Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-03-03
LAST EVENINGS NEWS.
A Cyclone in Kansas-A Mother Muir.
ders -Four Children Pinkerton OH.
GERS Charge the Strikers-A Stock
Train Goes Through a Bridge.


Wallace Ross, the oarsman, started for
America, Friday, owing To domestic aifiiction.
There was a very heavy 'snow storm in
Michigan Friday Eighteen inches of snow
fell.
Three canal boats, all loaded with hay
were burned at BROOKLYN. \, Y, on Friday;
loss, $4,000.
The locomotive engineers are endeavoring
TO form a compact between the brotherhood
and the Knights
The French schooner Flora de La Mer,
foundered of the island of Cayenne. Sixty
passengers were drowned.
Charles Dewitt Clinton Wilkinson, for six
seasons manager of the Worcester theatre
and for IS years a widely Known comedian
aud manager, died Friday morning of heart
disease.
The spoilers at the American Linen Co..
at Fall River, quit work Friday morning.
Their complaint is that they are required TO
spool 20 pounds at the same price as former
ly paid for % pounds.
A lS-year-old boy named Fagnant, re-
eeived a verdict of S27 900 damages against
the Boston 4 Albany railroad, because of the
amputation of one leg caused by his being
crushed by the falling of rotten sign-post
at Springfield.
Baron Won Heideberand, envoy extraordi-
nary and minister plenipotentiary of Germany
visiting Havana, went out for walk, and
was stopped in the public park in broad day
light. by highwaymcn, and robbed of a gold
watch and chain.
The Moscow Gazette, the government or
gan, says Turkey will declare Prince Ferdi-
nand an usurper in Bulgaria, and will inter-
fere with the military force either on receiv-
ing mandate from all the powers, or carte
blanche from Rnssia.
John L. Fuller, the Providence, Il. l., call
fireman, charged with setting fire, last Satur-
day. in the yard on High street, adjoining
which were extensive lumber piles was ac-
quilted in the district court, Friday, on ac-
count of insufficient evidence.
A special to the Boston Globe from Omaha
says; rinkcrton officers, armed with Win
chester rifles, have just charged the strikers.
Several shots were fired and n like number
of men fell. The Associated Press are as
vet unable TO confirm the above.
Doctor jeremiah +. Hall of Portsmouth,
~ H.. died Friday morning, aged about -
years. He was president of the Trust and
Guarantee Company at the time of his death.
candidate for Mayor on the republican ticket,
lie leaves u large property.
\ large number of unemployed working
men engaged in riot in Rome on Thursday.
Bake shops were broken into and pillagcd
and the police, who attempted to arrest the
rioters were driven away with stones. Final
ly the mob were driven away with the aid of
troops and many of the rioters arrested
M. 10
Havana states that mother murdered her
four children. She chopped oil the heads of
two of them with hatchct, and the other
two she held in tub of water until drowned
and then cut them up. She said when ar
rested, that the devil tempted her TO do it,
The value of foreign exports from Port
land, for the week ending Friday, was, to st.
John, n. b.. for schooner Annie W. Akers,
machinery, $40; Arecibo, 4. r., for
schooner Turbon. shocks and lumber, So
27s.7s. Point Pitrc, for brig Mary G.
Mariner, shocks and lumber, Sll ,19S.i5
1t was learned on Friday, that the engi-
necrs and tremcn on the Pittsburgh, Cincin-
natl & st. Louis railway and its connections,
known as the Southwest system, had been
granted an increase in wages The employees
asked for an increase several weeks ago, and
while they did not get everything demanded,
they are satisfied.
Hondo Bridge. - miles of San Antonio,
Texas. ON the Southern Pacific railroad gave
way while freight train was passing The
caboose and couple of cars of live stock
went into the river, 30 feet below. The
owner of the live stock was instantly killed,
also the brakeman aud conductor, and an
other brakeman fatally injured.
A cyclone passed over Newton, Kansas,
about five o'clock Thursday evening. 1t
only lasted few minutes, but it left behind
a trail of debris which Indicated its destruc-
tive force Two persons are known to have
been killed and . number nrc reported in
| iurcd. The Newton carriage works were
almost totally destroyed, as well as u number
of dwellings.
! Negotiations between the Vatican and Rus
sia have proved fruitlcss Russia demanded
| impossible concessions, demanding that Cath
Ollie bishops throughout the country shall be
| appointed by the Gar; that the Russian Ian
guage shall be used exclusively in Catholic
churches both in preaching and catechizing,
and that children of mixed marriages should
be educated in the Orthodox Methodist
church.
A dispatch from Winnipeg says that there
was great excitement in the Manitoba legis-
laturc. Thursday evening, when Premier
Grecuway rose and said that propositions had
been received from Ottawa for opening ne
gotiations for the settlement of all grievances
existing between the federal and provincial
governments The House adjourned fol
two weeks to allow the government to enter
into negotiations.
The bulletin of the American Iron K Steel
Association gives for the first time the ofiici-
al statistics of the production of steel OF all
kinds during the year 1887. The aggregate
amounts to the enormous quantity of 3,739'
$50 net tons which exceeds by 80 per cent
our production of steel during 1856, in which
year we produced for the first time more
steel than Great Britain, while, that country
had hitherto led the world in this manufacture
The management of the Burlington road
sent word to all their division superintend
enis on Friday that there seems TO be ne
possibility of an agreement between Chic
Arthur and the knights Of Labor being car
ried out. They say the Reading men en-
gagged by them want nothing to do with tn
brotherhood and that they are more anx
iou- to get their families west than to gel
back to Pennsylvania. They further stat'
that they are running enough trains to ac
commodate the public and to do all thei
business that they are going to run the road
their own way and not compromise the pres
ent trouble In any manner.