Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-04-12
LAST EVENINGS NEWS.

fire at Sappor, March Is, destroyed let
houses.
Gov, Bean of Montana has called for troops
10 suppress the kootenai Indian outbreak.
The accounts of s. NJ Weir, treasurer of
New Albany, Ind, have been found $4,000
short.
Japanese advices to March &c, state that
two earthquakes were felt at Toxic on the
| 10th.
| The small pox has almost disappeared
| from Hong Kong, and fears of the epidemic
are over.
A majority of the delegates in the Lucas
county convention, Ohio, Tuesday declared
for Blaine.
On March Is the steamer Hayakkanmaro
was burned in the sea of Herimanaia. Six
teen lives were lost.
The boiler in the saw mill of II. c. Fink
at Baldwin, ILL.,, exploded Tuesday, and in
stantly killed four men.
James c. Blaine, Jr., has been sued by a
New York broker for certain causes in stock
Transactions. Though the amount involved
is $4,000, it is understood that the matter
will be settled.
No trains have arrived at Lacross, Wis.
lioiii Ntsl, over tHt NtlHUtsOa DIVISION
of the Chicago, Milwaukee & ST. Paul road
since last Thursday, because several miles
of track are submerged in the valley of Root
river. The bridges are all gone. Villages
are inundated and there is distress in many
places.
Another change has taken place in the
ownership of the Rockand Free Press. Ed
win Sprague has sold his interest in the busi-
IN, bis Hnrntl p.,h h.
will assume the business and editorial man
agement. Mr. Sprague will close his con-
nection with the paper next week. He found
ed the paper nearly 33 years ago and has
been editor nearly all the time. He is wide
ly known as an able political writer. One
year ago he admitted Mr.. Roberts to partner
ship. The paper will continue TO advocate
the principles of the republican party.
There is little unpleasantness in one of
the Caribou churches, and at present the
Rev. Mr.. Leberton holds the fort. not
withstanding he preached what was regarded
AS his farewell sermon few weeks ago. He
has the key to the church and will not preach
himself nor will he allow another man un-
less he is such man as he wants. SUNDAY,
the Rev. Mr.. IRWIN was requested to occupy
the pulpit, but the retiring clergyman refused
to give up the key, so the people could not
get into their church, 1t is probable that
some compromise will be made.
At Pttsburg, Pa, Lieutenant Ryan of the
United States navy, and j. IL. Mead were
arrested Tuesday for the abduction of Miss
Minnie Parsons, aged II, who disappeared
from her home on the 3lst of last January
Miss Parsons reputation prior to that date,
was above reproach. She was the leader in
the Methodist church choir anl was very
pretty. Her parents, who are eminently re-
spectacle, employed detectives to aid them
in the search for the missing girl, and the
arrests of Tuesday were the results of their
labors. Lieut.. Ryan and Mead, it vas
learned, met Miss Parsons on January 81, =,
and the three went to Trenton, where Ryan
and the girl occupied room as man and
wife. Both We're held in $4,000 bonds,
which they were unable to procure.
A tunnel is being built at Cumberland Gap
by the Powells Valley railroad. Last Satur-
day 100 laborers struck for an increase of
pay. They notified the contractors and pco-
pie for miles around that hoover attempted
to fill their places on the job might expect to
get killed. The contractors hired new lot
of men and put them to work, Monday
morning. About noon, a large force of
strikers, under the influence of whiskey, and
armed with pistols and rifles, assaulted the
workmen. They were also well armed and
the battle lasted for several minutes. Five
men were reported killed and more than a
dozen injured Further trouble is expected.
A contract recently signed between the
Canadian Pacific Company aud the Oceanic
steamship Company by which the three
Cunarders that now ply between Vancouver
and Hong Kong and Yokohama will come to
San Francisco every trip, virtually gives the
Canadian Pacific line of its own to the East
and makes this city the real terminus of the
road. The Oceanic Company which is controll-
ed by Claus Spreckles, gets the concession OF
| the Australian mails, and its ally the Cali
| fornia Sugar refining Company will get
special rate of sugar to New York, enabling
shipments to be made to any city in the East.
| Spr.ckles, it is understood, gets greater con
cessons than any other shipper which viii
enable him to defy the sugar trust and give
him control of the market in the entire re-
gion west Of Allegheny and north of the
3 Dhin riynr.