Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-02-06
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men,
The scaling match for $500 sile be-
tween Georges Bubear and '.Wag' Harding
wss rowed Monday over the championship
ON the Thames. Harding beat Bubear
easily.
Steamer Lord Charlemont, bound from
Baltimore for Belfast, when 1870 miles
southeast Of Sandy Hook. picked up the
British bark Rhydalmere and towed her to
New York.
A Catholic congress, the holding of which
was forbidden in Naples. has been sum-
moned to meet at Rome on the 18th instant.
The Pope has ordered that the proceedings
shall be private 30 as 'ot to irritate the
government.
Intense anxiety is manifested in shipping
circles for the safety Of the British steamer
Barcelona, which sailed from Liverpool for
St. johns, n. F., Jan. Is, and is now more
than 10 days overdue. She has crew of
80 persons and several passengers.
No confirmation Of the reported trouble
among Apache Indians in Arizona has been
received at the Indian office, and it is gen.
orally discredited. Reports have been re-
ceived from time to time from Indian agents
in Arizona and no trouble whatever is men
toned
The bond of Marsden J. Perry. Provi-
dence, r. l.. as one Of the rpce iyers for the
New York & New England Railroad Com
paDy, was fled at New York, Monday.
Judge Wallace approved the bond. 1t is
for 500. 900, and secured by the American
Surety Company.
John Allen, wealthy young farmer,
was waylaid and murdened at Riverside,
Ala, Saturday. by Eli and Fonso Robinson,
colored. Eli is in Jail and men and dogs
are after Fonso. Allen and the negroes
had misunderstanding as to wages. There
is Danger Of double lynchiDe.
James A. England and Leonard Smith,
neighboring farmers Of Brookhaven. Miss,
between whom feud of long standing ex-
listed, had duet in the streets Saturday
with pistols. England received three shots
in the abdomen snd died Sunday. Smith
was fatally wounded in the stomach.
Albert Walton, aged 81, native of New
York, at one time agent of the British
Mercantile Guide, has been arrested at Co.
penhagen for swindling. 1t is said over
400 merchants have fallen victims to his
operation. These merchants belong in
Hamburg, Berlin, Swift srland snl Russia.
Nothing could be more positive and to
the point than the tes imony of Mrs. VIM.
+. Wilmington. of Waterbury, Md, who
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BY two accidental explosions of dynamite
cartridges in cut on section IL of the
drainage canal near Romeo, ILL.,, Saturday
noon, two men were killed and three in
jured. The killed are w. B. Conner, p,rt-
ner in the contracting firm of Voolfolk,
johnson & Conner, and Christopher Tesayi,
a Italian laborer.
Among the 800 patients at the Charity
hospital ON Blackwells island, New York,
another case of small pox has developed.
Half dozen cases of cont lgion were found
by the sanitary authorities in different parts
Of the city since Saturday. Five deaths
from small pox we're Monday reported from
Moth Brothers island.
Thomas A. Brown, under indictment for
the murder of Catherine O'Mally, his
mother, in South Boston, in April last, was
discharged, Monday, on his Own recogaiz
ance. Patrick Sheridan, the principal
government witness, was taken to the asy-
lam last week, having lost his reason while
delayed in all by the authorities.
Michael Pluude and Mrs. Huliah Sy-
monds, charged with murder at Warner, N.
H., about Jan. Is, of Joseph Riendeau or
Lorento, was arraigned in the police court
at Concord, Monday, and each pleaded not
guilty. The hearing was adjourned unit
Feb ID. Both respondents were committed
t, Jail. They say they are innocent.
Steamer Venezuela from Caracas and
Laguayra, arrived at New York, Monday.
Advices regarding the election returns in
Venezuela are to the eff. ct that they are
coming 10 very slowly from the interior and
the count will probably not be complete be-
fore the first of March. There is little
doubt that Gen. Gre spo will be the next
president of the republic.
Fire occurred Sunday evening in the
engine house on the Boston & Maine r Ill
rad, Claremont division, situated at Clare
mont Juncti IN, N. H. 1t contained p,s
senger and freight engine, both of which
we're badly damaged. The former was
nearly new. The building was destroyed.
The loss on the building is $1,000; cause
unknown.
Two deaths from exposure during the
odd of Sunday night we're reported Monday
at New York. The first victim was John
Colgan. who was found in West 47,h street
Sunday night with cut scalp. He was
mt to the hospital and died shorty ter
his arrival. The other victim was an un-
known woman about 80 years old, no was
found dead in East 59th street.
Tie chiefs of the Northern Pac. fic Fed
Grated Trades at st. Paul have wired the
local union men at Ia IONS. Wash, to pre-
pare for n strike on the Northern Pacific
syst nj. If th.re is no change satisfactory
to the employees in the situation before
Tuesday. it is expe ted the men will be
called out and that the strike will be made
general among the roads that have cut
wages and have attempted to enforce new
schedules that do not recognize union work
men.
American sugar, lead and whiskey were
features Mt the New York stock exchange
Thursday. The explanation for this sud-
den re-awakeping of interes st in the indus-