Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-06-16
LAST EVENINGS NEWS.

Ihe Emperor of Brazil has completely
recovered.
A post Office has been established at Wes
Fryeburg, Oxford county, with Mr.. f. O.
Hutchins, postmaster.
English & Best's ice house at ALBANY, n
T.. has burned; loss 100000. The entire
harvest was destroyed.
The new Spanish cabinet is intended to
keep the party together for another year.
Little change of policy is probable.
Count Richter, who was designated to sue.
ceed Count Piper as Swedish ambassador at
London, has committed suicide at Stockholm
by shooting.
John Mcvey and John Mccarthy, at the
Winslow Hotel, Binghampton. n. Y, blew
out the gas and were found dead in bed, Fri
day morning.
Sheriff Rains and son were killed at Jacks
boro, Tex. Thursday night, by w. w. Ter
rell. The trouble arose out of an cid family
feud. Terrell was shot and may die.
Bark Western Belle, from Trapani to
Gloucester, Mass reports In latitude 80,
longitude 80 45, passed portion of Joggins
raft. The logs were water soaked and stick
ing end up.
Capt. George Torrey of the schooner Ad-
die Emma, has been missing since Monday
1t is feared that he has been foully dealt
with. He belonged in Deer Island, Me. and
was of temperate habits.
Horatio Hatfield, aged IL, shot Thomas J.
Allen, aged 10. through the right lung with
rifle at Excelsior Springs, Mo-, Thursday
evening inflicting q mortal wound. The
youthful assassin is in custody.
committee of the Chamber of Deputies
Thursday passed a resolution to enter into
perpetual treaty with the United States for
the settlement by arbitration of disputes that
may arise between that country and France.
The body of the drowned man that washed
ashore at Bowery Beach, was viewed by the
coroner and buried, Friday afternoon. There
is little doubt that he was one of the seamen
of the schooner Nellie Bowers, wrecked near
the spot a few months ago.
The Erie Belt Line Passenger Railway has
been chartered with a capital of S25O.OOO
The line will be operated in Erie with the
Sprague electrical motors. Broadway cars
equipped similar to the plant in Richmond
Va The city councils have given the com
pany the privilege of using the streets for
the road A portion of the stock is held by
local cOrpOratOrs and the balance by those
who are operating the Sprague system.
Will Hague, formerly city clerk of Patter.
son, N. j., who fled to Canada in 1884, leav- |
ing deficit of 81, 900 in his accounts, has
voluntarily returned and given himself up to
the authorities. Hague was also treasurer of
the Peoples Brewing Company of Newark. |
and was some $l2 900 short in his accounts
there. He says his life as fugitive has be-
come unbearable, and he decided to return
and stand trial. Hague has been sentenced
to three years.
Whipples drug store on Market square,
Portland, was entered by burglars, Thursday
night, and goods and money stolen to the |
amount of a little less than hundred dol |
lars. Suspicion was directed toward Oscar
Snowman of Long Island, young man for
merly employed as a clerk in Whipple's store |
He was arrested at the wharf, Friday after-f
noon, as he was about to take the boot for
home. He made confession and 10 now at |
the police station. y -
John BOwans, cOlored was taken from |
Jail at Union Bridge, Nd, Friday morning, |
by band of colored men. all masked, and |
carried to the outskirts of the town. where |
he was strung up by the neck. He motioned |
to be let down and the rope was slackened |
50 that he could speak. He slipped through |
the rope and jumped away like a shot. The
lynchers gave chase and fired three shots |
after him, but without effect. He has not
yet been recaptured.
The gold refinery of Barden & Burlingame
Of Attleboro was entered Thursday night by |
masked burglars. Two watchmen were
bound and gagged and the safe blown open,
The proprietors estimate their loss at 81, 800,
largely in gold ribbon and nuggets of granu-
lated silver. The balance is $4s in money |
and $50 in gold chips. There is no clue.
Persons living about ten rods away
heard the noise but were
not sufficiently aroused to investigate.
Further advices from Northern Minnesota
and Dakota indicate that the losses by the
severe storm of Wednesday night and Thurs
lay. will be heavy. At Rushford, Mimi,
the water is higher than it has been for four
teen years, and farmers are out in RATS after
their cattle. All the wires are down at St. |
Vincent, Minnedosr, Medicine Hat and other
points in the line of the storm. The flood at
Cloquet in Wisconsin is receding. Several |
hundred people have been rendered tempo
rarily homeless at Cloquet and Fon Du Lac |
by the floods. The loss to the Nelson Lum-
ber Company is estimated at from 500, 900 |
to $780, 900, and the loss to Cloquet at half |
million.