Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-07-15
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Current Events OF ths Day.

The damage ny tts Mpntfsat ute, Mun
| day night will amount to $50, 900.
Hail stones 10 inches in circumference
| fell at Aberdeen, y. D, Sundsy night.
Whes. was badly damaged.
Two Itslisu- were blown up by prems-
tuYe blast at East II Iverhiil. N. II Tues-
| day ard were probably fatally injured.
Umpires Mahoney ard Callahan threaten
to sue the New England League. If the
salaries s1c not paid Tbursdsy; Callahan
$l22, Mshoney $27.
The Chicago glucose plants, formerly
! controlled by the Glucose fIust has been
pure hssed by an Epglish syndicate, prop
erty valued at SIG o0o,o0
Samuel Gillespie, q negro, was taken
from the all at Love, De Soto county, Mis'.,
Monday night by amob OF masked men,
! tied to tree and shot to death.
The schooner Ubulco Belle, belonging a,
st. Johns, N f., was wrecked i'll Concep-
tion Bay, "Wednesday night, seven psssen-
gers were drowned. The crew escaped.
| Rsv. Mr.. Howe, sn Episcopal ministe,
at Usrbor Briton, Fortune Bay, and his
daughter were drowned, Sunday, by the
upsetting Of the boat. The boatman also
was drowned.
| DIR. J. A. Brackin's four story brick block
burned at Pittsfeld. Mass, Tuesday. Loss
on building $4,000; insurance $4,000.
The several occupants of the block lose
about S42 900 partly insured.
s,Policeman John Bryerson Of Jersey City
| became involved in row early Tuesday
with James Brennan and his wife. Bfcn-
| H. "a tai q
injured. Bryersor has been arrested.
| Frederick Dodge, 3 brakeman on the
Rochester division Of the Boston & Maine
Railroad, was killed at East Rochester
bridge. Monday night. He was riding or
top Of the car and his head came in contact
with the bridge and his skull WAS crushed
The school election at Salt Lake City
Tuesday, resulted in the victory for the
Liberals. The Mormons and allies made q
| desperate effort TO capture the board Of ed
ucation but the Liberals won by increased
msj 'rity.
Percy Hudson, the proprietor Of ths
Enterprise hotel. Silverton, Col. Monday
night shot and killed q girl with whom ht
was in love, and then killed himself. The
! girls refusal to marry him is suppoeed K
nave prompted the crime.
George Nagle, the Dedham wife mur.
derer, confined in the Dedhsm House oi
i Correction, made four inc ifectusl attempt
at suicide Monday night, by getting upsI
his iron cot and dashing head foremost Il
the floor. lie also tore the bandsgs from
his wounds.
Harvey Rice, who ran the fret locomo
tive on the Concord railroad, died Of hear
disease At Concord, N. H., Monday, age
10. He was master mechanic Of the Con
cord railroad for several years and subse
quently of the Ogdensburg & Lake Cham
plain. He was prominent Mason.
Tuesday an explosion occurred on boar
|. the steamship g. K. Both lying 10 the Fri
basin, Brooklyn. Two men, Williar
Reagan and Cornell Hayes were Instant
killed, Reasn being literally blown t.
pieces. William Williams, frst mate. an
Ivan Eversin, the mschinist. were bsdl.
hurt.
By the breaking Of a trapeze bar dur
ing = performance in Forepsugh's circus :
, Lyons Iowa. Monday. William Hsnlor
ore of the famous Hsnlon brothers. Va
instantly killed. He was thrown so fes
to the ground. and his neck broken. Hsr
lon Was 81 years old, English, and leaves
widow sick 10 New York. He once fell 6
feet in the Academy Of Music, New Yori
escaping death miraculously.
Judge Wallace Of the United State
| Supreme ,urt, Tues lay, handed down th
decision in the case Of the Edison Eiectri
Light Co. vs.. the United States Eiectfi
!. Lightiog Co. The plaintiff charged the d.
PENDANTS with infringement Of pateI
; granted to Thomas A. Edison on Januar
81, 1880, for improvement in electric lamp
: The Judge decided the claim Of the plail
tiff had not been infringed by the deiendan
William Hoffman, . participant in coul
ellis of the Congressional pRty. snd vi
arrived in this country 10 the Itata, 50.
Minister Egan will be uncefemoniousl
y elected from Chilli - soon - the goverl
: ment Of Balmsceda 10 overthfovn- Z
/, declares Esan is playing into the hands
, Balmsceda to sntsgonize the English VI
are s3mpAtbizing with the revoluiiouisi
!. He also charges Esan with causing Il
!, arrest of the Itasa by notifying the Chilli
: minister in Washington Of her arrival.