Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-05-19
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Ths Pith ct tho News taken from the
Current Events Of the Day.

Steamers Scytbis and Yarmouth brought
ll04 immigrants to Boston, Monday.
The Genesee valley, IN. " fruit crops
were ruined by Saturday nights frost.
Tfamps fired Lsmon.e, Mo-, Sunday, and
proceeded to loot the town. Four wers
captured.
In the New Orleans lottery mRndamus
case, Monday, the Supreme Court refused
8 re- airing.
Forest fires have approached Duluth,
MINI, nearer than ever before. The out
skirts of Wet Duluth are in danger.
William O'Connor and Edward Hamlsn
have sccep'ed the challenge of Gsudsur
and Mscksy for double scull race.
Duke Alphonse de Thierry, book keeper
Of the Conrad Tanning Co. has left Loui.-
vile. Ky, several thousand dollars behind
in his accounts.
There wss q collision Of passenger and
freight trains at Huntington, Ind, Sunday.
An engineer was killed ard fireman
fatally Injured.
John d. Morrison. of San Antonio, a law
yer Of ability and well known sill over
southwestern Texas, killed his wife and
himself Sunday.
The smuggling schooner Halcyon with a
Sl00. 900 cargo of opium from Japsn is re-
ported to be off Vancouver island bound for
the UHited States,
The strike Of stonemasons and brick
layers at Milwaukee has been declared tff,
The bosses having granted the men an ad-
| vance of q cents an hour.
Es.eila Morris Of indianapolis. Ind +,
sged l6, was srrested Sunday for poisoning
her family ard an old man named Beckley
who boarded with them.
If The strike of the Iowa coal miners is
not declared eff in a day or two m any of
the men will resume of their own sccord
Numerous families are uffsring many
| privations.
Fer the last three nights severe frosts
| have done much damage to the strawberries,
grapes ana vegetable in Michigan. Whest
and grass are damaged considerably in some
| localities.
Joseph W. Vaughn has brought suit
sg.inst the Naumkesg Street Rail -sy Com
psny Of Salem for $50, Goo for injuries by
being struck by al electric car last fall
while out riding,
Mord gas exploded in the boiler-room,
No. mill Of the Cocheco Manufacturing
| Company, Dover. N. H., badly injufing
about the bead and face George W. Stacy
who was engaged in making repairs. Loss
| by FIRE 5000.
TIE latest estimate of the loss Of Ss'ur-
days fire at Muskegon, Mich. Was $780,
| coo; insurance one-third that amount.
Fully 1900 people are homeless by the fire
and hundreds are temporarily billetsd npon
| more fortunate cit zens who turned their
homes into barracks.
| The President has endorsed tie applica-
ton for executive clemency in the case OF
the Nsvasss rioters. The sentences of the
| men we're commuted to imprisonment for
| life. The President says discipline main
tained on islands seems to be that Of con-
Wet establishment without its comforts and
clean linen.
The news from 81. Johns, N. F., received
| Sunday night, ssys the bottom has droppsd
| out Of the charges against the Fortune Bay
! blockade runners on trial for Illegally sup
| plyiug bait to St. Pierre hshsrmen. A new
| trial has been ordered on charge Of refusing
to heave to when challenged by the gov
eminent cruisers.
! ClarfeH& r. JDuObOus VeH- bptsS1 ClitHt
who vas released from jail on 3 writ Of per
sonai replevin and subsequently rssrres'ed,
appeared before Judge Nelson of the United
| States District Court At Boston, Monday
and wss recommitsed to the Sherburne re-
| forms,ory 10 serve out sentence. No coun.
sell sppeared for her,
| Mr.. Alltee, an expert accountant, has
| finished the examination into the irregular.
| tiles of the hooks of ex-Csshier Spauldina
of Aver, Mass, and has found the 6ehcii
somewhat larger than at frst supposed
Mr.. Ainee places the losa at s31 600
Spsulding is living quietly in Townsend
awaiting his trial.
A special from Clsrksville. Tex, says
Fl B. Wright, of the prominent law firm ol
Sims & Wright, has left town. The firm
have been handling money here for se7efa
Eastern concerns. Wright's liabilities are
plsced At s75, ZOO. but IL is not known q
present how much he svindisd the loan
companies out Of
Steamer Dorchester, Capt. Frank NJ
Hoxes, fronNBoston to Norfolk, Va, tool
Of ak men from the sinking schooner Ks's
Foster Of Nachias, Sunday. and landed
them at Norfolk The men rescued were
Capt. E. c. Smith Of Jonesboro, Me, Ed
win Smith, mate, Jonespoft, Me William
Grant. cock, Charles Garnett, Eiwin Saw
per. all Of JonesboYo, Me-, Ard Franl
Berry of NovA Scotia. The vessel IL tota
loss. She vas valued at $40 600.
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