Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-05-11
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posed to be a three-m -ma.ted .chooaer, Ameri-


posed to be a three -masted schooaer, Ameri-
| can built
The steamer Alaska, Capt Murray, on her
last trip from Queenstown to New York, where
she arrived Sunday. made the fastest time on
record, viz, 6 days, % hours, IS minutes.
The passengers subscribed a sum of money
| to purchase Capt. Murray a Commodore
pennant.
George +. Peyton, grocer of Richmond,
Va, v no has been in an insane asylum, start
| ed ont on Monday, he says, to kill four ne
grows. He began work in the old market,
and shot one colored man dangerously through
the neck, but was arrested before finding his
second victim.
| factories New Brunswick, N. j.. took place
Monday. The New Brunswick Rubber Com
| pany took in l ZOO hands, the New jersey
Rubber Shoe Company began with 800 and
| the Meyer Rubber Company with 900 men.
| These industries have been closed during the
| past two months,
Ruheleben is the suggestive name Of . viii
| lage near Berlin, Germany. which contains
tree of melancholy reputation. A few days
ago the body of the 18th suicide was cut down
from its branches. Inasmuch as it has never
occurred to the authorities to cut the tree
down it will doubtless continue to bear fruit
of the same kind.
John Greene, a prosperous farmer of South
county, and a rugged man of temperate
habits, is now in the Rhode Island hospital
under treatment for blindness. few nights
ago he went TO bed as well as usual In the
morning, when he was called, he was sur
Prised to find nothing but darkness when he
raised his eyelids.
The North German Gazette SAYS German
dealers will not fail to make fitting answer
to the charges made against them by Tanner,
the United States Cousul at Liege, that oil,
lard, flour. etc, imported from America, are
adulterated after their arrival in Germany,
and that all articles of food and drink sold in
Germany are put through process of adul-
teration.
The fourth Biennial Convention of the
Catholic Knights OF America began at st.
Louis on Tuesday. The ,legates number
over 200. The business meeting was presided
over by w. j. ONeil, of Cincinnati. The
Supreme President of the order, Mayor
Ewing, delivered brief address of welcome.
and the convention adjourned till Wednesday.
Major Wasson, the paymaster who alleged
that he had been robbed of S24 900 on a train
near Fort WORTH confessed at San Antonio,
Texas. on Tuesday, that the whole transac-
ton was fraud to cover deficit of $500 in
his accounts. Wasson is now at headquarters
places of the remaining SIS, ,50O and afficers
have gone after the money.
young lady. who had until recently been
confined in the Insane Asylum at Newark, N.
j., Miss Mealy, made a statement Tuesday of
cruelty suffered while in that institution. DIR.
Charles Young. the physician, said that the
woman was suffering from imaginary i'll. treat
ment. and witnesses oald be produced that
would prove this. Warden Leonard says he
will demand an investigation.
Mrs. Taylor Chicago widow, locked her
two boys, John and Daniel. aged two and
three years respectively. in a room, Monday,
while she went to the grocery store. When
she returned, about Is minutes later, ,~she
rushed in to save her babes. but was beaten
back by the flames which poured
forth in volumes. Her shrieks at
tracted the notice of the neighbors, who re.
strained the freuzied woman from giving up
her life for her children after she had already
fought the flames until her face was scerched
and her hair and clothing were on fire. The
flames were soon extingushed by the fire de-
partment but the little ones burnt to crisp.
1t is supposed they fired their clothing ~hile
playing with matches.