Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-01-09

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The Southern Hotel and two residences at
Sherman, Texas, were burned on Friday
Five persons were severely injured.
The post Office at South Danville, discon-
tinued some time since, was, at the request
of Senator Frye, restored Saturday.
Sixty Monteuegrian brigands, headed BY a
Russian named Nabokotf, has been dispersed
by gendarmes, with a loss of ten killed. One
gendarme was killed.
DR.. Allen, the attending physician, said,
Saturday, that Mr.. Powderly was improving
though still very weak. All visitors are ex-
cluded from his room.
The Sagadahoc county supreme court ad-
journed Saturday noon after session of
seventeen days. In liquor eases there have
been four convictions and five acquittals
The following Maine pensions were grant
ed on Saturday: Mexican war, Joseph G.
Lowell, New Sharon; original. Loren C. Rec
ords, North Turner: Nahum +. Clary, Wal
do Station; Bran F. Evans, Washington.
| The Maverick bank of Douglas, Wyo.,
assigned Saturday. The cause is said to be
inability to collect outstanding debts. The
assets are said 10 exceed the liabilities. The
institution was largely patronized by cattle
men.
| Isaac Merritt Saturday afternoon, shot his
young daughter dead at their home on Cen
| tral avenue, Camden, n. j., and then turned
the weapon on himself with fatal effect No
cause for Merritt's act has yet been ascer-
tanned.
Maggie Daley, Eta Brown and Matte
Ward, the principals in the Manchester, n
II. scandal, had hearing before Judge
Blodgett Saturday forenoon at Nashua, and
were sentenced to two years in the State In
iustrial school at Manchester.
The grand jury at Terre Haute Friday,
indicted several strikers at the car works,
where the moulders are on a strike, under
the law which provides fine and imprison-
ment for preventing person doing work by
threats, intimidation or force.
1t is said that nearly three hundred sum
monses have been served on witnesses to ap-
pear before the grand jury in behalf of a
movement to regulate public morals in Port
land. Drinking places and houses of i'll re-
pute, are to be suppressed if possible.
The big flour train which started from
Minneapolis on Thursday for Boston, is
stalled in heavy snow somewhere between
that place and Marquette, Mich. The wires
are all down along the road and nothing can
be learned as TO the whereabouts of the
train.
Messages from the head of the Susque-
hanna river state that the heavy rain fall of
Friday night caused the streams to overflow
their banks Booms and dams have given
way and millions of feet of timber and logs
have broken loose. The loss to lumbermen
will be great.
Two passenger trains on the Cincinnati.
indianapolis, St Louis & Chicago railroad,
collided near North Bend, Friday night.
President Ingalls, private car was demolished
and the president and his assistant were bad
ly bruised but not seriously injured. None
of the passengers were injured.
The fine residence of Mrs T. b. Bvck-
more at Tenants IIarbor, with the contents
and stable was destroyed by fire Friday eve
ming. The fire originated in the stable while
the family were at church and is supposed to
be incendiary. Insurance $500 on honse,
Sl250 on furniture and 5000 on stable.
Switchmen employed in the Chicago, Bur
lington and Quincy yards, at Aurora, ILL.,, As
in number, struck last night and quit work in
body, owing to the discharge of a switch
man who had been ordered to perform work
which he refused to do The company will
put on new men at once to take the places of
the strikers.
Information of Kiming of Bernal, the fa-
nous Mexican bandit, has been received at
No Gales, A. L. Bernal and some of his
followers had desperate fight Thursday,
near the town of Cosala, Sinoa, with the
Mexican troops, during which Bernai was
shot, and his mother and three or four fol-
lowers captured.
To participate in or abet prize fighting in
Connecticut is a State prison offence, but as
the police raded the fighters Friday night at
New Haven, before actual operations had
begun, the twenty spectators they captured,
got off Saturday with nominal fines. The
cases against the principals were continued
until next week.
At meeting Saturday morning of the di-
rectors of the Hotel Willows Association,
at Pennington, final arrangements were made
for opening their elegant new hall in Farm
ington in about FIVE weeks. H. Mcdonald,
the former proprietor of the United States
hotel of Portland will be proprietor, having
leased it for five years.
At FRIDAYS session of the criminal court
at Jacksonville, Fla, Judge Jones discharged
fifty tramps in Jail under his original sentence
of thirty nine lashes on the bare back. Near
ly every member of the bar made strong
pleas for the revocation of the sentences,
and argued that the law was unconstitutional
inhuman and unchristian.
A man named Belonger, who has been
1Tr, fnr 2 at Mo
went out early Saturday morning to kinde
fire. He had 1924 on his person. While
STOPPING to kindle the fire an unknown man
came up behind him, felled him to the earth
with club and took his money and fed
Belonger is badly hurt and may die.
The New York retail coal exchange, at
meeting Friday evening, decided not to
change present prices of coal on account of
the strike of the Reading miners, as there
has been no official advance yet. But if, in
few days, the strike is still on, with pros
pect of becoming permanent special meet
ing will be called to put up the price.
The inventory of the estate of the late ex-
Governor Washburn, filed Saturday shows
personal property amounting to 1929 900,
and real estate amounting to S57 900. The
private bequests and that to Smith College
amount to 1929 900. The balance, Sl59, 900,
is to be divided equally among the commits
sioners of foreign missions, the Home Mis-
sionary Society of New York and the Mis-
sionary Association of New York.
Il. B. Kenison. Boston merchant, was
a victim of the drop game to the extent of
| $500, at the Maverick bank on Saturday.
While he was counting his money, which he
had just drawn, young woman near him
dropped some coins on the floor. Leaving
I his money on the slab he assisted her in re-
covering the coins. During this proceeding
male confederate of the woman "snaked"
I the 1890 and got away with it. Both parties
escaped.
/ just before midnight. Saturday, fire
broke out at Louis Court House, town of
eleven hundred inhabitants on the Ohio g.
4 Chesapeake railroad. some sixty miles from