Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-11-22
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Current Events OF the Day.

The run on the Howard Savings Bank at
Newark, N. j., is beginning to die out.
| The great Harvard-Y Yale football match
will be played at Springfield, Mass, Satur.
day.
The run on the Citizens Savings Bank at
New York, which started Wednesday con
tiDued in full force Friday, and money IL
being paid to depositors as fast IS they de-
msnd il.
Edward Sebald early Thursday morning
shot his wife fatally at Charlotte, Mich,
| then shot himself through his head, dying
instantly. Faithlessness of Mrs. Sebald
was the cause of the tragedy. The tragedy
has caused much excitement and the names
of several prominent men sre connected
with the affair.
The papers in the contest in Nebraska,
begun by the Independents to test the le-
gaIity of the election of James 4. Boyd,
democrat, as governor, T. j. Majors, re-
| publican, as Acknowledgements and sew
eral other officials, have been prepared and
| will be served Immediately. The contest
will be tried by the Legislature and the
Speaker will preside.
In the Superior Criminal Court at East
| Cambridge, Mass, James II. Berry, of
Melrose, was sentenced to seven years i'm
prisonment at the State Prison and two
years Of solitary confinement. and Frank
A. Miller, of Wakefield, was sentenced to
the Concord reformatory for larceny and
breaking and entering freight cars on the
Boston & Maine railroad.
Just as freight train on the Meriden,
Waterbury & Connecticut River road had
crossed the Snuthington road trestle Friday
morning, the brake beam of one Of the coal
cars dropped to the track and eight cars
that followed were der,iled, two Of them
tumbliDg down the forty foot embankment
and dragging with them James McDermott
and William Hart. brakemen. McDermott
was fatally injured; Hart, seriously.
During the last presidential campaign an
engagement between Mary Shull and De-
hart Lehman. Of Lima, Ohio was broken.
Miss Shull vas 4 strong democrat. and
never lost an opportunity to cheer for
Cleveland when Lehman was around. He
10 q republican and became so greatly in
censed that be broke the engagement. Mis-.
Shuli then brought suit for damage, and
Friday the circuit court awarded her $1,000
II is st,tea that an alliance has been
formed bstseen the Interests represented
by Geo. G. Magoun Of Kidder, Peabody 4
Co., jay Gould, e. p. Huntington
and the Standard Oil party. by which
all railroads owned or controlled BY
them individually or jointly will be operated
together practically under Gould's direc.
ton. This alliance includes the Southern
Pacific, Missouri Pacific, Northern Pacific,
Atchison, Wabash, Kansas & Texas, Texas
Pacific and many other roads.
Six members Of the New York branch Of
tie Irish Land League have issued an ad.
drsss criucising the methods and motives
Of Messrs. Dillon and -O'Bfisu. The 3D.
dress charges that they fear to have the
Irish Land League here, to which they
would have to account for money sub
scfibed by Irish Americans and that they
have erdeasofed TO stay the raising Of
money TO prepare for the impending famine
in ireland through fear that it would inter.
fefe with their own purposes.