Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-04-28
NEWS NUGGETS.
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The 18th annual meeting of the National
Grange of the Patrons of I!usbaniry will
be- held at Concord, \. IL. beginning We'd
ncslay, November IL.
The British ship rheuphane from New
Castle Y. s, which sailed December lst
for Molendo. has been given up as lost.
She had crew of - persons all told.
The reports that disturbances occurred at
Rome on Sunday and that the authorities
had begun harricading the house of the
government officers are entirely without
foundation.
\ dispatch from Pueto Cabello. Vene-
zuela. saws Generals lbarra and Casanas.
two leading government officers. have been
cut of from Palaeio's main forces and are
in imminent peril.
Col. Richard b, Erwin. one of the Trib-
une editorial staff died Wednesday morning.
lie was great-grandsou of Benjamin
Franklin, his mother being FraukIin's grand
daughtcr. Col. Erwin was born in Pitts
burg in 1889.
The Commercial bank of st. Paul,
Mimi, closed doors "Wednesday and stts-
pended payment. The officers say the de-
positors will be paid in full. The suspen-
sion was mainly caused by scare created
by the failure of the st. Paul German Fire
Insurance Company.
The brazilian government has ordered
the Brazilian consals in foreign countries to
refuse to dispatch vessels to Matteo Crosse.
Further troops are en- route to suppress the
revolt in that state, Five thousand infan-
try and artillery in all have been sent to
the scene of the rebellion.
At Lowell. Mass. Wednesday. the jury
gave $1,000 to Dora j. Irwin, who sued
Alley Brothers ( Place. tanners of Arer,
Mass, a. damages for the death of her has-
band in the tannery in November. ls90.
The jury said the man exercised due care
but WAS not sufficiently protected.
Judge Lothrop of the Massachusetts SUI
preme court, "Wednesday, granted a preimi-
nary INDUCTION restraining the directors of
the New York 4 New England Railroad
from paying dividend on preferred stock
on MAY eth. The petition for the INDUCTION
was not opposed by the counsel for the
railroad.
The British steamer Philadelphia. for
Liverpool while proceeding to sea from
Boston. "Wednesday. eollided with and sunk
a fishing schooner in the channel Just above
tn, upper middle. The schooners masts
are about half out of water with all sails
ses. A fisherman picked up three or four
of the schooner,s crew and the tug Vim the
remainder. The steamer apparently was
uninjured and will probably proceed
Two belated items of interest from the
Paris horse show have just come across the
water. Dne is TO the effect that the pretti-
est woman there was Baitimorian. name
not given. and the other relates that fam
Gus French society beauty was greeted with
. storm of Misses when made her appear
ance because her really beautiful complex
ion was plasferei thiekly over with white
paint and cosmetics.
The body of Henry 4. Reynolds of Mil
ford. Mass. was found at Vernon Grove
cemetery Wednesday morning. On the door
of a receiving tomb was business card on
which was written Find me ia the little
summer house. His body was suspended
from rope and there was bullet wound
through the mouth. Reynolds was buihl-
er at its Harrison avenue. Boston. Des-
poniieacy is supposed to haze caused the
act.
Henry Irving is very i'll. H.. has partially
lost his voice, and since Thursday last has
not appeared on the stage of the Lyceum
Theatre. He has gone to Hastings for