Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-11-28
NEWS NUGGETS.


| The official count of the vote of Iowa
shows: Harrison, 2la,3l3; Cleveland, 1876.
| i0s; Weaver, 20,5l6; Bilwell, 6;'22
Thomas Pembri1ge so wears old, and
Mrs. Sarah Won Storch, 20 years of age
| were married at Scranton, Pa, Saturday
The TiIlnianite members in the South
| Carolina Legislature, who outhumber Tho
| Conservatives four TO one, will exclude the
latter from their caucuses-
| The republic of Costa l,ica continues to
ne swept by destructive floods. Enormous
lan,isli,les have filed the ruyincs and GOV.
| cred fertile levels with rocks and gravel.
The Mexican government announces that
the import duty on corn will be restored
Dee, |. II this intention is adhered to-
shippers and railways will be heavy losers.
John Kelley fell in the canal at Lowell
Saturday and crawled to the bank, where
he froze to death. He was - years of age
and his wife supposed he had been on a
spree.
Mrs. Abbey INSTRUMENTATION died al
New York last Thursday evening. Mrs.
Hutchinson was the last survivor of the
famous Hutchinson family Of singers. She
was born in 1929.
b. }. Martin cashier of the Webster
bank at Eupor;, Webster county, Miss,
has absconded with the entire assets of the
bank. The loss is estimated at from Si0,-
900 to Sj0, 900 and the loss of both stock
holders and dcpositors will be complete I'M
less Martin is captured and the DOODLE re-
covered.
The London Times Calcutta special
SAYS: Afzul Mulk, the reigning sovereign
of Chitral, together with his younger
brother, has been murdered by Sher Afzul
Khan, a brother of the late ruler of Cfitral.
Sher Afzul Khan had been exiled from
Khitral. He gathered a small following
and returned to the country, and after
numbering the Mchtar or ruler and his
brother seized the throne. II is reported
| that the Ameer of Afghanistan is support
ing the usurper.
The mother superior of the convent OF
Assumption near Paris declines to take back
| GLADYS. the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
| ward Parker Deacon, whose custody Is III
dispute between the pair. Mrs. Deacon now
offers to give up Gladys to Mr.. Deacon,
| and not oppose his SHIT for divorce pre-
ydcd he will give up TO her their thru
| child. Edith now in America. Mr.. Deacon
has refused the proposition. Mrs. Deacon
declares that she will shortly 20 To America,
| where she thinks she will find more tolcra-
ton than in France.
| A revolt is said to have been suppressed
| in Ilavti 1t was poorly sustained aud OF
| no importance, and has not been followed
| by any executions. Gen. Manignai's adhcr-
cnts claim that llippolytc instigatcd the re-
| volt himself in order TO have an opportunity
of supprcssing it, and thereby casting dis
credit on the future revolutionary move
ment of Mangnat,- which the latter pro-
poses to begin after the coffee is harvested
| IIippovtc's followers declare there is no
| doubt that the attempt at revolution was
genuine, being thrown out in order to feel
the public pulse.
| Within the next few days about 80 of the
| - special agents of the general land Office
will be dropped from the rolls bacausc oi
| insufficient appropriation. These have been
| engaged OH fraudulent entries, timber and
swamp land cases For the same reason
| 10 of the l50 special agents of the pension
office have been recalled from the field am!
probably as many more will shortly be
notified to rcpor. at the office in Washing
ton. About 20 clerks in the census Office
have been dismissed recently, and il is ex'
pectcd that before the list of January this
number will be materially increased. his
will be male necessary from time to time as
the work reaches completion, only those
who are capable of performing the more
difficult work remaining.