Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-11-27
GENERAL Ne LIS.

\ child in Wisconsin was lately choked to
death by peanut shell.
Amherst loses $500 by the failure Of the
Boston insurance companies.
New York fire insurance companies lose
$50 900 900 by the Boston fire.
Timothy st, John Of Brooklyn is another
missing man. Elmer Brown, n school-boy Of
Brooklyn, is also missing.
Three of the Street Commissioners of
Greenville, n. j., were arrested Thursday,
charged with mslfeasance in office, and were
bailed in $4,000 each
There was slight collision on the New
York and Washington Railway Friday, the
engine of a New York train severely iniur-
ing the cars of Philadelphia train.
Gov. English of Connecticut gives SlO,O
worth Of law books to the library of the New
Haven Bar.
1t has been said of Rey. II. W. Beechcr
that he has "wasted voice enough to make
two thunder storms" by talking so loud.
The silk weavers on strike in Patterson
n. j., are very much excited over the arrest
by their late employers of two of their num-
Der on a charge of conspiracy.
Ex-senator 0. w. Chapman has been APP
pointed Superintendent of Insurance of New
York in the place of Miller, resigned, by Gov.
Hoffman. The appointment was confirmed
by the Senate Immediately.
In the case of Mrs. Ellen Putnam who
sued Seventh Avenue railroad to recover
damages for the murder of her husband by
Foster with a car-hook, verdict giving five
thousand dollars damages was rendered Fri
day. This is the full amount allowed by law.
Arthur O'Neil, who was murdered in New
York by James c. King on Monday, was
civil engineer residing at Boston Highlands
from the close of the war until the beginning
Of the rebellion.
gentleman and lady from Schenectady
were assaulted on Thirty-seventh street, New
York, early on Thurday evening, by target
company. The former was knocked down.
and the latter severely used, and both robbed.
The friends of the four missing men of New
York are in communication with detectives
seeking their recovery. Nothing has been
heard of the Louisville insurance agent, Geo.
NJ. Peoy, and few think now that he is alive
Diligent search for him goes on, however,
British colonists iavoring annexation had
meeting in New York on Thursday night, and
decided to communicate with the colon
lists of Buffalo, Chicago, st. Louis and New
Orleans, with reference to choosing intluen-
tial men to cooperate with the annexation in
Canada.
In a libel entered by Mr.. Prince against
the Washington Star for 500, 900, verdict
was rendered Friday for the paper On the
first trial $4,000 damages were allowed, hut
new trial.
indianapolis boasts Of a leading contractor
who can neither read nor write, and who does
not know one figure from another, yet can
accurately estimate the number of brick for
wall, or shingles for a roof of given dmen-
sions, and the cost of construction
Nation. H., girl presented her lover
with pair Of 'pulse warmers" and thinking
them baby stockings, the fool of man gave
them away to man with family.
Inc losses OF Gloucester fishing vessels for
the year ending Nov. 10, 1872, are as follows
Vessels, %; tons, sos 80; value, sc. 900:
insurance, $i9, 1870; lives lost, Ga. Seventeen
of the persons who were lost are known to
have left widows. and twenty mine children
are rendered fatherless by the disasters.