Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-11-14
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought by the Wires from the North. East.
South and West

Commodore C. s. Morton has been pro-
NOTED to the command of the South
Atlantic squadron, with rank of acting
rear admiral.
The London Times correspondent says
that despite the recent departures for Port
| Arthur seven Chinese generals still re
main there with Gen. Chang in supreme
command.
The sheriff has closed the place of bust
ness of Hart, Lewis & Co., manufacture
ers of furs at 81 Broadway, New York.
Liabilities estimated at $75,000 assets,
$50, 600 to $50, 000
The mail carriers and drivers in East
Tennessee, numbering 200, Monday night,
decided to strike for better wages. They
imagine the recent election entities them
to relief from the low wages they have
been receiving.
Daniel B. Hubbard, the Massachusetts,
lawyer, who shot his young wife and a
young man, who was walking with her,
last month"; has been released from Jail at
Chicago on bail. He left for his home in
| UXbridge, Mass, Tuesday.
News was received at Quebec, Tuesday,
confirming the reported loss Of the schoon-
er Mario on Saturday last. She was bound
from Labrador to Quebec with cargo of
herring and was last at Brilmey bay dur
ing snow storm Three of her crew We're
drowned.
A bill of complaint was filed in the Uni
ted States circuit court at Hartford, Tues
day. by W. C. T. McAllen & Co., Port
land Me, against the Johns Pratt Com
pany of Hartford. The complaint alleges
the infringement of patent on an insula-
ting coupling.
The twO-masted schooner reported, Sat
urday, disabled and drifting eastward,
has sank, and, lies about seven miles
southeast of Fire Island light, directly in
the track of incoming transatlantic
steamers About 40 feet of her main
mast is above water. - ...gs. sass Essss.r,S,
| Novelli & Co., merchants, East Cheap.
| London, have been summoned by ther
creditors to give accounting. 1t is re-
ported that their liabilities are 900, 900.
! The cause of Novelli & Co s difficulty is
understood to be the locking up of funds
in timber estate in Canada.
Michael J. O'Donnell aged 90, of No.
% Shawmut avenue, Boston was arrested,
| Tuesday, on the charge of manslaughte,
in causing the death of Timothy O'Con-
| nell, of AZ Carver street O'Connell, was
brought to the hospital with lbs skull
! fractured Monday night and died Tuesday
morning.
| For the last two weeks there has been
a decrease in the number Of smallpox cas- es
at Milwaukee of about three day Mon
day, however, two cases developed in the
Eighth ward school and the school was
ordered closed for 10 days. In a coDfec-
tioncry store near the school case of
smallpox has been concealed. Many child
rem patronized the store and the two cases
which developed, Monday, are supposed to
have resulted from that exposure
A dispatch from Sierra Leone SAYS !:
90 The master of the British steamer
Ambriz recently notified the Liberian
officials at Monrovia of his intention to
land a cargo of Settra- Kroo. The off
Gals forbade him to do so on the ground
that Settra- kroo is not port and it
would be a breach of the revenue laws to
land cargo there. The master defied
the officials, whereupon Liberian gun
boat fired at the boats landing the steamer $
cargo, killing 20 persons -
| The New England Cooperative Granite
Company filed papers, of incorporation
with the Essex county clerk, Newark, N.
j., Tuesday. Its object is to manufac-
ture and sell granite paving blocks and
monuments. The business will be con-
Quoted principally in Maine The capital
stock Is placed at $50, O0O and the bust
mss will be commenced with that
amount. James Grant and James Muir
ply OF New York. and Vim. H. Spencer
of Brooklyn, are tie incorporators.
| The trial of John Baptiste Ouilette of
jay Bridge for the murder of Dameuse
Thibedeaux of the same town. opened al
Pennington. TUESDAY, in the supreme
judicial court Hon. Sewell C.. Strout of
Portland justice presiding. Attorney
| Conceal Frederick A. Powers Of Houltor
and County Attorney George l.. Rogers
of Pennington. appeared for tho govern
ment, while Hon. Frank L. Noble, mayor
of Lewiston. defends The prisoner, assist,o
By j. G. CEabat, Esq. Of Lewiston. wLc
! aisc acts as interpreter