Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-05-03

Gen. George d. Utassy died at Whining
ton, Del, Monday.
The Russian relief ship Tynehead sailet
from Brooklyn, n. Y, Monday.
The Eureka quartz mill on Carson river
Nevada, burned Monday Morning Los,
over 100000.
The loss by Sundays fire at Winnipeg
Man, aggregated SIPS, 900. Four block.
were burned over
Indications point TO the selection of q
woman by the Republicans of Wyoming a,
delegate TO the Minneapolis convention,
\ freight wreck occurred at Haskelrs
Ind, Monday morning. Three men were
killed. The train plunged into an open
bridge.
There were no disturbances at Barcelona
Monday. The police found bomb in one
of the streets in the morning, and arrested
Il persons.
Two firms have agreed to the terms OF
the striking plumbers at Providence, X. l..
and ii is believed that others will follow
tomorrow.
The South end schoolhousc at Yarmouth
\. s.. was DESTROYED Monday morning by
fire of incendiary origin. loss, 1000
insurance, 50 500.
Delawares Republican State Convention
will be held at Dover next Thursday. Ex.
Speaker Reed has accepted an invitation te
address the Convention
The cotton warehouse of f. c. McCul
loch and c. W. Candy 4 Sons, al
Norfolk, Va, burned Monday night. Loss
$4,000; insurance, $4,000.
The public debt statement issued NAV 9
shows a decrease in the public debt during
April of S77s.315. Cash in treasury April
30 was S797 ,G25, ,346.3l.
The police have learned that band OF
Nashville, Tenn, negroes have organized
and it is thought, started for Goodletsville
to ayenge Grizzard's death.
\ libel suit of $50 900 against the Boston
Herald brought by Ammcr ii. Proctor OF
Gardner, was entered with the clerk OF
courts at Worcester, Mass, Monday.
Two large eight-hour demonstrations
were held at Amsterdam Monday. Speeches
were mild in tone and the meetings OF
socialists and others were all tranquil.
Samuel Barlow, agent of the Pacific
print works, Lawrence, Mass. died sudden
ly Monday, aged 60. He was one of the
best known printers in the United States.
Advices from South Africa show that
locusts are ravaging the country. A swarm
of the insects six miles wide recently passed
over the country near Grahamstown, Cape
Colony.
The celebrated Fairawn stables at Lex
ington Ky, the property of Smith Me.
Cam, burned Sunday night. There were
10 horses in the stable ami | / were burned
to death.
In Portugal and Switzerland May day
was less observed than i'll 1891 Larg,
demonstrations were held in Copenhagen
and Christiana in favor of working day OF
eight hours
The body of well dressed young coloret
woman was found in shallow pond neal
Winfield, l.. l., Monday. The throat wa,
cut from ear to ear. There is no clue tt
the murderer.
News has been received that u cyclone
struck the village of Buros, Kansas, sun
dav. 1t is known that one person was
killed and four buildings and a schoolhons,
were destroyed.
1t is reported that all the members of the
Carpenters Union at Concord. n. H. vii
20 out Tuesday because of employers re-
fusal to concede them nine hours work witt
10 hours pay per day.
Nearly all the plumbers. gas and steam
filters helpers employed at Concord, n. H.
went out Monday because of refusal o.
the bosses to accede to their request tina
nine hours constitute a days work.
May day meetings were held in all tn,
principal places of Sweden and Holland ant
were largely attended. Dispatches received
from those countries. report that some vio
lent anarchist speeches were made but tina
there was no real disorder.
4 terrific wind and rain storm swept owe,
Holt. Nodaway and Atchison counties. Mo
Sunday. The damage is heavy and los
of life is reported in the vicinity of Fair
bax. The Missouri river at Conway Iowa
rose nine inches in an hour.
Two thousand or more granite cutters il
Cape Ann. Landsyille, Pigeon Cove an,
Rockport Mass, quarries, struck Monday
i'll sympathy with the Quarrymen's unioi
of Quincy. demanding % cents an hou
and nine hours. There is no disturbance
Henry n Arnold, student at Exeter
n. H., was arraigned in court Monda,
morning, charged with assault and batter,
upon police officer Thursday night. III
pleaded not guilty was fined 500 and costs
and held in $500 bonds TO keep the peac,
for six months.
In commenting upon Sundays celebra
ton. the Paris Figaro says that despite III,
peaceful character of the events, peopl,
must not shut their ewes to the fact tn,
Workingmen's International revived yes
tcrday's demonstrations to show that tb,
workingmeu are masters of the situation.
Work is suspended in all the Quincy
Mass, quarries pending possible settle
ment of difficulties by MAY 4th. If n,
satisfactory price list is agreed upon oil
that date. the strike will begin in earnest
Three hundred men are idle, hut it il
thought matters will be settled by Wedues
tlav the ith inst.
\. T.. Mannall of Mannall 4 Co.. Bos
ton, real estate dealer and general manage
and treasurer of the American and Scandi
navian Printing Company has left the city
To meet losses in his real estate business i
said he drew upon the funds of the print
ing company. and mortgaged its property
which was held on lease.
The number of divorce cases now pend
ing in Oklahoma is almost stupendous. Ii
some counties the number runs toward
hundred. Ii is not due TO any particala
infelicity Of the people of this territory. bu
to the fact that divorce law here is very la,
and scores of persons have come from
other states to get rid of burdensome mar
tial ties.
A Trenton, n. j., special says Attorne,
General Stockton acting under the diree
ton of Governor Abbott, is investigating tn
Reading Coal Combination with view o
crushing the conspiracy in the courts o
New Jersey if it can be found that tn
state has the power. Special counsel ha
been employed to assist the state depart
ment and work Is progressing rapidly.
| A Washington dispatch to the Nex Yor
/ Herald says that Senator John Sherman o
/ Ohio will before many months announc
his retirement from public life. This infoi
nation comes from an Ohio gentleman wh
has been recently in Washington and fo
/ years has sustained the most intimate pei
/ sonai relations with Mr.. Sherman II
stated that the publication of the letters @
his brother. the late Gen. Sherman, will b
the motive which will aetuate the senator i
retiring from the Senate.