Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-05-09
NEWS NUGGETS.
srousht BY the Wires From the North, East
South and Wsst

ut lOHE uIouRut III anu
is broken. General heavy rains set in Mon
day. A big wheat crop seems assured.
The Massachusetts, Legislative committee
on mercantile affairs reported Monday
bill to compel the placing of electrical
wires in the city of Boston underground.
Prime Minister Gladstone has offered the
place of Poet Lauriate, made vacant by the
death of Lord Tennyson. to the author and
distinguished art critic, John Ruskin.
Henry Allen of Henry Allen & Co New
York, whose suspension was announced on
the stock exchange Thursday, stated Mon
day that the extent of their liabilities was
500 900.
The receivers of the National Cordage
Company have been working persistently
since their appointment on the books of the
company, but they say they have not yet
got to n point where they can make any
statement.
The residence of Eli Murray, Anderson,
Ind, was blown to pieces by natural gas
explosion late Sunday night. The family
consisting of husband, wife, daughter and
son were blown out into the yard. Mr.. and
Mrs. Murry were probably fatally injured.
The manager of the New York Stock
Exchange clearing house announced Mon
day afternoon that the brokers' sheets
passed through all right. That the dreaded
Monday settlements had been successfully
effected and great feeling of relief per
vaded the exchange.
The treasury department is gradually
building up its gold reserve. Monday the
gold in the treasury was S97 .s6i ,5o5. The
low water figure was reached April 25,
when it was s92, 2,1j2, 80. Since then the
export of gold has been comparatively light
The New York Times says that the Brit
ish flagship Blake had lost over 40 men of
her crew up to Saturday last by desertion.
The cruiser Australia has lost II men, and
the two British cruisers have lost more than
20 men between them.
The Santa Fe Railroad Co. Sunday night
announced a 25-cent rate to sill Colorado
common points, from Denver. The Rio
Grande will undoubtedly meet this, and pos
sibly cut under it. Passengers can now
ride 300 miles for % cents.
Bernard J. Bradley of Southport, Ct,
who was struck on the head with a bottle
by Thomas Mullen, Saturday night, is in a
dangerous condition. The trouble is said
to have been caused by jealousy, Mullen
accusing Bradley of flirting with bis Mul-
| lensl sweetheart.
Near Edmond. o. T., three were killed
aud 10 badly injured by the tornado on
Friday night. Near Waterloo a Mr..
Donaldson was killed and his wife seriously
| injured. She died Sunday. The body of
au unknown baby was found in the track
of the storm.
| Now that none of the cities of the lower
| Marrimac Valley have been taken into the
New England League, a movement is on
foot to form an association which will take
| in the semi professional mines of HaverhiIl
Lowell, Lawrence, Amesbury aud New
buryport.
| A dispatch from Valparaiso says that a
| desperate battle was fought Saturday, near
I Urugusyana, in Rio Grandc Do Sui in
which 1000 government troops and 5000
insurgents were engaged. Conflicting re-
ports have been sent out as to the result of
the battle each side claiming the victory
The New York Herald's cable from Pam
anna, Colombia, says; with Santiago Mo-
raies at their head, the revolutionists OF
Nicaragua have established a provisional
| government over that republic. President
| Sacasa says he has an army of 10000 meu
and hopes that he will be able to speedily
oserturn his enemies.
News has reached Washington of the
death Sunday night at Marinsburg, W.
Va. of Col. Ward II. Lamon. Col.
Lamen WAS Presiden. LincoIn's private
secretary. He was a man of brilliant at
.ainmenr and his prominence in politics in
the stirring days of the civil war gave him
a national reputation.
The five story granite building at IsI
and f6s, Fort Hill square. Boston, was gut
ted by tre Monday morning. 1t was oc-
cupied by William Jessop & Sons steel,
the Ellis Lubritafing Co, kingsbury &
Davis paper box machinery the Massachu-
setfs Electric Engine Co, and the Shaw
NUT Wire Co. Loss ss5, 900; Insured.
/ When the present scale now existing be-
tween the Manufacturerx' Association and
the Amslgamated Association in Pennsyl.
rasia expires in June. manufacturers will
present scale making q sweeping reiuc-
,ion in the present wages. The price OF
pudding. it is claimed, will be reduced
from s5 80 to 81 per ton. and y reduction
of 30 per cent. will lie made in ofhel
branches of iron industry The reason
they give for these reductions is the baf
CONDITION OF the iron market The Anal
gsmased officials will present the same seal.
Of wages as last year. and fierce battle
, will probably take place between the Anal
gamated and the Manufacturers.