Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-08-06
NEWS NUGGETS.
Boiled Down Items OF Interest tAo
World Over.

President Evafeste CAfAZO OF Nicaragua 10
dead.
Rhode Island has adopted license law in
place of prohibition.
Present indications are that Hippolyte will
become master Of the situati0n in Hsyd.
1t is reported that the Alton railroad 10 ne
gotiating for the purchase Of the Kansas
Pacific branch Of the Union Pacific.
The only cross eyed COW in the country 10
owned by George WilliAms Of Comley. o.
Mexican lead mines are shutting down be-
cause of the imposition Of duties BY the
United States.
The Servian ministry has ordered = muster
of all three military classes - an Offset to
Bulgarian orders.
The sultan has put his foot down and de-
clares the insurrection in Crete must be sup
pressed.
Ii lie expected that so, 900 colored people
will move from North Carolina into the
southwest in the fall.
| The flood loss in Burlington County, N.
j., has been computed to be $4,000.
Sylvan Lake. near Key East, has been
washed into the OCEAN by the bursting Of ito
dyke.
| William j. CLARK, Jr., Of the editorial
staff Of the Evening Telegraph, is dead.
George II. Jameson, Of the editorial stat
Of the Washington Post. 10 dead.
Gigantic mining and manufacturing in
terests in the South are projected by New
York and Virginia capitalists.
A great knights Of Pythias encampment
is to be held next week at Spring Fountain
Park. near Warsaw, Ind.
! Sir James Ferguson announces that Great
Britain has entered into no understanding in
re gard to the jurisdiction Of the Behring sea.
The Colorado Utes are again committing
depredatioDs.
| Treasurer Coleman Of Warren county, o.,
has defaulted to the tune Of Sos. 900.
| Mrs. John Eastman Of New York uninten-
tionally poisoned her 5-year old daughter on
Friday by giving her carbolic acid instead of
a liquid opiate. The child died within an
hour.
Diamonds worth SIS 900 were stolen from
a Kanas City jewelry store in broad daylight
on Friday.
Two thousand members of the National
Grange. Patrons Of Husbandry, met at
Chautauqua Friday for reunion and picnic.
The Florida State Board of Health re-
quires all cities of 10000 inhabitants TO dis
pose of refuse BY cremation.
Northwestern people talk seriously of the
project of a railroad from Spokane Falls to
Alaska.
The Governor General Of Canada has re-
fused to interfere in the Jusuits Estate .
matter in Canada on being requested 20 to do
by the Equal Rights Association.
/ The Chautauqua Normal Assembly at
Friday night with reunion and lecture BY
General T. J. Morgan.
Mrs. Arthur E. Ellis committed suicide in
East Providence Thursday night by taking
corrosive sublimate.
A Cigarette Trust has been formed by
tobacco dealers in Salem. Ore.
One Mcdonald, of Beloit, Neb., gives his
age as 1903, and says that his father lived to
be III.
A Cincinnati couple named respectively
John Sweet and Mile Honey we're married
in that city recently.
dozen drivers and conductors on the At
lantic avenue horse car line in Brooklyn, N.
Y, were suspended recently for flirting.
The Lee brothers Of French creek, B. c.,
were building a road last week, when they
noticed their dog acting curiously near .
large stump. A second later he vas seized
by full-grown panther and carried into the
woods.
Gen. Wilson 10 to be made superintendent
of West Point. and the president 10 looking
about for a suitable person to make superin-
tendent of buildings and grounds At Wash
ington.
The Royal Astronomical society Of Eng
land will send ont two expeditions to observe
| the eclipse Of the sun next December-one
to South America and the other to West
Africa.
Collector circuit Of Boston has not made
many removals. reappointing all save two Of
80 lnv, -
Democrats.
A new cattle disease has appeared in Ne
braska. The eyes swell and blindaess en-
sues. So far no remedy has been discover
ed.
The Shah after Witnessing the Wild West
show thanked Buffalo Bill sfusively for the
entertainment.
full fedged ghost is doing effective
work in keeping street CANINE u home after
nightfall in the vicinity Of the City Park on
the West Side, in Erie, Pa. The apparition 10
srrayed in robes of spotless white and Aoats
noiselessly through the air over chimney
tops.
DR.. Schneider, chemist Of Cologne, has
discovered a new explosive "pes,agit." more
powerful, safer to handle and less expensive
than dynamite.
Massachusetts Grand Army veterans pro-
test against the use Of the Grand Army IN
politics in forwarding the candidacy of Col.
Myron P. Walker ~ lieutenant governor.
A party Of John l.. Sullivan's friends in
New Orleans held 4 meeting and discussed
plans for raising the amount Of bail and dne
likely to be imposed upon the pugiliss in
Mississippi.
Congressman Scott, Of Erie, has BE-
come the possesssr Of large coal 6elds lying
between the Monongahels and Youghiogheny
Rivers in Allegheny Cousty.
Clara Roeder, Of Pottsville, vas vaylsid
by Itaiians in broad daylight, Who cut OF her
golden tresses and escaped
Johnstown people who are anxious 70 put
up substantial buildings are waiting eagerly
to see what action the national Government
may take III the matter Of dredging the
choked streams and are afraid to build until
some such action il taken.
A miscreant who 10 known - Jack the
Pepper is terrorizing women in Elizabeth,
N. j.. BY suddenly appearing in their bed
chamber, and then mysteriously making his
escape.
Business failures reported to Bradstreet's
numbered 2l3 in the United States last
week, against 23l the week before, and $50
the same week last year.
The fumor that an o6er has been made By |
English capitalists fer the Americas Print |
Works At Fall River has been Gen.
frmed BY the president Of the company. Mr. |
C. ID. Borden.
The remains Of Count Cafnos, the French
statesman. Who died Aag. 3, 1893, we're cent
10 Paris, the French government having de-
cided to place the remains in the Pantheon.
Emperor William hes been appointed IN
admiral in the British navy. All
Osborne House the queen received hin %
The terrace and kissed him ca bolh ehseks.
Coves and Osborne House vsrs illuminssedl
II night. Many thousand ighn we're Dis
played aboard she vessels in he hasbor.
A WashingtDa despasch mys y Otasvs he
Treasury Department has decided that Cana-
Ian shocks used in the manufacture Of boxes
're not entitled to the benefit Of dras backs
N expoTsafion. |,