Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-06-09
coNDHNsRD DISPATCHES.
The Pith OF the News Taken From the
Current Events OF the Day.

1t is reported that Teller Kimball of
Worcester, Mass, has been seen in Paris.
Reports Of revolutionary movements in
C0ahuila, Mexico, are said to be un-
founded.
A Fall River mother 10 reported to have
sold her four-year-old boy to . circus for
$50 and 81 q week.
Several Lowell men have been found
guilty of illegally selling liquor and fined
on spotters' evidence.
Seven Belgian glass blowers were sent
back from New York. Saturday, by the
contract labor inspector, on the Servia.
News has been received from San Fran
cisco of the loss of the New Bedford whaler
Lancer in Japan seas. The crew were
saved.
frankie, the l l year old son of George
Z. Lewis. Norwich, VT, 10 missing. He
had on q blue suit, blue base ball cap and
brown socks when he left.
Wilbur Tompkins, aged rs years, .
brakeman on the Danbury & Norwslk rail.
road, was knocked from q freight car at
Danbury yesterday and killed.
State Detective Sewers head was cut
open and he was knocked senseless by 4
drunken man whom he was attempting to
arrest, Saturday, at Taunton. Mass.
W. G. Holmes, the famous Harvard
Splinter, ran 4 half mile in one minute, 81
2.5 seconds, at Cambridge. Saturday. The
previous record was minute, 594 seconds.
George A. Alden of Boston, a summer
resident at Nsntasket, was thrown from his
pony while playing polo Saturday afternoon
at bingham, Mass, and fractured his collar
bone.
Ex-Recorder Anthony Gould was are sted
Saturday at Albany, n. r., charged with
embe zzling SIS 900 from the City National
Bank, through collision with the default
ing bookkeeper Whitney.
Herbert C. Hatch of North Walpole, n.
H., aged 40 years, committed suicide by
hanging Saturday morning. He leaves q
wife and several children. Melancholia
from family sickness was the cause.
There were 82l deaths last week in New
York city, l65 more than the previous week.
The increase is attributed to the heat.
Among the dead were $40 children under s
years of age, and 204 under one year.
Three negroes were hanged at Linden,
Iexae, FRIDAY Tor the murder OF James
McGregor, white man at Atlanta, Tex,
on Dec. 7, lrst. All of the condemned
men confessed their guilt and died repent
ing.
Charles II. Written. druggist of Brit-
tol, N. H., about 25 years old. committed
suicide in his store Saturday morning. by
shooting himself in the head. He leaves q
wife and two children. The cause was de-
spondency.
Johnston, the famous PAGER, has been
sold to Edgar c. Long of 81. Paul. He has
been owned by Col. J. W. Conley of Chi
cago. 1t is the intentio, of his new owner
to have the geldiug prepared to pace against
the fastest record in the world, 2.O64, his
own, and then send him around the circuit,
as he did last year, to go exhibition miles.
Complaint has been made to the United
States Treasury Department that the alien
contract law is being violated by certain
boss carpenters in Chicago and Fort Sher-
idan. who it ia alleged have brought foreign
carpenters to Springfield, ILL.,, for wages
less than paid American mechanics. The
Treasury Department will investigate the
charges.