Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-06-11
General News.

Efforts are being made to induce Hanlan
and Lee to row a race with Hamm and Con-
ley on the Mramich river at New Castle, N.
b.
year at Louisville, Ky, instead of at Sarato-
ga, N. Y, as heretofore. The dates fixed
are Oct. 3 and 10.
Wednesday mob at Denison Texas.
made an unsuccessful attempt to lynch Hen
ry Burke, who charged with the seduction
which led to the tragic death of Miss Bayhss.
A deficiency of nearly $1,000 has been dis
covered in the accounts of Commissioner
Wright of the Long Island City Board of
Water Works The matter will be laid be-
fore the grand jury.
The Pennsylvania legislature adjourned on
Wednesday sane die. The Governor has is
sued a message calling for an extra session
for the consideration of appointments and
cong gressional and judicial legislation.
A committee of the New York Chamber Of
Commerce have reported that the sending of
American manufactured goods into any for
eign country must be left to private enter
prise.
Bosque Bonita the famous thoroughbred
stock farm of General Abe Buford, in Wood
ford county, Ky, was sold on Thursday, to
Henry Gilmore, of Aberdeen, Miss, tor
$41 900.
IL
noted druggists of Buffalo, N, Y, committed
suicide at the National Hotel, in that city, on
Wednesday night. Business ventures had
proved unsuccessful.
When the steamer Saratoga arrived at New
York on Wednesday from Havana, the Gus
tom house detectives seized about IA 900 Of
the finest Cuban cigars, that had been con-
cealed in the condenser.
A son of William II. Craft, one of the vic
tins of the late Brooklyn bridge disaster, in
tends to bring an action to recover damages
against those who are responsible for the ac-
cident.
At Marion, Long Island. on Wednesday,
some fishermen discovered the body Of an un
known man entangled in one of their nets.
The man was apparently about 30 years old
and had been murdered.
The American Cigar Company's factory
at Westfield, Mass, is to be reopeped Mon
day. The strikers accept In advance Of 81
on 1000 on the old price, and the company
agree to have the factory governed by union
rules.
race has been arranged at Chicago for
$1,000 side, and $1,000 added by the Chica-
90 driving park management. between the
famous trotters st. Julian and Clingstone, to
come off there July 10Th. the fifth day Of the
summer meeting.
Mamie, l2-year old daughter of M. ID.
Youngling. died at Yorktown, Ind, Wednes-
day night from eating mixture of meal and
arsenic, intended to kill rats. Two sisters
aged 5 and Z, are critically ill from the same
cause.
The death rate in New York has COM
| menced climbing upward with the thermome-
ter. The number Of deaths reported in that
city on Thursday was 113, as against 81
J Wednesday, 30 on Tuesday and 80 on Mon
day.
The Apaches have attacked settlements
near Sahounip, Mexico, killing a number Of
people and stealing horses and cattle. The
| inhabitants are much opposed to Crooks
campaign, and say had he not gone into the
Sierra Madres Mountains the Indians would
not have attacked them.
The experts appointed to examine the
Brooklyn bridge accounts have completed
their report, which will not be published un-
| til it has been submitted to Mayors Edison
and Low. Some so, 900 bills were examined,
| and neither fraud nor reasonable ground of
complaint found.
A despatch says Robert Lee, postmaster at
| Drisket, Ala, was detected on Thursday in
| swindling the Postoffice Department. He
| represented that Drisket, which is small
village, was q large town. and on this re-
ceived at various times $1,000 In stamps,
which he cashed at discount.
The International Typographical Union at
Cincinnati, o., on Thursday. adopted reso-
luton requiring the sub-lists be abolished in
| all union Offices by September next. The
affect of this is that any union printer may
be employed by regular employee In any
| Office as substitute without being required
to be first enrolled as a substitute by the fore
| man.
Lightning on Wednesday night, struck and
| demolished tenement house eight miles
from Ashland. Pa, occupied BY Hungarians.
One man was partly paralyzed and another
had leg and an arm broken. A woman was
knocked senseless and buried under fallen
timber. Another inmate became insane from
| fright and wandered into the woods, where he
was found with the other injured.
| Count Giovanni Albinola, who died In New
York. on Monday, in the 18th year of his
age, had romantic history. He was born in
Virgil. Italy, July 8, 1908, Of patrician
family, and when only IS years old was ar
rested, charged with plotting aeainst the gov
ernment, and without even the form of . trial
was thrown into prison at Milan. In 1885.
when Ills dungeon doors were at length open
ed, he was given $50 In money and placed On
board sailing ship bound for America.