Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-12-12
NEWS NUGGETS.
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South and West

| The business portion of Plaque Mines
La, was burned Saturday. Loss, $50, 900
! The 18th annual convention of the Fed
Grafton of Labor meets at Philadelphia to-
! day.
| &. Henneckcs & Co.'S art store ut Nil
waukce, was burned Saturday. Loss, $40
! 900 to 100000.
( Charles Ross, q highly respected citizen
of Hudson. Mass, hanged himself Satur
DAY while temporarily insane.
The New York Reform Club gave a din
ner TO President Cleveland at Madison
Square Garden, Saturday night
Two freight trains on the New Englan
road collit!ed at Pomperaug, Ct, SATURDAY
Two men were killed and two injured.
Application was made in the count,
courts at Piltsburg, Pa, Saturday, for Tho
appointment of a receiver for the Order o;
Scion.
George kruapruan of New Haven, Ct
was arrested Saturday charged with settiog
several incendiary fires recently. He con
fessed.
Mat Day, son of the old Bald Knob cap
| tain, was shot and killed Thursday night on
Bear Creek, fancy county, Mo. More
trouble is expected.
Joseph Checshro, who set fire TO Ed~ar
O'Conuor's barn in Cromwill. Ct, Frj'ia,
night, was arrested in Mi!dletown Saturla,
lie confessed the crime.
Elisha Bacon Shapleigh, a weIl-kposH
Philadelphia physician, died Saturday. He
was bora in York county, Maine, in 1924
aBl was graduated fran Yale
George H. Mekecinie was drowned IN
Smiths pond. near Forest Park Spring
field, Saturday. in nm attempt to save liz.
lives of two of his companions.
Thomas McKeon. aged II, of Belmont
Mass, was accidentally shot by rou,.
panion, Saturday. willie playing In''ian.
'sIIe didn't know the rife was loa'lcd.'
Freeman Boh0uon of Chelsea, VI, fell
upon crescent saw. which he was carry
ing SATURDAY, cutting 10 gashes in his nee <
and face, narrowly missing the jugnlet
vein.
Saturday deed was recorded q, iis
court house In Salem, from George IL
Eliot to James II Carleton, OF 1Iavcrbili.
of the Whittier Homestead and i~o suxt., !
small lots in Hayerhiil for $500 Mr
'dtietpus III tUtfHiilSEiAibN VI 81, HfftlS slti
homestead to board of nine trustees, to ise
held forever as memorial to the poet arr.
man, TO he sf all times open to the palii !,
subjec, TO such suitable restrictions as may
he made.
Senior Sagasta has formed new Spanish
cabinet, the personnel OF which is as fol.
lows. Minister of foreign affairs. Marquis
de Armigo; minister Of finance. Sen..r
Moutero Rios; minister Of public work.
Senior Moret; minister Of war, SENIOR Dom
ingnez; minister of the interior Senior Gosl.
zsles; Minister of the colonies. Senior Muir
ra. The minister of marine Ia sin unset
tied. The cabinets support is composed ot
Moderate Republicans and Liberals.
Under authority conferred by a resoii.
ton adopted by the Senate last session tie
committee on foreign relations has begun an
inquiry into the condition AMI prospects, oi
the Nicaragua Canal Company. Warner
Miller. president of the company, was b.
fore the committee to furnish information,
upon which the committee will probably
construct and report bill similar TO tie
bill of last session, stamping the bonds Of
the company to the amount of 500. 0O9, $50
with the guarantee of the United Sta,cl
government. -
The matter OF setting a date for the trial
Of the case Of NJ. b. Curtis for the murder
of Policeman Grant came up at San Fran
cisco. Saturday and went over until Mon
day. Atty. George A. Knight notified tie
court that he would retire from the case.
He explained that be had contract to be
paid $500 for defending Curtis, and that
his associate w Foo;e had similar con-
tract. hut neither Of them had received a
cent SO far. Knight thought Curtis had
not acted in good faith. Mrs. Curtis is on
the $50, coo bond Of her husband, qualify
ing for nearly half the amount.