Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-12-30
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought by the Wires From the North. East,
South and West.

John Price, the noted Maryland MIR
derer, attempted another crime Wednesday
and was arrested.
The high school building at Marshall
town, Ia, was burned yesterday. The loss
was 100000.
Opium valued at Sl2, 900 has been seized
on board the steamer Oceanic from H0ng
Kong, which arrived Wednesday at San
Francisco.
The Algenia coal and coke mines in Me-
Dowell county, West Virginia. are on FIRE.
1t is not known whether any of the miners
perished in the flames.
Cholera statistics for Wednesday show
considerable in the number of new cases n
Hamburg, seven cases having been re-
moved to the hospital. and one death hay-
ing occurred.
W. l.. Sachteleben of Alton. H., AMI
Thomas q. Allen of Ferguson, Mo-, have
arrived in San Francisco from Vancouver,
b. c., after making tour of the world on
their bicycles. They have been six months
on the trip.
William Peters, aged A., died in Will
mington, Del, yesterday under peculiar
circumstances. During the past 49 days hc
had taken no food except two raw oysters
and during the past four weeks he bad moi
even taken water.
Mr.. George Westinghouse Jr , says that
the new incandeseent lamp of his company
will be out shortly after Jan. /. The de-
mand for them is large and the factories are
being run to their full capacity to meet it.
Mr.. Westinghouse says the lamp is in no
way an infringement, and that the company
l.rs "a.
point.
A committee of six directors of the
Union Life insurance Go. of New Yoik
have requested the appointment of r. :
ceiver for the company. The committee
declares the funds of the company have
1 been grossly mismsnaged and that it is in-
! solvent. They lay the blame for the pres
I ept condition of affairs upon President
I l.onis L. Levy.
( It's understood that John u. Eocke-
/ feIler, tile generous ,Hlllti-mlliobaire Ill
soon make handsome gift to the fund for
/ the erection of the great Protestant Epts-
/ copai cathedral of st. John the Divine, the
i corner stone Of which was laid Tuesday
, in New York City Mr.. Rockefellers gifts
10 educational and charitable instituti.4s
have amounted to $500, 900 in the past
three years.
I The funeral Of Henry G.. varnpm. wife.
I and adopted daughter, Florence, victims of
/ the Worcester. Mass, tragedy was held in
/ Sharon VI. Thursday afternoon. Elaio-
rate services were held. Rev. II. VI. Per-
kins preached an appropriate sermon. Re-
marks were made bs other ciergymen. The
remains were followed to the grave BY u
large concourse of people from all the
neigbbo-ing towns.
| xessrs. la k Ward & Go. Of Bes
ton raw, r,.rt ntly raised in Boston and Mes
York 81 ~ 9,ooD for . syndicate waicti -
neg aisting tor the purchase OF all the sis
plants in Brooklyn. eight IN num,rr- Ut
I this amount $500. 900 was raised in Boston
Z and ri 700 geo in New York. This money
rcprese ITS merely construction company,
ami premium Of 2J per cent. was bid for
the same on SATURDAY in New York.
/ The near Brooklyn Hebrew orphan .,sy-
! Ium on Ralph avenue. corner of Pacific
street. in Brooklyn. y. y, was Dedicated
/ Wednesday afternoon. The new building
i ene of the finest of its kind in the conn
4 ,ry. and. including the groand has cost
over s251 600, and will accommodate over
i lts, children. Among the speakers were
Mayor Booiy, Rev. Dr. Ma;isnns Rabbi
A. II. Gcisrnsn and Congressman-eiect
Joseph c. Hendrix. The Brooklyn He
brew Orphan Asylum was founded august
q, 1873.
Reports are in circulation of a combina.
,ion Of the oil Connections River Directors,
III minority stockholders and the Consol-
Il ida,etI Railroad men to carry the fight "a
- q. tba Nassuct.us Ic0is.