Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-06-06
NO. 1872.

funds to aid in the defence of ten persons
who are in Galway prison for murder.
A City of Mexico dispatch says that the
work has been suspended on the Mexican
National Railway on the Pacific coast.
No definite information concerning General
Crook. Hostile savages reported at several
places in New Mexico and on the border.
strengthening the impression that the Gen.
eral has driven them out of the Sierra Madres
Frank Lsrkin, the professional base ball
player. who attempted to kill his wife and
himself in Brooklyn, n. Y. has been held
for trial. His defense will probably be in
sanity.
John Bailey and Henry wimbish, both
negroes. were executed at Macon, Ga, Fri
day. Bailey murdered an old negro one year
ago for 81; Wimb,sh killed a negro in a
tritiiug quarrel about year ago. Both con-
fessed.
Judge Naun. at Syracuse, n. Y, on Fri
day, granted 20 days stay of proceedings in
the case of Joshua Grifiord, the wife mur
derer who was sentenced to be hung June 29,
to enable his counsel to appeal to the general
term.
NOAH r. Stiner, postmaster at Sterling,
Ohio, and secretary of the Russell Wrench
Company. is missing, and it has been dis
covered that he forged his fathers name to
his bond of $4,000 as secretary of the wrench
company.
Capt. George n. Mittnacht, pension law
yer, was indicted on Friday by the U. S.
grand jury at New York for an alleged at
tempt to defraud the pension fund by getting
q woman to personate the widow of de-
ceased officer in the late war.
The Chickasaws, in Indian territory, are
greatly excited over the discovery that Deputy
u. S. Marshall Meashom, with posse, on
Al.
shot and killed three school boys whom they
found asleep near their house and mistook
for desperadoes. They also shot their mother
before discovering the mistake.
Steamer Preteus, despatched from St.
Johns, n. F., by Major General Hazen,
Chief of U. S. Weather Bureau, and Com
mander b. II. McAlla. u. s. ~, to search
in Franklin Bay and Davis Straits for the
missing Greeley Arctic explores, arrived at
North Sidney, c. b., on Thursday. to coal.
Gen. Hazen and Commader McAlal arrived
in Halifax, n. s, Thursday night from st.
Johns, and LETT on Friday by train for home.
Sixteen persons captured on Thursday
night in All Foo's opium joint in New York,
were arraigned on Friday, including Mrs.
All Foo. who was charged with keeping
bawdy house. Three of the prisoners, young
women, who were stupefed with opium when
found, were sent to tha workhouse for 80
days. All jim, for being an habtual smoker,
was held in $500. The others were dis
charged. Six opium pipes were declared
forfeited.
Storifi Gregg and s. Morse attempted on
Thursday TO arrest two desperadoes at Omaha,
Neb., who were suspected of an attempt to
rob the banks at Lyon. Neb. One of the
men shot Morse in the mouth. and while
pursuit party was being organized Gregg
followed both men. They took . team of
horses from a man powing in field and
crossed the Platte River to an island, where
they found boat and started down the river.
Gregg shot one or the men dead in the boat.
and the pusuers captured the other.
The Indictment against John II. Cook,
editor of the Red Bank Register, for libelling
the people of Red Bank. at Freehold, N. j.,
was tried on Faiday. The charge was that
in August last the defendent sent communca-
tions to New York papers concerning the
prevalence of the typhoid and malaril fever
at Red Bank and that he also published SINH
lar articles in his own paper. These articles,
it is claimed caused serious depreciation in
the value of real estate. The court in
structed the jury to aquit on the ground that
the State failed to prove the falsity of the
articles, and the defendent was discharged.