Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-08-15
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A terrible wind storm struck Ellsworth.
Minn., Thursday, and left the town almost
. complete wreck. No lives were lost.
Twenty seven members Of the order of
the Royal Ark of Maiden, Mass made
settlement Friday for s25 each. They had
paid in S65 each.
Thursday night unknown parties threw
several pounds Of paris green into spring
nesr the Aver, Mass, poor farm. upon
which numerous families are dependent
for water.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene II. Bonick were
found dead in bed, Thurday, at Denver,
Col. having committed suicide. Domestic
hap ppiness il believed to have been the pein-
eipal cause.
The Brooklyn police report, besides
those killed in the excursion party Wednes-
day, three others missing. They probably
were drowned. This makes the total list
of deaths 10
The Pacific Athletic club of San Fran
cisco, have offered purse Of Sl2,500 for
finish light between Bob Fl zslmmons
and Ted Pritchard for the middleweight
championship.
A. W. Wilcox, . well-to do farmer,
killed his 10 sesr old grand. daughter with
an AZ Thursday, at Gaylord. Mich, and
the shot himself dead. Itis supposed that
Wilcox became suddenly insane.
X Dudley Ffayser, president Of the
Security and Memphis City banks and one
of the most prominent ciuzens Of Mem
phis, was chloroformed and robbed at the
Gayos Hotel, Memphis, Tenn, Thursday,
by man giving his name IS John A.
Morris.
The Dobbins boiler works, Lowell,
Mass, with iron, stock, boilers in course
con struction and repair, cars, etc, were
destroyed by fire Friday night. Loss es-
timsted at s15, GOO to 10000; insured for
Sl2 500.
A correspondent Of the San Francisco
Chronicle, who has made . trip TO town Of
Lerdo, Mexico, telegfsphs that the accounts
Of tn, earthquake felt there have been
greatly exaggerated. No houses were de-
stroyed and there was no tidal wave in the
Gulf of California, the shock being hardly
felt there.
Early Friday morning, the staging upon
which were Eve mssons repairing the large
chimney At the Pemberton Mill, Lawrence,
Mass, fell pIecipitating all to the ground,
slightiir juries. The legs Of Everett Griffin
of Methuen were mangled and his skull
crushed, and he will probably die. The
accident was caused by the giving way Of
| beam which held the staging ropes.
A private letter received from Mrs.
Robert Louis Stevenson gives . gloomy
outlook for the Europeans in Samoa.
Writing from Vailuna, near Apis, under
date Of July I6 she says: I'VE live in the
constant tumult Of threatened war and
massacre Of the whites. There are no men,
of-xar here and but one German ship and
that don't count - it only makes more
trouble. wish our country would send
US . ship
| Arthur G. Little, necktie cu..er for the
Wholesale furnishing house of Cleveland,
| Brown Co. the Boston firm that was
robbed Of $4,000 worth Of silks by burglars
Tuesday night was placed under Arrest
Thursday night. The circumstances Of the
robbery indicate that it was engineered, il
not planned, by some person not only
familiar with the building but with the sr-
rspgement Of the firms stock. At Li..le's
apartments were found 500 vo. of the
firms goods stolen previous to the big rob-
berry, and also some articles believed TO be
portion Of Tuesday nights robbery.
Thursday evening heavily loaded horse
car on the Namkeag street railro I'd reached
Ki..redge's crossing, Moth Beverly, - =
freight train was passing on the Boston 6
Maine railrosd. After the freight had
passed, the car started to cross the lacks,
when q passenger train, which had been
hidden from view by the freight, came
along at the rate Of Fifty miles an hour on
q down s.ade. The driver Of the horse
car had '5e presence Of mind to draw the
pin and turn the horses to one side, just ~
the express dashed by, leaving fae car with
its load Of human freight within t~o feet
! of The train.