Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-06-27
NEWS NUGGETS.
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South and West.

Amy and Ellen Munsell, Swedes and sis
tiers, employed by wealthy family of
Newington, were struck, Tuesday, by the
express from Hartford, just south of New
ington, CT, and instantly killed.
In drunken row at Wellesley, Mass,
Mrs. Fritz Butchman accused her husband
ley, June l, 1898. Butchman was sus-
pected at the time but was released.
The supreme Castle of the knights of the
Golden Eagle opened three days session
at New Haven, Tuesday. There As dele
gates present from various sections of the
United States, representing 10 grand cas-
ties.
The Swift Industrial delegation of Bos-
ton tramps, arrived at East Greenwich, CT.
Tuesday evening, 25 strong. They lunched
in saloon, were talked to Mrs. II. S. Mer-
rifel1 of Boston, and went to sleep in a
barn.
Timothy Corners was held in $500 at
Hartford, Ct, Tuesday, for trial on charge
of manslaughter. Connors, while riding on
bicycle, ran down Mrs. Juliet Closson,
and she received injuries which caused her
death.
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at Montpelier, VT, Tuesday, IA persons be-
ing present. Thomas S. McGinnie of
Jericho, was nominated for Governor; II.
w. Couro of Grand Isle, lieut.. Governor
and full ticket put in nomination.
Advices from Japan say dispatch from
Tientsin was received at Toxic, June s..
stating that $4,000 people had risen in in
surrectiOn in KILN, which lies on the
boundary between Russia and Corea. The
troops we're TO be dispatched from Tientsin
to suppress the uprising. O..
The grand jury at London, Tuesday,
made return throwing out the bill found
in the Bow street police court against Gen.
John Hewston of California, charging him
with manslaughter in causing the death of
George Bruton, an itinerant musician, by
thrusting the ferule of an umbrella into his
eye.
large four-story brick building owned
by Wheeler & Howes, coal and grain mer-
chants, at Bridgeport. Conn, was burned,
Tuesday. William Judd, fireman who
was knocked from ladder 30 feet to the
ground, sustained injuries from which he
died at the hospital. The LOGS is about
$45 900; injured
Charles T. Walter, indicted by the grand
jury for four forgeries, amounting to
$500, was in court at st. Johnsbury. Vt,
Tuesday, and pleaded gully to all four in
dictments. He was sentenced on the first
indictment, forgery of $4,000, to five years
in state prison, end the other three indict-
ments stand continued.
While riding bicycles at Great Barring
ton, Mass, Tuesday, Judson Logan and
Charles Benham, each IL years old, met in
head-on collision. The Logan boy suf-
fered fracture of the skull and internal
injuries and will probably die. Young
Benham's nose was broken and he sustained
other injuries which are serious, though
not fatal.
The village of Ksighley. in Butler coun-
ty, Kansas, on theline of the St. Louis &
San Francisco Railway, wa, devastated by
a tornado, Monday evening. A group of
stores on Msia street was demolished and
several people were buried under the debris.
Several residences were blown down and
some of their occupants were fatally in
jured.
Daniel Connolly of Waltham, we'll known,
died at the City hospital at Boston, Tues.
day, under somewhat suspicious circum-
molly was intoxicated, Monday evening, and
involved in fight on Court street. He
vas taken to a cheap hotel near by abont i l
o'clock in an unconscious condition and
later removed to the city hospital.
The Yale-Harvard- Columbia freshmen
race will be rowed at 30 p. NJ, Wenes-
day. on two miles of the Varsity course be-
tween the Thames river bridge and the
naval station at New London, CT. Al
Cowles, an old Yale oar, has been selected
as referee. Little interest is manifested ia
the race, the greater event of Thursday
overshadowiDg it. All the crews are in fine
condition.
At Cette, France. Monday, the police
made search Of the lodgings of 10 per-
| cons known to be Anarchists, and arrested
four OF the occupants. Thousands of per-
sons thfonged the streets ct an early hour,