Daily Kennebec journal., 1884-05-24
rELEGRAPHIc TICKS.


day.
Another fire occurred Friday in the ware
house district, London.
Lloyd Majors was hanged at Oakland, Cal,
afornia, Friday, for completely in two cold
blooded murders.
John Cummings. clerk of the Standard
Oil Co., New York, is q defaulter and has
disappeared.
The Kansas republicans of the third district
have nominated, by acclamation, Thos. Ryan
for reelection to Congress.
The semi annual meeting of New England
Association of School Superintendents was
held ih Boston, Friday.
Leonidas johnson, q negro. was hanged q,
McDonough, Ga, Friday, for criminal as.
sault upon Mrs. Cook.
Three employees of the Grand Trunk Rail.
way, we're drowned At Port Huron. Mich, by
the upsetting of q row boat, Friday.
Saban Stevens, the third man in connec.
ton with the murder of Anderson Lackey,
near Jackson, Ohio, was hangad at Waverly
Friday.
The recent rains have placed the hay crop
in the vicinity of Ottawa almost beyond
failure and farming operations are well for
ward.
S. Blanchard, Wholesale grocer and i'm
porter of Richmond. Va, made an assign
ment Friday for the benefit of his creditors,
without preference; liabilities S223, 900; as
sets estimated at 1925. 900.
The council of the Nebraska diocese of the
Protestant Episcopal church on the 22d ballot
elected DR.. Rev. Worthingham Of Detroit,
Bishop of Nebraska, in the place of Rev.
DR.. Clarkson, deceased.
U. s. Grant, Jr., came from Morrison, N.
j., his home, Friday morning, to the Office of
he l~N A. g a H. III
at the rumor of his supposed flight to Canada.
He says he has no intention of leaving
John ]. Donovan, night foreman of the
Boston Journal, had foot and leg terribly
crushed early Friday morning in one of the
presses and died in the afternoon. He had
been in the Journals employ 20 years.
Levi p. Morton, American minister has
written q letter to Prime Minister Ferry.
denying that the House of Representatives had
rejected the bill reducing the duty on works
of art to 10 per cent, or that the House ap-
plauded the vote.
VIM. Shea was arraigned al Newport. R.
l., Friday, charged with the wilful murder of
Policeman Eugene Barker and an attempt to
murder James Anderson. To both charges
he pleaded not guilty. He will be tried at
the adjourned term.
The House committee on public buildings.
which has been investigating the charges Of
fraud on the part of the United States treas
ury officials in the purchase of a site for q
public building at Brooklyn, N. Y. finds the
charges false.
The six-year-old daughter of VIM. Dixie,
who resides one mile east of Hillsdale, Mich,
was outraged and murdered Thursday night.
The body was found Friday morning. Her
skull had been crushed in with stone.
Great excitement prevails.
There was an inquest Friday on the death
of Geo. H. Snow. burned to death at the
burning of the Pakachoag mill, Worcester,
Mass, May 18th. The finding exonerated
the owners Of the mill from blame, because
the boy had been out and returned to the
mill.
The Methodist Episcopal conference at
Baltimore, Friday, discussed the advisability
of the union of the American Methodist
Episcopal church with the British Methodist
Episcopal church and the church of the
British provinces. The discussion bids fair
to last long time. The bishops are divided
on the subject.
The business failures of the last seven
days throughout the country, as reported to
r. G. Dun & Co., New York, of the mercan-
tile agency, number for the United States
PIP, and for Canada 20, or total of 1872, as
compared with a total Of 209 last week. The
increase is pretty evenly distributed among
the Middle, Western and Pacific States, but
there is considerable decrease in Canada
and New York City.
1t is learned that the grand jury of the
United States circuit court in session at
Windsor, VT, has brought indictments
against J. r. Armington, Albert Sowles, f.
A. Smith and H. Brainard of st. Albans, VT, =,
for alleged abetting and aiding the cashier of
the First National bank to deceive the bank
examiners. From all that can be learned it
seems evident that the indictments were
brought on the testimony of Cashier Sowles
himself.