Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-01-05
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Tho Pith OF the News Taken From the
Current Events OF the Day.

The Geneva mills at Providence. X. L.,
we're damaged by fire Saturday to the
amount of 100000. Fully insured.
Rider Haggard and wife are on their WY
to this country from England. They will
also visit Mexico and the West Indies.
The Players Base Ball League will meet
at New York, Jan. 10. to act on withdrawal
of New Cork and Pittsburg clubs and other
business.
American schooner Annie C. Hall,
ashore at Casino, N. S, has been floated
ard taken TO safe anchorage. She is
leaking badly.
While VIM. Z. Hamilton of Boston was
try ing to escape from the officers Friday
he jumped from a window twenty five feet
to the ground, and received serious inju-
ries.
John Moran was given twelve years at
hard labor at Providence, II. L., Saturday
for shooting an officer who discovered him
stealing bread and milk from store. He
declared his innocence.
A Boston Albany passenger train ran
into freight at the bridge over the Cor
necticut river at Springfield, Mass, Satur-
day. No one was injured, though the
damage was considerable.
Joseph Fields, county treasurer of
Orange county, Ind, is short $l1 900 and
claims mere clerical error. He pro-
fesses willingness and ability to pay up
whenever the exact amount Of shortage is
known.
Joseph Martin and Horace Butler, both
aged fourteen, were drowned in the Charles
River, Cambridge, Mass, Saturday, by
breaking through the ice. Three other
a hard struggle.
Two shocks of earthquake were felt at
Elwood, Ind, Saturday afternoon the first,
lasting thirty seconds. occurred at 4 P. M. :;
the second cam fifteen minutes later The
oscillation came from west to east. No
damage was done.
Frank Field, = clerk in Calender, Nc
Austan & Co.'S dry goods store at Provi-
dence, Il. l., was arrested Saturday night
for ENLIGHTENMENT. Stolen goods were
found in his room. He was to have been
married very soon.
Schooner Charlie ard Willie, Farr. of
ard from Rockland, Me-, for New Bed ford
aud New York with cargo of lime, ran
ashore on l. Homme Dieu Shoal, Whey ard
Sound Saturday forenoon. She was float
ell By tug Ice King and lowed to Vineyard
Haven apparently uninj ure1.
The ship Rappahannock of Bath, Me-,
arrived Monday at San francisco from
NIiogo, Japan, with 1000 tons of coal Dur
ing the trip from Philadelphia to Hiogo two
seamen. John Bauer and Thomas Melee
were killed. Herman Grant,, another
sailor, was killed on the way from Hiogo to
San Francisco.
January IL there will be skating car
nivsl at Spy pond, ARLINGTON, Mass, under
the management Of the New England Ska.-
ing Association. There will be racing ard
fancy skating, ten contests in all and valu-
able prizes are offered. Entries to be male
to G. b. Adams, 10 Shepard street, Cam
bridge, Mass, before Jan. 10.
J.B. Dibble, dealer in art goods, of
New Haven, Conn, has assigned. Liabii-
tiles. $1,000; assets, $4,000. Saturday IL
creditors of Norton & Son, clothiers,
agreed to accept 80 per cent. William
Nicely will be appointed trustee. The firm
promises to work up the entire indebted.
ness. Liabiiit es, 5000; assets, 4l0,-
900.
Several patients with lumpus. who have
been inoculated With lymph in the German
Hospital, New York, are to be discharged
rs cured this week. snd ct Mt Sinai a-d
Bellevue Hospitals th're are lumpus pa
tents who are walking around the vsris
impatien,ly awaiting the day when they will
be pronounced cured. Whether the cure
will be permanent or not only time will
chow.
Mr.. Walter r. Abel, one of the pro-
prietors Of the Baltimore Sun. died Satur-
day at Baltimore, aged ~ years. probably
of heart disease. Mr.. Abell had been all
ing several days, but his health was not re-
garded - in serious condition. After a
good rest last night he avoke with feeling
of intense oppressiveness in the region of
the heart. and soon afterward passed peace
fully away.