Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-01-02
SATURDAY EVENINGS NEWS.
Several Railroad Accidents-Gov.
Marble and the Bath League-Horri-
BILE Discovery at Pierre, Da.-Fire at
North Waterford, Maine-A Young
Waterville Lawyer Married.

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stoned postmaster at Curtis Corner, and
Hattie o. Daggett at Maple.
The Emmanuel Presbyterian church at
Milwaukee, was burned Saturday morning.
Loss 100000; insurance $4,000.
The following Maine pensions were ganted
Saturday Increase, Aubrey Leavitt, Turner
Centre; Jos. Gould, Mechanic Falls.
The British steamer Lord Cough whose
nOn-arrival at Quebec has caused much anx-
iety, has been signalled and all is we'll.
Assistant Cashier William N. Smith of the
Yeoman American bank at Rochester, n. Y,
is S95 short in his cash and has decamped
The following postal changes in Maine are
announced Star service discontinued from
kittery Point~to Kittery Depot, and from
York Beach to York.
The public debt was reduced during the
present month Sl5,250 900. For the entire
calendar year of 1887, the debt was dimin-
ished by SLY ,0l6,000.
Two freight trains collided, Friday, on the
Utah and Northern railway near Dillon, Da.
The engineer and fireman were instantly
killed. The engines were wrecked.
On the Chicago and Alton railroad two
sections of a fast stock train collided SatuT-
day, during the binding snow storm. The
rear brakeman was burned to crisp.
The steamship Lord Cough, which arrived
at Queenstown on Saturday, experienced ter
rible weather on the passage. For eight days
the passengers were not allowed on the up
per decks.
News has been received stating that small
band of Apaches are roaming over the noun
toi in Mapfozupna district killing ap1 sIa
ing. number of travellers have been way
laid and shot on the roads entering Bavlshs.
Governor Marble and prominent members
of the Law and Order League of Bath, held
conference Saturday afternoon at Lincoln
Bank, Bath Me- 1t is understood that the
League is to make another effort to have Jas.
Bailey appointed State constable for Sagada-
huc county.
The north and south bound 'scannon BALI
trains-on the Cincinnati Southern railroad
collded Saturday at z. NJ, at Summit
Ky, about 20 miles north of the Tennessee
and kentucky state line. Eleven persons,
including eight passengers, are known to
have been killed outright and many injured.
Schlessinger, the absconding manager of
the firm of Moss & Company of New York,
who embezzled S60,000 and whose where
abouts have been unknown up to this time,
has been located in Montreal at the Windsor
Hotel, registering under an assumed name.
He was joined soon afterwards by
young and fiashy lady whom he called his
wife.
An accident took place Saturday morning
on the main line of New York, Pennsylvania
& Ohio railroad, about three miles west of
Meadville, near Geneva, Pa, between the
limited express from Chicago to New York
and the west bound freight. Five persons
were killed outright, among whom was a
passenger. Thirteen others were wounded,
nine of them fatally. The blame is said to
rest with the engineer and conductor of the
freight train, who were running on express
time.
The famous contest over the estate of the
late James ii. Paine, the miser of refined
tastes and extraordinary intelligence who
lived and died in New York, leaving over
S400, 900 in cash, was decided on Saturday
by Surrogate Rollins. He declined to admit
the will of which James II. Wardwell was
sole legatee and proponent, holding that the
old man Paine was incapacitated. The VIC
tory is won by the Glergetts of Boston, the
old miser's relatives who opposed the attempt
to probate the alleged last will
Fred l.. Andrews, the representative of
the granite quarrying firm of James Andrews
& Sons, of Biddeford, who was arrested last
week on the charge of obtaining, under false
pretences, sixteen hundred dollars belonging
to the workmen, was discharged in the mu-
nicipal court Saturday morning. COM
promise was made with the workmen, they
receiving per centage of the wages due
them, and the charge against the prisoner
was quashed on recommendation Of Lawyer
Haley. counsel for the State.
Friday evening, at about five o'clock, he
saw mill Of c. G. Knight at North Water
ford, caught fire, from hot box, it is sup
posed, and was entirely consumed. Joseph
Saunders .dowel and grist mill was also
burned. The upper story of the mill was
Iacked full of bowels ready for shipment.
The loss is estimated between six and seven
thousand dollars. c. G. knight was insured
for $1,000. BurDham's corn shop caught
fire number of times, but no great damage
was done. The thermometer being five de-
grees below zero, many froze their hands
and ears.
A panic, caused by the overturning of a
stove, and the cries Of fire, occurred Friday
night in Chicago, where q children's Christ
mas festival was in progress. The children
and grown people rushed frantically to the
street and as the narrow passageway to the
door became crowded fearful crush en-
sued Two children were so badly tramplcd
on and crushed that they will die. -Four
others are very badly hurt and large nun
Der received less serious injuries. There
was no fire, the cry having been raised by Z
door keeper, who became excited when he
saw the stove falling.
B. +. Wright, Esq, prominent young
lawyer Of Waterville, was married on Satur