Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-11-14
NEWS NUGGETS.


| London is having Il season of dense fogs,
in which thieves and highwaymen are hav-
| ing good business.
Fire Saturday morning in Harbeek's
stores, Furr,an street. Brooklyn, caused a
loss estimated at S5o0,0o0.
/ Schooner knight Templar of Gloucester
was sunk off Halifax, Saturday, in col
iision. The crew was saved.
At Guriey. Ala, Thursday night, fire
destroyed the Gurley Hotel, recently CON-
pleted, two dry goods stores and saloon.
Loss, 100000.
Governor Brown of Maryland has signed
the death warrants of the eight convicted
colored murderers of DIR. J. ii. Hill. They
will be hanged Friday, Dec. 80.
Twenty -four deputy sheriffs were laid off
Sunday, reducing the force at Homestead
to SO. The practice of keeping large
force of men on duty all night will be dis
continued.
Mr. John Hoey, the ex-president of the
Adams Express Company. was very low
Saturday night, and only takes sustenance
in the form of brandy. He was not ex-
pected to live beyond Sunday.
The grain blockade at Kansas City is over,
Receipts of grain have been very light the
past week and the roads are just now in
better condition to handle the stuff than
they have been for some time.
The admission of New Mexico and Ari-
zona, and possibly Utah, as new states, IS
regarded as one of the logical results of
| Tuesdays election, which will be promptly
carried out by the next Congress.
DIR. Abraham Reeves Jackson, president
| of the College of Physicians, and one of
7 the most prominent physicians in his special
| line, gypaecology, in the United States,
died at Chicago Saturday of apoplexy.
The President has appointed DIR. Daniel
&. Brinton of Pennsylvania to be assistant
commissioner, vice DIR. yelling, resigned,
to represent the United States at the Co
lumbian historical exposition in Madrid,
in 1892.
| J. Chisholm, well known Montreal
commission merchant, was arrested Friday
night on the charge of seizing goods with
the intent of defraudiDg his creditors. The
| amount involved is between $4,000 and
! $50 900.
A portion of the timbers of Gen. Bene-
dict Arnold's flagship Congress, sunk in
| October, l17G, in Lake Champlain. has
been raised by Capt. c. w. Adams of West
Addison, VT. The timbers are of oak and
are sound.
! Indications point to an early settlement
of the Pennsylvania miners lockout. From
information received from inside sources
there is every reason to believe that the lst
of December will see all the river mines in
operation at the old rate.
A row of tenement houses on Amherst
street, Montreal were burned Friday night.
Many of the inmates became panic stricken
and jumped frcm the windows. Mrs
Ponpard was killed, two men had their legs
broken, and child was crushed.
A little four year old daughter of Frank
Slade, residing at 406 Washington street
Lynd. met with terrible burning accident
Saturday The little one, with another
child was left alone, and in playing with
the stove it's clothes become ignited. and
will probably die.
Angelic PetrilIo will be executed
Monday morning in the New Haven jai
yard at 1890. He shot and instantly killef
his brother-in-law. Michael Demeo, Apri
Is, 1891. The two men quarrelled over a
game of cards. The scaffold on which Pc.
trillo is to be executed was erected thi'
morning.
Fight boxes of dynamite in powde'
house connected with the building of th'
canal at Niagara Falls, exploded Saturda,
forenoon One man was killed. His body
was picked up 400 feet away. -Four other
were badly injured. Nearby residences
were badly damaged. while number O
sheds we're completely demolished.
In the case of Horace X. Osborne o
Cambridge, charged with attempted briber,
of two members of the last Legislature
from Suffolk county the grand jury n
Boston, Saturday, presented mo bill" M
bill" was also presented in the case o
James f. Duffy and Patrick J. Carr
charged with the murder of Michael J.
Carr, who was found dead, Oct. ith in
South Boston.
Mr. knudd Sands, the representative o.
an English syndicate, at present at Ottawa
in an interview, stated that he ha'
, purchased 10000 acres of mineral lands il
West Virginia. where the syndicate intend
to establish steel and iron works such a
, , those owned by Andrew Carnegie. Mr.
Sands has secured the services Of skii,e,
workers in iron and steel from Homestead
Pa, who were lately employed in the Car
negie works.
Mrs Margaret Gsynor of Allen Court
West End. Boston. early Saturday morn
ing attempted to throw her l2-year-oh son
Herbert, out of three-story window
through glass and all. The woman. it ]
alleged, had been drinking. and bccomin
. angered at her sons endeavor to induc
: her to 90 to bed. sought 10 kill him.
] hav f,,rt a
The boys right leg il terribly cut. Mrs
Gsynor was arrested.
Fire In the basement Of Tucker block
Monroe street. Lynn, Mass. Saturda
morning. caused loss to NJ. Z. Tucker 0
his stock Of secondhand furniture valued a
$1,000 William NJ. Foster occspies th
four upper stories as . boarding house
Fifty dodgers were asleep there at the tim
. and many narrowly escaped suffocation
/ During the fire an extension lasid<r fe
from the building. severely injurins VII
liam Avery and Fred Tucker Of steamer 4
The total loss will be about 5000; full
insured.
N At concurrent meetings Of the Centrist
in Bavaria, Baden and Wurtemburg ! vel
: nigh unanimous sentiment against the arm
/ bill was expressed. and not single ofga
!. Of the Centre party now advocates anythin
but uncompsomisine hostility to il. tn
popular opposition to the measure il ais
growing Caneellor von Caprivi will In
+ tro.iuce II in the Reichsfag on the 24th inst
and If il defeated he will resign. In siel
of the chanceilor's shaky position, the pe
!. IiiicaI groupes are already discussing III
question Of will Be his successor.