Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-05-12
NEWS NUGGETS.
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The Sultan of Turkey is suffering from
serious nervous illness.
/ England has accepted an invitation of the
Inited States to a hi-metallic conference
/ A dispatch from Cabul. the capital of
Afganistan, states that cholera is epidemic
in that city.
/ About 250 carpenters at Marion, Ind.
struck Wednesday for a nine hour day and
lj cents an hour
! Ralph X. Page, ex-cashier of the Paines-
vile, Ohio, National Bank has been SEN
fenced to 10 years for forging $1,000 note
King IIumbert of Italy has accepted the
resignation of the Rudini cabinet, and Sig
nor Giolotti has been instructed to form a
cabinet.
4 X. Hunter & Brother, general merchan-
disc and stock dealers at Rockport, Mo,
suspended Tuesday. Liabilities, s75 900 ;
assets, $4,000.
| The secretary of the navy, Wednesday
ordered the Yorktown, Mohican, Adams
and Rush to sail from Port Townsend i'm
mediately to Behring sea.
I The Ulster unonist members of the Eng
lsh House of Commons repudin,e the ru-
.
and drilling an army to oppose home rule.
/ The Redding and Westcrvillc stage was
robbed Tuesday evening by two masked
men near Redding, Cal. The Wells Fargo
box was taken but the mails were undis-
turbed.
/ The election Wednesday in North Hack
ney, Eng. to fill the vacancy in the House
of Commons, caused by the death Of Lieut.,
Gen. Sir Lewis Pally Conservative, W. K.
Bousfield (tniOnis) was elected.
Amos II. Nutter of HaverhilI. Mass, was
arrested Wednesday, charged with being in
a manner an accompliep TO the death of his
wife, who died at No. Henry street. Tues
day, the direct result of criminal malprac-
tice.
The bye-election for the House of Com.
mons took place Wednesday in East York
Ont, resulting in the return of W. +. Mac
Lean. proprietor of the World. bv about
200 majority. Mr.. MacLean is a Conserya-
tive. The vacancy WAS created by the death
of e1-Premier Mackenzie.
The London Chronicle. Paris cores
pondent says there are over 700 refugees
anarchists and Others of criminal antece-
dents under conviction for attacks on life
and life and property, now in the sanctu-
AIRY of the British territory. They could
not live elsewhere - hours.
An attachment was filed at the court
house at Salem, Mass. "Wednesday. against
Chas. c. Griffin and Reuben T.. Griffin.
formerly co-partners, under the name of
Griggin Bros, Hayerhiil. in an action for
$1,000 brought by the Standard Button
Fastening Company of Boston.
4 fve-tenement house in process of con-
struction for George q. Sanders, on Main
street, Hudson, n. H, collapsed Wednesday
night and is now a mass of ruins. Mr..
Sanders had refused to accept it. alleging
( poor work of the contractor. The loss il
( placed at $500; no one was injured.
( The negro colonists in the Black Jack
country around kingfsher, o. T., are in a
terrible state of destitution. Between 800
and 600 families are said to he actually
starving. They blame the men who organ
I lied the colonies in the South and charge
them with the theft of the colonists' funds.
( Joseph, the 2-year-oId aon Of Mrs. Barry,
living on Rutherford avenue, Charlesfown,
Mass, was burned so severely Wednesday
while his mother was at a nejyhforino
grocery store. that he died short time
after. Mrs. Barry. in en,inguishing the
flames from the ehid's clothing, wa. h.,d,v
burned abort the hands anil arms,