Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-05-04
General News.

Twenty. nine new national banks were or
ganized in April.
The New York Senate has rejected q bill
prohibiting railroads from granting free pass
es.
Over 10000 immigrants landed at Castle
| Garden last week. The number to date from
January l, is 81 900 less than last year.
Gov. Butler expects to be made Doctor Of
Laws in few weeks. He is credited with a
| desire to begin the ''doctoriug" of the laws
| before he gets the degree.
The issue of standard silver dollars from
the mints for the week ending April % was
| Sl6S, 200. The issue for the corresponding
period of last year was Sl6l 900.
| The body of Fred Hough, the Hartford car
driver, who has been missing for two months,
| has been found in the river, where he either
committed suicide or fell in, it is not known
which.
The ice bridge at Cape Rouge, near Quebec,
| has not yet moved Until it goes navigation
to Montreal will continue closed, but an At.
| tempt will probably be made by the military
authorities TO blow up the ice bridge.
DIR. Henry Meyer, prominent German
physician of Chicago, is implicated in con-
| spiracy with men whom he believed to be ex-
| convcts, but who were really detectives, to
poison his wife in order that he might obtain
her estate of 100000.
VIM. b. Jones, an IS year old employe of
a hardware firm in Boston, who has been
working for 81 a week, has been arrested for
stealing. Some $500 worth of goods were
| found at his house. His speculations are sup
posed to amount to several thousand dollars.
The six-day race for $1,000, horses We. BIZ
cycles, between Charles Leroy on horses and
John S. Prince, 90 mile champion of America.
William M. Woodside, champion Of ireland,
| on bicycles, began in Boston, Monday after
noon, at 2.30 o'clock. The horses covered
| 16S miles laps in II hours and the bicyclists
| l64 miles laps.
The police of New York, on Tuesday night,
raided the gambling house 40 South Fifth
| avenue, kept by a Spaniard named Garcia.
Twenty -four prisoners, including the pro-
prieior, were captured, and it required the
entire reserve of the 10th precinct to take
| them in. as they fought desperately to escape.
Several attempts having been made to burn
| the Hotel Glendon, in Boston, a close watch
was kept, and as a result, Hattie Thornton,
| aged ~ years. daughter of one of the occu-
pants of the hotel, was discovered Tuesday as
| the person who has been setting the fires.
! She confessed and said she did it because
''she liked to see the blaze"
Capt. John w. Shackford, who has been
selected to command Jay Gould's yacht, is a
native of Eastport. He is about "A years old
and ~ years OF his life have been spent upon
the sea. He is not only known as an able sea-
man, but he is man of rare literary and so
cial qualities. Capt Shackford has been
given entire charge Of the fitting up the ves-
| sell
Ann NJ. Virgins, who keeps the Elm House
| in South Newmarket, n. H., was robbed
Monday night of slI50 in money. A closet
in the room where she slept was broken open
| with an iron poker, and q small trunk, which
contained her valuables. taken out into the
yard and the money stolen. the thief leaving
two per cent. $1,000 United States bonds,
twelve shares Of Boston & Maine Railroad
stock, and a pocket book with about 800 in
it; also forty silver dollars and some gold
coin, and Miss Virgins silver spoons and
forks.
William c. Kingsley. who first suggested
the idea of having bridge between New York
and Brooklyn 27 years ago, will, on Thurs
day, the oath Of MAY, hand over the complete
structure, which has cost s15 200, 900, to the
| representatives of the two cities. The Presi-
dent and Cabinet, United States Senators and
Representatives, and Governors of States
| have been invited to witness the ceremony.
| VIM. NJ. Evarts and DIR. Storrs will be the
orators. The bridge weighs "a 900 tons, and
is 1876 feet above the East River at high
| water.