Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-12-06
NEWS NUGGETS.
8rough. by the Wires From the North, East
South and West.

NJ. Hannah Co, produce merchants of
Montreal, assigned MONDAY. Assets, So
$50 liabilities, SS9s .5,s.
President-elect Cleveland arrived at New
York Monday morning from Exmorc, Va
where he has been on shooting excursion.
Chas. A. Gardiner. agent of Rev. DR..
Parkhurst's society, New York, is under ar
rest on tine charge, 1t i, said, of blackmail
and eXtortion.
David Block manufacturer of iinware a,
Hester street, New York, assigned Monday
giving preferences aggregating s6S ,653.
The liabilities are Sl32 600: assets,
$50 600.
The announcement that Mgr. Satalli has
been appointed by the people to settle,
without appeal, all religious questions be-
tween bishops and priests in the nited
States has caused considerable excitement
in Catholic circles.
The London Times correspondent at
Rangoon, British Burmah, says there is "A
severe famine in knianemai. American
missionaries are feeding the starving peo-
pie but the Siamese government is doing
nothing TO relieve the distress.
affirmed the judgment of the circuit court
in the well-known Chicago lake front case.
The circuit court decided in favor of the
local authorities and held that the Illinois
Central did not have right To use sub
merged land at lake front for wharyes, piers,
etc.
David llosforl, lad about ) years old
of Manchester, \. H., attempted TO board
moving street car on the Lake avenue
line Monday, but slipped aud the wheel
passed over tue left leg, crushing it. He
was taken to Elliot hospital. The car
driver warned the boy off repeatedly.
Treasurer James Waring of the Nara
gansett Mills of Fall River and John Har-
rison, superintendent of the same mills. will
not be ordered to respond to a suit brought
against them BY certain employees whom, it
is alleged, they had blacklisted for refusing
10 work at a scale OF wages fixed by the
unl owners. This is the decision of the
full bench of the Massachusetts supreme
judicial court in decision sent down Mon
day in the case OF Dinah Warrington and
others against Treasurer Waring and
Superintendent Harrison.
At special meeting of +he Concor
hTailltt AldDUIatt1TtrS acSOtLitOui III
Concord, Monday, it was unanimously
voted to grant the requests of the New
England Granite Works and Granite Rail
way Company to settle with their cutie RS
and tool sharpencrs. by the terms of this
new bill of prices the tool sharpeners have
d gang of - instead of z cutters and will
receive $500 per day instead of S2.715 as
before. AMI all cutters work by the hour.
the minimum rate will be 80 30 Instead of
% cents as under the old bill. The new
bill of prices continues until March /.
1895.
Monday while Mrs Levi Bcrkofski, who
lives ut ~ Madison avenue, New Haven,
Conn, was out IN the yard her 2year-old
daughter, having seen her mother clean out
the stove n moment before. took shovel
full of rcd-lIot Goals from the fire, and then
hearing her mother open the door, dumped
the embers into baby carriage in which
was Mrs. Berkofski's 6-months '-oll child
sleeping. The clothing in the carriage took
fire at once, as did the little girls garments.
In Il moment all WIS ablazc; the mother
rushed to the clIillren'> aid, but too late.
TIE little girl uied in half an hour and the
baby is not expected to live.