Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-05-11
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought by the Wires from the North. East
South and West.

General Andre Aveline ,Caceres has been
elected President of Peru.
The Barnaby Bingham mill at Fall River
will close for an indefinite period, Saturday,
on account of poor trade.
John Stetson, aged 70, of Pembroke,
Mass, committed suicide Thursday by
hanging in bis barn. He leaves family.
He has been in poor health.
Justice Barrett at New York, Thursday,
WAS aTpointed receiver of the Matt n Il
Mutual Insurance Co., in proceedings
brought by the attorney general. No de-
fence was made.
In the English House of Commons
Thursday, Sir Edward Grey announced
that the agreement with Russia in force
last year, in regard to the catching of eeals
in Russian waters, has been renewed for
this year.
Agent Lyon of the Lowell Carpet Mills,
has granted the demands of the card strip
pers and combers, who ask for work FIVE
days week instead of 80 hours, as under
the schedule. The men will return to
work, Friday.
The President attended Masonic ban
quet at Fredericksburg, Va, and made a
brief speech, Thursday. Vice President
Stevenson was introduced as Master Ma
son to respond to the toast, George Wash
ington, Master Workman"
George H. Watts, Boston manager of the
Atlantic Halibut Company, Thursday,
stated that there was a shortage of several
thousand dollars in the accounts of A. W.
Giles, his brother-in-law, and bookkeeper
TOR the company. Giles admit, that he
had been using the company's money.
Frank Il. Learned, ex-police officer of
station !, Boston, was arrested at his home
in East Boston, Thursday, charged with
breaking and entering the store of Howard
w. Spur & Co., wholesale grocers, on
Commercial street, on the night of March
2Sth His resignation was accepted April
I, while the charges were pending against
him.
ABOUT $4,000 worth of tobacco was
seized at Boston, Wednesday, by local
ag hts of the treasury department. The
consignment reached there Wednesday
from Havana, per steamer Vigilancia, and
was shipped by Jose Ginzalez, Apr. 26,
1894. 1t was originally consigned to James
Edwards, New York, but reshipped by him
to J. Kxffenburg, Boston. Upon examins-
ton it was found that it was leaf tobacco,
Instead of filing, as stated in the invoice.
| The goods will probably be sold by auction
| by the government.
Fire Thursday night in the lumber yards
of c. II. Baker & Co., on the bank of the
Osweeo canal, Syracuse, n. Y, caused a
loss of 100000 worth of property ana two
lives. The Gospel boat GOOD News" of
| the rescue mission, Syracuse, was moored
beside the burning lumber piles. The flames
| surrounded the boat and three persons
Capt. Bert Wilson, and his young wife and
| Alonzo Delaney, a brother Of Mrs. Wilson
| jumpcd into the alter in their night clothes
Wilson swan ashore but his wife and her
| brother were drowned.
Hattie L. Taylor, aged 81, a married
colored woman, was drowned in Mill river
Taunton, Mass, Wednesday night, under
suspicious circumstances. 1t is said hel
| husband left her two monthe ago. Wednes
day night she went out with Arthur Scott
also colored, who says the woman jumped
from the Spring street bridge at 10 O'Clock
while he was going home with her. Two
other colored men were near the placs
where the woman went overheard and there
is evidence that Scott and one of the mer
had quarreied at the time.