Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-02-02
LAST EVENINGS NEWS.
Earthquake in Maine-A Bath Girl SUI
focated while Under the Influence OF
Chloral-Buffalo Has a Big Fire
Names Coast Ice Bound.

Col. John II. George of Concord, N. H.,
is very i'll and his death is hourly expected.
Cardinal Gibbons does not believe that
Henry Georges works call for any action by
the Catholic church.
Ex-Lord Mayor Sullivan of Dublin was re-
leased from prison on Wednesday, after two
months confinement
Henry Roberts, the cashier of the firm of
Whitehall, Lautum & Co., Philadelphia, has
confessed to embezzling $4,000
The Delaware & Hudson Canal Company
has made an advance of fifteen per cent in
wages of employees at lIonesdale.
Earthquake shocks were distinctly felt in
several Maine. New Hampshire and Vermont
towns and cities, at about / 80 Wednesday
morning.
The Cambria Iron Works and Coal Com
pany at Johnstown, Pa, has made reduc-
ton of ten per cent in the wages of the EN-
ployes.
Mr.. A. b. Jordan, formerly of Auburn,
Me-. who was injured in the Rosedae acci =
dent last year has been paid Sl7 900 by the
railroad.
At the Cameron 4 Lake Fider collieries a,
Shamokin, the men will be given an advance
of five per cent. on contract work, and wages
will be advanced ten per cent.
The trial of Thomas Callan, formerly of
Lowell, Mass, and Michael Harkins of Phil
adelp the alleged dynamiters was begun
at London on Wednesday.
The dry goods house of Barnes, Hengerer
Co., Buffalo was burned on Wednesday
morning Loss, 81 100000. Two girl:
were buried in the ruins.
The Anglican synod of Nova Scotia, on
Wednesday, unanimously elected Rev. DIR.
Courtney of Trinity Church, Boston, to the
Bisbopic of Nova Scotia.
A former employe of the Bangor post Office
is in trouble. While employed he sold GER
tain old cancelled stamps to a stamp collector
The Washington authorities will probably
call him to account.
Mr. Cox, member of Parliament, for max
ing a speech at kildystart, County Clare, al
legged to incite the tenants to conspiracy, wai
convicted and sentenced to one months i'm
prisonment.
The first load of freight since Thursday
went over the Knox & Line nm, Tuesday y
night. being, ,carted across the Kennebec at
Bath on the ice Steamers large and small
have stopped running in the ice.
department of New Hampshire, met at Con.
cord n. H., Wednesday afternoon. An un.
usually large number of veterans had al
ready arrived, and many more are coming on
the early train.
Vessels bring but few fish to Boston. The
Rapid Transit, Governor Butler, and Hernin
Woods from Newfoundland, bring one mil
lion herring. At Plaicentia Bay, Newfound
1 10 Horrinn tai in h,,n a.
ance.
The condition of the ice at Nantucket i,
about the same and the prospect of commu-
nication is unchanged. Efficient service ha,
been rendered by the government cable IL
getting news to tugs, whereby large number,
of vessels have been saved as well as lives.
Julia Baker, formerly of Bath, Me-, once
the possesor of fortune lost through bad
speculations. was suffocated by smoke in +;
house on Temple street, Boston, which caugh
fire. She was victim of the chloral habi
and was probably under its influence at thu
time.
An explosion occurred in Polish boardin,
house at GaIitzen, Penn, Tuesday night
caused by spark from lighted ciga
dropping into a can of blasting powder
which four men were dividing up. Two Of
the men were Danly iDJured- Inc mousse wa
entirely demolished
\ A feet Of fifteen vessels outward boune
and coastwise, were in Portland harbor, Wed
nesday morning. The latest arrival was ths
Jacob NJ. Haskell with coal from Baltimore
She came in with sails split and is badly icet
up, forward. She reports all harbors frozer
1 up between here and Baltimore.
II Precipitations for the month Of Januar,
were Rainfall, including melting snow, 4035
this is nearly half an inch more than the av
erage for fifty years. The snow fall for tn
month was 1925 inches; nearly inches
more than the average for As years. Tn,
snow fall for the season, thus far, is 34.2
inches.
The annual convention Of the New Hawp
shire department Of Woman's Relief Corp
met on Wednesday forenoon with hrg'