Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-02-13
SPARKS.

Capts. Dick and iiarbottle, government
inspectors of steamboats,, have offered their
services to the English government IN the
Egyptian campaign. They propose TO raise
a brigade OF from 500 to 1000 men.
The boiler in Mcdaniel & Wrights flour
mill at Franklin, Ind, exploded Thursday
morning, killing James Hagle, the engineer,
and wreeking the building. The employees
had narrow escape.
Elijah Parker who murdered Lewis Fox
and Rust johnson who murdered John C..
Wall in August were hanged in Little Rock
Thursday On the scatiold johnson declared
be was innocent.
The Missouri Pacific Railway bridge AT
Staubert, one hundred miles west of St
Louis, burned Wednesday night. Traffic i.
suspended, but a temporary structure will
soon be in position.
Thursday fire DESTROYED the entire west side
Of the public square in Princeton. Mo. in
Guiding six brick and five frame structures.
Loss S75, 900.
The Boston Ice Co, at Wakefield Mass
Thursday, finished cutting their yearly sup.
ply of ice for Boston. They have housed
about 70. 900 tons. 1t is estimated that l25.
600 tons have been cut on Lake Quanna-
in Melrose by different ice dealers during the
past two weeks, the ice being about Il inche.
thick and very claar.
The Standard Fuel Co.'S works in Plaistow
n. H.. were burned Thursday afternoon.
Loss on building and machinery about $1,000
Fully four inches of snow fell in Selma,
Ala, Thursday. 1t is the heaviest fall for
wears.
The heaviest snow storm ever know is pre-
vailing in Mississippi and Alabama. Snow
to the depth of nine inches has fallen.
The coronor's jury in the case of the Vale
collIery disaster exonerated the managers of
the mine from all blame. The wounded are
doing fairly and it is expected all will re-
cover.
One hundred wears ago the first of cotton
was exported to Great Britain and Thursday
the centennial anniversary of this great in
troductory event was fittingly commemorated
at the New Orleans exposition.
The New York Press Club gave its winter
reception Thursday night. There was an
entertainment of some kind on every floor OF
the building The rooms were crowded and
carriages stretched for blocks away from the
entrance.
The revenue cutter Samuel Dexter now at
Newport. r. / accomplished great result.
on her last cruise up Long Island Sound.
Among other vessels rescued was the schnon-
or Charles and Willie of Rockland, Pine
Island for New York, which was found on
Jan. 9th, stuck fast in the ice She wa.
towed to Hart Island.
Some of the delayed stock trains reached
the yards in Chicago during Thursday. The
freight traffic in and out has been resumed to
the extent Of transporting the necessities al
least There are but two or three minor
roads and few small branch lines yet in the
drifts. At IL O'Clock Thursday night ths
thermometer indicated nine degrees below
zero.
An attempt was made TO wreck train or
the New Orleans division of the Texas Pa
cihc railroad late Wednesday night below
Marthavile. La. A rail on the bridge wa
taken up, but fortunately avid freight strucl
the bridge half an hour ahead Of the passen-
ger train, which carried two hundred lives.
The engine and eleven freight cars were
hurled from the bridge. The engineer ant
fireman mirscnlously escaped unhurt. Two
boys were arrested. charged with the crime