Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-11-02
NEWS NUGGE rs.
Brought by the Wires from the North, fast.
West and South.

A dispatch from Monterey says \. {.
lrango, a follower of Garsca, the rcvolu-
ZIONIST, was condemned by court martial
and shot to death Sunday night.
A dispatch from Cagliari, on the island
of Sardinia states that floods on the island
have destroyed 2is houses at Sans Pera,e,
and that 100 persons are supposed to have
been droyned.
The ravages of cholera at Chung King
are appalling. The deaths there are csti-
mated from 80 900 to 10000. Cholera is
also raging at IIankow and claiming nu-
merous victims.
The China newspaper mail received by
steamer says Chi Yui has been appointed
the next Chinese minister to the United
States. lie now holds the post of chief
supervisor of instruction.
Ignatius Rice has obtained an attachment
for s:j5l2 agains, property in New York
state of Mcdonnell 4 Shaws. leather mer-
chants of Boston. The property is said to
be in Hamilton and Warren counties.
A dispatch from Ballinadrmna, county
Kildare, ireland. states that Sergeant Rog-
ana, his wife and children were murdered
there Monday night by Constable Pilking-
ton, who afterwards committed suicide.
DIR. G. W. Kelly, leading physician of
Jefferson county, Ga. Monday killed his
sister-in-l law and made an unsuccessful at
tempt to drown his eight year-old daughter.
1t is supposed he had become suddenly in
sane.
The unsettled condition of affairs at
Homestead occasIone,l by many recent
assaults upon the workmcn there, is receiy-
ing the attention of the military authorities.
and there is talk of again ordering the mil
ita to the place.
The unemployed Hebrew workingmen of
London have decided they will march bare
footed through the streets of London on
their different DAYS. Agents of the Society
of Democratic Federation are organizing
the idle workingmen.
Two hundred employees of the Brainertl
quarry at Portland, Conn. struck Tuesday
morning against reduction of wages from
20 - cents per hour to II cents, also
against a reduction of the number of hours
of work from 10 to nine.
The hotel at McCoon. Neb., burned Mon
day night. Mrs. +. $. Granger. wife OF
the proprietor. was burned TO death. Mr.
Granger was fatally burned while attempt
ing to save his wife, and his little daughter
sustained severe injuries. The FIRE was
caused by the explosion of coffee urn.
An express train on the East Tennessee
Virginia & Georgia Railroad was held up
Just south of Piedmont Monday night by
two masked men. They secured 800 from
the express messenger, and then went into
the mail car and took a number of valuable
packages. The whole thing was done in
three minutes.
The electric wire men met in Clarendon
Hall, New York, Tuesday morning and de-
cided upon a general strike. All affiliated
trades are to be called out, with the excep.
ton Of tin workers and brick layers. Dele
gates started Tuesday morning TO call the
union men off their jobs. II is thought the
strike NAV affect 5o,0oo men.
Mrs. Mary B. Marean, who murdered
her mother. Mrs. Brownlee. at their hom.
/ in Cambridgeport Monday, was arraigned
/ in the district court At Cambridge TUESDAY
| Her counsel iwaived the reading of the
I charge and the case was continued upiiI
next Saturday Mrs Marean was remand
ed to jail at East Cambridge.
( \ five-story tenement at 35i East Fifty.
/ first street, New York, burned early Tues.
/ day morning. Seventeen families were
rendered homeless and lost all their posses
sions. The occupants were panic-strickeu
1 but fortunately there was no loss of life
! Many narrowly escaped. however, and
1 there were some heroic rescuers.
| A dispatch from Lisbon states that the
administrator of the Abidos district contin.
| nee to allow bodies of victims of the
steamer Roumauia disaster to be left on The
beach He declines to give any assistance
/ for their removal or for the protection oi
the wreckage with which the beach is
/ strewD-
William T.. Jepson, aged 3. a son of John
| Jepson. aged 81, living on County street
( Fall River was fatally burned by his com
panion named Henry Crook, Monday after
noon. The boys had been left alone in a
house on Covell street and in some way
| came in possession Of matches. The Crook
I boy scratched matches on the Jepson child
clothing and in few seconds it was all
ablaze The Crook boy ran out Of tho
house and when the other was found he
was frighffully burned and lived only few
hours.