Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-07-23
NEWS NUGGETS.


| Fire Thursday night destroyed David
sons mill, water works building, and sew
! eral small dwellings at Sauk Centre, Mimi.
causing a total loss of S60,000.
| The steamer Milton. from Penang for
| Langkat has founlered. Some of the
passengers and crew have been landed at
| Singapore. 1t is not known how many were
lost.
| Sir Charles Smith. British ambassador to
! Morocco. regarding whose whereabouts
| some anxiety has been felt, arrived at Tan
giers. Saturday, on board the British war
ship Amphion.
| The schooner Maggie +. Mckenzie ar
rived at Gloucester Friday from Iceland,
! breaking all former records for quick trips,
bringing "a 900 pounds of fetched halibut,
the largest fare ever brought to that port.
! The failures for the last seven DAYS re-
ported to Dun 4 Russell number for the
/ United States. l6s; and in the correspond
ing number of last year. 23l. in the United
States Bradstreets reports l79 failures in
! the United States during the week, against
252 in the corresponding week of 1891.
| The expert accountant who found that
! the late Secretary Schattenberg of the Mil
waukee. Wis, school board had robbed the
city of nearly $50, 900 before he committed
suicide, and that Public Librarian Linde-
feldt swinded the city out of $40 600, now
finds discrepancy of 81, 900 in the metre
accounts of the water department.
| 4 call for meeting of the Fall River
| Weavers Association for July 25th. states
| that action will be taken at the meeting in
regard to obtaining an advance on the exist
/ ing rate of wages. The call declares the
present prosperous condition of the print
cloth market justities the granting of higher
wages by the manufacturers.
| A dispatch from Washington says the op-
| position of Senator Cameron Of Pennsylva-
MIA to the confirmation of the nomination OF
+ George Shiras. Jr.. of Pennsylvania, to be
associate justice of the L. s. supreme
court is based solely on personal grounds
| Shiras' family is strongly allied politically
with the ti-Cameron element in Pennsyl.
vania.
W. Robert May of st. John. n. b., the
alleged smuggler of clothing, was brough,
before Commissioner Fisk in Boston
| Thursday afternoon, and held in 5000 foi
examination, July u. lie procured bail
). II. Smith i. counsel for the defendant
who was arrested at Eastport, Me-. on
Wednesday. by Special Treasury Agent
| Smith
Mrs. David Webster and Mrs. William
Sanborn of Haverhll, Mass, died Friday
Fin great agony. They, with their husbands
went to Salisbury Beach Wednesday. The
party diaed at a hotel there, the ladies hav.
ing eaten bluefish It is alleged that theiI
deaths were caused by the fish they had
eaten. Mrs. Webster was 20 years Of age
and Mrs. Sanborn 4S.
Three alleged murierers were arra;cne,
] in the superior conrt at Pittsfield, Mass.
Friday. They are Charles T.. Adams
charged with the mnr'ler Of Louis Lussiel
At Lenoxdaie on Jan. lG: Martin Casina
charged with the murder Of his uncle. Johr
| Delies at Great Darlington on July 4, an
/ Charles Abraham Of North Adams. charged
/ with killing his wife, Augustine, on Jun.
"a. Each defended and pleaded not guilty
Counsel were assigned them and date o.
! trials to be announced later.
| The London Post, Friday morning, con
tanned a leader headed. 'sWhy Resign
which is causing sensation. in view o.
that papers close relations with the govern
neut. The evening papers all reprint ths
leader as a semi-official tip. The srficis
says; Assuming that the opposition hal
3 slight majority on a motion that the GOV
eminent does not possess the confdenee D.
the country, why should the minister
Immediately resign, in view Of the fact tba
they have not TO deal with compact oppo
i sition but only disjointel horde of fac
tions: How can Lord Salisbury and hi,
colleagues conscientiousIy reconcile thei