Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-08-07
NEWS NUGGETS.
Boiled Down Items OF Interest the
World Over.

Tennyson is so years old to-day
Wichita, Kan, has forty.two women's
clubs.
The Boston fund for Johnstown amounts to
$l59,064.
Lachman's brewery at Cincinnati was
damaged $4,000 by fire.
The British House of Commons has passed
the royal grants bill.
St. Louis has set out energetcally to Sc
cure the exposition in 1892
There is no abatement in the epidemic of
dyseutery at Warsaw. 10.
The shah has conferred the highest Persian
order on President Carnot.
Fall River mill men call the proposed
Cotton Trust "a bubble enterprise"
Attorney General Barnard of New Hamp-
shire thinks Palmer will be hanged Dec 3.
Bury Irwin Dasent, newspaper man for
merly of Philadelphia. has become treasurer
of the McCaull Opera Company.
Postmaster General Wannamaker had a
narrow escape from injury by railroad ae-
cident, Monday.
The Egyptian army seems to have virtually
annihilated the dervish army on Saturday.
Baron de Paronnet claims to have been
feeced out of $500 at Long Branch club
house.
Eight hundred and twenty three emigrants
arrived at Castle Garden, Monday.
The Chippewa commission has secured the
cession of over 5000, 900 acres of valuable
pine lands by Indians in Minnesota.
Being chased by policemen, a tramp
,,t, tba ku, in, ,-,f l,a naak Roxt
but after swimming about he was caught.
Acting Secretary Wharton says the State
Department has nothing to do with the
Behring Sea seizure.
The Princess Louise, now Duchess of Fife,
has a small foot. The size is about 81.
There are couple of pairs OF shoes to match
every dress, in her trousseau, and lot of
colored Russian leather, morocco, and black
shoes.
Rev. DR. G. L. Gray, dean of the Theo-
logical Seminary at Cambridge, died at
Sharon Springs, Sunday. DR.. Gray was
born in New York in 1888.
The body of J. Purvis Bruce, the bicycle
rider drowned in Lake Chauncy, West
borough Sun lay, was recovered Monday by
a Boston diver.
Mrs. Samuel Slater, wife of a well-known
resident of Greenport, L. L., committed sui
eide last night by hanging herself in the barn
while her husband was at church. She had
bad slight mental trouble for some time.
Report has it that Princess Alexandra Vic
toria, the fourth child and second daughter
of Albert Edward. Prince of Wales, is be-
trothed to Viscount Chelsea, oldest son of
the Earl of Csdogan. She is tall. but slen-
der twenty one years of age and is regarded
as better looking than her sisters.
The Kansas State militia was called out to
prevent possible conflict between the peo-
pie of Ravenna and Eminence concerning
the location of county seat.
For the first time there was special de-
livery of letters in New York on Sunday.
While Mrs. Mary, Smith, widow, was
asleep in her residence in indianapolis,
supposed burglar cat her throat.
John L. Sullivan arrived in Jackson,
Miss, and was there locked up in the city
Jail.
Sitting Bull and his band in full war cos
tune rode into the Standing Rock Agency !
and tried TO prevent the Sioux from signing
the treaty yielding their lands to the Govern
ment.
The deputy sheriffs employed by the |
sheriff of Allegheny County at the time of !
the Duquesne strike have brought suit for
services rendered and an appeal will be made |
to the Supreme Court to determine who is |
for the costs.
Martin Burke, the Cronin suspect. extra
dited from Manitoba. reached Chicago Mon
day.
Two men intimidsted the passengers of |
the Wabash Western express at Harlem,
Mo-, and then systematically robbed them.
threatening to shoot if they resisted.
A deed was executed in Virginia. New,
to a New York trust company all
he property Of the Sutro Tunnel Company
All the saloons in Cincinnati we're kept
lightly closed Sunday.
John YeldelI, alias REV. Mr.. Flemon.~
he colored preacher of Piitsburg, wanted
'or . murder in Edgefeld County South
Carolina, arrived with the officers at Colum-
ia, S. c., and has been placed in Jail to
wait his trial.
The terms of settlement of the difficulties
# the Transcontinental Association show
eduction in difsrentials allowed the Canadi- !
N Pacific Of about 80 per cent.
Ex-Governor HArtranft, one of the Chero- s.
zee commission, is i'll and has started home
rom the Indian Territory
William Dolan, Baltimore book-keeper, 7
hot and killed his wife and then took his Z
wn life. II
While Richard Molack, of Middleport,
D., vas making q survey in Randolph Coun- d
?, w. Va, he was sho: and killed from am
ush BY squatter, it is supposed. 4
Riga PashA, the Governor of Crete, has o
e,iePed the vithdrnval of the ,roops into the q
,rss With the view Of preventing collisions
it'll the insurgents. v
A despatch to the American consul-general "
,nounces the seizure At Guyshore Of the N
mericAn schooner videsfe.
Wilkie Collins, the novelist, Who has been n,
for some time, has had : relapse. c,
The late ex-senator Rollins of Concord, "a