Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-02-09

NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought BY the Wires From the North, East,
! South and West.

Souin aaO west.
Charles w. Short, real estate owner at
Fernbank, Ohio, assigned Wednesday.
Liabilities, $500 900; assets. $1,000
Michael Davitt was Wednesday elected
without opposition to represent Northeast
Cork in Parliament.
Hanlan and Gaudaur signed articles We'd
nesday to row for the championship of
America and $1,000 side at Toronto,
July 22.
The President Wednesday sent to the
Senate the nomination of Josiah f. Stone
of Massachusetts, as United States consul
at Nogales.
The Malleable Iron Works, at Molina,
Ills., burned Tuesday night. Loss, $50
| 0o0 About 400 men were thrown out of
employment.
Another violent shock of earthquake was
felt at Zante, Tuesday. TIE weather on
| the island is intensely cold, and great suf-
fering prevails among the unsheltered fugi-
tives from the city of Zante, who are ill.,
clad and homeless.
| 1t is rumored in financial circles that
Speyer & Company, New York bankers,
| have succeeded the Drexels as bankers for
the Reading Railroad. The Drexels are
said TO have resumed their relations with
the Pennsylvania Railroad.
| a Big -Four passenger train WAS wrecked
near Pana, H., late Tuesday night. Six
passengers were seriously injured. The
cause was a broken rail The entire train
was burned. Thirty-one persons were in
( igred, Baggageman Ressler was burned 20
death.
| -Four thousand people in Concorda aud
| CatahoUla parishes in the northern part OF
Louisiana are on the verge of starvation.
| Tie floods of last summer destroyed the
, crops and have rendered the soil unfit for
| subsequent planting. Measures will be-
| taken for relief.
| News is received of the killing of Dep
uty Marshas Rusk, Bruner and Knight,
near Talequus, |. f.. by Bill Pigeon. au
| Indian desperate. Pigeon lives IN a forti-
| fed house in the Cherokee Nation and his
capture has been attempted many times
witIiou, success.
| An unholy traffic in young women in the
eastern provinces of Russia has been e2-
| posed by the st. Petersburg newspapers.
Girls are dupe1 by alleged agents of the
! Chicago Worlds Fair and once over the
border arc sent 10 brothels i'll Constantine
pie and Vienna.
Tuesday a north wind commenced at
San Antonio and within two hours the tenn
pcrature fell from 80 degrees to 10 degrees
above zero. This severe change of weather
will damage tile fruit prospects. The
peac., pear, apple and plum trees have
been in bloom for ten days.
The steamer Cottage City while pound |
ing on tie Chatham bar, Tuesday, damaged
her rua'ler, disabling the vessel. The tug
Hercules took her in tow about . O'Clock. |
Wednesday morning, to tow her to New
York. The crew was obliged to jettison
$50 600 worth of goods to float her.
II is stated that engineers and firemen of |
the Louisville & Nashville Railroad will |
demand an increase of wages within few |
days. Ii is further declared that if the |
demands are not granted they will strike, |
and will be- joined by the conductors, brake |
men, switchmen and section hands.
The strike Of the brass solderers at f. |
Miller & Co.'S factory at Mcriden, Conn.
which began last Thursday, has been
settled satisfactorily to both sides, and the |
IS solicrers will go back to work Thursday |
The strikers worked on Rochester lamps. |
and the strike was caused by cut in |
wages. Fourteen of the strikers were |
girls.
At the annual meeting at Paris Tnestla, |
OF the French Society of Agriculture, whose |
membership includes some of the largest |
land owners in France a resolution was |
adopted favoring concerted action with for
cign agricultural societies 10 secure free !
coinage of silver in all civilized countries
of the world.
Minister Durham has notifyed the de- |
pertinent of state that there il no longer any |
necessity for the presence of the United
States ship Atlanta in Haytian waters, and |
the navy department has ordered her com
manAcr TO complete his cruise in the Yves,
Indies, and to arrive at Hampton Roads
early in the spring.
The following was given out wednesday
The announcement that the plan for unit
ing The New York. New Haven T. Hartford
and the Old Colony railroads had been
agreed upon by representatives of those
companies. and that this plan will sooa be
submitted to the directors of the former
company, is confirmed by its officials
Judgments aggrcgating $4,000, were
confessed Tuesday by Robert s. Spencer
of Philadelphia. who. trading as Charles
spencer 70 controlled the Leicester
mills one ot ihe largest wooien Eo"is
manufacturers ID the city 1t was aa
houhcsd Wednesday tiat Inc creditors
eialhs amount TO over :-"o,DWo. Robert
D. spencer ami "itc assigned wednesday.
The naval appropriation bill, as agreed
nPon ny tue National House committee on
naval aaa,rs. carries an aggregate amount
OF S2e'o'',Voo Inc appropriation Tor the
current year is sZo,sij,zbh, ami estimates
Tor next year S2l'' i3,''s. There Is no
appropriation IN the bill Tor the proposed
naval review next Siay. fiftecn Thousand
dollars Is APPROPRIATED Tor new public works
at Portsmouth n. u.
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