Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-08-21
NEWS NUGGETS
Boiled Down Items OF Interest the
World Over.

Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of
property has been destroyed by forest fires
in Montana.
A Londoner advertses that he is Porous
Plaster Manufacturer to Her Majesty the
Queen"
The Montana Constitutional Convention
completed its work on Saturday and adjourned
SINE die.
During the second quarter of 1889 there
were in New York city G69 fires with loss
of 81 sSl.l6s
New York is going right ahead with the
worlds fair Just as if she had got it. There's
nothing like nerve.
Senator Cameron lie likely to introduce
bill Ext Winter for the extension and i'm
provemen- of the Executive Mansion.
A dispatch from Portland Ore, reports the
discovery of remnants of glacier in Latsh
County Ida 1000 feet above sea level.
Saturday was pay day in the Wilkstarre
pa mining district, and before the day
was over there hal been three murders.
A trial of the new cruiser Charleston was
made BY the buihiers to test some alter atons,
and is said to have proved satisfactory.
The examination of the premises in Nv
York where the fatal gas explosion occurred
Friday night shows that it was planned.
A hurricane swept over the southern part
Of Spain Saturday. Several churches and
other buildings III Granada were wrecked
and portion of the dome of the Church of
St. Felice was blown down.
The l03d anniversary Of the birth of Da-
vid Crockett vas celebrated on Saturday at
Strong's Springs, in Greene county. There
was a militar, an civic display.
Three schoulboys of Sompoe. Cal. thought
they d have fun this vacation playing gold
mining So they began on q worn-out claim
on the beach near poit s. and in "a days,
working not more than eight hours day
made $40.
Walter Asbury, colored. was lynched at
Puoler, ten miles west Of Savannah. Ga, for |
as.aulting a German girl who had 4 fearful
struggle With him. His body was riddled |
with bullets.
A registered through pouch from Albany,
N Y, for st. Louis. was stolen from the
mail car at Terre Haute, Ind, Saturday
night. Gu. open and robbed. 1t is under
stood to have contained valued remittAnces.
and the lose is estimated at from SIC, 600 %
e20, 600.
The four new States brig in an area
about equal to that of all New England.
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Del
WAR, Maryland. v'rs nis West Virginia,
Ohio, keatucky aud Indiana combined Ii
s an area three times as great IS the British
Isles.
Mrs. Maria VI Dean is Homeopathic ply
sician who took an Office in Helena, Mont
hfee years ago. Her income last year was
n the neiehborhood Of $4,000 She 10 .
graduate Of Wisconsin University and from
! Boston medical school, and also studied
medicine in Berlin. She il 30 years old.
The Womsn's Christian Temperance
Union of Oakland, Cal, has q cigarette
committee" the business of which is the
Impression Of the cigarette habit A petit /
ion to the City Council in favor Of the pro
libitioa Of the sale of cigarettes vas brought
Inder debate at 4 recent meeting Of the
nion-
Ho ue-Secretary Matthews vas 1t the home
lice uli O'Clock on SATURDAY night con-
iderinG the Maybrick case. He received
yer II. 600 postal cards yesterday afternoon
liking for reprieve. A spe sial message vas
esPatched 70 Osborne. The best informal