Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-06-19
General News.

John Radford, of Fremont, o., is to be
hanged Oct for killing his wife.
| The Harper high license bill passed the
| Illinois Senate on Friday, 80 to 20. The
Governor signed the hill soon afterward.
The New York members Of the Board of
Trustees of the East River bridge were reap
pointed on Friday.
Steamer Alhambra has arrived at St. Johns
n. F., from New York, with boats and stores
for the FREEZER relief expedition.
| A. NJ. Walton,a leading bridge contractor of
Trenton, n. j., began suit on Friday against
| the Trenton Times tor libel, claiming SIC, 900
| damages.
solomon Hewitt and William Hardee. both
colored, were hanged at Conway, S. c., on
Friday, for the murder of Jeremiah Stalvey,
on the 9th of October, 1882.
William A. Squire, dry goods commission
merchant at No. PIC Chestnut street, Phila-
delphis, has lett the city with his accounts
$4,000 short as agent for the Mount Vernon
Mills of Baltimore.
suit for $40, 900 has been brought against
Joseph Kepier, the celebrated caricaturist.
and one of the proprietors Of Puck, in behalf
of Teresa Satting, a child of IL, whom it is
alleged Mr.. kepler boxed upon the ear, caus-
ing partial deafness.
1t came out in the Probate Court at st.
Louis on Friday that false statements and
settlements had been filed in the case of an
estate Of which the missing Judge Krum is
administrator. One Of the heirs claims that
S50. 900 is due her.
An explosion occurred on Friday in the
torpedo factory in Prince street, Stapleton,
Staten Island. Several girls were at work
in the building at the time, and Emma Myers
and Amelia Bouse were severely burned.
They are now in a critical condition at their
homes.
The body of Robert Cunningham, the New
York merchant whose suicide was disputed,
and whose policies the insurance companies
announced they would not paw without posi-
tive proof of death, was found on Friday float
ing in Buttermilk channel, New York
While workmen were engaged on Friday
in excavatinu a cellar where William Penns
old house stood they discovered brick vault.
The vault was opened and an ancient coffin
found, which appeared to have been there
many years, and contains bones, supposed to
be of an early settler, who came over with the
great Qnaker.
The inquest in the case of Patrick Regan,
who was fatally shot in his saloon, at New
York, by Officer John w. Smith, was con-
cluded on Friday, by verdict which in ef-
feet attributes homicide to Smith and con-
demns in vigorous language ''the spy system
practised by the police in detecting violations
OF the excise or SUNDAY law. smith was
committed to the Tombs without bail
DIR. Hickey, editor Of the Catholic Review.
New York, says it IS true that the Pope has
summoned all the archbishops in America to
Rome to a conference in regard to the propos-
ed Plenary Council for this country to consider
matters of church politics. He also states
that the summons was in the form of an
invitation but that it would be acted upon as
a command. Only those archbishops whose
health would not permit of the journey
would be excused.
A sensation was created at Montreal. Can
on Friday by Dominion Detective Fahey
arrestiEg William Campbell Phelan, at the
instance of Detective McIlraith of Boston,
on a warrant of the Chief Justice of Queens
Bench, for extradition to the United States,
the demand of the President there.
There are two charges Of knowingly utternR
counterfeit bills on the National Bank of
Commerce Of Philadelphia for 800. and on
the Central National Bank Of New York for
$50. Indictments were found against the
prisoner in the Circuit Court at Boston for
these offences, and true bills we're found.