Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-02-04
LAST EVENINGS NEWS.
Riot in the Pennsylvania Coal Regions
-callan and Harkins Found Guilty
A Paris Suburb Flooded-The Frozen
Condition of Maine Harbors-Mrs.
Hendricks Wants a Pension.

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in Paris,
The reported lease of woodlands in north
ern New Hampshire, by Dartmouth College
is premature,
The Bath special liquor constables search
ed Hoyt's express Friday, and took about on,
half pint of whiskey in bottle, from tn,
office.
Mrs. J. Nichols of Calais, nearly SO year,
old and partially blind. fell ON the stove
Thursday night and was fatally burned.
Six hundred pounds of powder exploded i,
the blasting corning mill of the Austin Pow
der Company's plant at Newburg, Ohio, Fri
day.
Friday morning the Bath special hquo
constables seizet two eases of liquor from
the American Co. s team on Front street, con
tanning about three gallons of whiskey,
Mrs. Hendricks thinks she ought to have
pension for the services of Ex-vice Presi-
dent Hendricks. her husband, who did all he
could 10 assist the South during the rebel.
lion.
Thomas Callan and Michael llarkins, Amer
icans charged with being connected with III,
dynamite conspiracy, were found guilty a
London, Friday. and sentenced to Is years
penal seryitude.
The Paris suburbs of Gentilly have beer
flooded by the bursting of a main water-sup
plying conduit The road under which the
conduit passed has collapsed, and two houses
have fallen, and a number of others are in 4
leaning condition.
/ May Wilson, the young girl who set fire to
the New York hospital for the relief of tn,
ruptured and crippled, was arraigned OF
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prevention of cruelty to children, pending
the coroner's inquiry She refused TO say
why she started the fire, and is supposed to
be out of her mind.
! Sixty-ive panic-stricken people, clad on.
| ly in their night clothes, ran out into the
freezing air at 3 O'Clock, Friday morning
when the Dubuque House, Bohemian no.
tel on South Clark street, Chicago, was burn
ing. They all suffered from exposure be-
fore they were sheltered in neghboring
houses. No lives were lost.
| 1t was said at Ottawa Thursday night, thai
Sir Charles Upper has succeeded in still
further extending negotiations and has in
formally suggested the bold alternative
schemes of reciprocity between the United
States and Canada as a satisfactory method
of permanently solving the constantly re
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| The New England Ship Building Company
of Bath has obtained another contract, a three
masted schooner for Capt. Hill Rogers OF
New York. The keel is being stretched anc
moulds for the frame were sent up into the
woods Friday morning The firm now has
seven vessels, four large schooncrs and three
steamers in the various stages of construc
ton.
| A chemist named Derby, and his wife ant
six children have been found dead in their
dwelling-house at Manchester, Eng. Their
death was evidently caused by poison. They
had been dead several days. The belief
is that the man was driven to desperation b,
his inability TO support the family, and ad
ministered poison to them and then commit
ted suicide
The Winona, Mimi, Board of Trade ha,
adopted resolution approprating $4,000
for the relief of the snow-bound communitic,
of New y York and the New England states
same to be forwarded by Feb. lst or sooner
if the communities raise the blockade. Res
oiutions of sympathy were also adopted and
copies of same forwarded to the governors
of New York and New England states.
Mr.. c. c. IIoyts of st. Louis and other
persons interested with him, have purchased
4 Hftibn bl i'tlll diblH iUt btHtU III Nut iON
of York, and will build summer cottages
there the coming season. 1t is understood
that twenty-five persons are interested in the
project. and at least a dozen houses will be
put up the next summer. The contract fol
Mr.. lIoyt's house is already in the hands OF
a Portland builder. and the building will be
ready to occupy by the first of May.
Early Thursday morning, Policeman
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heard a police whistle and moment later
two men came running down the street. II,
said he called to them to halt, thinking they
were criminals. The men did not stop, anc
so he fired and fatally injured the man Ed
wards, a hack driver He and his compan
ion were running to get warm. He canno
live. Edwards had driven Miss Jenni'
Flood, daughter of millionaire, to party
and was waiting to take her home.
A convention of District Assembly lG re
mained in session at Pittstown, Pa, till
o'clock. Friday morning, with closed doors
1t leaked out Friday morning that the meet
ing was a stormy one and that the question
of asking advance in wages was then dis
cussed 1t was resolved, however, by
unanimous vote to make demand upon tn
operators in the Wyoming and Lackawann
regions for an increase of 10 per cent Tn
executive board are to confer with the oper
ators and make the demand without furtbe
delay.
Bark Charles Fobes was sold at auction a
Portland, Friday, to satisfy a bott emry bon
given on account of repairs to the bark il
the Falkland Islands in 1886. The bond wa
payable at Callao, where the bark was bound
but it was not presented there. The vesse
aafIoI for bar apI thap Tn Ranth IA q
Me-. where she was libeled by John NJ
Dean of London, to whom the bond had bee
assigned. The bond was for 81 1853. A
the u. 5. Marshal's sale, Friday morning
the bark was bid in for 81 ,300by arepresent
ative of the firm of Leaycraft & Co, Of Ne'
York, who are agents for j. VI. Dean, libel
liant. The bark was owned by Portland an
Boston parties, her managing owner bein
Capt. b. Webster of Portland The bark
now at Boothbay, and will be towed to Port
land.
There was the first exhibition of violenc
by the Reading strikers Friday, since the in
auguration of the great strike. Exas
perated by the starting up of the VIM. PEN
mine, the radicals decided TO prevent fui
ther operations. While 20 Hungarisns an
Polanders we're on their way to work befor
daylight, about an equal number Of men j
ambush attacked them with clubs and bea
them in terrible manner. The foreignci
were on their way TO work at the Wm. Pen
and we're totally unprepared for the onslaught
Several received severe bruises on thei
heads. The strikers seized their dinne
pals threw away the contents and drove th
Huns and Poles back to their shanties. tn
police succeeded in capturing one of tb
attacking party, John Burns, and he wa
held in $500 bail. The worst, it is believe
is still to come. The coal regions are in
ferment of excitement.