Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-12-08
NEWS NUGGETS
Brought b, the wires Frem the North, East
South aad West

The Water, bet arsenal strike is ended,
the men winning their point
Steamer hhio, with broken shaft, was
,owed into Halifax Tuesaiay.
The Graves ease at Denver has been
closed and an opinion is expected in two or
three weeks.
Reporter Harry G. Triekey of the Boston
Globe. was. buried at Forest Hill GENE
terry Tuesday,
NJ Hannah i Co., produce merchants,
Montreal have assigned. Assets, Slo,62o I:
liabilities, s:is,JIs.
Fred Leslie, the well known and popular
actor, died Wednesday AT London after
very brief illness of typhoid fever.
Thomas f. Murphy is doing great TEN
perance work at New Haven, Conn. over
20o0 people have signed the pledge
The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Boston x Maine Railroad will be
held ON the 18th inst, at | l o'clock A. NJ,
at Lawrence.
The Yale aud Harvard foot ball teams
are TO attend banquet in their honor by
Mr. Higginson of Harvard at Boston, Fri
day evening
An unknown negro who assaulted and
afterwards killed Miss Milfred Bryant
near Jellice, Tenn, Tuesday, was subse-
qaently caught and lsnched.
Schooner Anita, before reported at Vine
yard Haven, with jibboom ami head gear
carried away, sailed for New Haven We'd
nesday after making repairs.
Capt. b. T. Miller and wife were found
dead in bed at their home at Newport, Pa,
Wednesday. suffoeated by coal gas. Their
servant girl was unconscious, AMI may die.
Wilson G. HINT, the noted New York
capitalist, died Wednesday, aged IS. AT
the time of his death he was a director in
more financial institutions than any other
man in the country.
Charles W. Gardner, the agent of DIR.
Parkhurt's reform society, who was ar
rested at New York on Saturday charged
with attempting to blackmail keeper of a
house of i'll fame. was Tuesday locked up
in default of $500 bail.
Frank II. Smith of Springfield, Mass.
who sued the Connecticut River Railroad
for $50, zoe for the loss of a leg and other
injuries in September, 1891, was Wednes-
day awarded a verdict of sl9,906. The
defendant filed motion for a new trial.
Charles r. Moulton, aged IS, Tuesday
night shot and killed Mrs. NJ. s. Story,
who lived on Marine street, Seattle, Wash.
and shot himself dead. Mrs. Story had re-
iected Moulton's attentions and an offer of
marriage. She leaves two sons, ] ! and ID.
Broken tires on the Wagner sleeper Alya
on the New York & Montreal express,
bound north, over the Central Vermont,
threw the cars into ditch at 4 80 Wednes-
day morning, 20 miles south of Burlington,
Vt OF the 10 persons in the two coaches,
seven were injured but none killed.
Judge Pickett, at New Haven, Wednes-
day. when the Yale freshmen disturbance
case was brought up. ruled that the affair
must be termed a riot, since more than -four
persons were implicated in the disturbance.
He thought the only course available at
present was to arrest the whole class of '9G
and take their testimony on the matter.
This, it is thought, will be done.
Tuesday afternoon cyclone ragged three
miles east of Atlanta. Tex, sweeping farm
houses and out-buildings. leaving death and
general destruction in its path. The resi-
dence of Samuel McAdams was destroyed,
and he and three children were fatally
hurt The house of w. Dawson, coIored,
was demolished and several children fatally
injured. The path of the storm was about
100 yards wide.
The control of the Merrimac Valley
Street Railroad has been sold by the syndi-
cate of Rochester, \. y, the present own
ers, to parties owning the Lowell, Law
renee & Haverhil Street Railway, who also
own the Haverhill & Groveland Street
Railway. This probably means the practical
consolidation of all roads in the Merrimac
valley and the immediate construction of
links interfering between Lowell and New
buryport.
Fire broke out at ) O'Clock "Wednesday
morning in three-story building on Wharf
street, Gloucester, Mass, owned and occu-
pied by Andrew W. Dodd. The building
contained several hundred barrels CT oils, a
large quantity of fertilizer and glue, all of
which were totally destroyed. The build
ing was recently erected. and contained
new and valuable machinery, the plant hay
ing been burned down abont two years ago.
Loss, $4,000; half covered by insurance.
The New York sun says it has the au-
thority of Archbishop Corrigan for its
statement that one of the first fruits of
Archbishop Satolli's mission to this country
from Rome is to be the restoration of DR..
Edward McGlynn to his faculties as a
priest in good standing in the Roman Cath
Ollie church. The archbishop repudiated the
interview published in the Sun and declares
he said nothing whatever about DIR. Me-
Hlynn further than to express hope that
he would be reconciled to the church.