Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-01-24

contained twenty-four pint bottles of whis
key and the other six quart bottles of rum.
Daniel Driscoll, the leader of the Why,
gang, who murdered Breezy Clarity, wa.
hanged in the Toomhs prison yard at 7.e+ 4
NJ. Monday. Driscoll met his death with
tirmness and apparently with but little suf,
fering. He was cut down in about eight
minutes.
While a party of Nationaiists was cele-
hrating the release OF 0'Brien at Castle
/ Wellam, County Down, SUNDAY, 4 collision
occurred between them and number of
Cnonists. Stones were thrown, FIST fights
occurred and several of the comhatants were
/ injured,
I The house AT Browuyile. owned by Jud-
son Briggs and occupied by Mrs. Mcdonald
as boarding house, was DESTROYED by fire at
three o'clock Saturday morning, together
with the stable and four horses owned hv
Mckenzie, Mann 4 Co, Total loss 5000 /;
insurance on house 5000.
The Compagnie General Transatlantique
of Marsailles is dismissing its foreign work
men, and has ordered that none shall here
after be employed. 1t is reported that other
companies will adopt similar course. Ital-
ians and Germans mainly are affected. among
whom many are believed to be spies.
Mrs. George W. Whitney, one of Farm
mgtons oldest and most respected residents,
was found dead in her bed Monday morning
by her daughter. She took ether SATURDAY..
aud had seven teeth extracted, but recovered
nicely from its effects and went TO bed in
her usual health. She was 90 wears of
age.
The AtChisou, Topeka and Santa Fe are
intending purchasing one hundred thousand
bushels of seed wheat and sending ii out into
Kansas, where the farmers have suffered
most from last years failure of crops. The
company will take the notes of the farmers
due in one year AT per cent. and will charge
nothing for transportation.
The Shootly train, south, ran OF the track
at Warren summit, \. H.. at three o'clock
Monday morning, demolishing one car, and
shaking up the passengers badly No one
was hurt, The accident was caused by a
broken rail. This makes the fourth derai-
mcnt of trains since Saturday night. All
trainS are from three to four hours late.
GOV Martin of Kansas. authorizes the
statement that great distress prevails in the
extreme southwestern part of Kansas owing
to the failure OF crops last year and the first
of the winter. GOV. Martin is fully convinced
that there are great many eases of desttu-
ton and appeals to the people of older coun-
tries TO organize for the purpose of extend
ing the required assistance
\ little after : o'clock sunday night pis-
tol shots and screams were heard in Mary
Tay's house of i'll fame at birmingham,
Ala J. l.. Vincent, saloon keeper and
Mary ray were found in pools of blood. A
man was fatally shot, a woman had a bad
wound in the left breast. Vincent was only
strong enough To say John Bailey did it.
The men had quarrelcd, and Vincent at
tempted to stab Bailey.
one story store at North Conway. owned
by Frank l.. Mason, occupied by Harris
Wiener, ready made clothing, boots and shoes,
burned Sunday morning with the contents.
Loss 50 900 ON the building; insured in the
New Hampshire company for 500; goods
for - 600 as follows Peoples of Man
chester, 81 800; Granite State, Portsmouth,
81 800; Capital of Nashua, 81 900. 1t is
supposed to have caught from the chimney.
An attempt was made to Kill Louise
Michel at llavre. Sunday night She was
making an address at q meeting of anarchists
and a man in the audience named Lucas sud
denly arose and fired two shots at her She
received a serious wound in the head, and
the lobe of one of her ears was torn away.
Lucas had narrow escape from lyuching Mt
the hands of the infuriatcd anarchists and it
was only the timely arrival of gendarmcs
that saved him. Mchel's wound is not
serious.
\ Halifax special says that in an interview
Hon j. W. Longley, attorney general of
Nova Scotia. expressed his doubt that the
fisheries negotiations would be successful.
The Canadian commissioner could hardly
rcccde from his position taken in advance,
which was backed by Canadian public opin-
ION. lie intimatcd that Chamberlain was
more inclined to act in the interest of Eng
land than of Canada. He regards CONNER
cial union between Canada and the States as
the only satisfactory settlement of pending
difficulties.
Henry Norman, while at Vancouver b G.
Sunday, held a conversation with Editor
Stcall of the Pall Mall Gazette in London.
over the Canadian Pacific lines and the
Mackay- Bennett cable. Vancouver and New
York being in direct communication with
each othcr. although 3io0 miles apart.
Messagcs were exchanged and answers re-
ccivcd in four or five minutes. Afterwards
San Francisco was attached to the circuit
and exchanged greetings with London, the
total distance between the two cities being
500 miles by land lines AMI cable.
Mrs. +. \. Jacobs, postmstress Of Bryant's
Pond, who was brought before L :. Com
missioner Rand, at Portland, Friday, charged
with using postage stamps to pay debt, is q
soldiers widow, and woman much esteemed
IN the community. She thus explains the
affair cone year ago this fall | was on my
way to Massachusetts, and while in Portland
saw an opportunity to buy secondhand
top buggy at bargain, and not having
money enough at my disposal by ten dollars
paid that amount in two-cent postage
stamps, which is prohibited by the depart
ment. Still | thought it no harm, as had
paid bank bills dollar for dollar for them