Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-07-21
NEWS NUGGETS


The eleventh annual meet of the New
Hampshire divi'ion, l.. A. W., was held al
Con ord, Thursday.
DR.. Meyers. the alleged Wholesale poi
-oner, was atraigued at New York. befor,
f not guilty.
The Milburn Wagon Works, Toledo,
Ohio, employing 300 hands, shut down,
Wednesday, because the men refused t,
,ccept reduction of wages.
Secretary of War Daniel Lamont arrived
At Gray Gables, Thursday, from Washing
ton. and j. the guest of the President. He
will remain several days.
VIM II Norton the well-known theatri-
al manager, and the husband of the Lii,
Post comic opera singer has been taken IL
l'loomingdalc insane asylum.
William II. Whitley the well known
Irish eomedisn, aged 81, died at Brooklyn,
Y. Y. Monday night. He was one of the
variety team of leonard and Whitley.
United States steamship Dolphin arrivet
It Newport, Il | Thursday morning will
Secretary of the Navy Herbert on board
lie will remain here only short time.
Fred Elliot, night Waterman ut Adams $
furniture factory. Penacoot, N. H.. fell
Eve stories dpun an elevator well Wednes
lay night ami was killed. His body wa
'crribly mangled.
Prime Minister Gltdstone's carriage col
lided Wednesday 18th van in Pari.renI
square London, Though he received no
.criou- iniuy he was considerably shaken
up After a short delay he WAS driven t.
his home.
Rev. John Allison, one of the best known
Pr" shyterian preachers in the country. died
II St Paul Mimi. Wednesday, from tn.
effect of fall from a street car. lie was
for ~ years president of the Mount Al
ison Female seminary at Sackville, n. B
4. NJ. Roger, "A drummer for the shoe
firm of C. NJ. Henderson & Co., of Chica
70. was taken out of hotel at Colburn, il
Wise county, Va. by nah and fearful,
beaten. Rogers ia accused of insulting the
Il-year-old daughter of the depot agent
It that place.
Attachments agRregating several tlonsand
dollars have been fled against the Union
Stock Yards Co, those pat king establish
n"nt is a. Rodeo, Contracosta county, Cnl
The immense plant. i, il said has prac,i
ally shut down. The plant cost 81 900
WD. and was started Nav 18th
The water in the Connecticut river ~
iolyoke is the lowest at any time since 1884
nd three mill, the Linden paper mill, Par
s1ns paper mill No. and the Prentice vi il.
Mill have already shut dow n because Of the
hort supply. tniess rain comes soon all
the mills without steam power will be shut
Town.
Cholera ia rampant among the poorer
classes in Moscow. Much Indignation il
frlt in Russia because the director of mi
n1s. upon learning that tn re was choIpi
Moscow prisons, ordered majority OF
che pi-oner- to b. removed TO four other
cities thus increasing the danger of spread
ing the infection. There have been no
;ases so far in st. Petersburg In Polodia
md other Infected places, the death rate
las not lessened.
The st. Louis journal of Agriculture,
'reating of the condition Of the present
sheat crop. Gays that the best American
md European authorities agree that the
sorld's d. ficiency will be at least 100 ,D00,-
30 bushels. The most reliable figures now
place the total American crop of 1893 at
,;s.i 600 600. wi ich added to the surplus
'aIried over will make less than 40. 900.
900 bushels. England will want go. 900
100 and the home trade needs $40 ,OoG. coo
bushels.
Judge Wired G. Coke of the United
states circuit court at New York, Thurs
day, hsnied down decision holding tina,
the American Gable Railway Co. has entire
right to the cable rights in the United
States and has the night to recover DANA ges
for past infringemen;s. The decision il n
important one. l. sfects amosg Others the
cable at present operated on the Brooklyn
bridge, which has men gong sioce Sept.
"a. 1855 Judge Coke has appointed ref.
rec to assess the amount Of damages and
has also granted an injunction prohibiting
the operation Of the cable on the bridge.