Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-11-24
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought by the Wires from the North, East
South and West.

South and West.
The supreme court at Washington, al
journed, Friday, to reassemble December B.
The bill incorporating the town and city
of Barre passed the Vermont senate, Fri
day.
BY the will of the late Francis Buttrick,
Waltham, Mass, will receive legacy OF
nearly s500,000.
The break of the Ericsson's pump,
Thursday, will keep the boat under repair
till Monday or Tuesday next.
Mrs. Kate Field was struck by train
at Baskerville Crossing, Mass, Thursday,
afternoon, and instantly killed.
Acting Comptroller Tucker is informed
that the Brown National Bank, Spokane,
Wash, with capital of 500, 600, failed,
Friday.
The application for a receiver for the
St. Joseph Loan and Trust Co., was
granted, Friday at st. Joseph, Mo. Liza
bilities, S135, 900; assets, Sl95, 900.
Henry g. Side, president of the First
National Bank of Minneapolis, assigned,
Friday. Liabilities 100000 to $50,
O)O; nominal assets, considerably in excess
of the debt.
Employees of the Faulkner's mills Lowell,
Mass, Friday, appointed committee to
wait upon Messrs Faulkner and tell them
that the cutdown will be resisted and a
strike is the probable outcome.
In the superior court at Boston, Friday,
J. G. Paul, who was, Thursday, SEN
fenced to 10 years imprisonment for at
tempting to kill Eleanor Whitefeld, re-
ceived an additional five years to his SEN
tence.
The navy department has ordered the
ships which have been attending the vari-
Gus trials of the Ericsson to return to their
usual stations and Commodore Selfridge's
board will return to Washington for the
present.
The United State straining ship Ports
mouth, was visited by board of survey
at Newport r. l., Friday,wh will report
their findings to Washington. 1t is be
lieved that she will go out of commission
very shortly.
Third Assistant Postmaster General
Craig, who has charge of matters pertain
ing to postage said, Friday, that the
greatly increased orders for stamps from
all parts of the country showed that bust
ness is rapidly reviving.
The Yale foot ball team left for Spring
field, Fridayafternoon, and We're given a
rousing send off by the students. Yale
men are betting almost everything on
the game and money lenders are reaping
a harvest. At Cambridge the Harvard
players also got an enthusiastic send-off
They took "a men including the substi-
tutes.
The largest number of storm bound
vessels seen in Portsmouth lower harbor
for years, was anchored there, Friday
night. Since daylight 1875 coasters had
passed in by Jerry's Point life saving
station. 1t is estimated that nearly 200
vessels were at anchor, the ma ority being
Eastern coasters, bound to Boston and
New York.
Carnegies' wire nail works, occupying
a whole square, Beaver Falls, Pa, We're
burned Friday. Total loss, 500, 600. The
works were equipped with the finest ma
chincry, all of which was destroyed.
Fully insured. Two hundred men will be
thrown out of employment and the fire
will likely stop the whole Carnegie inter
ests in this place.
The United States steamer Fessendcn
being at Sandusky, o., Capt Hodgson is
conducting an inquiry into the circum-
stances of the seizure of gill nets owned
by American citizens Capt. Hodgson
refused to allow reporters on hoard and
says his instructions are to conduct the
inquiry in secret and report the evidence to
the treasury department.
Capt. Brown of the steamship William
Crane at Savannah, reports that Nov. 90
at 80 p. NJ, he passed close to sunken
masts out of water, with one gaff on her
foremost. She was lying in about five
fathOms of water, southeast by east. ) a
miles from Cape Romaine, S. c.. There
was no sign of boats.
In the case of William Barrett, on trial
in the supreme court at Cambridge, Mass.
for the murder of James Farrar, at Wes-
ton, Mass, last May, the jury, last Fri
day night, returned "A verdict of guilty of
murder in the second degree. The counsel
for the defence waived exceptions taken
during the trial, and the prisoner will
probably be sentenced within week
The hundred men employed by the Mil
Ter Piano Co., Wakefield, Mass, who,
week ago, struck for 10 per cent. in
crease in salary, returned to work, Fri
day, at the old scale of prices The off
GERS of the company agreed to pay the men
the same rate paid in other piano manu-
features, and the men will visit other
piano manufactures and obtain schedules