Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-06-21
CONDENSED DISPATCHES
The Pith OF the Nows Taken From
Current Events OF tho Day.

Capt. Charles A. Hill was renominated
for Congress by the republicans of the
eighth district of Illinois. Thursday.
Peter 4. Davis, who murdered his para.
mours husband, last September. was
hanged at Beileville, Ont, Friday morning.
Winchelis shoe firm say they will close
their shop at Haverhill. Mass, rather than
discharge any nom union help who have
stood by the firm.
DR.. W. W. W. Ray was shot in the tenn
pie and +. H. Weston through the heart,
in duel at Columbia, s. G.. Thursday
night. They will both recover.
Carpenters and .Ioiners union of Worces-
ter Mass, voted Friday evening to strike
Monday morning for nine hour. day and
eight hours for Saturday, with no reduc
ton of pay.
Thursday, the keel stone of dry dock
| the first to be built on inland lakes, was
laid by Sir John A. Med 1nald the Premier
ofsC Canada, IN the presence of 10000 per
sons, at Kingston, ont
The Woodbury., \. j.. post office was
burglarized Thursday morning About
5000 worth of stamps, 5000 in cash and a
bundle of registered letters are missing
One burglar was caught.
Several guards and pack of hounds are
hunting for six coDvicts who escaped from
the State Reform School at Huntsville,
Texas, Tuesday. Up TO Thursday night
the fugitives had not been overtsken.
The Park Natiousl Bank of Chicago,
closed its doors Friday morning The
| cause of the failure is not yet known. lts
stock sold at par yesterday. No statement
Of assets and liabilities Is ob'ainable at this
writing.
The disappearance of Mt Shassas peak
is stll the subject of general discussion.
A party just arrived at Reading, Cal, iron
Pittsville, says the mountain on the east
side Indicates considerable commoton.
I.srge quantities Of smoke and vapor are
risirg
| The body Of Katie Shervan was found iu
the river at Peoria, H.. Thursd.y. As a
result Of the coroner's irqaest, Charle.
| Beck, who rss the last person with whom
the girl was seen alive, vas arrested. II is
stated the remains show the girl had been
criminally assaulted and Afterwards killed.
| There is prospect Of serious trouble
along the line Of the St. Louis, Arkansa.
| & Ksnsss Hallway, being constructed in
southeastern Missouri. The whites refuse
| to permit the negroes to work on the road,
and several skIrmishes have taken place
| The railroad company will send body Of
| armed men TO protect the negroes.
The threatened outbreak among the
Cbsyennes in Montana, is arrested for the
present. at least. through the efforts Of
Col. Curt. and Maj Lpsham. If the In
disns, however, should renew their depre-
dstions among the cattle belonging TO the
| rsnehers, all the troops around Lame Deer
Agency cannot prevent bioodsbed.
Il has just come to light that on April ls,
secret meeting Of railroad manager. wa.
held at Battle Creek. Mich. to plan a
through line from New York 10 Australia
via Cleveland. 81 Louis, Fort Worth,
Mexico and the Pacific ocean to Melbourne.
A party Of English and American capital
lists left that city Thursday enroa,e to Mel
| bourne, over the proposed line.
Andrew Little and rIfe OF Mechanics
| Settlement, y B.. los; their lives wednes.
day evening. Little ~as lying sick in bed
when the house vas struck by lizhtning Z
and burst into flames Little and his wife
we're apparently psrsiyz-d d by the lixhtpin q
| shock and co1ii 40 nothing to save them
selves They With the building usr.
barned.
Cha. N. Wells and Henry Ham, clerks
for J. X Couper, -four merchant, Of New
York. have been arrested for robbiDg their
| employer. They stocked store in Brook.
/ Ign with goods stolen from Couger and Oh
;ainsd on false representations from othei
merchants. They rsn ihe business uude,
the name Of Bowen Z Hammond. Thej
made fall confession.
All oaildina lsborers employed By Nor.
cross Bros, q: Boston, we're orisred u
stop work sgain Friday because the firm
employed non uui,o men. Several mors
contractors granted the increase asked b.
the laborers- The strike committee re-
ports no union men nov working for lee,
than q cents 40 hour. Some 800 laboreri
are On . strike in Cambridge
The fshina schooner Daring, va
caugh; CT Herring Cove on the Nova SEQ.
ia coast In Q storm Wednesday night
Lightning struck the vessel near the MAR
hatch, ripping it open, and ran Along sh,
msirmast. splitting il. and made It's exi
near the bow. Rain came down 10 torrents
and washed the craft fore and aft. Tn,
! crew exrerisnced m1ch difficulty in pre-
venting the vessel from fo1ndering