Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-05-03
NEWS NUGGETS.
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South and West.

Wednesday was the hottest ever expert
enced at Gloucester, at this season, the mer-
curry reaching %.
Katie Earl. 2 III l-2, the famous trottar.
valued at $40. 600. owned by George II.
Ketcham of Toledo, died Wednesday.
The international bi-metallic conference
YVES formally opened at Lond m, Wednes-
lay. A large number of deleg tics were
present.
Fire has destroyed 200 acres of valuable
woot ed land st S nth Lancss,er, Mass :,
belonging to Col. j. +. Th,yer, and is still
burning.
The Canadian Pacific Railroad has dis
charged 1000 men between Montreal and
Vancouver, ON account of tie falling off IL
business.
The United States steamer Adams ar
rived ut Port Townsend, Wash, Wednfs-
day. and reports everything quiet and or
DERBY on the islands.
Steamer Fariay arrived at Halifax, N.
S Tuesday, from Bllinsk' liigs bay, lee
land, with this end of The Mackay- Bennett
cable, which she has suCc 9ssfuily laid
across the Atlantic.
News received from St. Alban, Que.
SAYS there is Imminent danger of another
catastrophe there. A lake so feet deep
deep will be formed if the dam gives way
and an awful calamity will result.
Philip Behan has been arrested in Brook
Ign at the request of the police of Chelsea,
Mass. Advtces from that city say that he
is charged by Jasper G. Shannon with en-
bezzlement and being fugitive from JUS
,ice.
The Marietta & North Georgia Railr Dad
shops at Marietta, Ga, were burped, Tues
day night. The Atlanta Home Insura nce
Co. carried $l27,00 insurance on tue
property and this practically covers the
4 loss.
| A council of Italian workingmen have is
su,d circul4r warning all Italians against
emigratipg to the United States as the eco
nomic crisis in the United States is sad to
he growing more acute and the chances OF
getting work are lesseniDg daily.
| The Rhode Island Senate, Wednesday,
received from Governor Brown the pardon
Of Patrick Denehy, life prisoner for nur-
| der in the first degree, who had served n
| years Of the sentence. TWAS laid over III
til Thursday, under the rul's.
! The negro miners of Weirs City, Kan. 4,
have been warned to leave the state within
AZ hours or suffer death. This is the re-
suit of the murder of Hamanby 1uglc.
| Many n, groes have already left the city
and are going back to Alabama.
The strike of spinners a. the New
Britain Knitting Co., New Britain, CT, ms
been settled and the strikers have returned
to work. The other employees of the fac
tory, out of work because of the strike,
have been notified to return.
The ingram weavers of the Lowell Cor
poration, Lowell, Mass, have appointed a
committee to request a change of hours.
They have been working 30 hours a week
for some time. They want more hours
labor or total cessation till the market is in
condition to allow full time.
The Walter Wellman polar expedition
sailed from Tromsoe, Norway, Tuesday,
for the island of Spitzbergen, which the
leader expects to reach in three weeks. Mr..
Wellman carries with him letters for Mr..
Astrup, a member of the Peary expedition,
from his mother, and for DR.. hansen from
friends.
The change of light at Minot's ledge, was
successfully effected Wednesday night.
The light now shows one brilliant flash, an
interval of three seconds -four flashes separ-
ated by an interval of one second, q dark
space of three seconds, three flashes at in
tervals of one second they forming the num-
Der l43.
1t is learned that Elisha M. Fulton, Jr.,
general partner of La Montague, Clarke &
Co., New York, was arrested, Tuesday
for completely in the alleged swindling of
Florence M. David, Montreal, out of 875,-
900 in a stock transaction. He was admit
ted to bail in $4,000 for examination,
Thursday. Edward La Montague was
arrested on the same charge and was re-
leased on bail.
There was a serious disturbance in CARTE,
Austria, Tuesday evening, caused by the
police ordering that no flags be carried in
pArades. When the police attempted to en-
force the order they were received with
shower of stones. They then made charge
with drawn swords, wounding several men.
Ten of the policemen were cut " 18th stones.
The mob was finally dispersed by the trooIs.
Thi,ty-.hree arrests were made.