Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-05-22
tho ~, .pen, sec, 600 in having wills drawn

"who has spent $40, 600 in having wills drawn
within the last few years
Uncle Sam welcomes into his domain 5000
babies day, not counting those who come
BY sea.
hedeer and ditcher at Winchester, Ky,
recently dug up Sl233 in gold and silver
coin.
u. s. man-of-war Nipsic, Commander Will
liam S. Dana, which lett Montevideo March
for Hampton Roads, is Eve weeks overdue.
President Clark of the racing association
| of Louisville and eleven s'bookmakers" were
arrested Wednesday under the gambling act
A passenger train on the Northern Pacific
was derailed near Fort Ellis, Montana, Wed
nesday. A brakeman was killed and several
passengers injured.
French anti-tObacco society offers prize
of 5000 for an essay on the effect Of smoking
on the health of literary men and its probable
ultimate results upon French literature.
The steamship Grecian Monarch. the fret
vessel of the new line of steamers which are
to ply between Irish ports and the United
States, sailed from Galway for New York,
Tuesday.
The Great Eastern has gone round from
Milford Haven to the Mersey, where she will
remain long enough to prove one OF the at
| fractions during the Shipping Exhibition at
Liverpool.
Dr. Schliemann writes that in the coming
autumn he will begin unearthing the strong
holds of the Afrld@ at Mycene. The work
will probably last three years and will be his
final undertaking.
Miss Anna E., daughter of Judge w. R.
Penn of Cape Elizabeth, N. j ran of and
married David T. Cohen of Newark. He is
an expert roler-skater, and the union is the
result of skating rink meetings.
The scarcity of shad this year in the Sus-
quehanna is attributed by the Philadelaphia
Press to the presence in that stream of enor-
nous schools of herring, which, it is claimed,
have kept the other fish out.
One Thousand dollars has been raised for
the families of the four men of life saving
station No. IL who were drowned in attempt
ing to rescue the crew of the Austrian barque
Kraljevica. wrecked on Barneget shoals on
the llth of last February.
Trade with the interior of Africa is stopped
through warfare between two native tribes
of Western Africa. Recently one of these
tribes captured 45 German traders and killed
them after terrible torture.
A judgment of $3,43l 80 was obtained in
the common pleas court by one Patrick Grif-
fen against ex-Alderman McCabe of New
York. McCabe is a contractor, and Griffen
was hit by rock that was thrown by blast
fired by employees of McCabe.
California carries on a large business in sea
shells, which are gathered on its coast and
shipped to Europe. One firm has a contract
to ship 40 tons Of shells every sixty days.
They are worth from 500 to $1,000 ton.
They are used in all kinds of decorative in
dustries.
The Chicago police have received from
Connecticut what is called riot gun" for
use by the city police. 1t is a centre-fre
weapon, with spring needle, and shoots six
times without reloading. Its six shells each
hold nine buckshots and are little larger than
22-calibre bail. 1t operates rapidly and is
said to be very eficacious in scattering a
crowd.
The annual averages of suicides for every
million people is given as II in Spain, 80 in
Russia, 81 in Italy, 81 in Hungary, 70 in
| England and Norway, SO in Sweden. l22 in
Austria, 1913 in Bavaria, $50 in France, l64
in Wurtemberg, l67 in Mecklenberg, ia in
Prussia, 300 in Denmark, 305 in Thuringra,
and 81 in Saxony. Suicides are becoming
more frequent every year in highly civilized
countries, but especially among the poor Ger
man races.