Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-01-12
LAST EVENINGS NEWS.
Formation Of Historical Society at
Brunswick A Western Passenger
Train Takes Run on the Prairie-Fire
at Welchville, Me.-The Knight OF
Labor Troubles Continue at Dover
Eighteen Horses Burned at Merid en-
Conn.

Senator Morrill, rested well Tuesday night
and was better Wednesday morning. He ex-
poets to be out in few days.
Steamer Viola, 33 days out from Elba for
Philadelphia, is feared to have been lost with
her crew of 3S men.
Five Americans were arrested Tuesday
evening for connection with the recent rob
berry of Hesmelin's jewclry store at Paris.
A gun boat has started for the island of
Lewis with force of marines to endeavor to
to quell the outbreak among the crofters
Eight armed men stopped the Mexican
Central passenger train Tuesday evening.
300 miles south of FL Paso, and robbed the
express car. Nobody was hurt.
A slight fire in the picker room of the
Harper manufacturing company, Welchville,
gave a general alarm, Wednesday morning.
but was quickly subdued by the apparatus in
the mill. The damage was slight.
The four story building. No $50 East
Madison St. Chicago, was burned Wednes-
day morning. The principal losers are the
Nonotum, Nonotuck. Florence and Corticelli
silk companies. The losses will aggregate
$500 600.
General J. ID. Rust, manager of the Rock
pbTl Ice " VI bbfhpDlt' fit.s was III IOft-
land, Wednesday, to charter vessels for the
ice carrying trade from Rockport, and also
to arrange a plan for running assorted
cargoes from Portland to foreign ports.
A local passenger train on the Northern
Pacific railroad bound east, was derailed by
snow drifts near Grew Cliff, Montana, Tues
day evening, the entire train running free
from the track, upon the prairie, where il
now stands, leaving the road unobstructed.
The engine careened upon, its side. The
engineer and iremen were killed. No others
were injured.
Late Tuesday night fire burned the main
barn Of the horse railroad company at Meri-
den, Conn, with eighty horses and fourteen
cars. The fire was the most disastrous in
this city for years. Two men had narrow
escape from being imprisoned in the doomed
building in attempting to get the horses out
As it was II of l0l horses were saved, bn,
many of them we're so badly injured thai
they will die. The loss will reach SIS 900
Evidence is accumulating that the banG
who lynched three men in Boone county Wes
Virginia. last October for the murder OF
Rev. Thomas 7. Ryan were themselves the
murderers, and that they lynched innocent
men in order to divert suspicion from them
selves. 1t has been discovered that they
were members of gang of squatters who
for years have committed murders and out
RACES in repelling attempts to oust them from
the land they occupy and to which they
never acquired legal title.
The trial Of Logan Sigman for the murder
of VIM. Higginbotham in 1861, was begun al
Mt. Vernon, Ky, Tuesday. Higgnbothan
was riding along the road, it is said hurrah-
ing for JEFF Davis, when Sigman shot him
from a doorway. Sigman was extradited
from Missouri in 1885, and tried in 1886, the
jury disagreeing. His defence is that he
was a Federal soldier and had a right to dc
the shooting. The g. A. X. are helping him
to defend his case.
Bertie Allen, aged 10 years, step-son of A
II. Shaw Of Dover, n. H., was brought to
Exeter, n. H., Tuesday night. He received
three bad scalp wounds and was also injured
( internally. He was in the car that was near
/ ly demolished by the water tank in the rail
/ road accident at Bradford, Mass, Tuesday
He will probably recover. Mr.. Adell 9
young man at Stratham. who received baf