Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-07-06
LAST EVENINGS NEWS.

At Union, Me-, Wednesday. an lS-foot so
diers monument was unveiled with appr ipr
ate ceremonies. including an Grafton BY Geo
A. Selders, Esq, of Portland.
The democratic State convention met w ed
nesday at Leavenworth, Kan. Judge Johl
Martin was nominated for governor.
Parnell denies that any of the letters pub
lished by the Times in its articles on Parnell
ism and crime are authentic.
A 5000 fire occurred in Rochester, N. H.
Thursday morning.
II is stated at Paris that Germany is about
70 adopt more stringent measures in regard to
French citizens in Alsace-Lorraine.
The business portion of Maumee, o.. was
swept by fire Wednesday. The supposed
cause is fire crackers.
United States steamship Enterprise, which
went ashore at Drobak, Norway, "Wednesday,
remains fast. Assistance has been sent.
George w. Hovey, of New Brunswick, has
Union Company for $40, 900 for the death of
his son last March. This is the tenth suit
resulting from the fatalities at the office of
March s. The damages for which suits are
brought aggregate $4,000.
iaSut DaubNess, oI new Iofk, ran on
Spring Point ledge, Wednesday, and stove
hole In her bottom. She proceeded to Bar
Harbor.
The bodies of two of the crew of the
schooner Nellie Bowers, which went ashore
at Cape Elizabeth last winter, have been
found near the Ocean House, Cape Elizabeth.
brilliant banquet WAS given at the Amer
ican Club, London, "Wednesday evening, in
honor of the day. Sir Edward Thornton pre-
sided
A ten-year-old son of George Grader, of
Skowhegan, WIS run over by heavy team,
Wednesday forenoon, and the ply ysicians have
some serious fears for the lads recovery
The Dominion government is jubilant
over the result of the nominations through
out Manitoba. There are 3S seats, ami | l
went by reclamation for the government.
1t is reported in Paris that strong opposi-
tion has been formed in London against ex-
isting copper syndicstes in France. In con-
sequence copper shares are heavy on the mar
ket today.
Panama canal stock is tumbling in the
French market.
Zobehr Pasha thinks that the white pasha"
of the Zenin region of Bahrgazelle is not |
Stanley, but Dr. Emn Pasha. lie, Emu
Pasha, told Zobehrs messengers that if press
ed he would strike for Bahrgazelle, where |
the people are hostile to the Mahdi.
VIM. Currier, aged 50 committed suicide
At his home in Amesbury, Mass, Thursday |
morning by shooting himself through the
heart
II is reported that marriage is being ar
ranged between the Tsarovitch and one of
Emperor Williams sisters. Gen raj Won
Pope, during his mission here, broached the
subject TO the Tsar, who gave his entire ap-
proval. Prince Bismarck is in favor of such |
A match. and this was his main reason for op-
posing the Battenberg- Victoria match which
would have rendered impossible match be-
tween Victoria's sister and the Tsarovitch.
The third train from the city of Mexico
since the flood at Leon, arrived Tuesday. The
sashout occurred at intervals for one hun
ired miles, but no bridges were destroyed.
fhe latest account places the number drown
ID at 700.
Canton, Massi is being visited by an epidemic
If typhoid fever; there are now over fit,
.ases.
The almost total paralysis of telegraphic
news west of Chicago indicates apparent
y that the storm of the past few days, cul-
Wednesday night, was the most
sidespread and severest in number of
ears.
John Wanamaker of Philadelphia now
arries 81 900, 900 insurance on his life. the
argest amount, it is said, carried by any in
livldnal in the United States.