Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-12-24
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought by the Wires From the North. East
| South and west

The dock laborers at IIavre are on a
strike.
Mrs. Diana Douty, l03 years of age,
died at Charlestown, Mass, Thursday.
The lien on Rev DIR. Talmage's taber
nacle Brooklyn, was paid off Friday and
the sheriff was removed.
The Connecticut River Railroad Co
voted Friday not to lease the road to the
n. Y, n. II. 4 II. road.
Owing to the continued low silver and
lead rates the Niagara group of mines al
Bingham, Utah, have shut down.
The Northwestern Lumber Company Of
Chicago assigned Friday. Liabilities. $780,
900; assets, S25 900. The cause of
suspension not known.
The secretary of state ~Teceiyed cable
message Friday from the consul at Ham
burg, saying, "Bills of health have not
been clean. Two cases today
BENJAMIN II. Crombie, grocer, successor
to d. Richards & Son has assigned.
Liabilities not given. The business has
been established nearly so years.
During quarrel at East Berlin, Ct.
Thursday, James Whaples, aged 20, shot
John Ramsdell. aged 40, in the breast.
The victim is dying. Whaples was arrested
John Bossidy, aged 3s, of West Spring
field, brakeman, fell from his train near
Washington depot, Mass, Friday and was
run over and killed. A widow and six
children survive him.
Rev. Gilber; johnson and Bishop Fran
els f. Snowden of the African NJ. L church
Chicago, were arrested Thursday on war
rant charging them with the embezzlemeni
of $500 belonging to the church.
The petition agains, the return of Michael
Davitt as member of Parliament for NORTH
Meath, Ire, has been granted by the
courts. Undue interference with voters b.
priests is the basis of the petition.
Through the efforts of the mutual board
of Cancellation of the local institutions all
matters regarding the price list at the Fiel'
Thayer Company's shoe factory, Haverhill
Mass, have been satisfactorily adjusted.
Cholera is increasing in the province o
Lublin in Russian Polant and adjoining fh'
/ Austrian border. The CONSERVATION
caused bv the ravages of cholera la
autumn is again being aroused and man,
people are fleeing from the cholera strickei
distri is.
| A desperate fight over woman tool
place at Mt Carmel, Pa. Thursday. he
tween two Huns. The supporters Of eaci
man finally took part in the fight an'
weapons of all kinIs were used. About 5t
persons were badly cut AMI bruised, AM
several probably fatally injured.
The Chicago express on the Santa F.
railroad. which left Denver, Col, Thurs
dsv night. was wrecked at Prinn Station II
miles north of Colorado Springs, Friia,,
morning. The Santa Fe Office ahsoiut'.l
refuses to give any particulars as to tb
extert of the disaster or loss of life.
Fire broke out in the drying room of ib
Everett mills dye house. Lawrence. Mass
Friday. The entire fir. department wa
called out and after three hours work ex
tinruished the blaze, cunfning it 20 the DR..
room. The loss will be heavy chiefly b.
water. The cause Of the fire was spOnta
neous combustion.
Reports although conflicting come fror
every part of the northern side of Mexico
Indicating a growth Of the revolutionar
movement. Dispatches are being rusbe
to and fro from Mexican officials 20 ih
United States officers on the frontier an
fears are entertained that thereNiil be
revolution in Mexico in the near future.
wholesale liquor dealers Of New Yorh
representing 500 oooo 900 or more have dc
ciaed 10 fight the whiskey trust. This ac
ton was caused by the increase in price o
spirits. Since December 4, the trust ba
advanced the price 10 cents gallon. and
is rumored that further advance viii B