Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-02-23
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

A gang of female counterfeiters has been
unearthed at Omaha, Neb., and two of it;
members are under arrest with the pros
pect of the others being soon behind the
bars.
Italian newspapers generally approve the
economic measures submitted by Minister
Onnio, but the opinion is general that they
may be considerably modified in passing
through the committee stage.
W. w. Graham. conductor on the Man
chester & Keene division of the Boston &
Maine Railroad, while coupling cars at
Wilton, n. H., Thursday, received injuries
which may result fatally. He was taken to
his home in Nashua.
At Vienna Wednesday 81 meetings of
workingmen were held for the purpose of
demanding universal suffrage. Thirty
meetings were held in various parts of
lower Austria ten in Moravia and fifteen
in Bothnia with the same object.
The Negro Variety Theater at Houston,
Tex. was totally destroyed by fire Wednes-
day night. A negro woman connected
with the establishment was sick iu one of
the upper rooms and persisted in the flames.
The remains of Lee Taylor were found in
one corner of the building, burned to a
crisp.
j. II. Hopewell, restaurant keeper, Des
Moines, Iowa, committed suicide Wednes-
day and was found with bullet in his
brain and hi, wife dying beside him. They
had both taken morphine and Hope well lef,
q note saying the drug wculi no. work Oh
him. hence he used a revolver. Bushes,
troubles eliminating in an assignment a
few weeks ago is the supposed cause.
Trains that left Reno, New, at 2 O'Clock
Wedne sdsy, are sill at Truckee, and two
trains that came in from the East that even
ing, are still there, owing to the snow
blockade on the C, ntral Pacific Road. Re-
ports from the mountains are not encou!ak-
ing. The tracks are sail to be strewn with
ditched engines and snow plows and dis
mantled snow sheds have not yet been
reached.
Henry Warren, the we'll known theatr' :
cal manager, died Wednesday at the home
Of his daughter, Mrs. Wentworth, in Chi
cag,, at the age of so. He was brother
of William Warren, the celebrated come
lisn of the Boston Museum. His three sis
tiers, Mrs John r. Rice, Mrs. Hanchett
and Mrs. Annie Marble are well known as
actresses of note by former generation of
theater goers.
Brig Woodbury., Capt. Davidson, from
Pensacola, % days, of and for Boston, ar
rived at Vineyard Haven, Wednesday
night. She had rough passage AMI lost
her deckload of yellow pine lumber, and
lost and split her sails. The British
schooner Iolanthe, from Sagua, Cuba. l3
days for Boston, cargo of sugar, arrived
there leaking. She had rough weather and
lost and split some sails.
A lady in New York, whose name for the
present is withheld, has presented to
Bishop John F.. Hurst, for the American
University at Washington, D. c., 500, $50
in cash. 1t is understood that this is au
endowment for chair of history, which is
the first department contemplated by the
truste es of the university. A few weeks
ago a gift of the same amount was con-
tributed by gentleman in Ohio.
Ex-State Senator Daniel Paul of Center
burg. O., whose mysterious disappearance
last summer was Il state sensation, has again
disappeared in an equally mysterious wy.
He is very wealthy, and recently retired
from the banking business. No explana-
ton was ever made of bis conduct. He is
believed to have taken about $50, 900 with
him in cash and to have gone South. His
domestic relations are known to be in every
way pleasant.
According to the Scotch Unionist Press
the Conservative, Unionist and Liberal cleo
ton agents in England have been warned
that the dissolution of Parliament will with
out doubt occur within 30 days, and in
s.ruc.ions have been given to make prepar-
atoms for new election. 1t also said that
Gladstone will probably not stand for re-
election. in which case Sir James Carmich-
sel will. doubtless be the liberal candidate
for the Midlothian seat occupied by Glad
stone since 1880.
President d light of Yale was inter-
viewed Thursday, relative TO the report of
President Eliot of Harvard, issued Tues
day He declined to talk for publication
on the suggestions given by President Eliot
regarding notifications of the ints rcoliegi-
ate athletics A prominent member of the
Yale faculty this morning stated tina. sth-
letic reform had been discussed by the fac
ulty and some radical announcement in the
liue of change in the present unsatisfactory
system is expected soon.
Alex Schemes and Albida Larou were ar
rested Wednesday night at the Dexter
house, Nashua, n. II. They are an elop-
ing couple from Oakdale, Mass. They
reached there Saturday and claimed to be on
a wedding tour. Schemes was bounl over
to the supreme court in $500 bonds on the
harge of adultery. Miss Larou was taken
back to her home. The girl has respecta-
BILE connections and her case was placed on
file. Schemes, who has a wife and family,
was taken to Jail in default of bonds.