Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-01-18
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Pa, Wednesday. for the murder of Eman-
uel Mann in February. 1898.
Vi,count Somertop ,e.dett son and heir of
the Earl of Normanton, died at London,
Wednesday, from influenza.
In joint session of the Iowa l. g;sla.ure,
Wednesday, John II. Gear was formally
declared elected United States senator.
John Buchner, a negro, who, Tuesday.
c,imipally assaulted white girl and ne
gro woman near Valley Park, Mo-, was
lynched Wednesday.
A robber smashed wiadow in Harfing.
ton & Freeman'- jewelry store. 50 Cont
street, Boston. Wednesday night, grabbed a
tray of valuable ri igs and escaped.
f. F. Severy, aged 55. farmer at
Blanhford, Mass shot himself Wednesday
and 2ied a few hours later. Domestic
trouble is said to have caused the deed.
Four trunks, containing 1000 pounds of
contraband opium, were seized at Spokane,
Wash. The lucky man whose susPi inns
were aroused, viii get rewsrd of $1,000.
Ere Monday morning destroyed the
plant of the American Central Company at
Minr eapolis, with loss of $50, 900. over
100 persons st this time are out of employ
ment.
The employees of the Phillips and Kun
harjts Mills at Lawrence, Mass, have de-
cided to accept the proposed reduction in
wages and the mill will not shut down as
threatened.
Arrived at Provincetown, Monday,
schooner Carrie l.. Hicks. Rogers, New
York for Carvers Harbor, Me. During the
late gale she was blown off to Georges
bank.
Tie limited train No. 35, from New York
to Florida, on the Richmond & Danville,
uas run into by Georgia, Carolina &
Northern freight train at Chester. S. c.,
about midnight Friday night. Five per-
sons were injured.
DGring quarrel at Littleton, N. II +,
Friday night, Duncan Crawford, aged Is
years, struck Nelson Defers, aged II. on
the head with a shovel, fracturing his skull.
Physicians fear the injuries will prove fatal.
Craw ford is under arrest.
Redmond f. Herman editor and publisher
of the Worcester, Mass.) Sunday Recorder
was arrested Wednesday for criminal libel
on warrant sworn out by Representative
Eugene NJ. Moriartv, who WIS the victim
of an attack in the Recorder, Sunday.
wight L. Hitchcock, Bethany. a pickle
peddler, well known throughout Connect
cut and Massachusetts, pleaded guilty to
bigany in the superior court at New Haven.
Conn.,, Monday, and was sentenced to is
months in the state prison.
Herr Etienne, formerly vice director Of
the Danube Stes esmship Company, has com
mitted suicide at Vienna. The anti-Sem-
ties violently chsrged him with irregulari
tie, in 1892, bnt the company acquitted
him. Two weeks ago, however, he was
dismissed by the company.
DR.. w. II. Pulford, the Ansonia, CT,
ply sician, under Indictment for murder, in
cansng the death of Helen Neshitt, should
have appeared in the superior court at New
Haven, CT, Wedne sday. He did not mate
rialze and bis bond was called. He is out
under $1,000. DR.. Pulford is reported to
be in the West.
The construction train on the Northern
Railroad went through a temporary trestle
near Fairview. N. j., Wednesday, falling
on 90 or 80 Italians who were at work un-
der the trestle. Two of the men were
crushed to death, and nearly every one of
Tie OtuSIS InOIS VI lSop luJuASui SOhiS Va
them it is feared fatally.
A royal decree, dated at Rome, Tuesday,
has been issued, proclaimiDg state of
seige at Carrara and Mass di Carrara, the
cities in which certain workingmen have
been acting in a riotous manner for sew
eral days. General Hulsch has been nomi-
mated to execute the decree. He has been
invested with plenipotentiary powers.
Wednesday was the anniversary of the
birth of Benjamen Franklin and Samuel +.
McCleary, treasurer of the Franklin fund.
paid to the city treasurer of Boston, $685.
800 for the purpose of the erection and
equipment of Franklin trades school in
that city, which disposition of the fund was
recently determined upon by the trustees
under Franklin's will.
Terry, Ware & Alleys shoe factory at
Brockton, Mass, WAS practically deserted
Wednesday, when 80 employees went out on
a strike against reduction of wages. The
strikers comprise 16 lasters, who were
offered reduction of one-half per cent;
l6 bottomere, whose wages were reduced
25 per cent, and 80 s,itchers, whose wages
were cut from 10 to 80 per cent.
The Paris La Lanterne Wednesday pub
lished letter from Bangkok, which states
that the Siamese are evacuating the left
bank of the Mekong river, in accordance
with the agreement entered into with
France. Villages on that side of the river
have been pills ged and burned by Siamese
troops engaged in clearing the country for
French possession. Inhabitants and all the
Siamese prisoners are being taken across
the river as rapidly as possible.
United States Deputy Marshal Siddiard
has returned to Omaha. Neb., from the
Pine Ridge Agency. He reports the
weather there as intensely cold and that
there is a great deal of suffering. Grip is
playing havoc on the reservation. and In
dams are dying like sheep. They are not
in any situation to stand severe weather.
be ing without sufficient blankes or heavy
wearing apparel and are ready victims of
any disease brought on by cold.
There was six-round bout at the Grand
Opera houee, San Francisco, Tuesday
night, between Jack MeAuliffe, lightweight
champion of the world, and Jim Ryan, the
well-known Australian middle weight. The
place was thropged with spectators. Just
previous to the cali of time, the manage
ment was requested to have all bets called
of. bu, refused to do 20. Rumors of fake