Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-03-05
General News.

The colleges of this country contain lS,OOc
female students.
License or no license 10 the question IN
Massachusetts, elections.
The carnival, Mardi Gras, opens at New
Orleans, La. March 9.
A remarkable fact developed by the recent
cold snap-the sweet orange trees stand the
cold better than the sour ones.
At Alton, ILL.,, on Monday. Charles Carr,
10 years old shot and killed Jonathan johnson
his stepfather, who was assaulting his mother.
Alfred Mandel was married at Cincinnati
O., q week ago. Monday night she drove
him out of the house with q poker, and or
Tuesday he committed suicide.
Jimmy Costello, a 14-year-old bootblack Of
Pittsburg, Pa, invented a pump combining
vacuum and siphon principles and has sold II
for S28 900.
A proposal to establish State granaries in
England as a means of precaution against
possible famine in time of war, is being seri'
ously discussed.
brated beauty during Buchanans administra
ton, died recently at Red Bend, N. D.. at the
age of 95.
Cotton touched the lowest point in New
York on Tuesday that it has reached since
grade was down to seven cents. Tuesday
this grade touched 1916 cents pound.
The Toronto Presbytery has decided to
correspond with the Presbyterian church in
the United States, with a view to internation-
al action toward minimizing the evil of Sun
day work on railways.
An Indiana juror got tired the other night
while the jury was out trying to reach YER.
dict in Grant county case. So he crawled
out of a window. went home, and was COM
fortablv in bed when the sheriff found him.
The COMMITTEE of Ten at St. Paul, MiDn.,
have warned Dr. Gale to leave that city. or
he will be introduced to lamp post" He
figured prominently in the recent double
tragedy, murder of an clipping wife and sui
eide.
At Windsor, Mich, on Monday, some fool
raised cry of fire at the Opera House dur
ing a rehearsal of the cantata of "Queen
Esther" There were about 200 persons in
the house and quite number were injured in
the panic.
Owing to the decision of the Indiana Su-
preme Court the Central Union Telephone
Company of Chicago. ILL.,, is declining all
new business in large cities, aud closing out
contracts with subscribers. They will appeal
to the U. S. Supreme Court
Two women were passing the Chelsea
Mass, savings bank late one night, when they
noticed four men breaking into the building
The two women took to their heels and
aroused several citizens block or two away.
The burglary was prevented, but the thieve.
escaped.
Mrs. Allie Ellis, otherwise the duchess
of California" the confidence woman who
last week put in work at Washington, has
been shown to be identical with Mrs. M. B.
G.. Willis, who in 1881 victimized a number
of Yale students and New Haven business
men. She appeared as fashionably attired
blonde of % years, and formed the acquaint-
ance of certain wealthy students. She be.
came the idol of the fast SET and accepted
their drives, suppers and other attentions.
After exhausting the supply of money and
valuable presents that were readily fOrthcom-
ing, she successfully blackmailed her admir-
ers in considerable amounts by threatening
to inform their parents and the faculty OF
their escapades.