Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-04-06
MEMS NUGGETS.


Governor Hamilton Fish were hell Ia the
Assembly chamber az Albany, n T..
Thursday evening.
| Governor Brown of Rhode Island viii
have 5000 plurality. The Democrats have
ou, three senators and three representa-.
lives in the Legislature.
| The Belvidere hotel. at Montres, Col,
sas destroyed by FIRE, Wednesday ni2ht
All the inmates escaped. Tie loss 70 SG0,,
01D; insurance, s22 900.
| The strike of taiIors of ST. Louis 70,
higher wage, snd shorter lime has ended
| BY The bosses signing an agreement 10 allow
| the demands OF the men.
| The two-masted schooner j. r. Boi~eIl
il at Hyanni., having put 10 for q refuge
while on a voyage from Rocklind, Me-.
| for New York, with a cargo Of lime on fire.
The entire business portion of Hancock
| Wis, was wiped out by fire "Wednesday
night. A high wind prevailed AID i. was
| impossible to stay the flames. The total
loss is about se7 900; partially insured.
| TIE trial by courImar.ial of Lisutenan,
LYMAN for neglect of duty in connection
with the loss Of the Kearsarge. vas con.
cludei Thursday. The finding of the cour,
| will not be made known until the secretary
of the navy announces it.
The Horn Silver Ccncehtra' or Works
aud ore houses az Frisco, Utah. were
burned, Thursday. The fire communicate
| to the timer and shafiing of the mine, and
the mine is feared 10 be badly damaged
| Loss to surface works, 100000.
| Later returns from the various cities and
~ a. - el.s IL
licans carried 81 out of the 80 fowls in
which elections were held. The populists
| carried six towns against % last year and
| BY reduced majoriiies. Gov. Waite's own
city, Aspena, went against him in Tuesday s
| contest.
The Massachusetts House, Thursday,
under suspension of the rules, passed to
be cngrossed, the act reported by the joint
special committee on the unemployed W hich
provides for the expenditure of 500, 900
and authorized the Metropolitan park COM
mi,sioners to construct roadways AMI boul-
evards.
| Mrs. Carrie Tay lor, who assaulted Eddie
Quinlan, March 81. at Dover, n. H., by
hitting pane Of glass which cut his eye,
the sight of which has been lost, gave her
self up to the police, Wednes day. In court
she admitted che was drunk at the time and
was held in $500 bonds for the September
term of the supreme court.
! The Governor of ST. Johns, y. F., has
dismissed from the Executive Council Sur
veyor- General Woods, who re fused TO re-
sign when his resignation was requested.
Members of the governme mt, Thursday. de-
cided to compel the dissolution of the Leg
islature if the Governor shows q disposition
| to remove more members of the Council.
Judge Chetlain of Chicago has granted a
petition to have irendergast examined for
insanity by jury selected from 100 jurors
| to be drawn from the box. At the state
| attorneys Office the opinion was expressed
that under the ruling of the court it would
| be impossible to carry into effect the SEN
| tence of death which now hangs over Mayor
Harrison's assassin.
George Wcirick, a merchant at Pales-
| tine, Ind, was awakened, Tuesday night,
| by three men entering through rear win
| dow. He waited until all of them got 10,
| then opened fire with a shot gun, killing
two of them. The third man, who gave
his name az John Jones, was slightly
wounded. He refused to give the names
of his companions.
| William de Esdorne, who keeps a store
at Sieger, O. T., in the Indian district ar
rived at Reno, o. T., "Wednesday night.
lie said that early Tuesday morning hostil-
| tiles were resumed. and at the time he left
three white men and 10 Indians had been
killed and fighting was still in progress.
| Tie Indians engaged numbered less than
| 100 all of them Cheyennes, the Aiapahoes
thus far taking no part.
| IT -
home, Nashua, n. H., Thursday night. of
softepiog OF the brain. The deceased was
the we'll known senior member of the firm
of sc edsmsn. He was one of Nashua's
most active business men for years, was an
| Old Guard Il publican, having represented
his ward in the Legislature and state SEN
| ste, and was prominent in the councils of
his party. His age was 80.
cable message from the Europes n
| Union of Astronomers to Messrs Chandler
and Il tchie, Boston. announces the discov-
/ cry of a bright comet by DR.. Gale, Sidney,
| New South Wales. on the night of April 2.
The discovery position of the object wa.
Right ascension, , hours, 50 minutes, As
seconds; decEnation. south 55 degrees, 81
/ minutes. Ii is described as roun L.
bright comet, with some condensation a I'd
an easserly motion.
Il chard Peters. whose home is in
| Gloucester county, n. b. discovered
Wednesday night. while at the American
house at Springfield, Mass, that h had
been robbed of $500 by green good. men
He vent TO New York 10 accept their offer
Of 5000 for $500. The money was given
him in a to1 with the injunction hot to
| open it for a certain term. He wen. to bed
and dreamed that he had been robbed
Waking, be at once opened the box only to
find it filled with the customary paper.
George Cross, proprietor of the Hotel
Dorrsnce, Provide nee. died at the hotel,
Thursdsy, of Inflammation of the bowels
Mr.. Cross was probably one of the best
| known hotel keepers in New Engl md. He
was born at Scion. Me, March 20. 1919.
lie began hi, business career at Boston IS
a clerk in City hall. Later he became
treasurer of the Peovi lence Opera house.
Then lie became ids ntifed win the AID
itch house. For the past moe years the
| deceased managed the Hotel Torrance. A
| widow and three daughter survive.
A dispatch from San Salvador says: "A
general revolution in all Central America an
countries is believed TO be immi aent OF
ders have been gwen TO military forces to
maintain the suictest guard on the frontiers
aad TO search sill psrties entering or leaving