Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-01-20
LAST EVENINGS NEWS.
Train Robbers Given a volley OF Buck
Shot.-A Deputy Customs Collector
for Camden.-Fires at Machias and
Greenville Fourteen Cinnamon are
Drowned Emerson Downe OF Bangor,
Found Dead in Bed

Eight suicides in Vienna on Wednesday.
The Mexicans are agitating the doing away
with bull fights.
Miners are leaving the Pennsylvania coal
regions every day.
Fires in many furnaces at Chestnut Hill
Penn, were banked Thursday.
Mrs. Mary Mann, aged l02, died at Or
ford, n. H., Thursday morning
The governor of Washington Territory
has signed bill giving the ballot to the wo-
men,
The pirate of Piscataqua" has been
lodged in Jail, and Dover, n. IL. people feel
easier.
Fourteen Cinnamon were drow ned OF the
San Juan Islands Thursday by the upsctting
of boat
/ The Sultan wants W X, Vanderbilt or
Jay Gould 10 construct a system of Asiatic
railways.
AT Machias, Me, the residence of Henry
Phlnney was burned Thursday morning.
Loss 81 500
The French steamship Britannia reported
overdue, was signalled Thursday morning,
apparently all right.
Sir Geo. Stevens, president of the Cana
dian Pacific, hopes TO see the Pacific mail
steamers running within year.
Daley of Providence was knocked out in
the ninth round in New Jersey. Wednes sday,
by John Murray of New York
! The Free Masons and clericals in. Mexico,
are warring over politics. Several of the
/ former have been assassinated.
The Hatfield gang at Oceana, Wyoming
county. W. Va, tied Mrs. Randall to a
/ tree and shot her dead together with her SON
Two Nova Scotia men, +. Parker and l..
Fulton. blew out the gas in q New York
hotel and were found dead Thursday morn
ing.
Emerson Downc of Bangor, aged Gj
wears, was found dead in bed Thursday
morning, by his wife. Heart disease was the
cause,
The bank of Tiskilwa, six miles south of
Princeton, ILL.,, was broken into by burglars
/ Wednesday morning and about $4,000 in cur
rency taken.
An imperial decree just issued at Con
stantnople, cnJoins the war ministry to use
the greatest despatch in completing the mill
tary defences i'll and around Adranople
1t is said that Mr.. Edward s. Morris, Gus
tom house inspector at Portland, is candi-
date for the office of deputy collector of in
ternal revenue made vacant by the death of
Col. Cromwell.
Robbers who attempted to rob the mail
aud express train on the Wabash road near
Missouri City, Wednesday. were given
volley of buck shot which killed several and
wounded others of the gang.
| The Italian bark lie Battista, from Pen
sacoa which arrived at Cardiff, Wednesday,
reports that seaman went mad on the voy-
age and tried to kill the captain, whom he
wounded. The crew were obliged to shoot
I the man dead.
/ The coasting steamer Lincoln, in the lum-
[ Der carrying trade between Wiscasset and
Boston, is TO run lumber from Wiscasset to
Portland four or five trips. The steamer is
now in Portland ndarrvng Thursday with 270O
bags of salt from Boston.
General {. &. Atwood president of the
Mutual Life Insurance Company of New
" ork, died at West Roxbury. at ) o'clock
Thursday morning of apoplexy. He was
born in Bangor, Me, in 1896, served with
credit in the war of the rebellion, and had
been a member of the Governors staff.
1t is is reported that an accident occurred
on the Air Line road Wednesday afternoon
between lluntingburg and Jasper, Indiana.
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the track and a number of passengers in
jured, two of whom have since died The
engineer and fireman are reported badly in
jured.
A building owned at Greenvlle, Me, by
NJ. q. Shaw & Sons, containing two stores
and four tenements, was destroyed by fire
, Wednesday night The stores were occupied
by Mark Peavy, merchant tailor, and Miss
Q \ bnir nd fur
niture were saved, also the furniture of the
tenants. The loss on the building is 50 800
insured.
Holmes, the undertaken, who embalmed
the remains of Gen. Grant has brought a
libel suit of S25, 900 against the y. Y Times
because that paper said that he was drunk
during the work upon the body. At the tria
Thursday, Col. Fred Grant testified thai
! Holmes was not only drunk but used profan
ity as did also Undertaken Merritt. The
trial is not concluded.
Custom House Collector Cushing, of tn,
Belfast port, has received orders from tn,
, department at Washington, removing th'
o. deputy collectors office from Camden tt
Rockport, also establishing branch Office a
, Camden,so that the town will have two officer
instead of one. Of late years the business
/, with foreign ports has increased by Rock
ports kiln-wood trade with the provinces o
, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, so tina
, more custom house business is now done a
Rock port than at Camden
The following Maine pensions were grant
ed Thursday Sally, widow Of Joshua Las
selle, Searsmont, war Of 1912. Original
Gotfried Wiebt, National Military Home
Joseph II. Boggs, South Union; Josiah g
Butler, Danforth; Charles II. Walton o
HallOwell. Increase, Richard A. Monroe
Milo; Samuel 4. Gray, navy, Blnehill; Mi
lachi Walton, Togns; VIM. l.. Lane, Dexter
y Israel Wakefield, Goo1win's Mills Rodmai
l. c. Smith, South Hancock; Herman Hunn
d man, Jr., Madison John r. Hewey, An1o
T yer James s. Jeck, Gardiner; Cyrus S
Buck, Sabattis; David Littlefeld, Abbot
: Village. Restoration, Charles II. Giyens
4 Bingham.