Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-11-23
NEWS NUGGETS.
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South and west

Eleven new cases Of cholera and three
deaths were reported at ST. Petersburg,
Monday.
Four people were killed and three in
inred in wreck on the Union Pacific at
Aida, Neb., Friday.
A house in SharpsbUrg, suburb of
Pittsburg. burned Tuesday morning, II.
n Dannehower, his wife and infant child,
persisted in the flames.
Ship Ericsson, from San Francisco, is
total wreck in Barclay sound. b. C., having
gone on the rocks in u gale Thursday last.
The captain and crew were saved.
Daniel O'Cary. who was found Saturday
night living unconscious in the basement of
drug store on Congress arenue, Chelsea
died 1T his home in East Boston Tuesday
Foul play is suspected.
The big 1850 horse power engine of the
Wamsutta Mills No. 4, nj New Bedford.
collapsed Monday. throwing 600 hands ont
of employment and shutting down the mills
for fully six weeks.
A financial crash is emmincnt in the
Chinese quarters, San Francisco, owing, it
is alleged. to the exclusive law and the an
ticipated deportation of those Cinnamon
who failed to register.
The French commission To inquire into
the affairs of the Panama Canal Co., will
| consist of % Republicans, . Conservatives
and Boulangist 1t is reported that NJ
DE Lesseps is seriously ill.
Ex-Lieutenant-G Governor Antoine, colorcd,
of Louisiana, was convicted in the New
Orleans criminal court Monday night of
II., wa nrasiuppt al the
Senate under Governor Kellogg.
| st. Petersburg ad,iees state that accord
! ing to statistics just made public there are
$50 900 persons imprisoned in $40 jails in
! Russia. Ninety per cent. are men. The
prisons were built to hold but 10000 per-
sons.
/ Schooner Vandaia, Capt. Belts of Els
! worth, Me-, from New York for Rockland,
/ laden with kerosene oil, which went ashore
Sunday. off Welch Isle, was pulled of
/ Monday by SCOTS wreckers with hole in
her side.
| The Order of Amite, one of the so-called
beneficial organizations. made an assign
ment at Philadelphia, Monday. The col
1 lapse is due to lack of public confidence
since the failure of the Iron Hall and SIM
| liar societies.
Matthew T. Trumpbour, defaulting as
sistant treasurer of the Ulster County Saw
ings Institution, Kingston, N. Y, who was
| convicted of perjury, was Tuesday sem
fenced to five years at hard labor in prison.
| He is &c years old.
The Confederate Veteran Association of
Atlanta, at a meeting evening unanimously
adopted the following resolution; THAT as
the Stars and Stripes are now the flag of
nation it shall be carried by the association
in all public occasions as well as the confed-
crate flag"
The court of appeals at Paris Tuesday
handed down decision in the Deacon case.
Judgment was given for Mrs. Deacon, and
it was ordered that the child, Gladys, be
returned to the convent, where both Mr..
and Mrs. Deacon shall be allowed TO visit
her. Mr.. Deacon was ordered to pay the
costs.
The government astronomers ut Wash
ington are inclined to regard rather lightly
the prospect of any extraordinary phenom-
ena following the arrival of the Biela
comet. The chief astronomer of the Uni
versi,y observatory, indeed, declares that
the comet has now already passed its peri
helion and il now rcceding from the sun
and earth
There is no Improvement in the flood sit
uation in Puget Sound basin and the steady
dow npour of rain Tuesday morning encour
aged the belief that the delugc will last
day or more and many believe the worst is
to come There is still almost complete
blockade of railroad communications. The
damage done to railroads and farms thus
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