Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-05-24
NEWS NUGGETS.


| registered.
| Another landslide has occurred at Var
dalen. NORWAY. 1t is feared that 100 per
sons were killed.
| A wind storm bloaing at the rate of 81
miles an hour, passed over Sioux City, la.
Sunday night, doing great damage.
Allen II. Robinson has been appoint",
immigration inspector at Portsmouth, n
H., vice ?. r. Cogswell, removed.
| a hed colli-ion i. rep rrte IN the North
ern Pacific near Little Falls, Mimi. Tues
day morning, in which postal clerk, en-
CINE, aud brakeman lost their lives.
| A tornado passed near Darlington, Wis,
| Nonlay afternoon, totally destroying s.'v
eral house. and other buildings. jane
B ilev was badly injured ami his wife va
killed.
| Tn. German Centre partv has issued al
ell coral address in which it takes adeci',ee
stand against the army bill. The Centri-ts
propose measure permitting Jesuits l..
re-enter Germany.
Mr. Agnes Barton ard h''r hiughte,
Committed suicide AT hiorristown, Pa
Monday night by taking poison. They were
oppressed by poverty and worn out in the
| struggle 10 make u uVlDg.
| The New York World says the plan OF
refnnding the Northern Pacific's floating
debt is a-sured. The mortgage is male to
the Farmers Loan and Tr,st f'.mnl-,} and
is limited to an issue of SIS 0Do,U00 OF
notes.
| Compromise negotiations having failed to
,rtlle lne Kansas coal fight, IA big fight APP
| pears certain. II is expected that all
miners in the southwest, except Arkansas
viii q'iit work in sympathy with the Kan
| SIS brethren.
tn" Elnira, ". Y, National Bank
'ln,c its doors TUESDAY. The failure i.
Inc 10 the financial troubles Of Cul d. G.
K bin on. 1t is said that the depositor.
will he paid in snll. Deposits in the ba'.k
mount to S200,0
The worst forest fire for many years has
been raging in StafTordville AMI Union
Conn, for many hours ami is st II un""'-
trolled and ia sweeping on toward Soutl
Wilington. A conservative ostimate pt
the area burned over is 500 acres.
4 New i.rk Herald speci j from Gran.
ada, Nicaragua, says that the revolutionary
soldiers on Sunday won the battle which
was admitted to be the turning point of tie
revolution. Revolutionsts are rejoicing
over their victory and predict the earl
overthrow of Sacaza.
| The follow ing notice WIS pinned on th'
| 'oors of the National Bank of Deposit ai
| New York Tuesday 81 have taken posses
| sion of this bank for Il e comptroller of the
currency. Deposits will neither be received
nor paid until further notice. VIM. ii
| kimball, national bank examiner
| a heavy wind, accompanied by rain,
'hunder and lightning, prevailed about st.
Paul, Mimi. Sunday night, doing great
damage to property and injuring a large
number of people. 1t was one of the wors,
gales ever experienced there. Serious dam
ages were sustained in all parts of St.
Paul.
A receiver has beea asked for ives.
Blakeslee, Williams & Co, New York. in
| the proceedings for voluntary dissolution
| The firm is alleged TO be insolvent. Aside
| from what it owes Cornelius Blakeslee it..
obligations are $4,000 The firm dea Il
in toys and fireworks. Their total liabi .
tiles are s2Gl ,S48: assets, so, 2s9.
| The Methodist preachers of New York
! Brooklyn ami vicinity, at a meeting Nor =
| day, resolved to withdraw the Methodi 4
ekhih from the World. Fair, because of
the proposed Sunday opening. Agents at
tae Methodist book publishing concern viii
act in the matter as soon az the doors of
the Fair are thrown open Sundays.
| Frank Sprague with several companion.
had stolen ri'a from Dover on the mid
| night freight MONDAY night and was put off
at Exeter. n. II While attempting t.,
board the drpar ing train he fen and re-
c,iscd injuries frotu which lie ,iiel in tvy
hours. lie was about 25 years old, and
lived in Dover where he leaves family.
| The German government has drnied the
| truth of the recent statement that Emperor
William, in his capacity Of supreme com
mander of the federated armies, would i~-
sue manifesto concerning the army bill
J To the denial is added The exploration that
the Emperor ia suprsme commander only ia
war. In peace the federated princes COM
mand their respective armies.
The village of Maspeth, on Long Islan |.
/ continues to be the headquarters Of the
gang of anarchists who according 20 Otfo
Eckhott, plotted to blow up the police at a
labor meeting in New York a year ago
/ II" village AUTHORITIES say the gang il
broken up AMI their leaders are either ar
re-trd or hed; but Fckhollt says they still
hang together AMI Il kioidt ought IL ka.~
for teiore he was arrested for arson ami
betrayed the anarchists for revenge.
Monday the whalessl', grocery business
of Mayer & Uullman, Brunswick. Ga, was
placed in the hands Of receiver. This
was done to protect the creditors. Mr.. TIL
man. who committed snicide last week, was
the finapeier Of the concern. while Mr.
Mayer was the moneyed partner, bnt knew
nothing about the books. He il q years
age. Until Saturday be was thought to be
worth 500 900, but Monday he said he was
not worth dollar. 1t appears that UIlman
used the firms name on endorsed paper for
enterprises not connected with the frm.
Tho u ,kiiif,aa a rrn1,nf IN about a1su 400