Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-01-16

Bridgeport, Conn.,, Was struck BY tram
On the Berkshire division SATURDAY and IN
ssanfiy kisiesl-
Steamer Alexander. which flies 4 Hawai-
ism nag, is Cow fitting out al San Francisco
for cruiss, which. it is said. will incinde a
raid on the Russian seal rookeries on
Cooper island.
A terrific explosion in the coi!icry at Gel
seakirchen. Germany. SATURDAY. was
caused by dynamite cartridges. al'egesl to
have been seere,ed in the mine py tic
strikers Nobody was killed.
dr. ]. Eastman was arrested Frs
aav at Roston. on the charge nt causing the
death of Annie Sweet Of Haserhiil BY mai
practice. AMI srrsignea Saturday. lie Was
held in $4,000 for herring Jan. 20.
Rev. Samuel circuit, retired Congrega-
tionsl clerg, man. historian an! .ssnealasist,
was struck by the ghost traia'' ut cross
ing in Bridgeport Conn, Saturday AMI
almost instantly killed. lie lived in STRAIT
ford
TIE repart OF John W. Wigein, Mass
sclsasetts surseyor-gsnerai of humber.
shows that fees received by the - deputies
during the year aggregated Sa5,at5. Ten
per cent. Of this goes to the suryeyer-een-
eral.
Fifteen thousand men and boys, 2aao
horses and 100 steam eng tines ART at work
gathering the ice crop of the Hudson. In
lications are that it will be the biggest crop
in 20 years The ice measures IL to IS
inches.
The company organized at Leominster.
Mass to search for the liussar's treasure
in Hell Gate. New York, wound up its af-
fairs Friday, giving its remaining Sloo To
the on Ladies' HoIne. The net loss was
$4,000.
At IA meeting of the Bosten Real Estate
Ex change Saturday a resolution WAS unani-
mo usly passed that the business Interests Of
| the country require the immediate repeal of
| the Sherman act authorizing the monthly
purchase of silver.
| Mrs VI. NJ. Anderson of Pulaski was
i elected assistant sergeant-at-arms of the
| Arkansas House, Saturday. This is the
| first time woman has he"n elected TO thas
4 position. GOV -elec, Fishback delivered
his inaugural address.
| 4 message was received from Rome hf
| Mgr. Sa,oli Saturday as follows: The
Apostolic delegation is permanently cstah-
ished in the United States AMI you are coe-
firHned as the first delegate. Signed, o'Con-
nell Mgr. o'Connell Is the American
secretary of the Propaganda.
The Worlds Fair board of control Satur
| day passed resolution ordering the beads
of departments to pay more difference 10
the board of lady managers. This was
I doHe on compliant from President Bertha
! Palmer, TO the effect that the ladies wrrr
| not always shown proper recognition.
1 A i,year- old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
! f Coffin of Bradford, Mass. died Fri
day Of paralysis. He was stricken about
| four weeks ago, and since that time Il slow
ossitication of his body has taken place.
| The doctors who were called in consulia-
| ton declared it 10 be the only case of the
kind they have ever heard of.
! The steamer Costa Rica at San Francisco
! from Nanaimo, reports that Friday She
| passed the wreck of the schooner Nolant,
bottom upward. 1t is thought she capsized
during the storm Christmas morning, and
that Capt. A, l.. Peterson, Mates Thompson
ana Larsen and five men went 10 ths
bottom. |, is thought the bark Majestic
also went down in the same storm. She
was old and heavily loaded with coal. She
had | | in her crew.
| ID. C.. Mills has given orders for the sus-
pen ion of the Virginia City Territorial
Enterprise, the oldest newspaper in Nevada
aud for years the organ of the Bonanza
millionaires. Its suspension indicates that
the bottom has really dropped out of the
great Comstoek lode, which has been run
wholly as an assessment scheme, the manip-
ulators of which secured millions from the
people of California and Nevada every year
on mines which are producing no ore.
Creditors of the Richmond Paper Com.
pany, whose extensive plant was sold out
at Providence few days ago at the rllicu
lousy low figure Of S42 900, are considera-
bly, stirred up over the result of the auction
sale. Business men are discussing all fe /
lures of the great financial romance CON
neated with the East Providence paper
mill, and few men who are conversant
with the inside doings of the Old company
place the amount sunk at less than 50 600
| 600, All this WAS closed at SAP 900. Many
estates have been shattered by the collapse
of the enterprise. and one leading official
who invested large amount of money, is
! practically penniless. ,