Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-03-17
LAST EVENINGS NEWS.

The Burlington strike has cost the roat
S6.0oo,oo already.
The list of wrecked vessels on the Della.
ware coast increases hours.
The Supreme Court decision in the tele.
phone case is expected on Monday.
The first through train from New York
reached New Haven Friday afternoon.
Margaret Harrington, aged 60, was burned
to death at Portsmouth, N. H., on Friday.
The house of Mrs. Nancy Robinson a,
South Thomaston, was burned Thursday.
The Boston 4 Maine has been prosecuted
for cruelty to animals in the transportation
of cattle.
The Northern Maine railroad line from,
Houlton 10 Bancroft, will be surveyed as
soon as the snow goes off.
All the railroads out of New York, except
the New York 4 New Haven, are running.
Telegraph wires are not yet repaired.
| Coogan 4 Brothers furniture store at New
York was burned Friday morning. Six men
were killed and more than score injured.
| The engineers on the Atchison, Topeka 4
Santa Fe railroad have quit work, stating as
the cause that they are tired and wanted to
rest.
llEConstable Mcdonald of Bath and his
friends consider the action of the Governor
and Council an approval of his conduct in
the Hart case.
The Boston & Maine Corporation has ap-
pointed Geo. +. Sturtevant, auditor of pas
senger accounts and VIM. II, Allen auditor
of freight accounts.
Two passengers were killed and twenty
more or less wounded by railroad accident
ON the Delaware. Lackawana and Western
near Birmingham n. Y.
The ship yard mechanics of Bath in con
vention Thursday night, decided to ask for
an advance of 80 cents in wages, the refusal
of which to be followed by II strike.
Fishermen from Bidde ford Pool, the Fer
ry and Goose Rocks, report that pieces of
wreck and barrels of flour are floating ashore
II is thought some vessel was wrecked near
the coast during the storm.
The funeral of Emperor William occurred
Friday, attended by large number of for
cign kings, princes, envovs and an immense
throng of people. Berlin was heavily
draped in mourning.
Rufus Rogers of Knightvlle, fireman on
the Maine Central shifter at Portland, fell
beneath the wheels in attempting to board
ilie engine WHlle III mOtlOn rTluay anu vas
run over aud his leg cut off below the knee.
The funeral of Warren, the Benton mur-
dcrcr aud his victims, occurred Friday. The
procession passed through Fairfield on the
way to Wnslow. Three hearses were in the
procession, such a sight never having been
seen before.
A special session of Hancock District
Lodge of Good Templars was held with Pine
Tree Lodge, Surry, Thursday. Grand Chief
Templar Dow conferred the new degree on
As members. A rousing public temperance
meeting was held in the evening, addressed
by the Grand Chief Tcmplar, J. c. Chilcott
and others.
Newport dispatch was received at Ban
gor Friday morning, relating that an attempt
is to be made by the friends of DR.. Weed to
get him out of Jail on bail until his trial
Recently, it is stated, new developments in
this remarkable case have come to light,
which the friends of the Doctor say will
prove beyond a doubt that he was not the
arch conspiratOr in the bold robbery as Fos-
ter's story goes, and that if he was connect
ed with the robbery at all, it was only to
conceal Foster in his office Sunday night,
and to receive the money. Peter Bennett
arrived in Bangor Thursday, and has been
in consultation with detectives. lie believes
that his money is hid somewhere in the town
of Newport.