Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1885-04-02
Home and Foreign News.

II. Winston, President Of the Mutual
l'fc Insurance Company Of New York IS
dead.
The ANNUAL reunion OF the Army Of the
Po;omac VII. take place in Baltimore. May
8 and :.
There sere three mine explosions on
FRIDAY. 10 Aus3r,i. Nprayia and Chill One
hundred and thirty -tse men were killed.
The H. 5. 5. Suaiara has brough, home
fh, eight Americans Who attempted to
found a colony on the Mosquito coast, ba,
fell victim. t. the climate
\ Wa,h,ng;oa special 10 the Post says
ex- Senator Gwinn Il California, v no i over
40 years u a5c, j, a. applicant for the mis-
sion TO japan.
-Pa'r,S Ford q the Irish World is
found guilty. Of criminal libel against T. J,
KrIuaan ~ the i>iaads L,berator Of New
YORK. and sentenced TO two months IN the
peulient,ary.
-Gruerai Valentine Bakers wife aud one
daughter recently died OF Egyptian fever,
and b. one remaining child is a physical
wreck By reason Of the same disease
james ID. Ieuuey, an elderly man, was
instantly Killed at Gorham, \. H., Friday.
by falling upon the sharp edge OF an axe
which tie was using, severlng an artery III
MS throat.
Small pox is raging as an epidemic
among negroes at Mound CITY, ILL.,, ana out
Of population of 1900, forty eases are re-
ported. Eight deaths occurred during the
past week.
The expenses Of the Presidents in
auguralion were Si6,500 and the receipts
from the tickets, privileges, sale Of lumber,
Ne, about $4,000, leaving deficit OF only
about $500.
H. l.. Muldrow Of Mississippi, who has
been nominated for assistant secretary Of
the interior, was Confederate colonel and
has been United States district attorney and
Representative in Congress. from MISSISSIPPI
pr.
MIR. McConyiIle, nominated for sixth
auditor OF the treasury. is private secretary
of Governor Hoadley of Ohio. and an ac-
tive politician.
Mrs Liyermore saws that out Of once
large fortune Wendell Phillips left only $25.-
900, and that the day before he deI he
burned up a small fortune in notes he held
agains. people for whom he said his exeeu-
tors would make trouble.
There we're grand ceremonies at ST.
Augustine, Fla, Friday, in honor of the
anniversary of the landing Of Ponce de
Leon in 1912 and the founding of the
city in 1856. The entire city was decorated
with Spanish eolors.
President Barrios. the Gua,emalan
usurper, married his wife when she was fF-
teen years of age. He went to the convent
where she was al school and commanded the
authorities to give her up. He assumed
so bold front that they were glad to let
him have her to get rid of him.
Since the discovery Of diamond on
the hank Of the Licking river in Ohio, hun
dreds of people spead their time in search
ing there for precious stones. Mrs. Mary
Willis has recently found a stone containing
sevrral diamonds said TO he worth 100000.
This has redoublrd the diligence OF the
searchers.
In Buffalo, New York, Friday night,
Music Hall and the ST. Louis Roman Cath
Ole church adjoining were destroyed by fire.
One life was lo,f. and large amount uf
property. including one Of the Oldest and
finest German libraries IN the country, MSS
DESTROYED
.
The Empress Of Germany, in behalf OF
the Red Cross association. Offers to Ameri-
ean inventors prize Of 500 francs and a
gold medal for the hest model of soldier
baraque and field hospital. The model must
be sent TO Antwerp, Belgium. by September
l, 1885
Jefferson Davis is thought to be dying.
For several weeks he has been suffering
from rheumatism, complicated with the
breaking out Of his old wound received in
Mexico thirty-eight years ago.