Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-03-23
NEWS NUGGETS,
Brought BY the Wires From North, East,
West and South.

Roger Q Mills has been unanimously
elected United States senator by the Texas
Legislature.
There is talk Of the return of Bernhsrdt
to the fremont for q brief engagement nj
an early date.
The store of TLibsudeau Bros, whole
sale dealers in dry goods, Montresl, was
damaged by fre Tuesday TO the amount OF
$4,000.
Schooner Addie Henry, Cap; Hill. New
befne, for Elizabeth City, is stranded near
Cape Hanetss LIS supposed she will be
a total loss.
The New York Senate has concnrred in
the assembls amendment 10 the World
Fair bill pro sidifg for the closing of the
state exhibit on Sunday.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has de-
clsred the assembly of senatorial and cat-
gtessionsl sppoItonment made by the last
legislature unc0nstitutl )nal.
Ssnor z Mont, Chilisn minister, was al
Concord, N. II Tuesday, on visit to tha
New England states for the purpose of
obtaining il fJimstion upon industrial mat
ters.
In Roxbury, Mass., district court Tuat-
day, John j. Brennan, for assault with H.
tent to kill his sister in law, Mrs. Bridget
Powell, was held In $1,000 for examination,
Thursday.
The Jury in the Siebold, Wis, lynching
case returned verdict Monday night Nod
that at the time of The lynching all Of the
defendants were inss0e and therefore not
guilty as charged.
CARLYLE W. Harris was sentenced to die
bv electricity some time during next week
He will not be executed. however, as coun-
Sci have filed notice Of appeal, VII ch op
crates as 4 stay IF proceedings.
| Bingham block, consisting Of hotel
and I've stJres and St,ddsrd. block, com
prisiug three stores, at Bradford, Ont, were
burned Tuesday Loss. $4,000 Thc
owners are Robert Bingham and Wilson
Stoddsrd.
| The Ire that started 10 Henderson BrOs
factory in Cambridge. Macs, Tuesday
morning, DID about $4,000 damage; in
surance, sl50,000 Eleven hundred car
risges, WAGONS and sleghs were burned
and also three houses.
Schooner Mail, Rove, Rockport, M, fol
| New York, at Vineyard Haven, Mass, re
| ports that she enccuntertd heavy westerly
gale off Cape Ann, March 1871, snd lost :
part of her deCkiosi of lime, stove bosi
sa1 tore the itb badly.
James I. Furber is believed 10 have lef
no will as thorough search failed to discl1s,
any. Letters OF administration on his es
tate we're granted from the Probate Cour
in Essex county, Msss yesterday. His Ell
| tate is reported to De 10 the neighbour JoC
Of $3.50, COO.
A dispatch from San Ffancisco saws tina
President C. w. Eliot of Harvard Univer
sity said Monday ,h., IL David B. Hill i
nominated BY the Democrats he certainly
will be defeated. The Mugwsmps 10 New
York and Ne- England, he declared
would not vote for Hill.
/ Postmaster John Smi' h .,Jr., who held tn
whole edition Of 'hs PeekAkIil Crltic in th
Peekskili post office on Thursday last so'
refused tn allow it t. 90 through ths mail
because ha considered it cont tned matte
violating the postal law referring 10 loi
teries, last nigh! released the edition.
A Berlin shopkeeper was fined $40 By
police court two week ago for having CALI
a telephone girl who kept h 10 aitinz f
fteeu minutes "a misersble, brszzn-face
woman" The prosecution asked tina,
be fi1sd 6nly s5, but the police court hel
this penalty to be too mild, az telepht n
girls needed specsl protection from Insult
A stir has been created In Nysck, N. Y
! by the sction Of Captain M Martin, Of Hs
| verstrsr, in causing ihs arrest Of cigs
desler for selling cigarettes TO his b,'
! When the dealer WAS srrsigned in court II
| az rtstr bad twO M Inv.
kee oers arrested Yesterday for sending h
} boy after quor, ,snd they we're heavily fac
by the court.
II the benighte6 person who has bee
goihg about telling sad and grs~some tai.
concerning PATHS diminishing powers Al
waning popularity had stood on the steI
OF Mechanics Hall Saturday Afternoon
dariug tn half hour preceding tne msti1s
performance, he you'll have been tran
formed at once into the most cneerfui {
optimists In this Tespec..
, During a rush between two companies
the Dorchester High School battslIon
, Town Hall, Do casstsr, Macs, Mpnds
, night, William Lynch, ls years of SO
} vas struck with piece OF ice and koocsf
. d3en. He soon r7covered sad pas able
/. sslk TO bis home, b & late In the night
C mplsined Of severe psins in bis head a.
saen became uncons cious. He grew rapid
sorse ard died Tuesday.
The steamer Guiding Star on her way ,
9 from Ne~ Orleans. esught FIRE yeste r5'
: morning while passing LAwrt 'eburz II
+ FIRE "a, foan1 TO be 10 some c)sten in 4
= h3id. Ihs boat Was headed ,n;o the ks
3 ,ucxy .hofe, ghsre the FIRE "a. s1on e
singeisbed, but the smoke caused the mo
e in.s nse excl smsni Mrs. Belle Sb.oibga
Of Cincin lsti, Who had an snscdcn Of Il
o hesrt, was seized With spssn and died.