Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-02-08

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The Dublin COTTON compress 1t Dnblin
Texas, was burned Tuesday. With property
stocked up to about el50.OOO. Original
cost vas about 30, 900.
The .ptice. of bar, ailyer at London
Wednesday reached the lowest point evel
known. II Vas quoted in the market there
It % l3-l6d. per ounce.
Zimri Deiggins. the banker wanted Al
Fowler, Ind, for fraudulent banking, wa
arrested 1t Chicago, Wednesday, and will
be taken to Indians.
The barn and outbuildinss of J. L. Ell
wood, six miles from Sycamore, ILL.,, with
100 imported horses. vas burned early
Wednesday. Total loss. over SO. 900.
At the annual meeting o. the Shove mills
At Fall River, "wednesday. the EARRINGS
were shown to have been el27 900, of
which 822 900 was charged off for dep-ec:-
alton.
A fire, supposed to be incen 1iary, started
Wednesday evening in the Agricultural
building on the Worlds Fair grounds, Chi
cago. It 10 thought the loss will not be
great.
A dispatch from Odessa says the export
alton of grain from Odessa, Nicolaf and
and other Black sea ports, to Marseilles,
has virtually ceased on account of the
French duties.
Three more Anarchists implicated in the
recent outbreak in Carrara and Massa di
Carrara were sentenced at Rome. Tuesday.
their terms Of imprisonment varying from
three years to eight years.
Edward Cunningham, charged with kill
ing William Baxter, at Holden, July G, and
who pleaded guilty to granddaughter, was
sentenced, At Worcester, Mass, Wednes-
day, to 20 years in the state prison.
Rev. J. NJ. Green died at Guthrie sud-
denly, Tuesday, aged 20. He was presid-
ing elder in the Methodist church and had
been minister for nearly half q century
and was well known all over the country.
The Park hotel, Somerset Pa, the
largest in that part OF the state, was de-
stroyed by fire Tuesday morning. The
guests escaped in their night clothes. Tie
loss 10 estimated at $25, 900; insurance,
SIS 900.
j. W. Titcomb has been appointed sup
erintenden Mt Of the national fish hatcheries
soon to be built at St. Johnsbury, Vt. MI.
Ti.comb has resigned the position AZ assist
ant superintendent of the Moves Scale Co.,
Rutland.
The schooner Annie r. Kemp, from
Provincetown, while proceeding up the
lower bay, at New York, Wednesday,
early grounded on the Dry Romer knocking
large hole in her bottom. She is at
Tompkins ville, full of water.
Secretary Richter, in behalf of the strik :
ing railway employees at Bridgeport. Ct,
said Wednesday that the strikers had re-
ceived assurances that they would win.
They are very enthusiastic and are satisfied
that the company will give in.
A special from Peoria, ILL.,, says: Or
ders have been sent out from the Whiskey
Trt st headquarters, raising the price of
spirits two cents gallon, and preparations
are being made to get all the trust houses
at work at their highest capacity.
The National Association of Wool Grow
ere, Wednesday, decided to send memo
rial to Congress for the purpose of secur-
ing hearings before the Senate finance COM
miltee on the subject of the wooden iudus-
try as offered by the Wilson bill.
The police are keeping strict watch on
the grave in Ivry cemetery, Paris, which is
supposed by some persons to contain the re-
guillotined Monday last. The police think
that Anarchists may attempt to make a
demonstration in the cemetery.
Fire at Nelson, Nelson, N. H., Wednes-
day night. destroyed the Nelson house, the
only hotel in the place. The building con-
tailed store, postoflice and library, all
kept by H. F. Priest, and the building was
owned by NJ. J.. Robbins, Cambridgeport.
Mass. Total loss, about $1,000; insured.
Two Anarchist workmen and an editor
named Stranskh attached to the Czech
paper. Volne Listy, have been arrested at
Vienna on the charge of treason. 1t is
said by the authorities that the prisoners
were in communication with Hamburg and
Amsterdam Anarchists, and that they were
engaged in spreading seditious pamphlets.
The case against Pony" Moore, father
in-law Of Charles Mitchell, for assaulting
q car conductor, was dismissed at New
York, Wednesday. Tony Pastor, theatri-
cal manager, testified to the good character
of Moore. Al the latter left the court
room he WAS rearrested in a civil suit
brought by Conductor Cohen for $4,000.
Bail was promptly furnished.
The life saving service at Washington
has received q" details Of the sinking of an
unknow y steamer on Outer Diamond shoals,
Cape Hatteras. The keeper of the station
there simply telegraphed the fact, adding
"No signs Of life." The point where the
steamer sunk 10 fully 10 miles from shore.
Hope Is ente rtained that the crew may have
been taken off by passing vessel.
1t 10 virtually certain that the encounter
between the British and French military
police, reported in q dispatch from Sierra
Leone. occurred in the Salu country, about
40 miles north of Freetown, where the
French and British frontiers touch. As
, there is NJ expedition in that locality, it 10
prob4b le that the two bodies that came into
collusion were native police and not Euro
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