Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-10-29
MEMS NUGGETS,
Brought BY the wires from the North, Iast.
West and South.

West and South.
Several suspicious cases of cholera have
been reported in Belgrade, Al are ascribed
to the use of drinking water from the Dan
ubc.
4 Despite all denials. Pope Leo is certainl,
no, well, and his authority, for the present
has been abandoned on account of his ILL
ness.
| An outbreak of Asiaiic cholera is report
: ell in the vicinity of fettans, Styria
Eight suspected eases were reported IN
! Vienna.
/ A revolution headed by son 0: eS-pres'
f, ihent Lopez, is hourly expected ut Asnp'
/ cion. Paraguay. yellow fever is on The
/ Increase at Santos, Brazil.
| The Wallace House in Cheshire, CT.
Was burned Friday morning, loss Slo,0oo; ;
no insurance. Twenty guests in the hotel
barely escaped with their lives.
! Thursday two Democratic registration
officers at Wilmington, Del, were arrested
for irregular practices. This makes - ar
rests for Wilmington. The Democratic
registrars in SusseS county were also ar
rested.
Business failures occurring throughout
the country during the past seven days, Ms
reported to Il. G. Dun 4 f. Russell is as
follows. Number for the United States
l67 and for Canada 20, MS compared with a
totrl of 255 for the corresponding week of
last year
Jas. A. Hcagey. telegraph operator,
shot himself yes.crda, on u train bound for
Beatty's station, Pa, at which place he was
to have been married TO Young woman in
the afternoon. lie is fatally injured. The
Young woman is completely Frustrated over
the affair. No cause for suicide known.
The Boston News l'ureau says that the
Cbicsgu. darlington & Quincy railroad has
made IA contract with the Adams Express
Company, by which the latter will occupy
all the lines of the Chicago, Burlington x
Quincy system, beginning Jan. 1si, next.
The Burlington lines heretofore have been
occupied by the American and Wells-Fargo
express companies.
The family of VIM Mazein, Buffalo,
| Ind. were poisoned Thursday by what is
supposed to have been corrosive sublimate
in "A dish of mush which had been eaten by
them. Mrs Mazelin and one daughter
| culiar sect, the New Maneas and refuse to
| allow an investigation. They say il is the
| will of God and they have no right to qucs-
ton it.
special from Lima, o., says Friday
morning a nitro glycerinc factory two miles
south of Columbus exploded with territ,
report that was heard for % miles. Build
| ings shook and windows were smashed all
| over the city. Three persons are known to
be dead, two probably fatally injured and
two teamsters missing. A farm house 800
Yards from the scene was totally wrecked,
and servant girl injured by the falling
debris.
William Gov. the murderer of John
Whaton, was Friday at Pittsfiell, Mass,
sentenced by Chief Justice Mason to be
hanged Friday. January q. When asked
if he had anything to say, Coy said he was
guilty of killing but not
premediated murder, he killed
him in self-defcnce: if he had not killed
Wha,on Whaton would have killed him.
Coy received the death sentence indif'er-
emily, bis first act on resuming his seat be.
ing to take a chew of tobacco.
Tables showing the condition of the saw
| ing bank and trust companies of New
| Hampshire at the close of the business,
| june 3o,h. lsn2, have been prepared for
| the annual report of the bank commission
ers. The aggregate of savings and deposits
| in both savings banks and trust companies
10 that date was s7i 2iG,52l, ,9s. Increase
| in savings deposits in savings banks and
trust companies for nine months. S3.2l3,-
| iS6 60. Total resources of savings banks.
s1S .,i56. 72j 80 Total number of savings
| banks. Il total number of depositors. lG9,-
gi9: average amount of each depositor
si26.2i.
4 year has made a great change in the
condition and prospects of the mill trade as
shown by the quarterly returns from Fall
River mills, given out Friday. 1t was ex
pected that a reduction in wages of 10 pei
cent. would be made Oct. ), 1891. To-day
the reports show the most extraordinary
mill earnings ever published, despite the
| fact that the mills have been running IS
hours per week instead Of 60, and paying
| advance of 3 l2 per cent. in wages. Twcn
| ty-eight corporations, operating - mill'
capitalized at SIS, ,T7s, 900, have paid out il
dividends in the last quarter 1865 ,lGo, or {
| little more than 2.33 per cent. In a CORE
| spending quarter last year. 2i corporations
| operating Z mills. paid an average of onll
| LIZ per cent.
President Mcleod Friday sent the follow
ing dispatch to Senator Chandler in reply t'
the latter's message 1T cannot be expected
that the short time have been connecte'
with the Boston & Maine property shouh
bessufiicienty familiar with matters Il
1 which you refer. 10 either affirm or aen'
your statements; but from all information
have, and from my knowledge OF th'
methods of Hon. Frank Jones, now chair
man of the board of directors of the Bos
ton & Maine, cannot believe he has eve
attempted to use the power of the corpora
ton for political purposes or otherwise thai
for the exclusive benefit of the stakeholder
| of his company. II has been my practice
Wherever bave controlled corporate or
ganization to maintain strictly neutral posi-
ton upon all political questions and hay'
no loub, the management OF the Boston
| Maine will be in accord with me in main
tanning this policy in the government of tha
property