Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-07-14
NEWS NUGGETS.
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South and West.

Friday was the hottest day of the year,
90 in the shade, at Nashua, N. II.
Lord Lonsdale is to be a Fart owner of
the new Valkyrie which Lord Dunraven
will challenge for the Americas cup.
Speaker Crisp was unanimously renomi-
mated for Congress, Thursday, by Demo-
Gratis of the Third district of Georgia.
As reported to II. G. Dun & Co., the
number of failures for the past week were
237 in the United States, against S74 last
year.
Balch & Chambers grocery store at Pen
acook, N. H., was entered, Thursday night,
taken.
The Canadian Colored Cotton Co.'s mills
at Hamilton, Ont, have shut down for two
months on account of the depression in
business.
Rev. Henry Matthews, aged 81, pastor of
the Methodist Episcopal church, North An
dover, Mass, died, Friday, of cancer of
the liver.
The official report for Thursday shows
that there were 143 new cases of cholera
and 81 deaths from the disease in st.
Petersburg.
Justice Barrett of the supreme court,
New York, has fixed Erastus Wimans bail
at $50, 900. This is $4,000 in excess of his
former bail.
Twenty Spanish fishing boats which were
out during recent storm are missing. Two
of them belonging to Bermeo, IA miles
from Bilboa, having II men on board, are
known to be lost.
The sale of the ship Exporter by Capt.
Fred A. Reyes to London parties takes the
last chip away from Newburyport, Mass.
A quarter of century ago 20 or more
slips with Newburyport on their sterns
sailed the seas.
Weston B. Thomas, secretary and treas
urer of the American Wire Nail Company
of Anderson, Ind, was stabbed and in
stantly killed by Winnie Smith. we'll
known young man about town, at Brighton
Beach, a suburban resort, early Thursday.
The Bergen Tageblatt says: A Polish
student having bomb in his possession,
has been arrested in Krkpitschnaja, Rus
sian Poland, and inquiry has proved that he
is member of band of Nihilsts engaged
in conspiracy against the life of the Tsar.
Charles Vagg, an engineer on the Allan
tic & Pacific Railroad, who refused to go
out on his engine when ordered to do so,
was, Thursday sent to the county Jail at
Albuquerque, N. NJ, for Is days, by Judge
Collins, who held that he was in contempt of
court.
The American Loan & Trust Co., of
Duluth, Mimi, a state banking institution
with capital of 5000 900, assigned, Thurs
day. This is the final ste p toward winding
up the company's affairs, owing to the fact
that its capital is impaired through careless
loans based on the big boom on the Mesaba
Iron range.
The Lynn Lasters Union has notified all
lasters to keep away from the C. w. Var
ney Co., shoe factory until existing
troubles are settled. varney discharged
his lasters this week declaring his intention
of running free shop. He has made re-
ductions in all other departments averaging
10 per cent. prices.
The A. R. U. strike at Cleveland has
completely collapsed. Most of the strikers
have been taken back except on the Lake
Shore, where all hands have been dis
charged and their places will be filled with
men who are known not to offiliate with the
A. r. U. The proposed strike of the
Knights of Labor will not materialize.
Nearly all of the striking railway en-
ployes have applied for reinstatement 10
Colorado. On the Denver & Rio Grande
all but the principal agitators have been re-
celved with open arms, but on the Union
Pacific and other roads it is different. On
the Union Pacific $50 men went out
and but 25 strikers have as yet been rein
stated.
The Milwaukee Federated Trades Coun-
ell, after stormy meeting, Thursday night,
assed resolution to strike in BODY If a
strike Is ordered by the national officers of
the Americ IN Federation of Labor. II is
said tina, in the event of strike being or
dered, every Uni N man ia the o,ganiza-
about 10, 900 in all, will drop his tools and
stop work at once.
Jacob S. Cox,y of Commonweal fame,