Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-07-18

NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought by the Wires from the sle-tfs, East
.*. South and West.

The President has signed the Utah state
hood bill. .
Adams & Ilsley, harness and trunk man
ufacturers, $50 fremont street, Boston,
have assigned. Liabilities, about $14, 600,
The shoe factory at Marblehead, owned
morning, with loss on contents of $780,
insured.
The Castle Square theatre to be opened
in the fall at Boston, has been leased to
Edward E. Rose, late stage manager of the
Boston Museum. The new theatre is being
built at the corner of fremont and Chand-
Ter streets.
A Guatemala special says: The British,
it is reported here, are secretly supplying
the Mosquito Indians with arms and money.
A Tegueigalpa special says: Refugees
from the coast continue to arrive, entering
the country near Cape Gracias a'Dios.
Fighting is reported to be going on in that
region.
The final accounting upon the estate of
Charles w. Scranton of the insolvent bank
ing firm of Bunnell & Scranton of New
Haven, Conn, was filed, Tuesday. The
estate will pay less than | per cent to the
creditors. The claims aggregate $142, 900
land the amount left to be divided is
$I429 95.
The people of Constantinople are in a
state of panic owing to the prediction that
| another earthquake may be expected.
Shops and dwellings are practically deserted
1t is claimed that the government officials
are concealing the number of the killed. In
Stamboul alone the death roll amounts to
over 200. The damage to property is put
at f5,0O0,000.
A dispatch from St. Petersburg says
"The cholera epidemic is much more in
| tense and fatal than were the outbreaks of
| the two previous years. The disease has
| even penetrated into Finland, hitherto free
from cholera. The hospitals are full and
the prison is being Converted into a hospi-
tai. The sanitary commission will hence
forth sit permanently"
| The subcommittee of the constitutional
| convention on suffrage, appointed specially
! to consider the question of giving women
| the right to vote in New York, Tuesday,
decided to report favorably to the full COM
mittee Mr.. fuckers proposed amendment
to submit separately to the vote of the peo-
pie the question as to whether women shall
be granted the right of suffrage.
The 10Th annual convention of the Ma
tional Amateur Press Association opened
| at Boston, Tuesday, at the United States
hotel. Many Western delegates we're KEEP,
away by the strike, In the absence of the
| president and vice president, Truman J
prif chn,
| chairman. The business was wholly routine.
The initiation fee of 81 was abolished.
Tom" Brado, who with M. Falk & Co.,
conducts a money transfer company a,
Bridgeport, Conn, was victimizei by
| sports, Monday. to the extent of about
500 or $500. The concerns receive money
for transfer" to the racing tracks. The
| transaction was clever wire tapping
| scheme. 1t is believed tine strangers who
| worked the affair came from New York.
The centennial celebration of the organi.
| cation of the Lancaster, N. H., Congrega.
| tional church occurred, Tuesday, with ap.
prcpriate exercises. Rev. George II. Til.
ton, the pastor, made the historical address
Gov. John B. Smith spoke Non 'Congregs.
| tionalism." A large number of prominent
! Corgregationalist from other parts of the
state were present, among whom were stv.
era former pastors.
Anthony Malone of Clinton, N. H.. and
Mrs. Mary L. Boyd of Hudson, Mass.
| eloped iu April and were arrested at Man.
chester, N. H., Monday. With them were
four young daughters of Mrs. Boyd, al
| living in one room. The husband of the
Boyd woman was at the police station when
the arrest was made and took his children
The couple was bound over at the police
court for adultery and sent to Jail.
| The long.horemen, who have been on
strike at Oswego, N. Y, for some time,
went to the extensive lumber and box fac
tory of the O,wego Manufacturing Com
papy, Monday. and drove off the work
men. In the night incendisri set fire t.
the yard which contained 40 600, 900 feet o.
lumber, resulting in a heavy loss. TIL,
property had been previously turned owe
TO the sheriff snd the county is responsible
A horrible accident occurred at No. (
Stockton mine, .Hszelton. Pa, Tuesls,
| morning. Two hundrevd sticks of dvpa