Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-01-06
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought by the vi es from the North. ea''
stu!h and West.

William II. Doble of Qlincy, Mss a
leading trader filed an insolvency petition
Friday.
Philip Evans was executed at Bards'oyr,
KY, Friday, for the murder Of Z Ina Hall,
aged -.
Martin Reed (colored) was hanged It
Kansas City, Mo-, Friday, for the murder
of his wife.
VIM. Farmer (colored) was hsrged in Il e
Jail yard at Tuscaloosa, Ala FIJI lay, f,r
the murder of his wife.
Col. Peter Sanhorn, ore of the best
known citizens Of New Hampshire died S,
the home of his daughter at Comic, cook, n
H., Friday.
r. C. Taylor's tiye-storv granite block st
Worcester was burned Friday. Loss IN
building and Clark & Sawyer's STICK, Sl5c,-
O00: insurance, Sl07,500.
The police found among the document
seized at the residence of Il isee Reclus,
Paris, 60 compromising letters from French,
Swiss and German Anarchists.
Reports from various toxins near Ror X
developed this week. Pneumonia is quite
/
Receipts from internal revenue F ia,
were S73S 357; from cust ms. $3.50 O.:
miscellaneous, S472l7. National banl
notes received for redemption, $72+ SIS.
The Plush factory at Bird. eporr, C, m. :,
has started with full force in all depart
partments, $50 men in all, the men heir &
s4t> fed with the scale of prices at present.
The yellow fever season has begun
Rio .TanpirO. Ts cases OF the disease an
one death vas reported Thursday, SheI e
leave os all crews IF foreign warships IN
t narbor his be,n stepped
Cou Ter aisilavits on the part OF the bls-
ines. men of Proyil nee, 1. L., were filed
in the supreme court Friday ia application
to prevent tie signing Of bonds for Il G
Provi 'ence & Springfield II .ilroad ex:el-
sion.
A lrge burn con- e>tel with the Ba g
River lo.tl, near Gloucester, Mass, :
longing to the Henry Souther estate, VI h
hay. farming tJols ard nnH cow, was bnro' u
Friday night. Loss, $500; insu"et for
$1,000.
Fire in the knickerhocker hts, Fifth
avenue and .S:h ,trect, New York, FIJI isy
on the frat floor, occupied by Tellery &
Co., Indians, as the saiesroom for what
was left of ;heiv In Tia exhibit. at III,
Worlds Fair, caused $25 900 damage to In
dia curiosities, rugs, silawls, laces, tapestr,
and fine bfic-a-brac.
The suit of the government against the
sugar trust to declare the absorption of the
Philadelphia rcfiGery by The trust illega
was called in the United States court a
Philadelphia, Friday. Counsel of the
sugar trust stated that they were not resd'
to proceed and Judge Butler fixed Jan, 10
for hearing the case.
A 6i.patch from Laval, c,tital of de-
partment of Mayenne, France, states that
the rector of the church at Entrammes,
near Laval, was found dead Thurs lay.
Evide ntly he was mlriered, and s1spicio
fell on Able Bruneau, the cura.e. lnves
tigation strengthened the suspicion and Fri
day tie cu,ate was arrested.
The Pope Mfg Co. received during the
year 1898 at its general Office on Columbus
avenue in Is oston, Il total of l3i 554 letters
and postal cards. The average per bust
ness day was 424, and the largest number
in a single day, 1921. No count was made
of newspapers and other periodicals, an
enormous nunlDCr WHICH a.e ltCei'Su
daily.
The Connecticut state board of charitlc.
Friday voted TO recommend the county COM
missioners to remove Mrs. Pi,kiD, matron
at the Ha tford County Temporary Home
for Children, at Warehouse Point. By
this action the board supports the views If
one of its number, Miss Mary Hall. who
reported that tie managem Mt should J G
changed.
Two additional libels were fled in the
United States dis rict court at Hartford,
Con L., Friday. against the steam tug Atlas
of New York by the owners Of the seboon' r
Elliot NJ. Dos, and by VIM. NJ Tebc. II G
first for the collision hich BOX pla'e Dec.
%, ana by vel ich the Dow vas il jur.d ard
the latter upon n claim for the va'ne OF
materials delivered 10 tie tug.
Rt. Rev. Louis Mylne. Protestant ! ht T
of Bombay, has requested the sccret.ry OF
tile Anti Opium Alliance to remove Lii
III, name from the lit of m mbers of tie
alliance. The bishop states that he viii
dra. because numh.r of m. dical msr
repniists d their signatures attsch TO the
petition to the government against the use
Of opium, aud hecaus- he has bvcsms corr
vince,l that l. lila is not country in whic'
the agitation h ing carried a. y the hlli
/ a1cr can be pursued to good purpJs-.