Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-03-24
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought BY the Wires from the North. East
South and West.

South and west.
Billeteer and Vetterli. Mormon mission
aries, were expelled Thursday from Prus-
sia.
Thomas Higgins, the youthful murderer
of Peter McCooey. was hanged in the
county Jail at Chicago, Friday.
Fire at Money Point, near Norfolk, Va,
Friday, destroyed lumber mills, planning
mills, lumber, etc., to the amount of $780,
600.
Charles A. Stevens & Co.'s woolen mill,
at Ware, Mass, employing 25O hands, will
start up on full time, April I'd. This mill
has been shut down over seven months.
Steamer Biiscoe, at St. Johns, N. F.,
undergoing repairs, has been attached for
$4,000 by the owners of the steamer
Ulunda, which towed the Broscoe 100
miles.
Detectives raided the offices of 1G physi-
clans, men and women, at New York,
Friday, and arrested the doctors. In one
Office the bodies of two new born babes
were found.
The Whelars carpet mills, occupying
nearly block, Philadelpbia, resumed oper-
atoms Thursday on full time with large
force, most Of whom have been out of en-
ployme Mt since September.
The Canada Bank Note Company Of
Montreal is in financial difficulties. Liza
bilities are about SO 600; assets, nominally
10000. The creditors have agreed to &C.
cept 80 per cent and allow the company to
continue business.
Graham cotton mills in Alamsnce county,
N. c., started Thursday, after six months
suspe nsion. OF 10 cotton mills in that
county, all save one are running, and that
will start in two weeks. Mill men are
hopeful, though working on close margins.
A branch of the San Francisco Savirgs
Union, one of the prominent banking Or
& mutations of the city, was robbed at $50
| Friday morning by men who were evidently
u ed to the business. The cashier was 81 OF
aud killed. Frederick Bonnemann, who
shot and killed the cashier. was capture
after being shot and wounded by the police.
Justice O'Brien of the supreme court al
New York has denied the application for q
writ of habeas corpus for John Y. McKane.
McKane's counsel stated that a petition
would be filed with all the judges of the
supreme court, if necessary, until granted.
Applications will also be made to the
United States supreme court for writ. il
| the state supreme court judges declined to
interfere.
The Russian minister of the interior has
| issued an order that foreign Jews having in
their possession the proper passports, must
not be interfered with by the police or other
authorities. This is the result of numerous
complaints by Jews of foreign residence
| that they had been expelled or ill-treated
while visiting Russia. The government
several times before has been asked to is
sue such an order, but has hitherto refused.
A dispatch from Concord, N, H., in the
Boston papers Friday, concerning the Mil
ford Mass granite lockout, is misleading,
~ the matter has not been settled by the
| G ranite Cutters National Union, but is now
before the various branches of the union to
de ide whether they approve the act OF the
Milford branch. The publication of the So
C .lled agreement was premature, as far as
the Granite Cutters National Union is con-
cerned.
Petitions have been circulated slong the
Union Pacific system asking that the Ameri-
| can Railway Union and Knights of Labor
be recognized by Receiver Clarke snd other
| officials of the Union Pacific. Petitions
are being sent to Omaha and will be pre-
sented to Mr.. Clarke and if they are not &C.
cepted will be fled in the United States
court, thus to be brought before the United
States judgee for action.
Twenty prisoners were sentenced in the
Queens county court at Long Island City,
| L. l., Thursday, to terms of imprisonment
ranging from six months to life. They
were all convicted at the present term of
court. 1t was the largest batch of GRIM
inals ever sentenced at one time there.
August Ruppel of Rockaway Beach, who
fatally stabbed Frederick Schnitzer of that
place with pair of shears, was sentenced
to Sing Sing for life.
VIM. G. Pearson of Sheepshead Bay, N.
Y, who was on the bonds of several elec-
ton inspectors of Gravesend, Friday sur
rendered Harlan Crandell and Nicholas j..
johnson to Sheriff Buttlipg. Pearson was
on Johnson's bond for $4,000 and on Gran
dalps for S25OO. He is on the bonds of
VIM. p. Ryan, Victor Baus, Joseph IL.
Cropsey, C. Stoubenbord, F. +. Bader, all
of whom he will surrender. They will
plead guilty, Monday.
The New York Yacht Club, last evening,
passed, for the first time, amendments to
I its constitution, which will make any
woman owning a yacht hereafter eligible
for election as a member with right to fly
the club banner and enter the yacht in the
club races. The amendments will have to
be read a second time before final adoption.
J The amendment to the constitution will
! enable Mrs. Thomas H. Carnegie to become
a member of the club. 1t was with that
:dea that the amendment was proposed.