Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-05-24
NEWS NUGGETS,
Brought by the Wires from the North, East,
West and South.

The street car system at Youngstown, O.,
is tied up by a strike of conductors and motor
men, who demanded an increase in pay of
~ cents a day.
James Pierce of Santa Clara, Cal, mil
lionaire, has married his house servant,
Julia Neif lie is 20 years of age, and is
worth So 900 600.
A dispatch from Lockport, n. s., says
the Gloucester schooner Nellie Rowe is
ashore OF that place, and will likely be
come total wreck.
An agreement has been reached between
Canada and Newfoundland in relation to
the dispute which has interrupted commerce
between the two colonies.
The cigar makers employed by W.
u. l.. Hayes of Lowell, Mass. struck
MONDAY. They demand 30 cents All the
shops but Hayes have given in To the
demand,
Leandcr Potter, aged Gs, of New Bed
ford Mass, was found hanging in his barn
at Dartmouth, Monday. The cause of sui
eide was dependency, induced by pro-
lonrcd attack of the grippe.
\ break is reported in the Ievec at Her
stor plantation. in the parish of St. James,
La. The break is 40 feet wide and there
is but little hope of closing it. The loss
probably will exceed 81 900, 900.
A Springfield Mass, dispatch says that
Bishop O'Reiiey's condition remains critical
He has a serious kidney trouble and the
malady Is of such nature he cannot lie
down hut sleeps in an easy char.
Speaking of the relay bicycle ride, Gen
,I. ,il ,I,,t >,
achievement. lie is satisfied that the
bicycle would be of practical service in
military tactics and says it will soon be in
troduced into the army.
Col Blunt commanding the 10th Infantry
at Fort Douglass near Salt Lake City, has
been notified by the war department to hold
his command ready to march ut an hours
notice to the scene of the strike among
miners at Occur d Aenc, Idaho.
The grand jury at Newburyport, Monday
presented another Indictment against Alder
man John W. Bolton of Lawrence. Mass.
on the charge of receiving brihe of $1,000
from James II. Welden as pay for his effort
to secure Wclden liquor license.
William H. Tucker, shoe manufacturer
of Avon, Mass, filed petition in insol-
NtiiA ~ 1'ftliltHl RlbiHldN, I Ht dSSttFs
machinery, shoe manufacturing property,
merchandise, horses, carriages, household
furniture are mortgaged for S21Jo. Liza
bilities, Sl0,l3@.
In the nited States district court at Bos-
ton, Monday. District Attorney Allen con-
cluded his arguments against demurrers set
up by the counsel for Asa p. Potter, Jonas
II. French and Thomas Dana, officers of
the failed Maverick Bank. Judge Nelson
took the matter under consideration.
On Saturday, q. f, Branch, Manchester
y. H., counsel for Hon. Frank Jones and
others, has filed bill in equity in the Hills
boro county supreme court against the di
rectors of the Concord & Montreal railroud
restraining them from issuing 81 200, 900
new stock voted a, the special meeting of
the stockholders last week.
The Panama Canal project has dropped
quietly out of existence as far as American
interests are concerned the American Con
tracing and Dredging Company having been
declared dissolved by Judge Ingraham in
the supreme court, New York, This is the
company that contracted with De Iesseps
to dredgc for the Panama Canal As the
canal is flat failure there is no more work
to he done.
The President, Monday, appointed Ad-
miral Stephen B. Luce, L. $. n, retired
to be commissioner general. and Prof. g.
Brown Gpode. assistant secretary of the
Smithsonian Institution, aud Prof James C.
Wellington, president Of Columbian Unvcr-
sits, TO be assistant commissioners to repre-
sent the United States at the Columbian
Historical Exposition to be beld in Madrid
in 1892, in commemoration of the tooth
anniversary of the discovery of America.
The Paris Figaro Monday says the wife
of a government official holding an impor-
tsnt Office, Sunday evenining murdered
woman whom she discovered in a room with
her husband. The murtieress shot hen
victim five times. then drew a dagger and
stabbed her repeatedly. The husband of
the mureress escaped from the room. The
dead woman was the wife of member of
the Chamber of Deputies. The names of
the parties are not yet made public.