Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-12-25
General News.

Since the Franco German war ll5 statues
have been erected in France.
=. r. Barnum is building three toboggan
slides at Bridgeport Conn.
The car has given 1000 marks to the fund
for a monument to Weber, the composer.
Western agricuIturists are protesting
against the landing of English rabbits.
The first crematory in the south is about
t. be constructed near San Antonio, Tex.
Robert J Calladine, postoffice clerk at Chi
cage, is charged with rifing letters Of $4,000
There are six women dentists in Philade-
phia. One has practiced dentistry for 26
years.
A Westchester county On. Y } LAWYERS
bill for S2500 was cut down by the court to
$3.50.
A $50 900 license fee on family wine
rooms" is d, maudcd by Georgia temperance
seitstors.
A professor Of palmistry in New York
saws it is impossible to tell lie with the
hands closed
william II Ellsworth is under $500 bonds
ut Hartfuri CT, for alleged irregularities in
soliciting insurance
Cattle are dying rapidly from disease sup
posed to be pIeuro-pneumonia in northwest
and southwest Iowa.
The New York FIRE insurance men are
some what agitated over the question of brok-
er>' fees. and war of rates is feared.
The supreme Court of Alabama has rem
dered decision involving the tie to several
million dollars worth Of lands.
A pet monkey apparently with malice pre-
pense hanged dog by tie neck until he was
dead, in Selbr ght n. ! recently.
The tots contribution of Massachusetts
TO Charleston is slO3,722 20. OF this
amo unit Boston contributed SIS 766 So.
Henry Bslmer OF South Framlngham was
fatally Injured on the tracks OF the Bos on
4 Albany railroad Wednesday night.
new pool has been formed by the -four
mills of Minnesota, two-thirds of the mills to
use water, while one third are kspt Idle
There is "whistling welI' on a farm in
Clare county. Mich. 1t is 1870 feet deep and
whistles loudest Just fore a storm.
Orange trees are being introduced INTO
Caliiorns from Japan, and, it is said. they
will give a new and excellent variety of the
fruit.
Two hunters from the Bad Lands. Oak
report that they have discovered an Immense
revser of fire about 100 miles west of Bis
marck.
Ii is said that the trials of Squire and Flynn
At New York will soon be pushed. The dis
trict attorneys office is beginning to prepare
for the trials.
1t is estimated that 5000, 600 barrels OF
beer are consumed in New York city annual
ly. from which the Brewers Association
realize S3S.400. 900
Edgar Irving Bremen of Smithburg, Nd,
theological student at Yale, was drowned
willie skating on Lake Whitney, New Haven
Tue sday.
A student of the University of Ilinois,
who was lock, d in a lecture room by some
of his fellow students, jumped out of the
window and broke both of his ankles.
Paul Grouaker. a socialist editor of Mil.
wsukee, Wisconsin,, has been sentenced to
so days hard labor by Judge Sloan. for re.
fl citing upon his integrity.
White Cashier Bigelow of the First Ma.
tional Bank of Milwaukee, Wis, was at din
ner tibet entered and stole $1,000 in new ST
bills. which had gust been signed.
John Forstner dropped dead at Samuel
simpsons jewelry store. Philadelphia, or
Tuesday. In his bag was found $1,000 worth
of jewelry stolen from his employer, Simp
son
AT Concordis, Tex, Genera Estrada, and
his little daughter. were murdered by Juan
Arendal. former lover of his wife. The
fiend then cut the telegraph wires and e.
capped.
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union
! of Sioux City, Ia, will erect building to