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


bacco. They had a wagon when was
tracked to Dover. 81.
Schooner Annie Wesley, at Gloucester
from the Grand Bank, reports Johh ":
MUSE and Charles Butcher, members oi
the crew, drowned by the espsising Oh
derry while attending travis. Both men pe-
llonSed in Nova Scotia.
Two thousand representative Cathoiic
abstsiners, representing a large inaJoIiy
sf the Catholic dioceses of the country are
at St. PAUL, Mimi, as delegates to the Zftn
annual convention Of the Catholic Iotai
Abstinence Union Of America.
Cantwell and Quinn, Anarchists, who
called the Queen and her descendants YER
min and made speeches intending 10 lncite
the people to murder members of the royal
family, were sentenced at London, tues
day, to six months imprisonment each.
The tank steamer August Ko,ff, Bremen
for Pbiladelphia, collided, Tuesday night,
IN fog off the Dutch coast, with the steam
ship Grenadier, from Rotterdam for New.
castle. She sank almost Immediately. All
aboard her were rescued by the crew OF the
Grenadier.
Sarapac, Mich, was visited by a most
disastrous fire, Tuesday night, which
wiped out nearly the entire business portion
and at one time got beyond control. The
fire started in the Opera house, which was
totally destroyed with loss OF SlG,Oo0.
Other losses aggregate Sl2,OOo.
The statement that the missing cask OF
| gold was found in the railway station at
| Hayre is erroneous. The cask was found
a. a suburban station, but it was empty.
Detectives are inquiring at all gold dealers
| in the city whether they have recently
bought any American eagles but thus far
have met with negative replies.
Captain Graham of the British ship Gull
more, was lost overheard while going into
| Baltimore. Md, Wednesday. The belief
| is that about A. NJ, in descending lad
| der from the bridge to the deck, he lost his
| footing and fell overheard. Captain Ora
/ ham was about Go years old, and had fol-
| lowed the seas for 40 years. He was born
| at Wellfeet, Macs, but resided atBaltimore
many years. ~ -
| A crazy stone cutter from Boston named
| Cadogan, who has frequently visited the
| White House the past few days looking for
work at his trade and always carrying his
tools with him, insisted on seeing the Presi-
dent Wednesday, claiming that he would
sarve if he did not get work. When he
was told the President could not see him, he
became violent and was taken away in a
patrol wagon.
| In the United States circuit court at Bos-
ton, Wednesday, Judge Colt granted an in
| junction restraining the Oliver Ditson Com
! pany from publishing the songs, so, Ye
That Love the Lord" GA Song of Judg'
ment," and Lead Kindly Light" The
] plaintiffs are A. H. Littleton and others OF
England and tie injunction was
granted under the provisions of the interna.
tional copyright law.
/ The mayor of Marseilles officially denies
4 that cholera is epidemic in that city. He
| says that the death rate is no larger now
than it has been for two years, and that
quarantine against the city is upjustifiable.
| An Amsterdam dispatch says Thirteen
1 cases of cholera and six deaths were re-
ported in Moastricht up to July 80. A
Vienna dispatch says: FifGy-eight new cases
of cholera and 90 deaths from the disease
were reported in Galicia on July rs and 20.
| Major Il. w. HaIford, psymaster in the
army and former private secretary to Presi-
dent Harrison, was badly injured in run
away at Omaha, Neb., Tuesday. He was
driving down the street in phaeton, when
the harness gave way and the vehicle upset
in turning corner. The msjo was thrown
out violently and his left leg was severely
cut, though it is believed not permanently
crippled. His right shoulder was bruised
and nearly dislocated. He will be confined
to his bed for some time.
In the English House of Commons
| Wednesday, Thomas Sexton denounced the
conduct of the opposition in regard to the
evicted tenants as rancorous and sullen.
When the members of the opposition were
called upon to move their amendments they
made no reply. Robert W. Hamburg had
given notice of 20 amendments and Bart
lett, Broderick and Heneage of from 20 10
40 each. Their successive refusals to re-
spond to their names were met with deri.
sive cheers from the Irish members.
Early, Wednesday, the superintendent of
the Catholic cemetery in Arlington, Mass,
discovered a man lying unconscious in a
shallow, newly made grave, with a bouquet
of flowers on his breast ard half filled
bottle of laudanum by his side. Medical
aid was summoned and the man was resus-
citated from the effects of the poison he
had taken. 1t was ascertained that he il
Edward Walker of Brattle street, Cam.
bridge. well known and promising young
man. 1t is thought his mind has been
affected fo- some time past.
Steamer Majestic, which arrived at New
York, Wednesday, from Liverpool, ran
down the fishing schooner Antelope, We'd
nesday morning, during a dense fog at 8 20
in the morning, off Newfoundland banks.
The boats were instantly lowered by the
Majestic, and seven ont of the eight men
on board hauled into the b)ats. The ighth
man. named Mitchell, native of BURN,
N. F., was below when the steamer struck
and was drowned. All of the men were
more or less bruised by the flying splinters
and one of them, William W oundy, died ON
the Majestic from his Injuries.
| BY means of a premature explosion Jas.