Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-02-03
LAST EVENINGS NEWS.
A Treaty with the Sugar King-St. Jo-
derers Winthrop Goliath
and Prof. Gray Buried-An Engineers
Fatal Mistake.

A slight fire in the dnst room of the Nash
ua company's mills on Thursday, caused a
damage by water to machinery of $4,000
There will be no interruption of business.
Mrs. Hendricks, the Philadelphia broker
who is said to have swindled customers
at Lancaster, Pa, out of 100000, have
been arrested at Middletown and held under
bonds to appear for examination at Phila-
delphia.
The St. Johns, N. B., board of trade
passed strong resolution Thursday, against
subsidizing with Canadian money steamship
lines making their terminals at American
ports.
Women living in the southwestern part of
st. Joseph, Mo, are circulating "A petition to
have Looneck aud Buelding, the wife muir
derers, lynched. The petition already has
several hundred signatures.
In the case of William Paine of New York
who seeks to establish certain transfers of
property made by his grandfather, the late
John Paine, the jury was discharged Thurs
day morning, unable to agree.
The Mercett canal, to convey water from
the foot of the hills of the Sierra mountains
at San joaquin has been formally opened.
rhe canal is % mics long, and has been five
y
quarter of million of acres.
Fifteen hundred cotton operatives are on
strike at Cornwall, Ont. The mill mana
gers express determination to stand firm
until the employees agree to work for reduced
wages. 1t is possible that the mills will
shut down for some time with view to cur
failing expenses.
A sharp shock of earthquake has been felt
in different parts of England. Reports from
Birmingham, Coventry and suburb of Biz
mingham, show that disturbances have oc-
CURED in those places. In Scotland, the
shocks were especially marked at Dingwall
county, Ross and at Inverness.
1t is reported in the sugar trade that the
secretary of the trust has gone to San Fran
cisco to make treaty of peace Claus
Sprekels, the sugar king. Spreckels is to
rule the country west of the Rockies on con-
dition of not letting the Hawaiian produc,
interfere with the region of the trust in the
rest of the United States.
On the Chicago & Northwestern railroad,
Monday night, as the stock tIain was enter
ing a deep cut near Morrison, H., the engi-
neer discovered the red lights of a way car,
only few rods in front of him. Wrongly
suspecting the head train to be standing still
and expecting immediate destruction, he
shouted to the men who were in the cab with
him to jump, and reversed the engine. Three
jumped and were all killed
Gov. Gordon of Georgia, Wednesday
commuted the sentence of Eliza Randall
who was to have been hanged in Clay Coun-
ty, Friday to life imprisonment. She muir
dered her father with axe. The details of
the crime were of the bloodiest description.
and not one word of extenuaton was urged
in her behalf. Public sentiment against the
inhiction of capital punishment was what
saved her from the gallows.
The refusal of the Canadian authorities to
permit the disabled American schooners
John g. Whittier and Moonlight, 10 dispose
of their cargoes Of fresh fish, is a great
hardship to the Americans. Both vessels
suffered greatly in the recent severe storms
and put into Halifax for refuge. Both must
be repaired, but the marine railway is
| frozen up and no vessel can be taken on I'M
/ til it thaws out
1 Winthrop Goliath, brother of the late
| Vice President Henry Wilson, was buried al
/ Vassar, Michigan last week. The Colbaths
had remarkable history. The mother was
1 daughter of an English nobleman, who
married servant in her fathers family
! They settled in America, and John Goliath,
eldest son, was adopted by Massachusetts
! gentleman, who gave the boy the name Of
| Henry Wilson, who became vice president
under Grant.
| Five fashionably dressed men were ar
raigned in the London police court Thurs
day, charged with attempting to obtain about
I $3.50, 900 from the Bank of England, upon
forged or stolen bonds of the Hamilton &
Northwestern railroad of Canada. There
was one other man in the gang whom the
police failed to secure. They also failed TO
capture the bonds. One of the prisoners had
posed as Lord Fairfax, and had lived in stylt
| at the Grand Hotel in Paris.
The official utterance of the order Of
the Knights Of Labor upon the condition o.
the Reading strike will be published in tn,
communications Of the Journal of United
Labor, saying: 1T Is a hard battle and vic
tory may be long in the future, but the coun
try is awake to the danger that threatens th,
liberties of the people. Corporations AM