Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-04-03
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought BY the wires From the North, Eas.
South and west

Governor Flower at Albany. N. Y, Sat
day, commuted the sentence of Michael L
Sliyery, murderer. to imprisonment for
life.
The Ontario dominion Parliament was
prorogued Saturday after one of the short
es. sessions on record. it having lasted but
Two months.
A dispatch from Washington to Chicago
says tina, President Cleveland has decided
to accept the invitation to finally open the
Worlds Fair on May LIST.
The plant of the Cleveland, o., Saw Mill
and Lumber Company was burned Sa.ur-
day morning with loss of $50 900. Four
teen horses were burned 70 death.
The elegant farm buildings of Mrs. Mary
J. Tamant in Pittsfield n. H.. were totally
destroyed by fire about 2.30 Saturday
morning. Loss, so 600; probably insured
The fire must have been of incenliary
origin.
report that the Baltimore & Ohio train
was wrecked and on fire near Remington
station, o., proves untrue. The report
probably arose from the fact that the for
ests near Oakley are burning.
A strike of bricklayers in Springfield,
Mass. is on and there was not half a
dozen trowels clicking in the city Saturday.
Both sides are confident that the outcome
will he favorable to them. All the big con
tractors have locked their men out.
Ozalla. Neb., was entirely surrounded by
prairie fires Saturday. and every cit zen
was out fighting the flames. The whole
country between there and Paxton, dis
- bl..L,naJ
J. Lawrence, farmer. was burned TO death.
Suppressed excitement prevails among
all political groups in France and conssd-
cradle anxiety prevails as TO what well be-
the outcome of the crisis President Car
rot has requested NJ. Melipe to undertake
the the formation of a new cabinet. II
politics Meline is an opportunist.
twas reported at the White House Sa,ur-
day morning that Senator German had sad
that the present extraordinary session
of the Senate would end April I0fi,
Senator German il afto given as AUTHORITY
for the statement that the President will
call an extra session TO begin about Sept,
10Th.
4 San Francisco special to Ne~ York
says the Alueds Fiiiay carried to Honoii-
III lNp flFftHi- WHO VIII Jstf-t 1ufHItis
sioner Blonnt in getting the opinion of
| iTawaiisns on annexation These officials
are Harold NJ. Sewall. formerly consul to
Samoa, and William Shaw Bowen of Ner
| York.
A destructive FIRE has been raging in
/ Mar,ila, philippine Islands. in the suburbs
of the town. Four thousand houses were
swept away by the flaines, ana it Is feared
that some liyes were lost. Many persons
are known to have been injured while fight
| ipg the FIRE or endeavofipg 10 save their be-
longings.
! The German cruiser ksiserin Augusta
while starting for the United States TO take
part in the great Columbus naval review
ran aground While passing through fbs
Great Belt, the strait which forms the cen
/ trsi communication between the Baltic an
Csttega; and where navigation is made dit
i iicult by the many shoals The Ksiserir
| Augusta was fioased after SONG fort . ilh
out suffering any damage.
The train from Boston. at New I.onlon
al o'clock SATURDAY afternoon. strueI
( Mrs John Sullivan and her four-yesr-oit
| daughter at the Harrison street crossing
The cbihi's skull was fractured and Il vii
probably die. The mothers face and bod,
pere Gu, and bruised. but il is thought she
will recover. The woman trie-i to save sh,
child, who crawIed under the erossin,
gate.