Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-03-12
NEWS NUGGETS,
Brought By the Wires From North, East,
West and South

The foot and mouth disease lie spreading
among cattle in Belgium.
The village Of Edgar, Marathon county,
Wis. has been wiped out by fire.
There are reports of several homestesdefs
| near Iron river, Wis, perishing in The
storm.
Kate Smith once belle Of New Albany,
} Ind, committed suicide Thursday by TAX
| ing 4 dose Of poison while on q train bound
| for this city.
| Engineer Frank Benner and Brakeman
Jefferson Davis, were struck by a train and
| killed on the New York Central near Por,
Byron, N. Y, Friday.
A bill reported to the Senate Friday by
Dolph that proposes to place the entire
| pilotsge Of the country under control Of the
secretary OF the treasury.
The body of man supposed to be a
| French Canadian from Maine, was found
| ic the canal at Lowell Friday morning
His name is thought to be Frank Taylor,
The convention between the United
| States and Austria Hungry for exchange OF
| money orders. wss signed FRIDAY by the
postmaster general, and will 60 into effect
April l..
The town council Of Sellersburg, Ind
has passed an ordinance requiring all boys
| under the age Of sixteen years to be in thei'
homes by o'clock, Z. M, under pain OF
arrest and imprisonment.
There is man living in Calhoun, Ga.
20 years old, who boasts that he never wor.
| a pair Of boots, bought suit of clothes
| white shirt or any store clothes in his life,
or wore collar or neCktie.
Alexander Gingrsss, conductor OF the
1 ght shifting Train wss run over by the
| cars in Sonth Lawrence Friday. His head
WAS completely severed from the body ;
aged about % and leaves a family.
Miss Bette, the II liyear-old daughter OF
Rev. Marion Moore, while alone IN her
home on Stocks Creek, w. Va, Wednes
day, was murdered by man named Ad-
kins, who cut the girls throst with s
| butcher knife.
Queen Victoria has re 3ived the psintiug
by Frank B. Carpenter, the American
artist of the Alabama Arbitration Commts-
sion, and has had it hung in the baDqueting
hail of Windsor Castle. The donor was
Mrs. Carson Of Newburg, N. Y.
The question as to whether the 29th OF
February is legally a day or not has often
been up before the courts Of Indiana
There is authority in that state to the { fiect
that the 2sth and 29th Of February in leap
year are to be counted as one day,
The smallest book ever printed is vol
| ume little over an inch square, which con
tains the whole of Danta's ala Divina
Commedis' with illustrations. This was
one Of the treasures recently presented to
the Drexel institute by Mr.. Childs.
The Manassah society is peculiar organ.
ization Of Chicago, said to be composed oi
colored men who have married white wives
The society was organize January ,. 1892
and now has 100 members Ii is said tnere
are 480 cOlGred men living il that city with
white wives.
A French chemist, who has been giving
| considerable attention to the problem OF
heating and lighting from = single source
has devised novel stove, which in sppesr-
ance resembles an ordinary heating stove
| 1t is 80 arranged internally ihst the waste
of best is utilized for the generation OF
electricity.
The census enumerator at Warrersburg
found child, three months old, the mother
Mrs. Fred Chandler, one month le,s than
Is years, the grandmother, Mrs. John
| Allen, sged 33 years. and the gres. grand
mother. Mrs. Oscar Greene, aged So years
all residing in close proximity about sI1
miles north Of Wsrrensburg.
The number of newspapers published /,
estimated at ~ COO, Of .hich about "a, ,00t
appear in Europe Germany hesds this
list with 5000, then comes France with { >,
| GOO, Austria with $500 The United States
has l3 800 newspapers, Canada has 700
and Australia has 700 The people Of the
| u niied States, therefore, read and support
about as many newspapers IS England
France and Germany combined.
| Ore Of the most interesting sights xlons
the Rio Gfande, i. TO see 8 regiment OF
Mexican soldiers taking a compulsory bath
| II is only under compulsion that the rani
and lie OF the army ever do battle, ant
when the ceremony is in progress one hall
Of the regiment enters the water while the
other half stand guard on the bank, rifles il
hand to shoot down any man Who attempt.
to desert. When the abiuiion hss beer
finished tie men resume their places in lias
and guard their comrades while they bsthe
At the Central Park, in New York
Cahph, the hippopotamus. recently had
stomach ache and was given the follovin,
in three pills, each about the size OF base
ball Tsenty nine hundred and forty grain
Of aloes and 10 drops Of croton oil. Al
though the dose vas mixed with lipseed OF
and Ringer and wrapped in paper, Calipl
strenuously objected TO taking it, and ii VA
only by lettering him With three inch rope
apd with the aid Of nine men that the med
icine vas finally pushed down his throat OIL