Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-01-18

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South and West

George j. Wertz WIS inaugura,cd Gov
ernor of New Jersey Tuesday.
Ex-Governor William u. Bate of Ten
ncssec was reelected to the United States
Senate Friday.
Senator George Gray of Delaware was
Tuesday reelected to the United States
Senate without opposition.
Rev, Dr. NJ. Woolscy STRIKER was it,
auguratcd president of Hamilton College
at Clinton, n. Y. Tuesday.
The Massachusetts Democrats in Jegis-
laturc, Tuesday, nominated l.. 4. Collins
of Boston for United States senator.
Fulmcr. Thornton & Co., OF Memphis,
Tenn, have made "A partial assignment.
Assets, nominally s3500oo; liabilities, un-
known.
ton supplies. Little Rock, Ark, assigned
TUESDAY. Liabilities, sla3 900; assets,
s2I0,0oo.
The power station Of the Central Railroad
Company. Peoria, ILL.,, burned Tuesday.
Loss, complete, amounts TO sl0i 600; in
surancc, $50 600.
c. T.. Mckcel Stamp AMI Publishing
Co, St. Louis, Mo-, assigned Tuesday.
Assets, ssi50 900; liabilities cannot be as
certained az yet.
Native uprisings are reported in Jamaica.
viii considerable fighting and gvat terror
among whites. Hippolytc denies that there
is serious trouble.
Charles Wells, known Us Monte Carlo
Wells" arrived at London from France
tuesday ani was arralgncd on ct,rges of
fraud amounting TO 1925 eco.
The Pennsylvania Republican caucus
Tuesday nominated Matthew y. liay for
United States senator. The vote was:
Quay, li6; Daizcll, Is: Goblin /.
The Lloyd Wha,son block, jamestown,
y. D. occupied by several business con
Germs, was burned Tuesday. The Loss cx-
eccds the total insurance by So, ,oJJ.
The cigarette factory of Alien & Ginthrr
and Valentines Meat juice Works burned
Tuesday at Richmond Va. Loss. $780,
0G0; injured. Two fircmen were badly
frozen.
II i, reported at Paris Oh excellent ap-
tliori,y that there is now ample evidence ui
Royalisi conspiracy and that arrests will
be niaGe at an early day. The conspiracy
mas been hatehea in London ani Madrid.
y w 4NFh fbtk fttafi ttA NTffFtis utstlT
confirmed tho Judgment ot TIA. lower court,
.ousictiug CARLYLE W. y. Harris of murder
IN the first degree by caa.ing the death Of
his wife about year ago by administering
lrugs to her.
Tie New York court Of appeals has af-
irmej the judgment Of itc lower court
conviciiHg James Hughes OF extortion ami
scntencing him 10 one years imprisonment.
Hughes j. nBasier workman ola branch Of
The Knights of Labor ami took $1,000 from
firm for dcfrssing, ~ he said expenses Of
-.iising boyeoit v hieh hal been declared
against the firm.
II iS understood that next SATURDAYS is
sne of the Canada Gazette vii contain
proclamation rencFing fgs the season OF
1898 tho geodas ,ioendi viereunder the
oss ners Of the fishing ves.eis of the United
States may take oul a licen-s to eniitie sncll
c-aff 70 reser, TO tne 'snad,ai liarbor siong
the Atlantic and Gulf coast for the purchase
Of bait and supplies.
a train on the railroad between Slatousk
and Samara, Russia, filed with recruits,
caught fire Tuesday and the flames spread
40 rapidly that all the coaches were soon in
flames. For some unaccouniable reason
the engineer did not stop the train until he
had run a considerable distance. Many Of
the recruit hal lcapci from the train and
ere killed while others, who were unable
70 cave The train. were horribly burned.
The deai nnnber i9 and 90 we're burned
or bruised.
The Boston Journal IS informed that the
autopsy on the boiy Of Gen. Butler, pre-
yious to interment, showed that the cause
Of his'death was no, heart failure, as sup
| posed, but that small bleed. vessel had
been burst by violent 1T Of coughing. All
| his organs we're found to be in excellent
| condition, and but for the accidental cause
of bis death he would probably have lived
many years. His brain weighed four
ounces more than that of Daniel Webster,
which was one of the largest on record.