Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-01-06
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought by the Wires From the North. Eas,
South and West.

The knitting mill of Benns & Beckett, nj
Rockton, n. Y, has been closed by sheriff.
The liabilities are over $780, 900; assets
consist of the plant.
Dr. Geddings of the marine hospital ser
vice states that in his examination at the
penitentiary at Little Rock, Ark, he dis
covered no indication of cholera.
The jury at Mount Holly, n. j., in the
case of Wesley Warner, on trial for the
murder of Lizzie Peak, Thursday returned
a verdict of murder in the first degree.
f. s. Hayward, proprietor of Hotel Bart
lett, Haverhill, Mass, has been missing
since Monday. Financial difficulties are
supposed to be the cause of his departure.
A dispatch from ST Luce, Quebec, says
the house occupied by Mr.. Collins, was
destroyed by fire Thursday morning and
two of bis children persisted in the flames
J. c. Monier, a prominent and prosper
Gus farmer of Hebron, n. H., committed
suicide Wednesday night by cutting his
throat and then shooting himself in the
head with shot gun.
Communication with kahlenbcrg village.
on Il height outside of Vienna is completely
cut off, the inhabitants finding it Impossible
to get ont of their houses on account of the
snow blockade. Hundreds of other Villages
are in a similar condition.
James and win Nevins and Jack Lang.
don, cowboys. had a fight on horseback
with six shooters at Three Heart ranct,
in the Chocktaw nation Wednesday. Lang
don and Will Nevins were killed and James
Nevens was fatally wounded.
The New York Heralds cable from Pan.
anna says advices received from Costa Ric,
says the boundary question between thai
country and Nicaragua has been re-opened
and there is prospect of war between thu
two countries in consequence.
At an adjourned meeting Thursday OF
the creditors of Dixon Bros. edward Dix
on, wholesale liquor dealers, AZ Com
mercial wharf, Boston. Mr.. Dixon sub
mitted an offer of 30 cents cash. which was
acce pied by all present. Dixon will con
time business
VIM. +. Russell was inaugurated Cover
nor of Massachusetts, for the third time
Thursday. There was large crowd OF
spectators present. The Governor held "a
reception in the Executive Chamber during
the forenoon, and a large number of dis
tinguisbed citizens presented their congratu-
iations to him.
Wickham & Co., extensive dealers in
Nsh Huron, Ohio, have given mortgages To-
tlNir creditors for $50 900 No assign
me&nt was made. Endorsements and the
ligIN catch Of fish last fall was the immed
ate Nuse of their embarrassment. It is
rumoAed that several other large firms are
heayilA involved.
The New York Evening Sun OF Thursday
published the following The former
secretary<of the navy, William E. Whitney
Thursday that he would no, be
II member N President Cleveland's cabinet.
when askc,lN he knew anything about the
makeup Of th,\ cabinet Mr.. Whitney an
swcrcd. An t1at know about it is that /
will not be a mefNber of it,
No new cases on typhoid fever were re
ported at New Yor4 Thursday. A complete
tour of the Iodqing houses where the CAGES
have already Developed shows that no more
of the lojgers ha'Ne typhus symptoms
There were three deaths during the morn
ing among TN paiienAs on North Brother
island. DIR. Roberts Aaid he believed the
disease was now undeit control.
The Carnegie mills At Homestead are
again down 10 work and | running full IN
every department The tmain office was
crowded all day Wednesday and Thurs lay
With men in search of employment, and
most n' them got what they Siesired. While
the mill was closed for repaiFs number of
employees left, this making COON for old
men many OF whom are Assigned places
by Superintendent Scbw atz
a g.. ~ ~
an and English companies runnitzsg M the
coast io PsnaBa have notified iii ppefs that
after FEB, ] 10 goods to or from New York
will b., granted through bills Of lasling by
way Of tbe Pacific Mail Line. This action
senefits the Ensiish liucs tlroaxA, the Ma.
reilan stTsiis- as they expect 10 do largely
increased business by was Of Lid erpocI.
ST Petersburg dispatches eskniirm the
eFort that the Gar has nrstefcsa tlta minis
~ of slle Interior TO transfer IA the HoIs
syaos the administration Of all tchGreh af-
airs. This or,ier Is certain "a, result in
'utting further .exations and Festricsions
N the non-orihUiox relision.. and will
'Foi'ably ieai TO religious pfOsecrisions 1t
: feared that the chief sufferers will be
.utherans who are mostly Germb,n..
i City Of Mexieo speeial sssys Jane.
saser. a financIer of New York City, il
here for the Iarrpose 1T securinsg conces-
ions from the Aexica,s government for the
Establishment Of exfenSve hyewe&ries in the
'rineinal cities Of the republic. yNr. Naser
t1tes that he sifs Bcsotiatesl with English
apiialisfs within the last var foH the pnr-
osc Of isniliina breweries In San 1Francisco.
)enyer, Baltimore, Detroit. Rodfhestcr and
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