Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-04-13
LAST EVENINGS NEWS.

John l.. Sullivan sailed from Liverpool on
Thursday for home
IsEOwing to fit of coughing Wednesday
night the condition of Emperor Frederick
was less satisfactory Thursday morning.
The Void mower aud reaper works of
VIM. Anson, was burned at Youngton,
Ohio, Thursday morning; $3.50, 900; insur-
ance $4,000.
A rumor of terrible railroad accident,
six miles west of Ayoca, Iowa, is current
and a special train is being made up to go TO
the scene. Later information is not expect
ed until its return.
Z. l.. Morse, a wealthy hose dealer of
Brockton, it was reported to the police,
Tuesday morning, had dropped" about
SO 900 in a faro bank at the West End, Bos-
ton, Wednesday.
destructive wreck occurred on the Mis-
souri, Pacific railroad. Tuesday, at Lamont,
Mo. A car in freight train left the track
and pulled the cars i'll front and in the rear
into ditch. Two employees were killed.
The rear wall and rear portion of side walls
together with the roof of the four story
brown stone front house No. ), West 2sth
St. fell Thursday morning: killing one and
dangerously injuring three other laborers.
George Zemier, postmaster of City Is
land, New York. disappeared from his home
on April ith. He took with him the Office
receipts for March and about Sll00 which
he borrowed from friends He is 80 years
old.
Aaron Harvey Potts has filed a suit against
the Washington National base ball club for
/ So 900 damages. He claims to have been
hit and permanently injured by ball at a
game which he had paid an admission fee to
/ see.
J 1t is estimated that the cost of the great
strike on the %" amounts to s60l 900 for
the strikers and 81, 100 900 for the company
/ besides the indirect loss to the commerc ial
community and the hundreds of minor en-
ployes thrown out of work.
The President has appointed Fredecick X
| Coudert of New York, Franklin MacVeigh
of illinois, Alexander c. Haskell of South
| Carolina, NJ. A. Hama of Ohio and James w =.
Savage of Nebraska as government directors
of the Union Pacific Railroad Company.
A passenger train on the Erie road came
into collision with a freight train on Wednes-
day, near Bradford, Pa. The freight tram
consisted of l20 cars, which together with
two engines were piled up in a heap. The
engineers and firemen on both trains jumped
and saved their lives. None of the passen-
gers received fatal injuries, though many OF
them were hurt
The Oregon republican convention met at
Portland, Oregon. The delegates to the Ma
tonal Convention were chosen. Hon. Bin
ger Herman. the present representative in
Congress. and Judge W. L. Lord of the
State Supreme Bench were renominatei
The platform fayors free ballot and to have
that ballot counted protests against further
Chinese immgration fayors liberal pen
sions and denounces the Presidents action
| in returning the rebel hags.
, Maine heirs of Major Peter Norton OF
, Martha's Vineyard, Mass, of Indian, Colo
niai and Revolutionary vars, fame have
loaned to the Boston historical Society the
original parchment agreement with which
j the old veteran covenanted with his neigh
bors that they would purchase nothing more
from Great Britain '.uniil our charter rights
be restored At the late meeting of the
society in Boston the document was read ant
received with enthusiasm. A fac simili,
was ordered published in the printed record
of the society and copies were given out I,
the press for publication.