Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-07-22
NEWS NUGGET
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West and South.

T.. c. Knight. the millionaire refner.
died at Cape May, n. j., Thursday, aged
70.
The whole Roumanian frontier is closed
to traffic with Russia on account of cholera
in that country.
II is officially stated that cholera has
broken ont in the government of Kooban
on the east shore of the sea of Azof and
the Black Sea.
At Nashua, n. H., Thursday, W. =.
White and J. NJ. Clark of Lawrence. Mass,
were fined $50 and costs each in the police
court for selling obscene papers there.
inquiry has been made as to the rumor
about Lord Stanley's resignation as gov
er-general of Canada. and the assurance
has been given that it was entirely un-
founded
The Paris Figaro, Thursday, said the
police have discovered an anarchist plot to
blow up the Bourse and other public build
ings The paper adds that two of the con-
spiratOrs have been arrested.
In the superior court at Pittsfeld. Mass,
| Thursday, Robert J. Benquist of Boston,
was sentenced to five and one-half years in
the state prison for forgery; +. n. Sansou-
sic of North Adams, three years for horse
stealing.
| \ boat containing four river men, en-
| ployed by the Connecticut River Lumber
Co, went over dam on the Connecticut
river at Bellows Falls, VT, Thursday
| Three of the men we're saved, but the
fourth. Alcony Rino, was drowned.
James Morgan, alias s'Shang' Campbell,
charged with the larceny Of s472 from
George w. Wright at the National Bank of
the Republic in October, 1889, was found
guilty in the superior criminal court at Bos-
ton Thursday. The exceptions we're taken
by Morgan's counsel This is the second
/ time the case has been tried, the verdict of
guilty having been set aside by the supreme
court.
| A crisis is threatened in the Lancashire,
Eng. cotton trade The Federation of
| Master Cotton Spinners recommends that
a 10 per cent reduction be made in the
wages of operatives and that the mills be
run on short time. 1t is thought that the
| Amalgama,ed Association Of Operative Cot
ton Spinners will refuse to accept this re-
iucfion in wages and that strike or lock
out will follow. Only short time ago a
general strike was settled in the Lancashire
4 tpttth
Luke Smith arrived at Celaldo. Idaho,
Wednesday, from the Fourth Of July Can
yon. where he had been sent to search fof
traces Of murder supposed to have been
committed. In one Of the gulches he found
a large area that had just been burned over
and which had the appearance OF funeral
pyre A closer inspection disclosed evi-
dences Of human sacrifice. Ashes rcsem-
bling bone ashes and some. which were in
the form of bones, crumbled upon being
touched.
According to story told by Mr.. Leon
Martell who arrived at San Francisco
from San Diego. two Of those who were
supposed to have been drowned by the cap
sizing Of the brig Tahiti, were seen in
Manxanilla, Mexico. in April. The brig
had 100 Gilbert Islanders who were being
carried to coffee plantations in Central
/ America, and MarteII says he waz told BY
Felix Jobansen; one of the survivors
that when the brig capsized on
October 10, the latter and four islanders,
/ including . woman. succeeded in leaving
the vessel. The men were l6 days in ar
open boat without food or water. the wsmar
having died on the fourth day. The res
ate portion of her flesh to keep tfsemseive'
alive. One member Of the party becsms
insane and jumped overheard. Ose died
but Johansen and the fourth islander finally
succeeded in reaching shore and were cares
for by fishermen.