Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-04-13
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The Behriog sea bill was read the second
time in the English House Of Lords, Thurs
day.
Two notorious Anarchists havirg loaded
bombs in their possession were arrested in
Rome, Wednesday evening.
The yacht Su1iose of Rockville Centre.
l.. l., with three men on board, is believed
to have been lost. 1t left there Friday and
has not since been heard from.
Advises from Rio Jsneiro state that the
Brazilian ministers of foreign affairs, pub
lie works and finance, have rendered their
designations TO President peixoto.
The President, Thursday. sent to the
Senate the nominations of Commodore
Francis NJ. Ramsay as rear-admiral and
Capt. Thomas O. Selfridge as commodore
The three-masted schooner Benz amin B.
Church, which went ashore Saturday at
Bridgehsmpton, \. j., drifted off Wednes-
day morning and was driven west by the
| storm.
The Irish Catholic says: The hopeless
negotiations regarding the Irish funds de-
p0sits d in Paris have ended and Mr.. Nc
Cartby has directed a renewal of the litiga-
ton"
A party of duck hunters who left Free
port, l.. L., on the Idlewild, Tuesday morn
ing, have, it is feared, met with disaster.
Nothing has been heard from them since
sailing.
| The Senate committee on commerce,
Thersday, made favorable report on Hoar's
amendment to the sundry civil bill appro-
priating $4,000 for a new hghtship in
Boston harbor.
\ cableeram has been received from the
Grand Trunk officials ia London ordering a
reduction of 10 per cent. in salaries over
the entire 81 stem.
The barkentine which was Wednesday
night reported in dangerous position near
where the Kate Markee went to pieces, at
Highlands, Nd, is now anchored off High
lands in a safe position.
John Donovan of Donovan Bros, ice
dealers, Lowell, Mass, disappeared Friday
evening. He was last seen at Aiken street
bridge. He may have fallen into the river.
His friends suspect foul play.
A yawl boat has drifted to the beach sew
eral miles north of Milwaukee, containing
the unconscious form of Capt. Wood of
| scHooueT lslanu Slty. ne Oliler TWO men
who comprised the men are undoubtedly
drowned.
There was no quorum in the Rhode
Island Senate, Thursday. The House
spent nearly four hours wrangling over the
anti-vaccination act, with locked doors to
compel the attendance of members. The
bill was finally lost on the deciding vote of
the Speaker.
Seventy-ive weavers employed in the
Summit Silk Mills, Summit, n. j.. went on
a strike, Wednesday, for higher wages.
Most OF the men recently came to Summit
from Paterson. The girls at work in the
mill refused to quit work, and we're insulted
and jeered by The strikers.
Efforts are now being made in Ogden,
Neb., to ship the western division of the
Coxey army, now stranded there, as far as
Omaha "a a good way to get them out of
town. If they come to Omaha the train
will be run right through to and across the
bridge 70 Council Bluffs, which is the ter
m nus of the Union Pacific.
Champion James J. Corbett, accom-
ranied by his father and mother, sailed for
Europe on the Fuerst Bismarck, Thursday.
Corbett goes abroad tn play two months
engagement in the Drury Lane theatre,
London, and, incidentally. to find out the
chances of the National Sporting Club
offering purse for bis proposed contest
with Peter jackson.
The crew of the schooner ashore nesr
Point Pleasant, y. j., Wednesday after
noon, was rescued in the evening by the
Bayhead life savers, who shot a mortar
over the vessel and brought the men ashore
in the breeches buoy. IL was the schooner
Susan H. Richie, Capt. Marvin, of Boston,
laden with cedar Ties. The vessel may be
saved. tbs reported that three otter YES
sells are ashore but have not been located
The bosses, or employers of labor in Chi
csgo, with the exception of those who deal
with brick mssons and stone masons and
some of those who hire carpenters. will lock
out their men unless prevented by law and
force them TO idleuess until the men give
notice that they are forever done with the
obnoxious walking delegate and profess
sional labor aeitstor. The workingmen in
the meantime propose to appeal to the law
and see if they cannot secure the indictment
of the employers under the criminal con-
spiracy act.
Fred Siger, aged "a, an employee of the
Lembeek and Be;z Brewing Company.
Jersey city, early Wednesday, scrubbed
this incoherent message on the stable door
back of the brewery When a woman
takes the second husband while the first
still lives. Let it not be thought that this
happened because Philip scolded me. Kind
est regards to all. Good bye" Then he
made a regular hangman's moose, and at
break of day hanged himself in the stable
Siger was scolded by Foreman Bechtel
"Wednesday for getting drunk. II is ssid that
Siger had two wives living, and that he was
Jealous of q bosrder in his family.
Great excitement prevails at Cameron,
Ohio, over sfatsi shooting affray which &C.
CURED there, Wednesday. B.rnhast Msr-
ril hot John Boon. Martin lives with his
widowed mo.her-in-law, Mrs. Barbara Mel
let. Bolon was Infatuated with the widow,
bat his affection wss not reeiprocated.
Wednesday night Martin heared noise in
the bsra sn taking hi. gun vent TO i7ves-
tisste. When nesr the barn he saw man
leaving the building and called upon him to
make himself known. Receiving no sn-
.Ser e fred. The man proved II b.
| 8nioa. lie hsd bsen in the barn di.6ga--
rg tie widows horses by cutting their IA !: