Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-02-23
NEWS NUGGETS.
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ers klloyramme fine, at Amsterdam.
The credit rs of the Excelsior Grapi c
Com any, Phone er Mills, VT, have Undue. d
Judge r )ss to order a receiver appointed
for the Concern.
The Jury in the Blaut case at New York
was unable TO agree and was discharged.
Blaut was admitted to bail in S25 600. His
I'D bond, III n appear cd for Lin.
A serious TYPHOID fever epidemic has
az 10 broken out in Walli' gfor1, CT There
are % cases on one street and several other
cases in ether parts of the town.
Lawes, Del, wrecker, succeeded in get
ting the schooner Rein !eer off Thursday.
She is still fall of water and on her beam
ends. She will be towcd to Phi,a ielphia
for repairs.
Senior Cruz. the Guatemalan minister, at
London, has announced that his govern
ment has suspe ended p 'yments on its exter-
nal debt, in consequence of the cepreul-
ton of the price of silver.
During a fit of jealousy, Thurdsy. Bert
Peterson, a young colored barber of Cam
ton. Pa, shot ami fatally wounded llszel
Cfaig, and then committed suicide by
shooting himself in the head.
Deputy Sergeant-at-A AIMS Wilson of the
House of Repreeei tatives arrived at Cleve-
land q Wednesds Y with authority to take
into custody Congr, ssmen Tom johnson
and w. }. White. absences without leave.
The British steamer Fairy of Victoria
was seized near Point Morrowstone. Wash,
Wednesday, by the revenue cutter Wolcot,
an eight Chinese aboard captured. Two
white .muggl rs no had command of the
steamer escaped. ...
Seyerisno &c II redie, French minister OF
publ, works, in the cabinet of M. Rouvier
in 1887, has been elected member of the
he FREE CHI Academy by - votes, Emile
i II. ht.rs.eur, being again. defeated, re-
Gel, ing but seven vJtts.
The Jig dry gods house of Conlon
Brothers, IN the heart of Waterbury, Ct,
burned early Thursday morning, also the
dry ,od, store of Miller & Peck, one OF
the o 'dest in the state. Total loss, $751;
coo; ,surancc, $90.C0
While tie Cornell freshmen were holding
a banquet at Ithaca, y. Y, Wedne sday
night, somebody turned chlorine gas into
the room. Mrs. Jackson, the negro cook,
is dead from the effects and many of the
fres, men wire saved only after a hard
struggle.
The my stery or the suicide at New York,
Welnesd,y night, Of the handsome young
woman who registered as Mrs. Jennie
Miner of SAelton, Conn at the Grand
l. zion h, tel is yet upsoved. Her body is
n. the ti'y morgue AMI SO far no one has
appeared to claim it.
The first series of tennis matches of The
New Yo,k Racquet aud Tennis Club, for
the amateur championship of the United
Stat $, was won at New York, Wednesday
by B. S. Dpga,mandia, The well.kno~n
New York all.rouni amateur athlete, from
Il. Fearing of the Boston Athletic Associ-
ation.
Apropos of the labor demonstration, al
III. state house in Boston on Tuesday last
Representative Morse of Massachusetts has
presented to the National House JJint
mr mortal from the Massachusetts Legiila-
ture asking that the navy yard at Charles
town be re. opened, thus giving employment
t, probably 500 idle men.
The receI tsf,cqu y cy of bomb throwing
a I'd Other Anarcbi tic vl!iany has led to the
ere ciion of an apparatus in the chamber OF
Reichzath ut Vienna, which will email IL the
president, in tie event of an outrage, to
Immediately close all the doors of the
house. Ire authorities have also taken
other measures TO protect publ; buildings.
In removing the ruins of the building re-
Gently destroyed by fire at Belfast, Ire, the
,h,rIed remains of fur bodies wee found.
Thursday. The building was us'd as a
lodging house. AMI the theory of the police
is that the bodies arc those of four would
be immigrants tn America, murdered for
their mt ney, the building having been
burned to conceal the crime.
Ezra Msrtin Potter of Trenton, Nj ,
STACKED Ii. wife with butcher knife early
Thu stay, and slashed her across the face
and neck iih it. lie then cut his own
throat anil did within an hour. The
woman will probably Gle. The couple bad
not been living happily together of late.
NJ .rtin was j alous OF Lis wife without
csuse, and Fl. qnently abused her.
thursday the SD anniversary of the in
corporation Of the town of Fair Haver,
Mass. was m id. Host cmorsblc occa-
.ion 10 the townspeople by the furmnl pre-
s.ntstioD to Il c.tiyict orporstion of the new
town hall which cost $500 600, ind il The
xift of Henry IT, Rogers and f,mi.y. Mr.
Rogers j. IN fiiei.l of the Standard Oil
| o. and Fxir Hsven i. bi. birthplace.
The fifth lift in the Crystal Ridge collieYy
It Hszsltcn. Pa operated by the Pardee &
Co. was discovered burning carly THUS
Law. The Ere il now raging fi-ycely. Thi.
Is the third Time that fire has broken out IN