Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-12-03
NEWS NUGGETS.
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South and West

An earthquake shock was felt at Chat
tanooga, between = and 4 o'clock Friday
morning. The vibration lasted 10 seconds
and created great sensation,
The Russian government has assigned
s. 900 900, to be expended in supplies for
peasants in the famine stricken provinces.
The Illinois state board of canvassers
has completed its canvass of the official vote
of Illinois as follows Cleveland, 1876 ,2sl ;
Harrison, 399 ,2ss: Weaver, 22,207 Bid
well, 25,9oI.
The canvass of the official returns of the
vote in California for Harrison and Cleve-
land gives the Democrats "A plurality in the
entire state of 2sl.
Though Thursday was day of consider
able excitement at Madrid, there is nothing
whatever TO Justify the assertion that the
populace is or has been in revolt. Friday
the excitement mad entirely subsided and
quiet prevailed.
J. Ross Faulkner, student at Bellevue
Hospital medical college, New York, and IL
son of Senator Faulkner, committed suicide
Friday at the hospital. His body found at
4 o'clock in his room by DIR. White. Faulk-
ner had taken paris green.
Friday morning flames broke out in a
tenement house at No. 3l7 Flushing avenue,
Brooklyn. The inmates became panic
strick and several jumped out of the
windows Michael Doyle was instantly
killed. Several others were hurt
Schooner Harry White of Boston, Capt
Charles II. Rich, 72j tons, with cargo of
plaster. bound from Nova Scotia to Phi.a-
delphia, went ashore in the recent gale
southeast of Billingsgate Island light. soon
afterward she filled and sunk with her rail
lust out of water at low tide. She h =
easy, and the prospect for floating her
seems favorable. The crew was saved.
Secretary Charles Foster said Friday
morning that while he did not care to dis
cuss the matter for publication, he did not
think the death of Jay Gould would not
make any apprecisble difference in the fl
nancial markets. inasmuch as his effects
had been practically discounted, and his
SON George could be depended on to pur-
sue safe and conservative policy in the
/ management of his fathers estate.
| NJ. Brisson. who was selected by Presi-
| dent Carnot of France to form a new min
| istry. has abandoned the undertaking and
the political situation is more mVd'lled than
ever. In explaining his failure NJ. Brisson
SAYS he desired to form u cabinet that
would cooperate with all the factions but
the refusal of NJ. Perieire to enter the COM
bipation, and the declination of VI. Bour-
geois to accept the portfol o of the interior
! forced him 10 abandon the task.
| Later advices by steamer regarding the
earthquake in San Salvador on the night
Of Oct, Is. state that 5000 inhabitants of
La Union fed to the beach while shock
after shock shook the city and older build
| ings were tumbled into ruins. The stone
1 cathedral was reduced TO formless heap
| and some so other buildings were wrecked.
| One third of the island of Conchequita ia
the gulf of Tonsees. seven miles from La
| Union, was split off by the shock ard sad
/ denly sank out of sight. The orator OF the
/ Coneheqaa volcano showed signs Of erup-
/ ton.
George A. Morse Of Minneapolis. xcll.
( known real estate dealer and loan a@ent for
! eastern capitalists. has confessed that he
| has forged his fathers signature to p,per
aggregating 1926, ,0o0, all of " hjs!l has beet,
| n 'gotiaied with local banks AMI Hoaey
/ loaners II Is also ascertaincd tina. he a.
| embezzied large sums Of money iaiFn,tefl
! to him BY Eastern capitalists wei AZ
considerable sums collected by him as in
,erest on loans made for clients. l'e is the
son of Elisha Morse, a wealthy resilient o.
this city. now tempoi ari y sojournibg IN
San Francisco, AMI who vas formerly in
business with his son nere. under the name
!. IL n