Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-12-26
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought by the Wires From the North, East
South and West.

The crisis in Mrs. Langtry's illness has
passed and Saturday she was out of dan
ger.
| The sudden cold snap has closed the Con
! necticut river TO navigation below Hart
| ford.
Hon. Alonzo Mute died at Pennington
| n. H., Saturday. The funeral will tak'
place Tuesday.
Hartwell, Richards & Co. of Providence
have been robbed of over $4,000 by W. W
| Franklin, a salesman. He has fled.
Michael Birnbeck, a Chicago saloof
keeper, killed one burglar and slight,
wounded another, Saturday morning
Levy Bros's dry goods store at the cor
| ner OF Myrtle avenue and Broadway Brook
| Ign, burned, Saturday. Loss, 100000.
| The establishment of the Chicago Oil 6
| Refining Co. on Erie street, Chicago wa
burned Saturday night. Loss, 100000.
Patrick O'ConnelI fell beside train a
Newport, X. l.. Saturday and was hit by :
ear truck fraciuring his skull aud causing
| death.
Jay b. Reynolds, the shoe manufacture
of Orange, Mass. made a Christmas prcser
of u s. gold piece to each of his 300 en-
ployos.
Ambrose J. Clark, pay inspector in III
United States Navy, was killed on the New
York, New Haven & Hartford railroad y
Blackrock, Ct.
| Boston podotiice handled over 600
sacks Of mail Saturday, breaking I'LL rec
ords. Two hundred and twenty-five mel
were employed.
| Brakeman John +. Franklin of Paw
| tnckct. Il. L., was crushed to death in til
yaris of Tie Consolidated road at Prov
| denee Saturday night.
| Fire has bccn burning for two days
| the big coal sheds of the Amoskeag mills at
| Manchester, n. II There are over 1900
tons OF coal in the sheds.
Jeremiah Mccarthy, the night waichma
! on the steamer ! Putnam Bradee, fei
| oys rboari from the boat at Boston, SsIni
| day night, and was drowned
william Finn, an inmate Of the VIOLA,
| lon National Sailors iIomc dropped dca
| near the depot saturday. Death wa
| caused by heart disease. He was So yeai
of age.
Mrs. Mulett Of Milford, Mass, aged e.
| was stricken by paralysis during last week
aud was found by a grocery clerk, Satu
| lay, her limbs frozen anil no fire. She die
| Saturday afternoon.
Nine Berrllardt. at Odessa, WAS attaek.a
| by an auii-Scmrtic mob Friday night. an
peltcd with rotten apples and other missile
The windows of her carriage vas smashe
bur the actress wa1 not hurt
John Remsep. WHO was shot by Marin
Whaples q, Fast Berlin, Ct, on Thur-,' ~
evening, died at his home Saturday
Whaples, who is in jail at Hartford, Wi
now be charged with murder.
The scandal ease of Lizzie Currier ys
J. X. Richardson of Chester, Vt, whiti
has been in progress the past three weeks
at Woodstock. has resulted in verdict foI
the plaintiff of $1,000 and costs.
Schooner laura v. Rose, Leeds, of ard
from Philadelphia, arrived At New London
Saturday for Ailyn's Point from Newcastle
Del, IN tow of Philadelphia tug fvanho
AMI leaking 800 strokes an hour.
Count Bobrinsky marshal of the Russian
| court has issued an appeal for aid for tbe
famine sufferers III the province Of Tu!a.
There are said to be l73,000 iuthc province
dependent upon outside assistance.
The President has issued proclamation
reserying for timber and ISL, culture pur-
poses the island Of Afosuak. Alaska. aid
its alljaccn; rocks and territorial waters.
including the Sea Lion rock and Sea otter
islands.
Banker Russell T.. Halls daughter, Miss
Julia Hall of New Canaan, c., who has
a fsF.tt
steadily recovering from the effects of her
last adventure. Her complete recovery j.
assured.
The missing crew OF the three-mastcd
schooner Twilight Of New Haven, which
struek on Cornfeil Point shoals during
Thars.lay nights westerly gale, has arrived
at New London, safe and sound. IL was at
first feared tina, they were lost.
Officials nj the state department have no
information regarding the application Of
the International Navigation Company 10
The Canadian Parliament for charter
authorizing the company To connect Lake
Erie with Montreal and New York by a
system of canals, the iIE'Ison river and The
81 Laurence and the Richelicu rivers and
Lake Chanplain.
The latest Developments in affairs on the
Rio Grande border is told in a dispatch
from Laredo, Tex. II appears that L. $.
Deputy Marshal Hall captured one of tbs
bandits named Pslacio, in disturbed dis-
trict some distance down the river and
started him for Laredo in charge of two
deputy iBarsi,als. The party had proceeded
but few miles when it was attacked anil
ovcrpow ered by SIX revolutionists, who re-
leased the prisoner.