Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-06-17
NEWS NUGGETS.
Broughs BY the Wires From the North, ess,
South and west

DR.. Elnar Lonnberg, an eminent Swedish
zoologist. has discovered two new species
of mice in Florida.
NJ. Fox & Co., diamond dealers, Maiden
Lane, New York, assigned Friday with pre-
ferred claims of $4,000.
The Viking ship sailed from Newport, r.
l., for New York at o'clock, Friday night
and will arrive there about Saturday noon
The Supreme Lodge of Good Templars
completed its session at Des Moines, Iowa.
Friday. Boston was decided on as the next
place of meeting.
The Philadelphia councils want ex Presi-
dent Harrison to make the Fourth of July
Grafton in Paramount Park. lie has the in
vitation under Amusement.
DIR. Delavan Bloodgood, U. s. n, who
became widely known on account of his
striking resemblance to the late James G.
Blaine, is to be retired in August.
Henry McCalmont, the owner of Isin-
glass, winner of the Derby. lives at Cheve-
ly, once the seat of the Duke of Rutland,
not great way from Newmarket. lie is
80, and worth $50 100000.
The Union Iron Works of New York has
applied for voluntary dissolution and a re-
ceiver to be appointed. Liabilities, $685.
Ssi assets, consisting chiefly of work done
on contracts, about S34 800.
In the absence of Rev. II. S. Thompson,
pastor of Methodist church at FELTON,,
Del, who was ill his daughter preached the
morning sermon and his wife lectured in
the evening TO the satisfaction of the con-
gregation.
Failures during the past week reported
to Dun & Russell numbered 3l3 in the
United States against 1853 last year. Brad
streets reports 303 business failures this
week against l6l in the second week in
June, 1892.
A badly decomposed body was found at
Rye Beach near Portsmouth, N. II. 1t
was identified by the clothing as Fremont
Bond, missing from Kittery Point about a
month. Coroner Rider decided an inquest
was unnecessary.
John Ledyard, the great traveller, says
that among all nations women adorn them
selves NOR, than men, but that wherever
found they are the same kind, civil hu-
name and tender beings, inclined to be
cheerful, timorous and modest.
DIR. Brown-Sequard and hundreds of
other physicians to'whom he distributed his
hquide orchtique finds that it has surpassed
all sober expectations in the cure OF
ameioratiOn of maladies for which il was
not originally administered, inclu ling such
supposed incnrable ailments as cancer and
creeping paralysis.
Lincoln was shot on Friday in Ford.
theater by John Wilkes Booth. Ford.
.heater fell down on Friday. killing or in
juring nearly 100 people, AMI Edwin Booth
was buried on Friday. Nevertheless, Col
umbus discovered America on Friday, and
Grover Cleveland was inaugurated as pres
ident on Friday, 1893.
Guiteau's skull was kept in the Arm,
Medical museum which collapsed in Wash
ington last week, killing and manning man,
people. 1t is probably buried in III. ruin
and ground to powder. Before his execu
ton Guteau issued dragnet curse which
included every one who hal any thing to do
sith his conviction and mankind in general
Superstitious people may connect the pres
nee of Guiteau's skull in the huil!ing in
some mysterious way with the terrible
catastrophe.
At Piitsbnrg, Pa, Friday, Judgements
and executions were filled in the protho
notarys Office against the Dnquc-ne TUBE
Works Company for $3.50, 900. Its stated
that nearly the entire debt of the compiny
is included in the judgement. The Failure
was caused by general depression i'll bust
ness. W. A. Dunshee, president of the
company, said that with careful manage
ment til" company will pay sill its lcbts.
DR.. ". A. Chaput of Lowell, Mass. who
vas stabbed several times in his ollire,
Thursday morning, is in critical con-
iition. He has told several stories about
his assailant and the case is shrou led IN
mystery. hfE