Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-04-09

Iowa farmers Saturday resisted the evic-
ton of a settler.
Investigations Saturday showed that Bob
Hart committed suicide.
Charles Mitchell the pugilist is coming to
America to engage in business.
Cultured Boston proposes welcome to
John l.. Sullivan ON his return.
A water spout burst over Pesth on Friday
doing nearly $500, 900 damage.
1t is announced that Mr. Blaine will soon
visit Paris and afterwards Scandinavia.
Saturday Burlington train of timber cars
was badly wrecked and the fireman fatally
injured.
The officials at Havana state that the no
torious bandit Morejon has been killed at
Macurijes.
Saturday there were weird rumors of
strained relations between Fanny Davenport
and her husband.
The centennial celebration of Marietta, O.,
was observed last Friday with an Grafton by
George +. Hoar.
The republicans of Newport, r. l., at a
special election on Saturday elected a sena.
tor and four representatives.
ht pOet oliCt dt w est bTllgtOn, NufnDpT
laud county, has been reestablished with Or
in b. Hibbard as postmaster.
A freight engine on the Erie road near
Craigville, n. Y, exploded Saturday killing
the engineer, fireman and conductor.
Saturdays base ball games resulted Bos-
ton 20, Boston University Is; Harvard I,
Dartmouth | 4; Lowell II, Nashuas, 2.
Prince Alexander of Battenburg comes to
Charlottenburg next Thursday, and his be-
trothal to Princess Victoria takes place early
in June
Stockbridge, Mass, was visited by dis
astrous freshet Friday at about midnight.
Several dams, a railroad bridge and num-
Der of houses were washed away.
Francis w. Pittsman, sentenced at New
York, Friday to life Imprisonment for the
murder of his daughter, took poison some
time Friday night and is in a critical cond-
ton.
Friday, James Burton of Burgettstown,
Pa, who with party of young boys were
playing cowboys, was lasooed by one of the
party and in attempting to escape, was
strangled
1t was officially announced Saturday that
an agreement had been entered into between
the X. of L., and the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers, by which future antago-
nism is averted.
The great debate on unrestricted reciproc-
ity, which has lasted for three weeks in the
Canadian House of Commons, and in which
~ members have spoken, terminated at 4. IL
Saturday morning.
At Palmyra, Mo, Is school children were
precipitated into well, Friday by the Civ
ing way of the planking. The teachers were
successful in getting all but one out alive.
Several were njured.
Friday, Thomas Bastian liquor seller al
Painsec. N. B.. shot constable James Farrell
who was about to levy on Bastian's property
He afterwards shot himself and died. Far
rell's injuries may prove fatal.
A London dispatch Saturday, states that
counsel for Victoria Woo1hull threatened
legal proceedings against the publishers of
Henry Ward Beecher's biography, unless
the passage referring to the Woodruff wo-
man as a blackmailer was suppressed.
special cable from Paris states that
Kennedy Porter, son of Ex Governor Porter
of Tennessee, was probably fatally shot there
Friday night by young man named Will
Edmunds. The origin of the difficulty Is
supposed to be the attention of young Portel
The voissache lettings, St. Petersburg
says that the proposed marriage of Prince
Alexander and Princess Victoria is regarded
there as pleasing to Russia because it is be
lieved that the marriage would preclude the
princes return TO the Bulgarian throne, it be
ing impossible that son--n-law of the Kais
er should become Turkish vassal.
! At New York, Hans Stockred and hi
wife Fanny a handsome woman Of 21 years
each took dose of poison Saturday an,
both died. The husband was Polish Jey
| and had been out of work for some time
The woman was compelled to pawn almos
everything she had of any value, and fnall
/ the father, mother and five months old bah
had to live on hard crusts of bread pickct
! from the street refuse barrels. The bab
was transferred to the matron at police head
quarters.
! In the case of James w. Danphy, agains
the Travellers Newspaper Company, Bo'
ton. in which the plaintiff sought to sho'
that Roland Worthington, who is presider
and treasurer of the corporation. has mproI
eriy used large sums of money Of the cor
poration and has paid himself large amount
as salary, and in other ways appropriated th
money of the corporation to himself. TIL
full bench of the supreme judicial court rer
dered decision Saturday, sustaining tn
| defendants demurrer.