Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-03-24
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

A statue of Charles Sumner, purchased
by the Bates college class of '84, was un-
yelled at Lewistown, Maine, last night.
The grand jury at Freeport, Illinois,
yesterday indicted Casimir Knecht, one of
its own members, for selling beer without
a license.
During the week past the subscriptions
received by the Catholic Standard for the
Irish relief fund amounted to 81 ,446. .94,
making total thus far raised of Sc, 100. A
The cigarmakers of Pittsburgh have
given notice of a demand for increased
wages on the 1st proximo. The manufac.
turers say they cannot grant the advance.
A general call has been issued for tho
Irish American national convention, to be
held in Philadelphia on the Goth of April
next.
An illicit distillery in Jackson county,
Tenn, operated by Perry Bartlett and Job
Morgan, was destroyed by revenue officials
a few days ago, with 1900 gallons of beer.
No arrests were made.
The fund for the relief of the flood suf-
ferers remaining in the hands of the mayor
of Louisville, amounting to $12, 1000, will
be distributed on Monday next. It will
be used as far as it will 90 in providing
homes for the poorest.
The annual commencement OF the Jeffer
son medical college is announced to take
place at the Academy of Music at noon, on
April I'd, when about two hundred gradu-
ates will receive the degree of doctor of
medicine.
The treasury department has directed
the superintendent Of the Lake districts. of
the life saving service to instruct the
keepers of stations to enlist crews for the
season, which will begin with the opening
of navigation.
A telegram from Victoria, BE-, reports
a continued influx of white immigrants,
Offering q superior class of labor. 1t is
believed the public lands in British Co.
lumbia will be thrown open to settlement
very soon.
General Diaz and party left Chicago
yesterday morning for the East. They
will make their first stop at Niagara Falls.
They expected to arrive in Washington on
Monday next. On Tuesday, President
Arthur will entertain General Diaz at a
dinner at the White House.
Governor Butler yesterday sent a mes
sage to the Massachusetts, Legislature sug,
gesting that, as the sum of $12, 900 had
been collected from the United States gov
ernment on account of a war claim of that
state, through the efforts of Theodore E.
Davis, of Washington, the Legislature
should allow him just compensation. -
Davis asks 25 per cent. of the amount col
lected.
Denial BY Gen. Dfaz.
The attention of ex.President Diaz
having been called to publication in one
of the St. Louis papers, which purported
to be an interview with him, he has denied
that any such interview ever occurred. He
further stated that his present visit to the
United States is purely one of recreation
and has no business or official
object whatever. The article referred to
purported to give the views of Gen.
Diaz on the proposed treaty between
Mexico and the United States. His belief
is that the Southern states have no cause
for fear from sugar competition or the i'm
portation of Cuban sugar by tho way of
Mexico, and that St Louis is in the best of
all positions in the direct line of railways
running north and south to profit by trade
with Mexico. He says that New
Orleans is platonic tangle-nothing but
Sweet words" and that he was informed
that the German minister at Vera Cruz
had gone SO far as to approach members
of Congress and ask how they were going
to vote, and offered to send money to work
against the treaty"
jack Pettys' Alleged Confession.
Hiram Bowermaster is wood chopper
and lives in the hill country along the
western slope of South mountain, about
six miles from Shippensburg, Cumber-
land county. Jack Pettys, the man who,
according to his postal card, confessed to
having killed Mrs. McCready, for murder
ing whom Silas Gray is to be hanged on
tho 2zth Of Nay, was convict, and Bow
eemaster says ooofesaed tho crime to him
in peieou. BoWermaster hes been In the
EIooom penfeentaaRy Ex ~ rt year for
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