Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-01-11

tarians-Jake Shapes Trial to Occur
Soon-Danger OF Great Floods in Aus
tria-Steamer City OF Richmond At
tached-Several Arrests Made in Gar
diner-A Case OF F orgery at Norway.
Me,
Jake Sharps trial will probably take place
at an early date.
The French government has pupchased
enormous quantities of lead and zinc.
The steamer Tonawanda, before reported
disabled at sea, has arrived at New York.
A; bookseller named Scott has fed from
Mo4treal to the United States, taking $4,000.
Nhbokotf, the leader of the recent Mon
tenegrin raid, has been killed by the peas
ants.
The number of deaths from small pox in
Havana during the month of December was
374.
will soon take steps to dethrone Prince Fer
dinand.
The wool growers of New York, with but
one exception, demonstrate against the pres
ident's tariff policy.
Rev j. J. Seward of Lowell has accepted
a call to the pastorate of the Unitarian par
ish in Waterville, Me.
The remains of the celebrated temple of
kabeiroi, Athens, have been discovered by
the German excavators near the Besa.
The following Maine pensions were grant
ed on Tuesday Original, lothian 5. Buzzell,
Cherry field; reissue, Charles A. Hanson,
Lewiston
Deputy Sheriff +. +. Norton arrested
Verne Swift at Gardiner for felonious as
sault on a lady at Benton. officer Reed
took Swift to Benton.
AT meeting of the cigar makers unions,
New York, Monday night, an appeal for aid
was adopted, which will be sent to the trade
throughout the country.
Warm winds have caused a sudden thaw
throughout Austria and serious floods are
threatened. Some of the suburbs of Vienna
are already partially submerged.
Washington special says that important
information has just arrived from Kentucky,
in the Carlisle election case in the shape of
proof that many of the afiidavts against the
Speaker are unqucstionably false.
Journal Des Debatts officially denies that
NJ. Carnot instructed Mr.. lIerbette, the
French ambassador at Berlin, to inform En-
peror William that as long as he remained
pre- sdent there would be no war.
Henry Fason, section hand, aged about 65,
was instantly killed in the Northern railroad
yard at Concord, n. H., Tuesday afternoon
The shifting engine backed car over him,
nearly severing the head from the body.
Deputy Sheriff Norton arrested John Par
son and James Calvin at.Gardiner Tuesday,
on, n,,fh hatp sh,.
mitted the late assault and robbery at Winn.
An officer from Bangor took them to that
city.
The Cherokee national council was organ
lied at Talequah, I. r., on Monday, after
one months wrangling. No further trouble
is anticipated and the question of allotment
of lands and leasing on the Cherokee strip
will soon be taken up.
The Utah legislature met Monday, and or
ganized in both branches. There are three
gentiles and twenty-one Mormons in the
lower house, and two gentiles and ten Nor
mons in the upper house. The governor $
message was delivered Tuesday,
| The constitutional convention met at HUI
ron, OAK, Monday. Immediately action
was advocated and committee will probably
report in favor of electng presidential cleo
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Inc following Maine patents were granted
on Tuesday Seth B. Beedy, Pennington,
telephone transmitter; Frank Harding, case
hardening and cement compound; Jos. q.
boonans, fairbeid, mltering machine; Albert
ii. Hanscom, Wnterport, bride and bit
Sixty thousand pilgrims have come to Rome
Of these 50 900 are Italians, 5000 French,
4 900 Germans, 2,0OO Spaniards, SO cardi.
mails and 500 bishops are now here. The
value OF the presents received amounts to
$4,000, 900 and money gifts to $500, 900.
Rev. .Jobp Lowtber n rector at Bolton.
near Aighton England has committed su;
cide nv sbootinu previous IN ,he act he
had received a summons to answer TO
charge of indecent assault upon a servan,
GIRL The deceased was consin Of Lord
Ionsdale and a relative Of RI Hon. lame,
Iowther
Emily Lewis. aged 40 wears. of DAYTON.
o.. left her home on MONDAY morning
dressed only in her night clothes and iumped
into the canal. A rescue being a,temuted
she resisted. saving she wanted to die and
managed to drown herself in spite of every
effort to get her ashore. Religious excite.
ment is thonght TO have deranged her mind
poraIa IA p;vo, ,,o,,a =, uon
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are charged with enticiup persons to sipr
blank applications for policies and after
wards filing them in for larger amounts thar