Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-02-15
LAST EVENINGS NEWS.
Rowell Challenges Albert-Struck an
Overhead Bridge Burglars at North
Andover-Boston & Maine and East
ern Consolidation-Ne New Develop
ment in the Stain Cromwell Case.

Russia cont inues to expel Austrians from
Poland.
Rowell has challenged Albert to run six
day and nights in London or America for
- 800 side
Gardiner &. Deerng, and Crosby and
Thurlow of Bath, have each contracted to
build small schooners this spring.
Bright Cornett, who led the Flatonia train
robbery. was shot and killed Monday by the
deputy sheriff at San Antonio, Texas.
| Galica has been visited by terrible snow
storms. Whole lines of railroad are buried
in snow and It will take u week to clear them.
/ The Boston & Maine depot at North Ando-
yer, was visited again by burglars, Monday
night The safe was blown open and robbed
of 500.
brakeman named SaDborn, on No. e.
down freight, was killed, Tuesday morning.
at Plymouth. n. II. by striking an overhead
bridge.
1t is now reported that Whitney and Fos-
ter skated away from the scene of the Ben
net robbery at Plymouth, Maine, and thus
concealed their trac ks.
1t is reported that Lawyer Barker of Ban
gor has obtained important evidence that
will prove an albi for Stain. and that Crom-
well will also be proven innocent.
/ Sir Michael Hicks-Beach succeeds Lord
Stanley Preston as President of the Board of
Trade. Preston succeeds Landsdowne as
Governor General of Canada.
The McGlynn men captured the anti-pov-
erty association meeting in New York, Mon
day night, and the George men have issued a
card declaring the election Illegal.
! A hearing was gven the Boston & Maine
and Eastern railroad companies on the mat
ter of their consolidation, Tuesday morning
by committee of the Massachusetts legisa-
ture.
| j. w Hacker, aged Is, of Danville, shot
and killed Mabel Steike, aged l5, of Belle
Blaine, Iowa, Monday night, and then killed
himself. Unrequitted love is given the
cause.
Seven persons were killed outright and
ten seriously injured by the falling of a der
rick from the elevated railroad track upon
horse car in the street below, at Brooklyn
1 n. Y, Tuesday morning
! DIR. r. S. Porter and his wife of Bridge
port, were fatally injured by burglars Sun
( day night, after terrible struggle with four
of them. The burglars were frightened off
/ by neighbors and secured no booty.
{
I turerers and commission merchants met
/ Tuesday, in New York to perfect the organi-
| zaton started in December last. All manu-
4 facturers east of the Ohio river were present,
representing 500 900 900.
/ Freight No. 1. which left Portland for
+ Boston Monday evening at . O'Clock. jump
ell the track between Plaiston and Atkinson,
+ " H, about two o'clock Tuesday morning.
! Twelve cars were wrecked and the tracks
/ torn up and considerably damaged.
~ correspondent at Rome saws The Pope,
/ in audience. replying to statements regarding
the situation in ireland. made by Archbishop
Walsh and Bishop O'Callaehan, said that he
hoped to obtain concessions from England on
the Irish question. provided the Irish them
selves adopted a legal and peaceful attitude.
/ A dispatch received from Uniontown on
the northwestern division of the Boston &
Maine railroad reports that because of a
broken wheel. the smoker of the passenger
train due in Rochester at 7.22 A. NJ, Tues
day. was derailed one mile from Union. The
passengers were shaken up bnt none were in
jured.
William bennett, one of Topshams old
est citizens. died, TUESDAY morning. 'aged 50
years. after long AMI painful illness. He
was born in Hollis AMI came to ropshsm 60
years ago. and was a prominent trader there
for many years. He retired after the war
He was respected citizen and was consid-
cred well off. He leaves three children.
In Grant Parish, Louisiana, an old eolored
woman, Mary Driver, poured quantity of
rat poison, which she mistook for cooking
soda, into kettle of boiling cabbage which
was afterwards eaten by her family, consist
ing of herself. her daughter. two grand
: children and child named Felson. They
| all died
The Rocklaiid Y. VI. c. A. celebrated
its second annual anniversary Sunday and
Monday Sunday evening mass meeting
, was held in Farwell Hall, and addresses were
made by State Secretary Lawrence and Sec
|, retary A. Ii. Whitford. Monday nights ex
ercses closed with banquet in the rooms
Nearly sl,200 was pledged to carry on the
work for the coming year
The small schooner built by Asa r. Hodg-
kins Bath. nearly two years ago was launch
= ed Tuesday. To get her into deep water
she was hauled by several yoke of oxen and
number of horses over the ice TO the wa
ter distance of 600 yards and then launch
ed E. E. Saunders & Co.. of Pensacola
have purchased the schooner. for the fishing
4 business in the Gulf. She registers 25 ton
and is staunch aad thoroughly bull. craft