Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-08-09
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TIE Pith OF the News Taken From the
Current Events OF the Day.

Aivices from St Giles, Lotbinisre.
Province of Quebec, ray cyclone passed
over that region 1hur,dsy doing immense
damage TO crops.
John l.. Sullivan and Peter Jackson
have been offered a $50 900 purse. s25 900
70 uinntr and s5 600 TO loser for fin.h Il
igh. st the Carnival Pslace in Ogep, Utih
Steamship CIenfuegos, which arrived
at New York, Friday, from Nashua, N. p,
brought the captain and crew Of the Norwe-
gan slip, Sgne, wre cked July lG, last, off
the Florida coast.
The chandelier just tsken out of the
Boston Theatre. has been the-c for twenty
Years ard was made by Baker & 60. of
rhiladt lphis. II had 250 burners and I5-
0C0 pieces of glass, was % feet high and
II feet in diameter and cost Sc 800.
C. G. Busch of Claremsnt, n. H., the
well known miJopist, wss thrown from a
csrrisge on Broad street Thursday evening
by collision with another team. Tie
horse ran away and was killed. Mr.
Buseh's injuries are not thought serious.
The switctmen on the Mackey system
in Indans have tied up the road, blocking
tracks with freight cars. Passenger trains
are obstructed The men want an increase
Of wages, which President Msckey bas
teIes sphed from New York not to accede
4 young man was arrested in Brooklyn
pawn office Friday while trying to dispo. @
of n large quantity of jeveiry. lie said il
was the pro eds of burglsriss in Bostc n
and Norwich. Corn that his name wa.
William J. Clesg, and that he resided IN
Boston.
Hailstorms prevailed in many portions Of
Minnesota Thursdsy night The most
severe storm eentered ct Montivideo. Chip
pews county, who're a suip Of coen'ry
twelve miles long ard five miles wide va.
rssaged by hail fallug in great qusn tiles
accompanied by destructive winds.
A special from Pine vile. Ky, ,ays new
Of the irs, day of court held in Perry
county in two years, reached there Thur
dsy night. The court is held in a tent and
400 armed outlaws, representing the
French Ebersoie factions, are cam,e
sbous the plsce. The situation is DANCE r
ous in the extreme and battle is liable to
occur at any time.
The committee to formulate an snti-Iot-
terry sdiress to the people of the Uni;s d
States ard to memorable the Presideni
Ard Congress has completed It's report
which i very lengthy and makes en- appes
for aid against . powerful gambling cot
porstion witch siss here among US ike a
giant oct lpus and stretches it, arms 10 tie
remotest hamlet in the lsni.
A special meeting Of the Maine ve.e,an
Association was bed 1t its h,.adquafters on
Portland street. Boston. Tbur.,iay evening.
Regsriia9 the camp fire To be beld at Me-
ctsnics' Building next We5nesday, sesre-
,a-y s. c. Small stated that no ticket.
would be needed for the event, and all
friends snd veterans Of other States In any
usy Interested would be welcomed. Dur
ing encampme Mt week fegistration book
viii be at headquarters, in which are to be
kept the city addresses Of all Maine vet
er2ns during their stay.
At the State prison Friday morning. a
graveyard stiffness prevailed. Everythins
vss quiet during the night, and Warder
Russell says he does net anficipste any
mere trouble. Very few men have beer
pui into the workshops ,odsg. but the gre Al
bulk Of prisoners we're locked in their cell,
He could not tell isss how long the mer
will be Kept locked up but certainly unsl
the shops are put in ordtr sni the dsnag'
doae 10 the machinery dariag yeaerday'
revolt is repaired. The pistol thss consic
Evans fred has not been scQEd. n.
more revolt <afers ucfe pIa-ed Ia darI
cells in the morning. There are no ou:
side ofAcers at the prison.