Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-09-28
NEWS NuGGE
Brought by the Wires From the North. East
South and West.

Hon TIsunis Tay lor, American mipiste,
to Spsiu, lie quite il! with an attack of pneu'
uioni,.
Tie furniture factory of 3. A. Kipp &
Co, in Milwaukee, Wiz, burned Tuesiay
night. TIE loss may reach $4,000.
John W. Lyt,. ex-president of Western
Nebraska, IN WILDER, Neb., wss on Tues
day, sentenced to one year in the peneten-
tilry for receiving deposits when lie knew
the bank was insolvent.
At Boston, in the case of Mary a. Nc
Guiniss, charged with throwing yitrol in
the face and eyes of William j. Lally, p
fireman, the jury on Wednesday morning
reported disagreement.
TIE Cold Rolled Steel Company of Pitts
burg, Pa, whose plant is located at kens-
ington. went into the hands of receiver
Tuesday. 1t was a large concern and en-
ployed many workmen.
l1rha Mississippi Lumber company has
been incorporated in Clinton, Iowa. The
combine embraces every lumber and log
magnate doing business on the Mississippi
and its tributaries between st. Paul anu
st. Louis.
A special from Bath. Me-, says Gen.
HYDE has returned from Washington and
states that the matter of excessive air pres
sure in the fire room of the Castine while
on trial has been settled by reducing the
bonus to $50. 900.
Two crazed Cinnamon, armed with q
Ratchet and 8 knife, ran amuck in crowd
at Wilson and jefferson stteets, in Chicago,
Tuesday evening. and wounded five men,
one of them mor.ally. The Cinnamon,
John Sam and King Ling, are now locked
up at the Maxwell street station.
Meagre reports were received at Fort
Worth. Tex. Tuesday of a wreck on the
Missouri. Kansas & Texas Railroad near
Hillsboro, 81 miles south of there, in which
by a collision between a southbound train
and bridge construction train. nine men Of
the bridge gang were reported to have been
killed.
A decision of the supreme court in refer
enee to the noted library building which
has created so much excitement in Ma hus.
n. H., was given out b. Clerk Luce
Wednesday. The judges dismiss all mo-
tons and say the city must proceed to build
the building on the lot selected by the COM
mi.tee.
A tramp in the gallery of the Board of
Trade building in Chicago at noon Wei'nes-
day fred number of shots into the drowd
surrounding the grain pits. Several Of the
traders we're hit. Amni C. Bennett, presi-
dent of an insurance company. was 81 lot in
the neck and probably killed. Panic
reigned for time.
Nelson Bemis and Harry Hobbs charged
with holding up Hickman Bickford and
attempting to rob him last week were
arraignea at HaverhiIl. Mass, Wednesday.
Theyconfessea to breaking and entering Tire
house of Alonzo May last month ami
pleaded guilty and were held in $1,000
bonds each for the October term.
It was announced by the mayor Of Gin
cinnati, Ohio, Wednesday, that many fami-
lies Of unemployed workm-n in that city
we're on the verge of starvation. Some
have been AZ hours without food. The
restlessness among the unemployed is be-
coming greater. and at the meetings held
nearly every day many bitter speeches are
made.
Advises received by steamship Empress
of India which arrived at Vancouver
Tuesday from Hong Kong and Yokohama
are ss follows Reports of damage done
by floods at Gifu, Japan, state that 6s2
houses were swept away; HOPS houses
we're flooded; 23s people killed; and % 800
people rendered homeless. The foods
were the most disastrous ever experienced
there, the water rising FIVE feet above the
highest mark.
A special from Meridian, Miss, to Mem
phis, Tenn, says the White Cap insurrec-
ton in Central Mississippi has assumed
such formidable proportions that It viii be-
come an armed rebellion unless the or
ganizsfion 10 speedily broken up. A reign
of terror prevails in nearly every county in
that section. and outrages by outlaws are Of
nightly occurrence. Every gin has been
posted with . warning to owners not to
start their plants until the price Of cotton
reaches 10 cents . pound.