glad
chapel Royal, ST. James Palace, the preacher
being the Bishop of st. Davids. The most
noteworthy services were those held by Dean
Bradley at Westminster Abbey, Canon Proth-
ers at Chapel Royal; Savoy, Bishop OF Roch-
ester, at st. Pauls; Mr.. Spurgeon at the Tab
ernacle and Dr. Parker at City Temple. The
press association understands that the Queen
was in no way so much affected by message as
by that faom President Arthur
|. The Daily New this morning says: Ear
| Granville in the House of Lords, and Glad
| stone in the Commons tonight or tomorrow
| will move an address congratulating the Queen
| on her escape from assassination. Special
thanksgiving services on account OF the Queens s
escape held to-day in churches of the British
| Embassy in Paris, the com Kirche OF Berlin,
and the English church at Rome Te Deum
was chanted in the Russian chapel in London
The Outrages Upon Jews in Russia.
LONDON, March Am the House of Com
mons last evening Baron Henry De Worms, in
| moving that the Government find means OF
using its good offices with the Gar to prevent
a recurrence of the outrages upon jews in Rus.
| sia, said that 201 women had been violated, 56
| Tax 1o1 nd IN MO ndnd % 000
rendered homeless, and property to the value
of SIG, ,000,000 wrecked.
Mr. Gladstone said the intervention of a for
| eign government would be certain to cause a
strong reaction, not merely among those who
| committed the outrageS, but among those who
| were averse to anything like an invasion Of
their national independence. Baron De Worms
| then withdrew his resolution.
! Monuments to Keats and Severn at Rome
ROME, March 1.-THE twin monuments erect
| ed over the graves of the poet Keats and his
| friend Joseph Severn were unveiled IN the
Protestant cemetery here yesterday in the pres
| ence of many English and American residents
| T. A. Trollope, in the absence Of Lord Hough-
| ton, presided at the ceremony. Abiding to
| the part Americans had taken in this monu-
mental tribute to Keats, Mr.. Trollope said
! it constituted a fresh bond between the two
great branches of the Anglo-Saxon race Mr.
Storey, the American sculptor, delivered a
brilliant speech, recalling Seyern's devotion te
| Keats.
Letter from the Czar to the Emperor Will
liam.
LONDON, March A dispatch from st. Pet
! ersburg to the Times says An emissary started
| for Berlin on Tuesday with an important letter
4 from the Czar to the Emperor William. 1t is
believed that the Gear wrote the letter imme.
| diately after his reception of Gen. Skobelofi
| On Tuesday morning at Gatschina, where
! it is stated Gen. Skobeloff arrived on Monday
| night.
| Perilous Balloon Adventure.
LONDON, March A balloon containing
/ Colonel Brine of the Royal Engineers and an
aeronaut which started from Canterbury in
| tending to endeavor to reach France, fell into
! the sea about nine miles to the southeast The
| occupants were picked up by steamer.
Fighting in Algiers
| ALGIERs, March 5.--A dispa9ch from Ain
| Segra reports that q body of three hundred
French troops accommodating in southerly
! direction was surprised and defeated by the
| insurgents. Fifteen hundred insurgents after
ward endeavored to bar the passage of the
| French. The insurgents were completely
routed, leaving one hundred killed and
wounded. The French lost II killed and
| wounded.
| Forty Persons Killed in a Mining Shaft.
LONDON, March 5.-A despatch to the news
| from Vienna, reports that forty persons have
been killed by the falling in of the shaft of a
mine near Teplitz.