Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-05-19
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horses, vehicles, stock of groceries and
store fx,ures.. lie offers his creditors five
per cent. composition.
William Cav&naugh, aged SO, who was
stabbed several times, Tuesday night, at
Boston, by August Haven in a quarrel, died,
Thursday night, at the city hospital. The
charge against Haven, who is under arrest,
will be changed to manslaugh,er.
J.F Scott ( Co., wholesale jewellers,
New York, made an assignment, Friday,
with preferences of $4,000. The house
is one of the best known in trade, having
been established nearly so years. Scott
says the liabilities cannot reach $500
Commodore Florio, the owner of the cut
ter Valky RE, which was reported lost on
the coas, of Africa, has telegraphed to
friend in London that the report of the
wreck of his yacht is an unmitigated lie,
the Valkyrie having met with no mishap
whatever.
In the superior court at Newburyport,
Mass, Friday, Frank Smith of Glouce ser
was sentenced to one year in the house of
correction for assault on Mrs. Margaret
Chisholm, and two years in the same insti
tuition for assault on Ethel M. Rogers, a
j-year-old child.
Tuesday, at Rutland, VT, George and
| Edward Norton, aged s and ii years,
respectively, were shot by Oliver or Levi
Larose, aged %. The younger boy was
MORALLY wounded and the elder seriously
| injured. Larose was arrested and will be
arraigned, Saturday.
The Portuguese minister, Senior Souza
Rosea, will leave for Lisbon next week on
six months leave of absence, but it is I'M
derstood that he will not return, as he has
received private information that he will be
made minister to France, which is the high
est diplomatic post of Portugal.
Justice Barrett in the supreme court at
New York, Friday, appointed John H..
Morris, receiver of the Sluvesant Safe De
posit Company and placed his bond at 500,
600. The Safe Deposit Company is max
ing voluntary dissolution. John III. Morris
was formerly president of the company.
Twenty-Five Coxeyites captured loco
motive On the G:eat Northern at Troy,
Mont, Thursday, and role % miles to
Atlanta. There the company had torn up
the track, and the engine was ditched,
Eight tramps were injured, one seriously.
All were arrested and taken to Kalispel.
Lazard Freres viii ship $1,000, GOO in
gold from New y ork n Saturdays steam
or. 1t is estimated that SO ,0G0 900 viii be
shipped 10 Europe. Neidebach, IeLel-
hsimer & Co. will ship 5000 coo goll, and
Barring, Msgouu & Co. $500 900 gold on
Saturdays steamer. The total thus far re-
ported is 50 $50, 600.
Gen. Kelley has reached Red Oak, Iowa t..
with his band of On Ina Coxeyites. He was
ordered to keep away from that city be-
cause his men had passed through Pacific
Junction in Mills county, where there has
been small pox. The band is camped in a
grove two miles from town with no food,
AMI the citizens have refused to furnish
rations.
A boxing match with tiYe-ounce gloves
took place at AberIarc, Wales, Thursday
night, when one of the competitors, a
young man named Rtes, was knocked over
the ropes and rect iyed fracture of the
skull, dying il a few moments. Rees'
opponent was srieste on a charge of muI
der, and II of the attendants and spectators
were arrested as abettors.
Cltmence Schrieb Der, managing clerk of
a prominent b Rim solicitor, has abscondt d
10 company with the lawyers wife, wLo
has been living apart from her husband. 1t
is understood the couple gone to New York.
Schrieber took with him u bank book be-
longing to his employers mother, which he
distracted from the safe and upon which
he drew 1900 marks be fore starting.
Coke strikers at the Kyle works, Union
town Pa, made another attempt to prevent
the workmen from going to work, Friday.
At daybreak they surrounded the houses of
ant bal ha
officials noticing their absence, sent depu-
ties to inquire into the trouble. The
strikers were dispersed. Only one che t
was fired but no one was injured.
The president of the Currency Associi :
ton at Calcutta has telegraphed to the inn
perial government asking that the intentions
of Sir Henry Hartley Fowler, secretary of
state for India, be ascertained and COM
municated to him Immediately. Further
forced sales Of India council bills, the tele-
gram says, will only add to the panic which
is paraly zing trade in India. The present
position is unbe ,rable and measures must
be promptly taken to relieve it.
A Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern passen-
ger train ran over a COW at Belpr., qOhio,
Thur sday night and was derailed. The ac-
cident occurred on a high embankment.
The train rolled down the bank and six per-
sons were badly injured. Hon. George L.
Lund, representative at the American Sc
curity Co., and treasurer-elect of that
county, had his arm badly shattered, neces-
rating amputation, besides sustaining inter
nal injuries which may prove fatal.
Judge Stafford at Salem, Mass, Friday.
rendered his decision in the case of the
cider seized from Warren +. Davis and
claimed by J. B. Griffith & Son of Durham,
n. H., under the protection of section
chapter 100, which allows the sale Of cider
by the makers. Judge Stafford held that
the protection of this law did not apply to a
manufacturer in another state where the
biier was brought into the commonw ea It'll
for sale, and he ordered O. trace of forfeit
ure. An appeal was taken to supreme
court.
The London Pail Mall Gaz tie, pub
li.hed an intf rvew, Friday, with Sir Geor &c
Gray, formerly prime mister of New Zea-
Ind, on the Samoan question. After Civ
IL bis viers on the desirsbiity of the an
n'xaion of the islands to New Zealan /,
Sir George expresses his opinion that the
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