Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-03-07
NEWS NUGGETS.
Current Items Of Interest frem Many
Sources.

so'eie shoiAn VI tac ottukUcec Quasi.
There has been seriou. outbreak Of the
foot and mouth disease among the cattle in
Glasgow.
A new case Of typhus fever wss dis
covered in . big New York tenement house
Saturday.
An old lady Of Sioninston, Conn, is said
to have slept 2l 900 consecutive nights in
one house.
lis estimated that Europe il 81, ,000, ,O00,-
600 poorer every year by her system of
armed peace.
There is no truth in the sensational
rero't that J. Gould dropped dead in his
office Saturday.
Ii 10 chculAled that every ten days Of
London fos casts 25 900 people on beds Of
sickness, and kills 250e.
/ The largest electrical plant in the West
10 at the PoormAn mines, Idaho, which
saves its company $50, 1000 year.
Out Of 100 Indian students returned from
Hampton Institute. Virginia, to the resey-
vstion only two have been failures.
The Hopkins. Searles viii case has
been settled by compromise. Timothy
will secure some 81, 900, 900 by this settle
ment.
Wonderful deposits Of gold are said to
have been discovered at Cripple Creek,
Colorado. Great excitement prevails
there.
A French physician proposes to revolu-
tionizs the Art Of medicine by forcing medi-
cinal substances into the system by cleo
tricity.
| Ex-Mayor James g. Wyman Of Alleghs-
ny City, was sent to Jail Saturday for three
months on charges Of extortion. while may
or Of the city.
The parish house of st. Eiward's Catho-
lie church, Providence, X. L., was damaged
by fire Saturday, from $500 to $1,000;
fully insured.
| A defective ilue started fire that de-
shoyed the farm house Of Joseph knapp in
| Middlesex. VT, Saturday morning. Loss,
$1,000; partially insured.
The jury failed to agree in the trial of
Burton C. Webster for the murder Of
Charles f. Goodwin last August. The
trial occurred in New York City.
At the Parliamentary election at South
Derbyshire, England. Friday. the Liberal
candidate was elected by 1850 msjority.
The Liberal majority in 1856 was 1853.
A pine tree in Pennsylvania recently
| scaled S033 feet Of lumber. Ii made II
saw logs, II and IL feet in length, and the
top end of the butt log was IS inches in
| diameter.
A reckless character, named Williams,
| shot bis wife at Richland, Indians, Thurs
day night, killing her instantly. Then he
| shot himself, lnficting fatal injuries.
Jealousy was the cause Of the deeds.
Within the city Of Buenos Ayres, it is
man, and that any decently good looking
woman that goes there can have her pick
out of fifty esger suitors.
Lillian Russell has employed German
| maid whose duty it is to instruct her in the
| language while dressing and undressing
her. In this way Lillian is able to devote
three or four hours = day to This work.
The populstion Of Bogots, she capital of
| the Uoited States Of Colombia, decreased
| 854 during 1891. There were 2305 births
aud 3l59 deaths in the city during the year.
Emigration and immigration are not factors
| in the ci.y's economy.
A dispatch from Lisbon, Portugal, says
According to an official estimate los fisher
men were drowned in last Saturdays storm.
The royal family. press and public have
made liberal donations for the relief Of the
| families Of the victims.
A man named Origlio has been arrested
in Toulon, on charge Of being an Italian
spy. Papers in his possession we're seized
which proves that he was in the employ Of
| Italy to obtain details Of the garrison Of
the artillery defence Of Toulon.
A Philadelphis clergyman has had to re-
| sign his charge for q remarkable reason.
| la his pastoral ministrstions he psid little
| attention to the ladies'. and some of them,
who felt slighted made things so unpleasant
that he felt compelled to resign.
A threatened strike among weavers in
the Riverside mills at Providence, r. l..
has been averted, the men accepting q re-
| vised price lisI, proposed by the supeIin-
| tendent, which equslizes wages. As to the
fines system, which started the trouble, the
management promises to be more lenient
The cost Of lighting the Worlds Fair at
Chicago will be about ten times the cost for
| the ligh,i1g of the exposition held at Paris.
| The figure i, at Present placed at 81 500,
| 900 and it is estimated thst the light and
power plant will be one Of at least 2000
horse power.
1t is said there are 20 we'll built towns in
Kansas without single inhabitant to waken
the echoes Of their deserted streets. Sara
togs has $4,000 opera house, 4 large
brick hotel, . $50 900 schoo Ihouse, and 3
number Of fine business houses, yet there
is nobody even to claim place to sleep.
| Prof. William J. Tucker Of the Andover
Theological Seminary, who, At the last
meeting Of the board Of trustees of Dart
mouth College, was unanimously elected to
the presidency Of the college, is undecided
whether to accept or not. He will arrive
at = conclusion in the matter on or before
April 4.
The recent Civil War in Chill cost the
victors, the Congressional party, SIS, ,000,-
| 600, according to . recent estimate made by
the Gillian newspapers. OF that amount
1885,, 900 was contributed by Sonora Dona
Juana Edwards, the mother Of Don Angus
tin Edwards, Minister Of Finance, from
her private fortune.
| The average number of insane in the We
Massachusetts hospitals last year, inebristes
included, was 1855; in 1865 it was only
| l044. The population has not doubled,
but the population under treatment had
more than trebled. The sverage for the
whole state, besides those in aims houses,
was 1850 at least; in 1865 it was less than
100.
The wife of q wealthy United States sem
ator gave . luncheon fes days ago. Many
ladies attended in full dress. As they re-
tired at its close what was their horror to
discover that each gown had been decora-
ted with broad stripes Of white paint. The
explanation was thst the chairs had been
Srostiv psiptod and uil1od foy he occ..inp
and had not been properly dried.
Osing to the melting OF SHOWS in the Ar
des the Csucs river has oveifoved its
banks, spreading death aud devastation in
the fertile valley Of that name, the richest
re aion in the nited States of Columbia.
Crops have been swept os by the food,
houses torn from their foundations, and
many human beings have perisbed in the
torrent. The sxGent Of the damage is not
definitely known, but it is believed te be
immense.
The Burr Osborn will case Of Bridge
port, CT has been settled. The contest
ants, % cousins Of the testator, will re-
ceive $1,000. The costs will be shared By
contestants and the estate. The estate was
invsntoried at ss4 1856, and the legacies
amounted to &56 $50. John W. More
house and family get about s24 400, and
s2l00 goes for charitable Purposes.
Joseph Srurgis ar other heirs get s27 900
Probably the largest congregation in
America 10 that Of the Church Of St Stan
islAus kostks, Chicago, which has 80 600
commnnicants. The number Of attendants
at the several masses every Sunday fft-
quensly exceeds Is 600. The cure Of souls
committed to iis charge requires the services
Of IL priests. 1t has psfochisl school a.
tended by 5000 children, and these Are