Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-03-01
NEWS NUGGETS.
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South and West.

Ex-President Harrison is meeting with
perfect ova ion on his way to the Paciiil
coast.
Judge Hardin of Little Falls, N. Y, Ce-
cline to grant stay for Boss Mckane.
Wednesday.
Sailed from Edgar.own, Mass Wednts s.
dy, schooner b. L. Biggs, Henderson,
New York for Bar Hartor.
A dispatch from Shanghai says that $50
men were killed recently by an explosi in
a coal mine in the province of Shsng Tu' g.
The directors of the Delaware & Hudson
Canal Co. have declared the regular quail
rly dividend of 81 per cent, payable
March Is.
In the English House of Lords, Wedres-
day. the parish councils bill, as amended by
the House of Commons, was considered, on
motion of Lord Salisbury.
The game in the New England billiard
tournament at Boston "Wednesday night WAS
between Charles Campbell and Moses Vat
t r. The formt won, $50 to 1926.
Receipts from internal revenue, Wednes-
day, were 1898, customs, SGl2,6lI ;
miscellaneous, $26l,7 III. National bank
notes received for redemption, $500 ,5Gl.
B. H. Cory, the we'll known Providence,
piano dealer, Wednesday, m .de an assign
ment. Liabilities, $l5 900; assets. ttock ia
store, estimated to be worth about $4,000.
Arrived at London, Wednesday. steam
ers Skrld, Portland. Me, off Kinslev,
Anaran,his, Poril md, at Glasgow, Feb. p.
Cleared, steamers Manhattan, Bragg, Port
lind, Curtis, Shanghai.
In the Sutherland til at Brooklyn.
Wednesday, after several Witnesses we've
examined the case for each side wss closed :,
and the lawyers summed up. JUST Gull
len charged the jury and the jurors retired.
The jury at II was locke up for the nigl t..
In the Lincoln county court. Little II ,ck,
Ark, Tuesday, four negroes pleaded guilty
tn lynching Nelson, an inmate of the al ut
Varuock. last November. Ike Taylor AM
Yancy II4wkins were given sentences of
Il We years each. and Tom Linsley and Abe
Washington one year each.
Schooner Richard s. Leaning, Lloyd,
East Boothbay for Philadelphia with a
cargo of ice, now at Vineyard Hav' n, re-
rorts that she encountered heavy northwest
winds and heavy sea off Cape Col the
night of the Goth, during which she shifted
her cargo. She will proceed.
John Campbell was found dead besi lie a
grave he was digging ia the Catholic ceme-
terry, Fair Haven, VI, Tuesday. II was
found that he had been killed by rife
ball, and i, il thought that the shot was a
stray one from rifle used for target IrIc-
lice at some distance from the Genet ry.
Wednesday noon some oonvicts in the
state prison at Cbarlestown, Mass, began
yelling ami soon had the prison il an up
roar. When they were tired they stopped
the noise. The cause of the trouble WAS a
reduction in the tobacco allowance. The
leaders will be. punished if discovered.
A motion was made Wednesday in the
supreme court chambers. at New York, for
a supersedeas of the order of arrest grant, d
Charles Nette, in the ac'i IN against Ed
ward NJ. Field, for money converted. The
order is the only obstacle which prevents
Field going at large on bsii. Nette has
judgment aga'ns Field for $500.
The Green Mountain Stock Farm Com
pany of West randolph, VT, a corporation
organized under the laws of Connecticut,
with capital stock of $3.50, 900 assigned,
THURSDAY. 1t has an International rel uta-
ton, bel the owner of thousands of
acres of land in Vermont. The liabi'i les
are placed at $4,000, ard assets at So
900.
The Russian bark Helimus. Daren,
} IN. II, arrived at Greer mock. Eng. Feb.
q, and reports that Feb. 16, in lat. 46 N,
long 30 W., she boarded the Norw, gian
bark Nordkap, Capt. Gabrielson, Savxn-
nan, Jan. Is, for Riga There was no one
en- boarj the Nordk.p. which appeared to
re abandoned. Port of her sails were
blown away, and her compasses and many
otl er articles necessary TO the nayig ,,ion Of
small boats taken away by the crew.
The opium smuggling ring on Puget
Sound is not yet broken up. Hundreds of
pounds of the drug are being sninrgled
scross the line every week, shipped to
North Yakima and there distributed. Five
sloops are reported to be luoring con-
ssantly between Victoria and SQUAD oints,
all engaged in opium and Chinsse Snug
Cling. The operations of the ring xtend
to Portland and San Francisco, ~hers some
spected citizens.
All NEE ing OF The Kansas fuSon Demo-
cratic state central comu ittee, held at To-
peks, Tuesday, call was issued for q
state convention TO meet in Topeka, July
Sd. to place in nornin ,tion candidates 70,
state officers. The committee ignored the
proposition of the stalwat committee of diff
serences between the two factions of the
party, and il is pos sib,e two Democratic
state conventions will be the result. Al
me mbers of The fusion committee f.vo,
com binaiion with the Populi.t,, if possible.
Attorney General OIney sail, Wedne.-
day, that the decision Of ,Ildxs Cro.scup.
Chicago. that uni.r the i,te.iate commerce
W y it, esses cannot be compelled tss,i.,
i. tr,sd r than any decision Of this cbarar
ter that he ceull row recall BY tie y
press terms of the act its If, M. gov
meni is stopped from taking an appeal