Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-08-22
NEWS NUGGETS
Boiled Down Items OF Interest the
World Over.

The New York dry goods trade is reported
quite active.
All aliens in the employ of New York city
are being discharged.
The Credit Bank of st Petersburg has
foreclosed on two thousand estates in Russia.
A rumor comes from Hayt that Legitime
has accepted liippoly ties terms of peace.
A national bankrupt law will be discussed
at a convention of commercial bodies at Min.
neapolis, Sept. 3 aud 4.
Rain has at last checkc1 or put out the
forest fires in Montana and moist, ned
the parched fields in South Dakota.
Russian newspapers turn about I'D violent
ly attack the shah for declaring that he should
seek heneeforth the closest relations with
England
+. u. Hill of indianapolis reports that he
and 4 companion were brutally treated by
German officials on the French border and
refused permission to enter upon German
territory.
DIR. William +. Story, formerly Of Har-
ward and Johns Hopkins, has been appointed
acting professor of mathematics at Clark
University.
Anna Dickinson is seriously i'll in Philadel-
phia. She has been confined to her room
under ply scians care ever since her mothers
death, aui is unsbie to bear any fatigue
whatever.
Hon. Randolph Tucker, ex-member of
Congress, is reported to be very i'll at Lex
ington Va
Lord Salisbury row appears nowhere in
public without an escort OF Two detectives.
Speaker Carlisle and wife left tie City of
Mexico for Gusdalajara on this week, accom-
panied by United States Minister Ryan where
they will be given reception by Governor
Cosona of the State of Iaiisco. Previous to
the departure of the party, Romero Rubio,
secretary of the interior, gave dinner at
racubaya, at which Mr. and Mrs Carlisle.
Minister RYAN. and President and Mrs Diaz
were present.
Queen Victoria has sent to Prince Bis
marck a life-sized portrait of herself as
special mark of esteem.
General Bouiauger says that he will come
to America To escape arrest is ian infamous
falsehoOd.'
DR.. Amelia b. Edwards has made engage
ments for 60 lectures in America during the
coming season, selected from among three
hundred applications.
Lady Guinness has given an order for q
diamond necklace to a famous firm OF jew
eilers which will take several years To exc
cute, Eing to the present scarcity of stones
| of the first wat.r. The design for the orDa-
| ment is superb, and it will cost about sl25,-
| 600. Lady Guinness husband made his
money in the porter brewing business.
| L, is said in Washington that Hadje Has
-ein Gbooly Khan viii. return to this country
| in October.
| Considerable sums have been received
| from Anne rica TO assist in the de fense Of
Mrs. Ma, brick.
| After eighteen weeks dleness the Penn
Iron Company at Lancaster, Pa, resumed
work Monday.
One hundred picnickers were poisoned by
eating ice cream at ST Paul Sunday. Some
of them are dangerously i'll.
Mrs. Maybrick, the woman condemned in
| Liverpool. her children and mother are
parties to a suit begun in Louisville to secure
the disposition OF $4,000 acres Of land in
Kentucky.
| A motion to defea, the Irish Railways bill
in the House of Commons was rejected.
The bill is designed to encourage railroad
bu'liing by Government loans.
| Prince Sulkowski, the eccentric nobleman
who escaped recently from the aristocratic
Doebling Insane Asylum, is in danger Of be-
ing returned there if he continues to expose
secrets Of the Austrian Court.
The condition of the starving miners in
| NO'tHtEH AiiHuts 10 haiiy 8io"ihB uoie ots-
perate.
Edward Conroy, United State Consul at
Porto Rico, with one exception the oldest
member of the consular service, is dead.
Phiness + Barton of Granny. Mass, is in
love and wants to marry frisky widow of
50 but his friends think the widow is after
the ricke,y old mans morey aud want 70 put
him und sr guardianship He says; II think
I'm old enough to run my own business"
II il stated that the civil service commits
sion would like to have the civil service Law
extended to embrace the consular service.
The Pres,ient 10 ssij to be favorsbly inclined
The government has sent circular note q
the governors of provinces throughout Spain
instructiBg them not to take part in the move
mens to induce the PJpe TO reside in Spain
and to do everything possible TO discourage
the projsct.
There is talk Of constructing anothe
fishing lake at the bead of the CoaemaI Ugh
The New York Street Commissioner IL
discharged 200 employees because they wer'
aliens and not citizens.