Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-01-26
LAST EVENINGS NEWS
Terrible Loss of Life in British Colum-
bia- Railroad Accident in Illinois
Dynamite i'll ST. Joseph-A Week
of Crime in Chicago Small Pox Pre-
vailing i'll Brooklyn.

There are fifty eases of small po1 in Brook
/ lyn.
Nova Scotia harbors are frozen over for
the first time
! The post office at Anapols, y. S.,was bur
glarized last Monday night
1 There is deficit in the Manitoba treasury
of over half million dollars.
Two hotels and five private dwellings AT
SuSquehanna, were burned Wednesday.
Fifty lives we're lost by the explosion in
the mines at the Wellington collicrics in
British Columbia.
1t is expected that ryne anl Dr. Tanner,
member of Parliament for Cork, both in
London, will be arrested.
Pope Leo refused to receive Don Jaime
though he brought him dress set with lia-
monds, as gift.
VIM. r, Donnell, prominent Bath ship
builder has decided to build another large
schooner.
The Chicago brewers have notified their
men that unless they leave the Brewers Tn
ion they will be discharged.
Four hundred ice cutters at Wenham lake,
Salem, Mass, have struck for 81 per day
They were receiving 81. 80.
Hon. Joseph Chamberlain says the report
that he is to be appointed governor general
of Canada, is unfounded.
The St Paul ice palace is POO feet square
and 200 feet high and 60, 900 900 pounds of
ice was used in building it.
In seven days 237 houses and stores have
been robbed. safes blown open. : men sand
bagged and women assaulted in Chicago,
/ II
one suicide, eight highway robbcros and
four stabbng atlrays, in Havana and Car
dcnas
4 dynamite bond has been sent To furni-
turc firm in St. Joseph, Mo, in bundle of
mating. 1t was discovered and then explod-
ed by the police.
! Representatives met at pittshurg, Pa. to
urge the calling of national convention of
colored citizens, to improve the condition of
the race.
| Two freight trains on the Santa Fc road
collidcd on the bridge over Nermillon river.
south of Straitor, H.. Tuesday evening. A
fireman was killed.
Kelley Spear of Bath have about com
pleted a spruce scow for New York parties
The scow measured 10 feet in length % feet
in breadth and ) feet in depth.
The following Maine postmasterc appoint
ed Wednesday Alex Lcville Kingman,
Peuobscot county, vice Henry 4. Smith re-
signed; Harley :. Moulton Wells, York
county, vice Daniel Clark, removed.
Mr., Kennedy and Mr.. Fitzgbbons of Tar
bert, county Kerry. have been sentenced to
six weeks each at hard labor for acting as
president and secretary respectively of pro-
claimed national league meeting at Tarbcrt
in November last.
The Union Pacific, because the Central
Pacific allows freight to accumulate at Og-
den, charges the latter road with being a
party to a scheme to force freight over the
| Sunset route, in order to leave the Central
open TO passenger traffic.
The fish arrivals in Portland, Wednesday
aggregated 1872 900 pounds of cod and had
dock. The fares aud sChooners bringing
them were Idela Small, 5000 lbs; Martha
! ID. McLaine, 10 900; j. G.. Craigc, 10000 {:
/ Gertie May, % 900; Willie and Allie, 5000
( Josie May, 5000; Elizabeth Smith, 5000
/ Fannie Squirting, 900; George w. Pierce,
/ 1000. Mary G. Daniels 5000; George w.
/ Gushing. 5000; Young Sultan, 1900; Jose
/ phne Swanton, 1000; John Somes, 5000 (;
John W. Plummer, 7, 900.