Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-06-14
NO..130.
General News.

DIR. Buchanan, the bogus medical diploma
man, is under arrest at Philadelphia for de-
frauding his daughter of property.
I. G. Mandt, wagon manufacturer At
Stoughton, Wis, has failed. 1t is estimated
that his liabilities are 100000. Efforts are
being made to effect a compromise.
Schooner Everett Steele, at Gloucester,
Mass. reports falling in with the floating
| wreck of a l00-ton schooner, 100 miles east.
half south. of Thatcher's Island, in the path
of navigation.
A grand reception to the delegates to the
biennial session of the grand lodge, Order
G. T. of the Werld, which opened Tuesday
at Halifax, N s., was given in the legislative
assembly chamber Monday evening.
Lawyer Samuel Davies, who is just recov-
ering from aSthrashing administered by VIM.
Nicholson, a Philadelphia gambler, week
ago, was the victim of another assault on
Saturday, by man named Burnell.
Judge Billings, in the United States circuit
court at New Orleans Monday, refused the
| application of the city of New Orleans for
reduction of its appeal bond in the Gaines
case. The bond is s., SOC, 900.
At a meeting of number of prominent
Irish Americans IN Chicago, Monday, it was
decided to call mass meeting next Saturday,
| to protest against papal interference with the
affairs of Ireland.
1t was stated at Philadelphia Monday that,
in accordance with the recommendation by
the naval commission, the League Island
Navy Yard will be closed on the 10th of July
next. This will throw 500 persons out of
work.
The pig iron trade is reported by the Sec
retary of the American Iron and Steel Asso-
citation to be in very unsatisfactory condi.
ton. At the beginning OF the present month
there were 6SS furnaces in the country, of
which 35l were in blast and 331 out of blast.
An epidemic broke out Friday among the
cattle shipped for England by the steamship
Bristol, at Montreal, Que. When the vessel
reached Quebec, Saturday, 81 head of cattle
had died. The steamer, nevertheless, made
an exchange in pilots and proceeded to sea.
Iroquois Indians, who are settled on a res
ervation near Montreal, sent deputation to
the Governor General of Canada, protesting
against eneroachments on their lands by
whites. His Excellency promised the squat
ters should be removed.
At four o'clock Sunday afternoon five
prisoners confined in Jail at Hudson, N. Y,
for burglary, made their escape by removing
a large stone from the wall. Among them is
w. Fleming, alias Roy" a desperate char
acter, who had served five years in Connect.
cut State Prison, and who was wanted in
New Haven for burglary when the anthori-
ties at Hudson had got through with him.
At the annual synod of the Reformed
Church at Albany, N. Y, Monday, resolu-
tions were adopted appointing committee to
consider the advisability of establishing a
theological seminary in the West; recon-
mending more stringent observance of Sun
day by discouraging the publication of Sun
day editions of the secular press, Sunday
liquor selling and all other traffic or business
that may interfere with the proper observance
of the day.
Terra Haute, Ind, was set wild with ex-
citement Monday afternoon, by the attempt
ed murder of Hon. John 4. Lamb, congress-
man from that district by Samuel c. Davis,
an attorney of that city. Davis was station
ed at the entrance to Lambs Office, when the
latter approached and saluted him, when
Davis drew revolver and placed it almost
against Lambs chest. The congressman
threw up the weapon with one hand and
lodged as it was discharged, the ball passing
over his shoulder and through a passing
wagon and lodging in the drivers foot. The
cause of the attempt is attributed to occur
rences growing out of a libel suit against the
Express, in which Davis appears for the pros
ecution and Lamb for the defence.