Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-11-18

mechanics under 25 years old, now amounts
to nearly $500. 600.
meeting of Montana stockmen was held
at Glendive. one day last week. to devise
means to protect their ranches from prairie
fires.
Two poll boxes have been stolen from
Valley City, OAK They contained the un-
canvassed ballots and another election may
be necessary.
Gen. Lew Wallace, the United States
Minister to Turkey, has left Indianapolis for
Constantinople. He says he intends to
return home next March.
General Dumont, Supervising Inspector
General of Steam Vessels, whose headquar-
tiers we're in ALBANY, has resumed his official
duties in the War department in Washington.
Complications have arisen in Australia
through which the proposed race betw cen
Hanlan and Beach for the championship of
the world, has been abandoned on the part of
Beach.
Strychnine and nicotine must be among
the verv slow poisons since an old fellow in
North Carolina. IA years old. has been a
slave to whiskey and tobacco for the lsst "a
years.
The Social, Nnurse and Globe mills. three
of the largest cotton factories in Woonsocket,
r shut down. recently. IL is said that
the cause of the shutdown is delay in the
reception of cotton.
There are now more than 300, 900 persons
in England who use the bicycle and tricycle.,
and the capital invested in the manufacture
Of these machines is SIS 100000 employing
nearly 10000 men.
II is asserted that the closing down of in
dustriai establishments in Carondelet, Mo f,
has ruined that city, from which II 900 peo-
ole. il is estimated, have migrated since Jan.
|. 1888.
At BRYANT Station. Texas, the bodies of
three persons were found murdered and con-
cealed in straw stack They were Schiller.
an old Bohemian, his wife and three-year-old
daughter. No clue.
The New Brunswick Railway has passed a
regulation to the effect that any of their
employees found under the influence of liquor
whether on or of duty shall be Immediately
discharged.
Col. Burnside, late disbursing clerk of the
Post Office Department. now under Indictment
for embezzling Government funds, has been
placed in the Government insane asylum, by
order of the Supreme Court of the District
of Columbia
The Washington monument has reached a
greater height than that of any structure iu
the world, being 500 feet, 10 inches above
the floor of the monument The work will
be completed in % days. and the monument
will be dedicated Feb. 22d-Washngton's
birthday.
John Wilson of Alton. N. H., celebrated
the democratic victory Saturday night by
loading his old army musket with Is fingers
of powder. then. packing the rest of the bar
rel with paper. fred it off. The gun burst,
blowing his arm off and badly injuring him
about the body.
An indignant crowd completely wrecked
travelling show at Stratford-on Avon Fair, in
which it was alleged that indecent perform
ances were being given. The show had just
been cleared preparatory to another perform
ance when the crowd demolishedit A female
performer narrowly escaped injury from the
falling timber.
The estimate for the increase of the navy
provides for one cruiser of 1900 tons. one
cruiser of 300 tons, one dispatch YES ell of
1900 tons, two heavily armed gunhoars of
1900 tons each, one light gunboat of 750 tons,
one light guntoat of 900 tons, one steel ram,
one cruising torpedo boat,tw harbor torpedo
boats and one armored vessel of $500 tons.
In 1888 Paris ate 9485 horses. 307 asses
and 40 mules, or no. short of 5000 900
pounds weight of horse, ass and mule meat.
The explanation of this increase is the high
price of beef and mutton in the French cap
ital While the artizan can purchase a horse
steak at less than twelve cents pound, he
has to paw three times as mach for cut of
beef or mutton.