Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-05-08

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Louis Balkan, young married man of
Urosna, Ohio, shot and tally wounded
himself, Sunday, after making an unsuc.
| cessfpl attempt TO murder his wife. Domes-
| tic troubles was the cause.
Joseph Austin Chamberlain, M. P the
| eldest son of Right Hon. Joseph Chamber
lain, M. F., was seriously injured, Monday,
by b. ing gored by bull on his father 6
farm near Birmingham. Eng.
dispatch from Bremen says German
| steamship companies, in pursuance of
terms of compromise with British comps
| MES, have ordered reduction of Storage
passenger rates from Italy to New York to
$50.
Another small pox case was discovered in
| Benefit street residence, Providence, Mon
day. The victim is a servant. There is
absolutely no clue to the couse of tie con-
| tagion. The girl was taken to the pes,
house.
Hon. Nathan Parker, aged 81, one of the
oldest residents of Manchester, N. H., died
Monday. lie was president of the Man
| chester National Bank, and treasurer of and
Il heavy stakeholder in the Concord & Mon
treal railroad.
Night Waterman Bow and Abner Cram
we're arrested at Greensboro Bend, VT.
Saturday, charged with the murder of Isaac
Miles, whose body was recently found in 3
lumber pile. Both were held for trial in
$4,000 bonds and committed to Jail.
In the Senate, Mondsy, Allen (Pop.) of
Nevada, offered resolution providing for
a committee of five senators to investigat.
the facts and circumstances connected with
the arrest of Coxry, Browne and Jones.
The resolution was laid over until Tues
day.
In Weston, Mass , last Wednesday, the
dwelling and barn of Andrew G. Loker,
m,lkmnn, were burned. Nine horses, a
number of cows, hens and swine were
burned. Sparks communicated with and
destroyed valuable tract of wood land.
Loss, 1926 900.
Bark Nina arrived at North Sydney,
C. B., Monday, having on board the captain
and crew of the bark Hilda, SO badly dam
aged in the ice that she had to be aban-
dOned. The crew wss taken off in lat. A
W., long. 40. The Ililda was bound from
Hartlepool for Quebec.
The building at 229 Fifth Third street,
Brooklyn, N. Y, occupied by Clarence C.
Hopkins, maker of Photographic paper, and
Knerr & Co.. manufacturers of cardboard,
was burned. Monday. Hopkins loss on
stock and buildings is S43 1000; Knerr &
Co.'S loss on stock, $4,000.
When the patch was removed from the
bottom of the Boston harbor steamer Gen
eral Lincoln, at Boston, Monday, it was
found that she was more badly damaged by
strking Seal rock, Saturday, than was
thought. IL is now believed it will cost
SIS 900 to repair the damage.
The St. Joseph, Mo-, police are working
up the theory that an organized band OF
kidnappers are at work in that tity. 10
addition to the mysterious disappearance of
w. II. Harrison, travelling man, and two
daughters, the disappearance of three other
small children is now reported.
A severe thunder storm passed over
Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia Sunday
evening. Fifteen houses were unroofed or
blown down. At Central City the Ohio
River railroad shops and roundhouse were
demolished and j. II. Burkhardt was badly
hurt. Engines and coaches were damaged.
At a meeting of the labor leaders, at Des
Molnes, Grand Master Workman Sovereign
being present, it was decided to issue an
appeal to the Knights of Labor of America
ard C"nada asking that each individual
member contribute 81 to Kelley, leader Of
the Industrial army now located there,
At the election in the south division of
Hackney, Eng, to fill the Parliamentary
seat left vacant by the appointment of Sir
Charles Russell to succeed the late Lord
Bowan on the bench, Fletcher Moulton,
Liberal rec, lived me jority of 1872. The
Liberal msjor:ty at the last general election
was TAG.
Fire at Whitendon mills, Taunton, Mass,
Monday right, damaged goods ready for
shipment to the estimated amount of Sl0,-
600 to $4,000. The fire caught in the
flannel room and worked up to the cloth
room OH the second floor in the .hipping
department.. The section of the mill where
the cloth was stored was damaged slightly.
The detachment of miners who have
been endeavoring to release the imprisoned
tourists from the cave at Lugloch, sue
ceeded, Monday in making narrow pas
sage Into the cavern. The two members of
! the party who were found alive are very
much exhausted, but the ply sicisns attend
ing them believe that they will survive.
Representative Breckenridge has intro
duced in Congress this resolution which
was referred to the committee on rules:
Resolved, That the committee on rules is
hereby instructed TO report rule making
it in order to amend any general appropria-
ton bill so to reduce or repeal the bounty
and tariff on sugar, or either of them.
Judge j. w. q. Smith of Staunton, Va.
committed suicide, Sunday, by shooting
himself through the head with a revolver.
Judge Smith was widely known as the mas
ter commissioner of the circuit court. He
was the first judge of the Stanton city
court and descended from line of distin-
gushed lawyers and jurists. He was about
GA years old.
News has been received at Jackson,
Miss. of the lynchng of Amas Hicks (col-
ored), near Rocking Springs. Hicks was
suspected of burning the house and stables
of white, named A. J Crawford, but there
was no proof against him. His house was
entered by armed men. and Sunday Hicks
body was found hanging to a tree riddled
with bullets.
Striking mssons, carpenters and other
workmen in the building trades assembled