Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-02-03

Brought 81 the Wires From TIRE North. East,
South and west

8Fouqh OF Inc wires IRON sfe worm, Esst.
South and west
The Illinois Legislature, "Wednesday,
passed bill repeating the compulsory
| school Law,
The Saneook. n. H., Gas Works burned
Thursday morning. Loss, 50 900. Cause
of fire, unknown.
The First National Bank of Little Rock,
Ark, has suspended, Liabilities are .an
aerstood To be over S5ti0, 900.
Judge Enlicott who is III at Salem was
reported Thursday afternoon rs showing
marked improvement ~ his condition.
Nearly ali the mines in the district abont
Rico Col, closed down Wednesday. Six
hundred union miners are going on strike.
Martin Foy, Jr.. was, at Ballston, n. Y,
Thursday, sentenced TO be eieetroeuted
during The week beginning March -, for
the murder of Wilson.
The Chicago express On the Fort Wayne
Railroad! collided with the freight train at
Londonyille, Pa, Thursday morning.
Three persons were seriously injured.
A report from Mooreland. W Va, says
that Monday night the house of man
named Malone burned and Malone's brother
and boy, Macarthur, burned to death.
The new steamer Luania of the Cunard
Line was launched at Glasgow Thursday
Her dimensions are Length over all s25
feet, breadth G5 feet, depth 4 feet and
nearly $4,000 tons displacement.
Police Officer Geo. Hayes of Bridgeport,
Conn. was shot in the shoulder Thursday
morning by one of two burglars whom he
was endeavoring to arrest. Later IA man
named john Rooney was arrested on sus-
picion.
The story current at Concord. n. H.,
Wednesday night which originated in Man
chester that murderer Frank C. Almy had
attempted to escape from PRISON, has been
pronounced canard by the officials of the
institution.
Rev. Father Boucher, the pastor of the
French Catholic church at llaverhill, Mass,
was arrested Thursday on civil process
Cor damages claimed by the parents OF a
boy, for alleged improper cou'Iuct practced
upon the boy.
Panama advces say that the Rothscliilds
and Baron Hirsch are at the head of new
canal syndicate and viii each subscribe
% 900 900 francs. The operation of the
extension Of the canal concession.
| In consequence of ednesay nights
mass meeting at Yale, Manager W. b.
Maititt of the foot ball eleven has an
nounced that he would immediately tender
his resignation. Other team captains will
not state what actions they will take.
The joint judiciary committee reported
! bin in Massachusetts Thursday favoring
| the adoption of Fast day, and making the
| 18th of April, Lexington day, legal holi-
day. The bill will be amended so as to
provide for the closing of liquor saloons on
that day
Chief Justice O'Rrien at Dublin has de-
ciied that the Irish government acted ille-
gally in refusing police protection to the
baliffs engaged in executing writs ut night.
! Chief Secretary Morley is liable to prose-
cuton for issuing the order Withholding
such protection.
Several gentlemen have asked the Massa-
chuset,s Legislature for charter as the
Metropolitan Gas Co, to supply gas for
lighting. fuel and other purposes at not
over 81 per 1000 feet. of p candle power.
| The company is the furnish gas free for
| lighting Boston's streets.
The Yale News. the official university
organ. said Thursday, that the present sit
| nation is unprecedented in the history of
| the college, and calls upon the opponents of
the proposed rule rejected Wednesday
aight, to come forward at once with some
remedy for the present situation.
Sritcimen representing every railroad
entering Chicago are about to demand a
new scale of wages. If the scale is not
conceded all swichmen will 20 ont on i
strike. \ switchmens strike would not
only paralyzc the commerce of the city but
would be immensely disastrous to trade |
throughout the country.
Viscount Henri lie Bornier. "A poet, NJ |
fhurcau, a historian, and NJ. Dangiu were |
Thursday elected members of the French |
Academy. Competition for the seat made |
vacant by the death of Mariner was very
lively, one of the candidates being VI /ola. !
Five ballots were taken without result |
/ola received only six votes.
At the beginning of the trial of Asa = |
Potter, c1-presiicnt Of the Maverick bank. |
at Boston Thurs lay, Jndge Putnam an
nonnced that he would exclude evidence /
given by Mr.. Bliss Wednesday relative To |
conversations With Potter on subjects Of
o,erdr; It's This is i decisive victory for !
the defense. |
Aionzo H. Briggs died in South Boston |
THURSDAY after Il short Illness from pneu /
n0nia. lie gas born in West Morelaud |
y. II ia Is4l, and came to Boston some |
- years ago. In 1877 he became con /
nected with Hiram Kicker 4 Sons of Po- !
land Springs Me. "a manager Of their I
Boston office, which situation he has siure 4
most accePtably flied.
John NJ. Cleghorn of san Francisco. an /
uncle of Princes. kaIauiani. heir apparent /
10 the tlaw aiian throne. is en- route to WASH
naton TO present the clains of his niece be-
fore the commission appointed by tire pro
vi>ional government arrives. tieghorn is +
T. hours ahead Of tue commission. Ne will
plead for the Establishment Of protecto- (
rate with the princess as Queen.
In the New Hampshire IIouse Thursday /
q petition was PRESENTED from louisa r.
Warden of Hanover, the mother of Christie !
Warden, asking the Legislature to appro-
pirate for her benefit S250o. the rev ard Of (
fcrcd In the proclamation of the Governor
and Council, August l 1891, for the appre-
hensiOn of the murderer, Amy. 4 similar 4
petition. was presented which was signed BY ,
-. 4 Randall, n. p. Wheeler, George ".
Hoffman, T.. j. Laporte, Dams Wright.
john Fhornhurn. Hartford, VT, Lewis /.
Currier Norw ich. We. Frank Foster, keene,
and George Abbott. Lebanon. asking tha,
'he same apouut be appropriated for diyi-
SION aIuoaas ~ volunteers ho responded to
the appeal of tire officers. and entered the
barn the morning of August 20, 1871, the /
day Amy was arrested
In an editorial Wednesday, the Toronto
News-Insie pendent, i Conservative paper, !