Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-02-08
MEMS NUGGETS.
Brought BY the Wires From the North. eas.
South and West.

The New England Agricultural Society
has voted to hold the next fair in Worcester
Fire in the Green buiIling. 2.5 10 2s5
Congress street, Boston, Tuesday night,
caused loss of S3o7 900.
The house of John Marks in Ferelon
township. Ont, burned Monday. Marks,
his aged mother and his daughter perishcd
in the fire.
The Denison, Tex, Land AMI Invest
ment Co. has gone into the bands of Il re-
ceiyer. The liabilities are not stated. but
are probably heavy.
The extreme cold continues in Wash
ngton. A cosl famine is threatened. Re
ports of suffering and loss of life comes IN
from different parts of the state.
A man believed TO .jnbn Rcynolds of
Brooklsn. a delegate tn the I.aborer, Union
hokling - convention at Newport. x. L., was
arrested Tuesday on a charge of burglary
p,an Wavlau,, of tie Ysh Law school
has VT tt.u letter refus,ng 10 let Il. +.
sanford, law school student. run in the
Vale Harvard team relay race at Boston
next Saturday.
t:eorsc W. Luke of FiicIburc Mass
Injured in q railroad arfideni at Ieomins-
Ter Moniay night, died Tuesday. lie was
m ex-corncilman, veteran If the war
and a popular citizen.
The S,nate has ratified tile Russian tx
tradition treaty. with amendments. Tine
treaty makes ail attempts 10 assassinstA the
tzar or members of the royal family an
cxtr.viitionaI offence, regardless of motive.
Tie funeral OF Mrs. William G. Whit
ney the wife of the cx-svcretary of the
navy. was held AT st. bartholomew Epis
! cnpsi church, New York. Tuesday morning
The church was crowded with friends OF
the deceased.
4 passenger train on the Union Pacific
was wrecked last night II miles west d
Wei-ser, IsIaho. by spreading rails. The
smoker and chair car went down a Jo-fop'
embapkment. \ young woman vas killed
and - persons more or less seriously in
| jurel.
The coolest weather in the history oi
Montana prevails at present at Judith, ir
| the cattle country. The thermometer
/ dropped to "a degrees below zero ami fol
four DAYS ii not get above 30 below
/ There is three feet of snow on level il
/ the valleys.
| II is reported that tI.e French Chamber
I of Indictments has ieci.lel that TO case ha,
| been found sgsin-, DePaty Rovier an{
1 Senator'S Deves. Grevy and Renauit
agsiust whom NJ. frsrqueville, the exam
/ ming magistrate in the Panama scandal
reported these bills.
Schooner Hustler arrived at Gloucester
] Tuesday. from the Grand hanks. having ol
board Capt. James Bangey and two mel
rescued from the British schooner Ami
/ Marie, i5i tons of ami from Halifax 70
Iockport. n s.. whom they found. Feb. 4
with their resssl in sinking condition q
miles south Of Cape Lahave. The Ami,
Marie sank shortly after being siamione,i-
The Norwegian bark Alice, Capt. Jacob
son. from Dnpkirk. Dse. 81. for Nes
York, in ballast, went ashore Monday
night at the Long Beach. n Y, life savin.
station. Five of the crew attempted to lant
in their boat but it was espsizeJ and al
! were drowned. The rest of the crew Wer.
rescued by the life Saving men. The yessc
probably will he total loss She WIS buii
IN Maine in 1866, and is owned by Capt
Jacobson