Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-05-25
NEWS NUGGETS.


| The Monarch d;stillery, the largest house
| in the Whlskey faust has seeded from the
| combine.
The Standard Oil Co has absorbed the
Tidewater Oil Co. the largest competitors
the Standard Co. has had.
| More than 5000 of the funds of the
| Cinciunati University is missin and where /,
is no one seems able to explain.
| The two months drought in France is es-
timated to have destroyed 30 ,000, 900 fancs
worth of crops. Greatest damage was done
in green crops.
The Providence Jewelry Company of St.
Louis, Tuesday, made general assign
ment. Assets are estimated at SIS 900:
liabilities not stated.
The Bavarian ministers of the interior and
education have made grant of 1000 marks
to the aeronaut kock for an experiment
with his guiiable flying machine.
William Sullivan, who murdered his en-
ployer, Layton Leetch at Durand. Mich,
and assaulted Mrs. Leetch, was taken from
jail Tuesday night by mob and lynched.
The worst forest fire for many years
ragged in Staffordville and Union, Conn, all
day Tuesday. A conservative estimate of
the area already burned over is 500 acres.
The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Peterborough railroad was held at
ut Nashua. n. H., Wednesday. The whole
board of directors was reelected and the
lease of the road to the Boston & Lowell
was decided upon.
Capt W F. Aherron of Sassafras, Va,
"Wednesday shot HIS wife four times
through the head and then shot and in
stantly killed himself 1t was the result of
domestic quarrel which they had been en-
gaging in. Aherron was an aged man and
weil-tu-,io.
The French people are chagrinei and in
censcd at the mpagreness of the official
news regarding the troubles betaeen TIE
French and Scsmez in the Mekong vailcv
New spapers accuse Great Britain of hack
ing the Scsmez in their hostile attitude
ward the French.
"Dr Sophia G.. Thompson of Boston.
convicted of having performed erimin Al
operation upon Caroline S. Hopkins in
June. 1892, which caused the Hopkins wo-
mans death, was Wednesday sentenced to
five years in the woman's reformatory.
The prisoner is ~ years old.
The New York Times says that seuss-
tional charges were presented Tuesday
nj ght at meeting of the officers aud mem
bers of the Tabernacle BAPTIST chur' h
against the pastor, Rev. ID. c. Potter. lie
is accused of falsehood, embezzlement. 10
toxication and fitgrant immortality.
At the Seine ASHES. at Paris, VI. Arton,
the Panama lobbyist, was sentenced in de-
fault. 20 years penal servitude for fraud in
,o,no,,;,,,, With TIN, soaiatx
five years civil degradation and payment of
400 900 fsncs fine. for unlawful AMI dis
honest practices in r. Ia,ions to the Panama
Canal Company.
The miners conference ut its session at
Brussels, Wc.spe .-lay, adopted resolution
in favor of an sigft-hour working day in
the mines. Supporters of the resolution
T. presented 1914 900, and the opposition
100. 0no miners. Then the conference pro-
ceeded to discuss the question Of q uniser-
sal strike to enforce the eighi-hour system.
Emilio CASTELAR,, at one time dictator of
Spsin. ami for nearly so years conspicuous
among Spanish Republicans, announces
that he has retired from public life. lie
says: Il shall remain Republican until |
die. but shall not AFT against the monarchy.
as am convinced that for the present this
is the only stable and progressive form of
government possible ia Spain
The worst crevasse of the season in
Louisiana occurred Wednesday. The
ievee ha. broken below lake Providence.
and the crevasse is nov 200 f,et vide and
"a idI, growing wider. The leyee was Is
high. and l2 feet of wafer was standing
against it, A rich section of Louisiana will
be overlooked, and great destitution will be
felt. There is no hope of closing the
break.