Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-09-27
TELEGRAPHIC SPARKS.

The board of managers of the national
home for disabled volunteer soldiers have
selected Leavenworth, Kan. the location
of new home. The city donates GAO acres
of land and 5000
Pontchartrain on the North Eastern railroad
near New Orleans, was burned Friday.
The ball at Toronto, Ont, Friday night of
the locomotive firemen was a great success.
Over 700 guests were present, including the
governor general and mayor. At Friday S
session it was decided to change the name to
the brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen of
North America" thereby covering the United
States, Canada and Mexico.
Rear Admiral Wells will be detached from
the command of the Portsmouth Navy Yard
the 30th inst and transferred to the retired
list. Commander Wise will be detached
from the U. S. ship Portsmouth Oct. 10, and
will go to the Portsmouth navy yard. Com
mander Silas Terry will relieve him.
VIM. NJ. Clark. formerly acting general
passenger agent of the Missouri Pacific rail
road has been appointed general freight and
passenger agent of the Boston. Hoosac Tun-
mel & Western railroad, vice A S. Crane.
resigned.
In the cricket match at New Brighton, l.
l., between the New York and Philadelphia
teams, the Philadelphia team went TO the bat
first and scored 12S runs. The New Yorks
in the first inning secured 1874 runs with only
six wickets down, when the rain stopped the
game.
A. f. Hook, 80 years old. was caught be-
tween two cars on the Boston & Maine rail
road in Boston Friday afternoon, and instant
ly killed.
The German government has forbidden the
new corvettes Ting Yuen and Chen Yuen,
built for China, to leave Kiel under the Ger
man flag.
In the case of Merrill, administrator. VS..
the Eastern Railroad company, tried before
the superior court at Salem, the jury found
for the plaintiff in the sum of $4,000. This
was a case where the deceased stepped off a
train at North Beverly station and was struck
by an incoming train,
The acting secretary of the treasury Friday
afternoon issued the one hundred and thirtv-
first call for the redemption of bonds. The
call is for $40, 900, 900 of the three per cent.
loan of 1882.
Samuel HAYES, cashier of the Greenwood
Coal company on the Cincinnati Southern
railroad. was found dead on the railroad track
FRIDAY morning at Chattanooga, Tenn. His
clothes had been rifed and his watch was
missing. Two bullet wounds were found in
his head.
Gen. ]. W. Denver, who suffered slight
conclusion Of the brain by falling from a
platform at the Hendricks demonstration at
Columbus, o., Thursday night, has regsined
consciousness and is rapidly recovering.
Geo. W. Weaver, publisher Of the lion,
IN. Y.) Citizen, Friday night printed the
first newspaper in the world, the type of
which was entirely composed BY machine
The entire edition Of 5000 copies is being
printed by an electric motor.
The ST. Louis Fair Association has decided
to exclude all cattle from the fair this year
owing to the prevalence Of pleuro pneumonia.
The Shore Line express. due at New Haven
at ass P. NJ, jumped ihe track near Fair
Haven, Friday. This is the third accident
to the same train within a week at this spot.
and in each base the drawing room car Man
tic has left the rails.
At flag raising in Taftville, Conn, Fri
day night, the flagstaff fell, killing Mrs Paul
Tetrault and fatally wounded another
woman.