Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-03-19
SATURDAY EVENINGS NEWS.

Little Cora Warren at Benton is still alive
The engineers on the Colorado Central
Saturday.
Jay Gould arrived in Fernaniina, Florida,
| Friday.
The engineers on the St. Paul, Minueapo
lis and Manitoba strike.
| Ex-Governor Fairbanksof Vermont is dan.
gerously i'll in New York.
/ The shore line from New York to Boston
was opened Saturday morning.
| Brunswick schools hold an industrial exhi-
bition AT the close of the spring term.
! J, L. Case has refused $40 200 for Phala,
from a kentucky stock farm company,
The African comet has been seen from
the Warren observatory at Rochester, N, Y.
| One hundred dollars was stolen from Jo-
sah Bailey of Andover, Mass, Saturday
morning.
A crew of six men were found frozen stiff
in the cabin of "A schooner wrecked on the
Chesapeake.
The body of John McGee was found in a
snow drift at Ansona, Conn, Saturday
morning.
Governor Martin of Kansas, Saturday, rec
Atchison railroad strikers.
Edsell Warren, brother of the Benton muir
derer, made an assault upon man on his
brothers premises, Saturday.
Latest advices from China state that
1000 200 Chinese were drowned or starved
to death by the Yellow river floods.
The wages of the mechanics in the New
England Shipbuilding Co.'S yard at Bath
were raised Saturday from So to $3.50.
Mr. Chagnon, the Brunswick, Me, liquor
dealer who was arrested jumped his bail and
left town, has been re-arrestcd at Nashua
n. II.
Work commences in earnest this week on
the 600 foot at Greenwood Pond ON the Can
adiau Pacific railroad. The piles for the
structure are already driven.
Scarlet fever is prevailing in Saco TO an
alarming extent, ten cases and three deaths
being reported since the first of last week.
and many are keeping their children out of
school.
Judge Dundy of the United States Dis
trict Court at Omaha rendered a decision
Saturday, that the engineers ON the Union
Pacific were legally bound to handle Burling
ton freight.
n large STONE beacon OF monument on
Steele's ledge, Belfast Bay, has been de
stroyed by the pressure of ice. similar
structure on the same spot was carried away
by ice in 1859.
During the recent storm between one hun
dred and two hundred vessels were either
wrecked, capsized or sunk, aud between for
ty and fifty seamen drowned or frozen, in the
Chesapeake alone.
Sylvester $. Hall, a wealthy St. Paul con
tractor, mistaken for another man, was con
fined in an insane asylum for two years. He
has just been adjudged sane and liberated
lie is very indignant and threatens action for
heavy damages.
The foreign exports at Portland for the
week ending Saturday were to Ponce, Z. r.,
for schooner Morang, 2000 shocks and beads,
341 bale hoops, 4o,2l7 feet of lumber. The
imports for the same time were 5,592 boxes
tin plates, 10 cases boiler cloth cask sheep
shears, 20 crates earthenware, 439 bags po,a-
toes, 20 kegs nails.
Charles f. Pillsbury, until recently en-
ployed as travelling agent for the Bddeford
Stove Foundry, has filed bill in equity
against the company claiming that the recent
meeting and election of officers was illegal.
George X. Young of Boston and George w
McFadden of Biddeford recently purchased
stock and now hold controlling interest.
Other directors claim that the recent meet
ing was held for the purpose of freezing
them them out.
The grand jury at Rockland rose Saturday
morning and reported the following indict-
meuts William A. Finch and Oscar L.
Finch, Washington common nuisance and
common sellers; Wayland G. Grover, Cam
drinking house and tippllng shop; Fred $.
Lynde, common seller and common nui-
sance Willis A. Lincoln, Washington, sin
gle sale; +. +. lIosmer, Camden, two in
dictments for unlawfully soliciting, insurance
risks