Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-05-03
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bill.
| a wealthy New Yorker has given $50, ZOO
to the Methodist University at Evanston,lll.
for the erection of hall of natural science
The steamer Honduras, of the Pacific NJ
S. Co. has been lost on Lempa shoal on Sar
| Salvador. Passengers and crew saved
Recently FIVE thousand tourists from the
East arrived In San Francisco in single
week.
The old Moravian town of Salem, N. e.,
has not permitted any liquor to enter the
place for 100 years.
There has been but little ice reported this
spring by vessels making the transatlantic
passage.
An English engineer named Dixon discov-
cred valuable copper deposits at Hollywood,
20 miles from St Johns N F.
! Every member of the Pittsburg. Pa, fire
department has made application TO be ad-
mtted to the Knights of Labor.
At the annual sale of yearings at Belle
Meade, Nashville. Tenn, on Tuesday. 4S
colts and FLIES were sold for s38, l25, an
| average of 1912.
James Sanford was killed and eight others
seriously injured by an explosion of lard
lank in Tobey & Smiths packing house,
Chicago, ILL.,, on Wednesday.
Within the past year natural-gas companies
have been chartered ar the State department,
Harrisburg, Pa, whose capital stock amounts
to over $50. 100000.
The commander and the officer next in rank
elected by the New York State Encampment
of the Grand Army of the Republic last week
were only privates in the war.
A Paris dock laborer is said to be heir to a
vast fortune 10 England through the death OF
his parents, who had placed lin out to nurse
on visit to France and forgotten him.
The Baltimore American has in its career
of lib wears been defendant in SO libel suits
and in only one has it ever suffered verdict
for damages, and in that one case the dam
ages were trit1ing
Baptist missionary in China writes home
that what an American family throws away in
a year would keep dozen Chinese families j;
and what Chinese family throws away in
the same time would not feed mouse.
The firms of d. & J. Sadier and J. B Rol-
land Sons. book dealers, have each entered
an action against the Toronto Mail for $780,
900 damages for stating that customs officials
had seized goods in their stores.
One of the Mississippi river captains, says
that there is less and less steamboat business
on the river, and that the companies are los
ing money fast. Railroads are doing the work
formerly done by steamboats,.
It is fact not generally known that omen
can be naturalized with no more trouble than
persons of the other sex. though the foreign
born wife of natve-born or naturaliZed cit
izen has all the privileges of natvebo
woman.
A resident of Santa Rosa recently pur-
chased pile of wood estimated to contain Is
cords, which Chinaman had cut and corded
up. Upon examination afterward it found
that the pile was SHE'LL the interior being
filled with stumps, decayed logs, branches
and such trash.
A Long Island man who recently died left
a bequest of $500 TO New Jersey church on
condition that the church bell should be
tolled for him on each anniversary of his
death. In the event of this tolllng being
omitted on any anniversary, the heirs may de-
mand of the church $500.