Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-07-20
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought by the Wires from the !ierta, East
South and West.

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South and West.
| Tie health authorities at Liege reported
three fresh cases of cholera, Thursday.
| Laszard Freres will ship $1,000 900 Of
gold from New York to Europe, Friday.
At Bisley Camp, England, Thursday, the
! Canadian riff, team won the Ranelagh chal.
leDge cup.
A few granite quarr.es at Barre, Vt,
have been Idle few days for lack of coal,
owing 10 the miners strike.
The Thermometer re corded 100 and l02
degrees in the shade in many places In
birmingham, Mass, Thurday.
Considerable alarm was caused at
Monaco. by shock of earthquake at sc
A. M, Thursday. No damage was done.
The cruiser Columbia has been ordered
to proceed Immediately to Bluefields, NIca-
ragua, to protect American interests in the
disturbed condition of affairs there.
A distinct earthquake shock was felt at
Ogden, Utah. at 3 05 p. NJ, Wednesday.
The walls of some large buildings were
cracked and many people frightened into
leaving their houses.
The officers of the Wells Fargo Express
Company and south-bound train on the
Monet division of the Frisco road, were
robbed, Wednesday night, by Bill Cook and
his gang of fix desperadoes.
The executive committee of the Social
Democratic Federation of England have
sent message of sympathy to Samuel
Gompers, Master Workman Sovereign and
| President Debs of the A. r. U,
Schooner Annie and Millard, Pascougla
for Rio de Janeiro, with a cargo of lumber
stranded July II, on Walker Cay reef,
will probably be saved. The captain and
crew have arrived at Nassau, N. =.
The New York Herald's special cable
from Valparaiso says: Letters received
here from Rio Grande do Sui. Brazil, con-
firm the reports of the brutal slaughter of
prisoners by both rebels and local troops.
Rumors of an approaching revolution in
Uruguay are accentuated and the govern
ment is taking elaborate precautions"
La Journal of Paris says that Signor
Bonghi, member of the Italian Chamber
of Deputies, recently had an interview with
Casimir- Perier and has reported the Presi-
dent as saying that he would welcome a
reconciliation between Italy and France es-
pecally as it is possible that the triple al
lance will not be renewed owing to the
peaceful condition of Europe.
The American Sugar Refining Company,
otherwise known as the Sugar Trust, has
been epjoined from further prosecution of
its business within Massachusetts,, until it
shall have complied with chapters 34l of
the acts of 1891 by fling certificate of its
financial condition on March / each year
as required therein. This degree was ap-
proved by Judge Barker of the supreme
cosr:., Thursday.
John L. Searlfs of New York, secretary
of the Sugar Trust, and his associates
have purchased controlling interests in the
Baltimore & Eastern Shore Railroad, f astern
Shore Steamboat Co., Maryland Steamboat
Co., and the Choptank Steamboat Co. 1t
is stated that they will form company with
a capital of So, $50 900, to monopolize
tre fic between Baltimore and the + ,stern
Shore counties of Maryland.
1t is reported on good authority that the
Pullman Company contemplates the pur-
chase of the General Electric Company's
works at Lynn. The plant of the Electric
Company comprises two sets of factories,
the main works in the centre of West Lynn
and foundry on the banks of the Saugus
river, with water front, wharves, etc. Not
much work has been done in the factories
since the removal of the headquarters to
Schenectady, N. y.
Herbert Spencer has written the follow
ing letter to James A. Skilton, general sec
rotary of Worlds Congress of Revolution
lists: SIN the United States, as here and
elsewhere, the movement toward dissolution
of existing social forms and reorganiz alton
on socialistic basis behave to be irresist-
ible. We have bad times before US and
you have still more dreadful times before
you, civil war, immense bloodshed, and
eventually military despotism of the sever
est type"
| There was large brush fire at Upton,
Mass, Wednesday, by which Lyman Lee
| land, an aged citizen of the town, was
burned to death. The fire had been st ,rtsd
| in the rear of the house by j. r. Buckley
for the purpose of brush burning. and the
| fl mes spread to such an extent the entire
| ire department of the town was called to
! extinguish Them. Mr.. Lei md was endeav-
| o,iag to fight the flames and probably be-
came exhausted and fell to the ground, bis
death resulting from suffocation.
case of fiendish desire to destroy the
lives of bis fellow-comp inions. which re-
| calls the vicious acts of Jesse PJmeroy, 10
reported by the police at Ottawa. Wednes-
day, two lads, Bellevue and Blanchard,
| aged respectively and ID. went in bathing
on the outskirts of the city. After inducing
his companion to wade out to where the
water was two feet deep, Blanchard threw
| him down and held him there with knees
| upon his back until life was extinct. He
satched the bubbles rising to the surface
as the air went Gu. of his victims lungs,
| and when they stopped, and he knew it was
all over, he ran away. Blanchard has been
ARE sted.
The trial of Anarchist Paul Lega for at
tempting to kill Premier Crirpi, as be was
riding in carriage on bis WY to the Cham
ber of Deputies, June 16, began at Rome.