Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-08-15
NEWS NUGGETS
Boiled Down Items Of Interest the
World Over.

The New Hampshire Legislature has voted
to adjourn Aug. Is.
There is no doubt that the Cherokees will
refuse to sell their strip
An explosion of chemicals did much DIM
age in New York drug store this week.
The death watch has been placed or five
condemn murierers in New York city
The excitement in Ontario over the Jesuit
estates bill is still very high
Canadian editors continue 10 write excited
ly over the Bshring Sea affair
Judge Bookstaver of New York has
promptly annulle the Flack divorce.
The French Senate court has found Gen
eral Boulanger guilty of conspiracy.
The latest report from Stanley indicates
that he is still long distance from the coast
A young lady at New City, N. Y. has died
from eating toadstools mistaking them for
mushrooms.
A tug crashing into bridge at Montreal
caused panic among pedestrians crossing
the structure and two women and several
children were severely injured.
Fred Leslie, the popular comedian of the
London Gaiety Company, who became such
a favorite during his engagements in Ameri-
CA last season, is dead in London of blood
poisoning.
Burglars have joined Jack the pepper
in terrOrizing the inhabitants of Elizabeth
port, Pa.
| The lumber of the scafold from which
John Brown was launched to death has beer
sold to a Washington man.
| After irving the Brown Sequard elixir, DR.
John w. Palmer, prominent physician oil
Detroit, Mich, said that he be lieves in man,
eases it may save life by bridging over {
crisis.
A report is current that the Russian gov
eminent is pressing the regents of Servis I,
expel ex King Milan from that country
Agnes Huntington, the American prim;
douns, has made a professional and socia
success in London She is a tall, statues III,
woman. with wonderful cOntralto voice.
Joaquin Miller says that he is at last ricl
man. He bought 20" acres near the town o
Oakland hard by San Francisco some wear
ago, and now they are to be taken for tow
lots. Within three years he has plaate'
$1,000 trees.
The Shah of Persia has scattered decora
tons broadcast over Europe. PREMIER
danseuse recently appeared on Vienna stag
wearing the ribbon of the Lion and the Sun
the gift of ''the King of Kings" The shall
has taken great fancy is Buffalo Bill ant
will probably decorate him
Ex-Consressman Horr of Michigan, ha
prepared lecture TO prove that the baboon
are not our cousins.
Chairman Cooley of the Interstate Com
merce Commission. pays his own railroa'
fare, and thinks that everybody else ought t
follow his example.
Rose Hawthorne Lsthrop is spending ta
summer at New London, Conn. and so is tn
other poetess, Edith Thomas.
Thirty-five members of the Salvation
Army we're arrested at st. Paul Sunda,
while holding meeting on the street 70
being too noisy.
Extensive thefts have been going in tn
Chicago Post Office for months. This weel
A trap was set and John Davis, the nigh
engineer, was caught in the act of rifling
mail package.
Elaborate preparations are being made .
SO. birmingham, Mass, to welcome thu
President as he passes through there to day
DIR. Alexander Brown Mott, of New York
an eminent physician and surgeon, son o
the late DR. Valentine Mott still more ia
nous, died tuesday from pneumonia, after
two days illness, at his country residence
near Yonkers.