Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-03-11
NEWS NUGGETS,
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West and South

J3an hogan, who died In st. Louis Ia {
week, laid on, tie site Of Chicago in 1856.
The public schools 4. Bordsntosn, n. j.,
have been closed OF account OF = diph-
theris epidemic among the children.
Roaeri Masgrave. life insurance
ssindler, WAS .enteaced TO ten years il
state Prison, at Terre Hsu.e, Wednesday.
In collision Of freigh. rsins near
Action, lad, Thursday, Conductor McGill
and Brakeman Myers were instantly billed.
At West Duluth, MINI, Wednesday, tie
smoke stack Of Merrill & Kings saw mill
blew down, killing T. Cullen and If arlng
two others.
Farmer HNdin and Lawyer Mckinney of
Moberle, No., wen, to law over a ten cent
dog The farmer los. the suit aud also
lost over 800 in costs.
There WAS general renewal Of the storm
in the northern part Of England and in
Scotland Wednesday night and reports have
been received Of loss Of life.
Eissrd B. Hardy, clerk in the Boston
postctfica, has been arrested on charge Of
stealing from the mails number of mile
age books on different railroads.
A burglar, supposed to be William H.
Brooks, VAS shot ard fatally wounded by s
policeman at Philadelphia, Wednesday
light, while attempting to rob store.
The Guadslquiver river in Spain is %
feet above its normal level. Las Deliciss,
suburb Of Seville, is inundated. Great
damage has been done In the rural districts.
A man in Pi!ssburg found live coon in
the middle of bale Of hay few days ago.
1t 10 believed the animal has been imprli
oned there at least = month, and had been
brought from Ohio.
DR.. Peck, Of Chsttshoochie county. Ga j,
quarrel'ed with and shot dead NJ A. Thomas
neighoor. He sfierward worked 10 save
he victims life, bat without avail. Self
defense is the defense.
A GuAte maa dispatch Gays the election
Of Bar'ios IS president of Guatemala i,
officially published, Congress having decld-
ed in his favor sgsinst Lalnhests, whose
friends swear vengeance.
Several school children who started for
school at 81. Peter, MINI. Wednesday
morning, AID two tesmsters who drove into
the country, sre missing. and it is feared
they are victims OF the blizzard.
Sky of the 50 members Of the San
Francisco stock exchange have signed =
petition for the sale Of their handsome
granise building on Pine street. The couse
of this action lie dullness in speculation.
Craze Mckinney, an opera singer, ard
Rev. W. R.Syearley, were married al Cievt :
land, Ohio, Wednesday night. The bride
Was on q sick bed at the time Of her msr-
risge, and her death is momentarlly ex-
pected.
Emperor William is confined to his bed,
His physicians say heis suffering from 8
slight cold lie has not received reports
Oh state business which it Is customary for
heads Of the different departments TO make
to him daily.
Judge Endicot., OF counsel for contes' =
ants in the Sasrles will case, at Salem
Macs. yesterday filed formal waiver IN
behalf of Timothy Hopkins and wife, of
the appeal FRI m the de cree allowing the
will Of Mary F. SearIes.
The Bark Liberia, bonnd for the west Of
Africa sailed from New York, Thursday
Sh. carried SO Of The coiored people who
recently came here frcm the South en- route
10 Liberia. They we're sent out by the
American Coloniz aiion Socie'y.
The New York assembly committee on
codes has agreed to report favorRbiy bill
amending the capital punishment act Of the
state. The bill! does away with the electri-
cal chsir and substitutes hanging. The
bill is reported without amendment.
AT the New York Hotel Thursday even
ing, 1t was reported that the condition Of
Mrs James G.. Blaine j., who was taken
seriously i / yesterday ~ss slightly iu,-
proved. She is sill very sick woman.
ard no ore but her physicisn is allowed in
her room.
The Lancashire, Euglsud, coal miners
have afoptt d resolution that their holiday
begianiI g on March 18Th, will not exceed
q week in duration, instead Of two wee ks
as at first proposed. When they resume,
however, their work will be restricted ~
five days week.
A FIRE Thursdsy in the building on Border
street, Esst Boston, &C !upisd by this New
+ aglsnd Drug Mills, caused loss to stock
estimated at s25, 900. L. l. Harris, orc
prietor, says the insurance is only about
$1,000 Msc5iney w0rsh about $4,000 also
was badly dsmsged.
Seventeen yesrs sgl young man il
Chicago found a pcckatbnok containing
several thousand dollars. Now having mad q
nearly 81 co., 900 clear from this find he
sdverSises for ,he loser ami expresses his
wi linanes, 10 pay Tor the nocxetboos and
restore the amour. Of the contents"
7haIe were no less than 953 suicides in
PARIS during the year 1891 -231 sought
wa,ery graves, ll3 blew out their prsi As.
80 hanged, II stabbed themselves, 60 used
,ison, 81 eDj 1yed ssphyxiation, Is threw
themselves from b GA elevations, l54 deaths
were from unknown causes. and "A were
crushed under trsins or machinery.
A most remarkable case is reported from
Kentucky. Rev. o. Ii. Morrow, prom
ineBt Baptist minister of Simpson county,
reared family of six daughters. He re-
ceived all of lhem into the church, bspiiz ID
them all and said the marrisge ceremony
for each Of them. and bnried them ALL BE
survived the last daughter several years,
An Ottawa, Oltsric. special says that
anticipating 3 removal Of duties from coal
imported into the United States. syndicate
of Amer can capita have bonded several
valuable coal areas in Cape Breton and
Pictou, N. s.. to enable them to compete
with Pennsylvania mines in the New Eng
land market, if coal ia put on the free list.
The experts employed to Investigate the
books of the county sudtor's Office at
Washington, Ind find ex-Auditor Julius
C. Lsvelle SlS483 short. The shortage
consists in Illegal allowances and gigantic
frauds, one of which was a bogus bridge
contract. Lsvele 10 now under Indictment
for burning the Court House last Novem-
Der.
Catherine GlennoB, the nurse Who VALUE
teered to minister to the wants Of the typhus
81 fl srers 10 the hospital at North Brother
Islsnd, lost her life through her humane
devotion. Bat in quietly facing deal 10
the performance Of her duty sh. vrote her
self down heroiue o. the noblest sort Her
action was an honor TO her sex and to
humanity.
One of the biggest rocks ever moved in
the course of railroad construction in this
c ,untry vas recently excavsted on the liue
of the Mex can Southern. The gisnt bou-
der va. 1920 feet 10 height and measured
1000 cubic meters. Six dynamite cartridges
we're placed under the rock after the men
had excavsted as much earth IS possible
snd we're fred one after another. At the
sixth sxplu sion the big fellow rolled over
out OF the way
The sixth annual report Of the New Yo:s
factory inspectors, eeut ~ h. Legislsldre
shows that child labor hiss been
reduced in that state over 50 per cent. since