Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-10-15
NEWS NUGGETS.
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Dartmouth defeated Phillips Academy nj 4
Andoser Friday in the football game, p; 10 |
o.
The Princeton football team of the |
Columbia Athletic Club a, Washington, !
Friday. ~ to 0. /
Senator Daniel of Virginia, has declined |
To deliver the Grafton at the dedication of |
the fair buildings.
The finest business block at West Point, |
Miss, burned Friday. Loss, $4,000; in- |
surance, >ia,0oo.
Two hundred employees of the Findley. |
ohio window glass works are ON strike |
over question of wages.
The Paris Gauois Friday SAYS it is ru-
more'i that friendly settlement will he ef- |
fected between Mr. and Mrs. Deacon.
The board of education OF Detroit a,iop
ted resolution after 1 fierce Eight, 'prae,i-
cally excluding Catholics frum teaching ia
the Detroit public schools.
At the fourth trial of the ease Of Vincent
Kern against the Lowell { Lowell railroad
company at Boston, for damages received
Nov. n, lsss, he was awarded So 800.
\ VERY faint comet was discovered by
Prof. Barnard, "Wednesday night, at Mt.
Hamilton. Cal. by Photographic work.
This is the first 10 be discovered by this
methoi.
Violent earthquakes were felt irE many
places in the Balkans Friday. They were
strongest in Roumania. In oltenatza great
damage was done. The shock was felt for
30 seconds,
The schooner Frank Leming of Philadel-
phia from GAINESVILLE for Philadelphia, with
a cargo of stone collided with the sunken
Yacht Alva FRIDAY morning, knocking out
two of the schooner's masts.
The special election in Worcestershire,
Eng. Friday, resulted in the election of
the Conservative over the Liberal candi-
date by three votes. At the last general
election the Liberal majority was 1873.
Arrangements have been made by the
Coney Island Club for finish fight with
four ounce gloves between Joe Goddard and
Peter Maher. The fight to take place next
month on Coney island for a purse of
$500.
Coffevville. Kan, is guarded by armed
citizens in anticipation of an attack by the
friends of the late notorious Dalton gang.
Intense excitement prevails but no attempt
at revenge by the outlaws sympathizers
has yet been made.
Col. Dodds, commander of the French
forces operating against the King of Da-
honey, telegraphs that his expedition ear
ried strongly intrenched outpost, six out
post six miles from Cana, Wednesday, and
the French loss was % killed and wounded.
The mutilated remains of an unknown
man were found on the b. 4 NJ. track near
Mass l.pnf carly this mnrutpy
and brought to this town by the Newbury
port freight The man was apparently a
| farm hand and it is thought was killed by
the train.
| A city of Mexico special says an arrange
ment is being made for the establishment of
a colony of 1000 Japanese in the state of
Sinola Mexico. This movement is the re-
suit of an extended investigation made by
| commission sent there by the Japanese
| government several months ago.
| Mrs Reva Selkin, an elderly Russian
woman. was burned to death in a tenement
house on Clinton street, New York, Thurs
day night. The house was occupied by
twenty families, consisting of over 100
persons. The panic was caused by fire, but
all succeeding in reaching the street in
safety excepting her.
| Two New London Northern trains col
lded at Harrison Landing, Friday the Bos-
ton express freight and the Brattleboro
! freight, bound south. Five men were
killed; Charles Henry and William Gillen
| of Ballston Spring, n. y; Edward Morse,
/ Norwich, Ct. - McKenna, residence
unknown; fifth man not identified.
Thomas Carroll the telegrapher of the
| New London 4 Northern Railroad at Nor
wich, Conn, who, it appears now is
responsible for the disaster on that road
| Friday, has disappeared He did not report
! for duty at night at the regular hour, and
no one seems to know what has become of
him. Carroll is about 20 years of age.
! The schooner Evelena, Capt. William E.
| Mcconnell, arrived at Boston Friday with
the Labrador expedition, which was sent
| out By the management of the Worlds
| Columbian Exposition last June to procure
an Esquimaux to exhibit for the fair.
! Messrs w. ID. Vincent and X. G.. Tarbox,
who are in charge report very successful
! issue in their undertaking. The expedition
| is indebted to the officers of the Hudson
| Bay Company and the Moravian
| missionaries for much valuable assistance.
| II has secured dozen families of native
| Esquimaux selected from various points on
the northern coast which include represen-
tatives from the partially civilized Esqui-
maux at the Hudson Bay Company's posts,
converts from the Moravian mission sta
tions and heather Aboriginals from Cape
| Chidley and the shores of ngava.
! The Union Veteran Legion finished its
! encampment at indianapolis Thursday
night None of the efforts to change the
constitution or laws of order sue
ceedeh The following officers were
| elected National commander, Col. VIM.
| r. Tycker, Indianapolis senior yice-c0m-
mander, James Beggs, Cincinnati; Junior
| Vice Commander, II. X. Sloane. Indian
| apolis: Quartermaster, General Frank l..
| Blair iittsburg, Pa; Chapain-in-Chiet.
John A. Banks. Pttsburg, Pa. Surgeon
General, W. s. Norcross, Lewiston, Maine;
| Inspector General, G.. w Riggs, Column
bus. o.; tdjutant General, Col. b. c.
Shaw Indianapolis Executive Committee.
Charles A. Foster. Wilmington, Del; NJ.
\. Murphy. Mount Vernon, Ohio; j. A.
Joel. Brooklyn; Hugh Morrison. Allie
gbeny, Pa; j. NJ. PAYER, indianapolis.