Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-10-05
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought by the Wires from the North. last
West and South.

Fire at midnight Monday in the Exeter
y. H., Brass Works, caused loss OF
! 5000; insured.
| Charlie Mitchell, pugilist, was held in
| $500 bonds Tuesday for brutal and nm
provoked assault upon an aged keeper of a
/ London lodging house in the Strand.
Hon. Patrick Egan, United States minis
| ter to Chill. arrived on the steamer New
port at New York, tuesday. He brings
( with him treaty to be negotiated with
Chill.
/ The passenger train on the Northern
| Pacific collidcd with the freight at North
town Junction, Mimi, Monday night. Fire.
man Buell. was killed and eight passengers
were injured.
! Henry Albin, an elderly married man OF
I Stamford, Ct, while visiting ayoung widow
| at Long Ridge. eight miles from here. Mon
| day night. was taken from the house by the
/ ncighbors and sent home.
/ -Four of the Homestead strikers charged
with treason furnished the required 900
bail each Tuesday morning and were re-
! leased Those released were John DER
ken, George Ryder, Daniel Lynch and W.
/ II. Caches.
Elisha Bassett, for j years clerk and
deputy clerk of the United States court in
Boston. died early Tuesday morning from
the result of y shock received week ago.
lie was - Years of age. He had resigned
bis position in 1890 on account of i'll health.
A. a result of the hearing before the
steamboat inspectors ut Boston on the col
lision between the II. r. Dimock and the
Vanderbilt steam yacht Alva. the license of
Captain Morrison of the Aiva has been re-
voked, rbe Dimock is exonerated from
all blame.
Fears are entertained for the safety of
the two-masted scoooner Nellie May which
left Providence August 18th for Bravo.
She has been fifty days on passage that is
ordinarily accomplished in about one
month"; She carried u persons including
passengers and crew.
The Idaho Democratic committee Mon
day withdrew the electoral ticket and en-
dorsed the electors of the Peoples party.
This is understood to be in accordance
with the general plan to he pursued in
other Western states under the advice of
the national committee.
Michael j. MeEttreck, a Boston Demo
crat, announces that he will not run against
McNary. Democratic nominee for Congress
in the 10th district. McEttrick claims that
neither he nor his supporters were given
proper recognition in the cancuses and tina,
the will Of the people of the district has
been subverted.
Fire Tuesday morning damaged the tene-
fnent block on Chestnut street. Lowell in
which a number of families lived. Rats
ignite,l matches and flames spread through
the partition in a few minutes, and the
tenants barely escaped sufocation The
block was owned by Burmsn estate: in
sured for sl5.ooo.
At 80 Tuesday morning Lieut.. Miklos
of the Austrian army. one of the competi-
tors in the long distance military race.
which began last SATURDAY, arrived at the
goal in the temple of lfoffield. He left
Vienna at 80 o'clock SATURDAY morning
and was therefore > days. hour anf Is
minutes in travelling the distance. He was
given an enthusiastic welcome.
Dr. Douglass. the famon. throat special
ist. who abandoned his practice and devoted
his v hole time 10 General Grant for SIX
months during the great generals last ill.,
ness, died at Washington SUNDAY, from the
same disease which carried of the ex-Presi-
dent. For the past few years he had been
in straiiened circumstances and had been
dependent on his daughter, who IL clerk
in one of the departments on salary
of 5000.