Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-11-18
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pool.
| Sherick & Turk, manufacturing furriers,
% Blocker street. New York, assigned
Thursday Liabilities and assets are each
| about $50 900.
| Mrs Mary b. Marean, who murdered
her mother. Mrs. Brownlee, in Cambridge,
| Oct 81, has been committed to the Wor-
chester insane asylum.
NJ. Effel will not be included among the
Panama canal directors whom the govern
ment intends to prosecute.
Owing to the big supply of iron on hand
two black furnaces at the Illinois Steel
Works, Joliet. Ind, closed down Wednes-
day. Between 300 and 400 men are thrown
out of employment.
| Moses Little, prominent resident of
| NewburvpOrt, has been fined S. for refus-
ing to mark his ballot inside the booth at
the recent election. He appealed. This
will be a test case under the Australian
ballot law.
| II. ID. o. Gurus Thursday in the super
/ or court at Boston received a verdict for
| $1,000 damage against the Boston & Maine
Railroad for being put off a train at Maiden
for the alleged non-payment of fare. The
counsel for the railroad filed on motion
| for new trial.
| At the Presidential election celebration,
| in a schoohouse at Mountain View, Kan.
| Wednesday night, two kegs of powder pre-
maturely exploded. totally wrecking the
building and burying n number of people
| in the ruins. Four persons were killed and
| Is injured some of whom will die.
p,ll,tnl. pit
and the barge Storm King is ashore there.
Both barges were in tow of the steamer
Saturn, bound from Newport to Boston,
with full cargoes of coal The struck on
the rips during the heavy sea of Wednesday
night The Saturn arrived at Chatham,
Thursday.
Annie Plummer, aged 49, committed sui
eide Thursday at her home, opposite Cen
| eral Buffers residence on Andover street,
Lowell Her father died four week ago.
She was found dead in clothes closet by
the housekeeper. She was an accomplished
society lady and well-known. When found
| she had an empty chloroform bottle in her
| hand.
| The New York Herald says that prcsi-
| dents of the trunk lines. at their meeting mt
! New York, Wedne sday, established pool
as the only solution of the railroad question.
/ Commissioner Goddard was selected to ad-
| lust the percentage of competitive tonnage.
/ Aldar F. Wagner will act as arbitrator. and
his decision, with Goddard's concurrence,
will be final.
| Gwyrieth Nude, the handsome ls-year-
old girl at London. who was arrested on the
charge of swindliDg jewelry, was brought
, into court Thursday. Just before the case
was called the convict was informed that
| her mother had committed suicide. The
hearing was postponed for a week. Mrs.
Nude and her daughter had many aristo-
cratic connections and lived in lavish style
in Hyde Park.
Regarding the French governments decis-
ion to prosecute the directors of the Panama
Canal Co., Charles DeLesseps says, AS
| far as my father and myself are concerned
we have nothing to fear from an impartial
inquiry Those who accuse us of squan-
dering millions will be astonished to learn
| that in many instances we have ourselves
| been prey to others. An engineer and col
| league of NJ. Erffel's said NJ Erffel would
easily prove that the charges against him
were calumnies.
1t is stated authoritatively that there is
not in the famous little black trunk of Asa
| p Potter of the failed Maverick Bank a
paper that could bear in the slightest degree
on the criminal case against him. Potter
refused to permit the district attorney,
I Allen, to handle the papers in the trunk,
| for the reason that he, Potter, held them to
1 be private papers, upon which the district
attorney had no claim. In this view of the
case Potter has been sustained by the court.
1 There will be no further litigation over the
/ trunk.
| John j.. Sullivan arrived at York, Pa,
"Wednesday night, beastly intoxicated, and
Z in an alteration with Detective Wallace
! relative to the use of cab TO convey him
/ to York Opera house where he was billed
/ to appear. tore the coat OFF the detectives
back. Sullivsn's manager Immediately
settled matters and no arrests were made
/ Sullivan created small riot on the tram
and nearly scared farmer to death by
| offering to fight. Sullivan said: II can
/ lick any man in the ring if he stands stu.
| I'm no race horse"
Fire at Belmont village. y. H., Thuratay
morning DESTROY ed large business block
owned by imotiiy T.. Ciougb and dwell
/ ing house owned by Mrs. Nora Wright
The block was occupied by Smith & sar-
gent. genefdf uhefeBaHtsi also " wv 'fb-
ants. DR.. s. A. Merrilfs Office, the Belmont
Cornet BanI hall and barber shop.
Smith Sargent's loss, 5000; insurance,
5000. clough, 5000; insurance, $500.
Mrs. wright's loss was $500: small insur-
ance Other loses we're small. The cause
of the fire unknown.
The Berlin correspondent of the London
Tir1es says: Frederick Eugel, socialist
organ, claims that he predicted four years
ago the downfall Of protection in America
and that now the second point of bis pro-
pl,ecy Il on the eve Of fulflment, namely.
the destruction of Englands monopoly of
the worlds trade through the era Of free
trade in America. Engvl says there will
be an industrial struggle such as the world
has never before seen. that the dismal story
of the last decade with reference to cotton
and wooden factories so familiar to every
Lancashire operative will repeat itself in
every other phase of industry. and that
Great Britain will sink to the position Of
Holland unless the working classes come TO
the rescue BY adopting socialism.