Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-08-03

France, Thursday. Caserio told with bru-
tai frankness the details of the deed,
acknowledging his guilt in every particu-
lar. He seemed incapable of remorse and
not fully aware of the enormity of his deed.
Even his counsel was astonished at his
GOODNESS.
Wednesday evening Miss Tillie Sabern
made balloon ascension from lronwood
pare, Anderson, Ind. When she cut loose
with the parachute it failed to open until
within 100 feet of the earth, and the sudden
Jerk when it spread broke her hold and she
fell to the ground and was dead when
picked up. Her neck was broken, spine
badly crushed and every limb fractured.
The girl was but II years old.
A dispatch from Vienna says: "Iu the
Galician town of Zsleszozky, people who
attend funerals of victims Of cholera are
attacked with pains on their way, lie down
and die in a few hours. The town is iso
lated. There is no commerce or industry.
All the shops and factories are closed. The
rich have fled, while the working people
walk the Gets in a starving condition,
take the disease and die on the spot where
attacked.
The Connecticut Humane Society has
ordered supply of animal-killing devices
from Paris. The device consists of mask
which fits over the animals head, blindfold-
ing it. In the center is a spike set in such
way that it can be driven into the brain
by a single blow, causing instant death.
The society will kill all diseased or in
jured animals by using the device instead
of shooting them, and will endeavor to have
butchers use il in slauphteriDp
Michael IIesinan, aged "a years, residing
at AL Lowell street, Lawrence, Mass, was
arrested while attempting to rob the store
of NORM & Frecheite, early Thursday.
Officer Thompson saw a man running about
the store and called to him to stop. The
order was not complied with and the officer
fred at the man and missed. The latter
was finally caught in the cellar. A COM
panion, who was recognized, escaped.
Nothing of value is missed.
A claim has been filed at the Salem court
house by Rebecca c. Frost and Jane Cour-
It's of Marblehead, heirs of Francis Courts,
claiming the whole of Bakers island in
Salem bay with the exception of the govern
ment tract occupied by lighthouses. The
island is now owned and occupied by DIR.
N. B. Morse of Salem, who built and runs
the Hotel Winneagan there. There are
about 25 cottages on the island, which
covers an area of 40 lilo acres.
A Rio Janeiro special says: "a plot to
abduct or assassinate DR.. De Moreas has
been discovered. The object of the con-
spiracy was to prevent his entering upon
the duties of President, to which he was
elected by an overwhelming majority in the
closing days of De Mello's rebellion. There
is dissatisfaction throughout the country,
particularly in this city and state. The
police are making arbitrary arrests and an
uprising is imminent Ifa revolution comes,
it surely will be more formidable than the
last"
Fort Omaha's battalion d and the four
companies that left July Is for Butte under
Capt. Keller have been ordered home and
started from Butte, Thursday. All of Gen.
Brooke's troops left now on the Utah &
Northern are the companies of the Eighth
Infantry from Fort Mckinney under Lieu
tenant Colonel Randall. There are out still
on the main line of the Union Pacific one
company each at Rawlips, Laramie, Gre en-
river and Evanston, Wyo., and three or
four companies at Ogden, Utah, as origi-
nally ordered, none having been withdrawn
from that time. Besides these are the
troops sent out by Gen. Brooke on the Cen
trail Pacific as far as Reno, New.
A grand coalition of all the holders of
the "stfaw" paper of~the Menage North
western Guarantee Loan Company, to fight
for their own interests in the distribution
of assets, is now aim ost accomplished. The
holders of this paper are scattered all over
the country, but self-appointed committee
has been pushing the matter vigorously and
successfully. 1t is headed by c. c..
Chapman of Portland, Me-, and s.
Foster and Theo. King of Boston.
The incorporation of the creditors is to be
effected in Maine to avoid mourning liabil-
ity, and the parer is to be turned in for
stock. This amounts to S2,40O 900, and
the capital is to be 5000, 900, or, if the
deben,ure shareholders are let in, Sc ,O0O,-
900. The collateral behind this paper is
estimated to be worth 80 per cent. A |
united front is to be presented in the legal
battle over the assets, and the association