Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-02-13
dinner to Judge Rea, Saturday, at Port

dinner to Judge Rea, Saturday, at Port
land.
Col. Charles II. Roberts of Concord, i,
dangerously i'll in Italy, where he went ON
wedding tour.
/ A big raid was made on the bucket shops
in New York city Saturday and thirty-eigh,
men were captured.
A. A. Allen, the absconding cashier Of the
defunct Central bank of Toronto, is now in
Minneapolis looking for a situation.
Body snatchers attempted to steal the re.
mains of ex-Chief Judge Nelson of Brook.
lyn, n y, from the vault at Morven.
A correspondent to the Boston Herald
states that Sso0, 200 or more year are lost
by Maine's citizens ON lottery tickets.
Mrs. Folsom, the mother Of President
Cleveland's wife, left New York for Liver
pool, Saturday. Mrs. Cleveland came on
from Washington.
Two policemen named Mccormick and
Binning, were held in 80 900 each..at New
York, Saturday, for alleged assault upon
Kate Allen, aged Is years.
The jury in the case of Mrs. Sarah j.
Robinson, the alleged wholesale murderer.
Saturday morning rendered verdict of gull
~ of murder in the first degree.
Jasper Douglas Pyne, arrested in London
on Friday, outside the House of Commons,
was brought to Ireland Saturday and lodged
in Waterford Jail. Bail was refused.
Col. Haywood, former Waterville boy,
who has been in command at the barracks in
the Brooklyn navy yard, has been promoted
and will soon be called to Washington.
In small village in Boone Co, IL miles
from Frankfort. Ind, John Battery, worth
less young man, resented the attentions of
his step-brother, Frank Moore to Eta Nc
Millen, and Thursday killed Moore, fatally
shot Eta and then shot himself.
An indianapolis special says that there are
three thousand insane persons confined in
the county poor houses or in the homes of
relatives throughout Indiana. The last leg
islature failed to appropriate money to COM
plete three insane asylums in process of
erection and the state of affairs noted is the
result.
Charles Jones, driver of the pulp mill
team at Fairfield, was injured by the passen-
ger train Friday night. He received bad
scalp wound and a cut on the face and his
hip was badly bruised He was walking be-
hind the team at the crossing, saw the en-
gine, and jumped On the back of the sled
just AS it struck.
The revenue cutter Dallas arrived at Port
land Saturday afternoon from cruise east
ward. Capt. Barr reports Penobscot bay
frozen over as far out as Owls Head and
Ninalhaven. The Dallas assisted seven ves-
sells, four of them helplessly embayed in the
ice. He advises that vessels should not be
sent there unless accompanied by tug.
Thomas Herbert, the returning officer and
treasurer of Iberyille parish, Louisiana, and
a prominent McEnery man, was killed
Thursday night by Thomas j.. Giday, the
president of the Nichols club. The two,
with party of friends were in a saloon dis
cussing politics. Gilday is in Jail. Herbert
leaves widow and seven small children.
Louis Bahama, who lately married u
young lady near Columbia, $. c., was taken
from his house Thursday night by band of
thirty men, who call themselves the Jay
Hawk regulators, and given six hundred
lashes on the bare back, each of which drew
blood. The regulators assert that Battana
left wife and several children in North
Carolina. Battana fled after receiving the
whipping, leaving his second wife broken
hearted.
A despatch from Vienna, Saturday, states
that one of the avalanches which has just
occurred on the line of the Arlberg railroad,
buried Langen station and mail train. Two
thousand men are at work attempting to res
cue the imprisoned persons. Two large ava
lanches have blocked the tunnel on this line
and it will probably be week before it is
again opened, despite the efforts of large
number of troops and workmen engaged in
removing ihe snow
Ii is reported that number of the mining
population of Panther Creek valley and those
engaged in the mines of the Lchigh Coal and
Navigation companies, have become dissatis-
fed with idleness and suffering and have ap-
piled to the company for work. The COM
panies have issued letters which were
posted Saturday, notifying the men that the
companies will resume work at Nesquehan-
ing on Monday morning next, and will give
ample protection to all who may desire to
work.
In the municipal court at Portland, Satur-
day morning, Marie Morean of Augusta,
young lady twenty-one years of age, was ar
ranged on a charge of kidnapping. 1t was
in evidence that in company with her brother
Terrance, nineteen years of age, she enticed
her younger brother Horace away from a
home that had been provided for him in
Portland by his father Horace Moreau of
Augusta the particulars of which have al
ready been given. Marie was bound over to
the grand jury in the sum of 81 900.