Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-01-31
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taken "Wednesday.
Dr.. G. f. Branch, Newport, VT. was
elected commander Of the department of
Vermont. G. A. T., on the second ballot.
at Burlington, Tuesday.
Receipss from internal revenue Frilay
we're SI59 ,553; cuetoms, sea- 56; mis-
cellsneous, SlSI. Il5; national bank notes
received for redemption, 1851 PAS.
Backers of Patsy Downey Of New Bed
ford, Who has just defeated Harry DALEY.
the Australian champion, are trying to get
! m itch with the Irish champion, Joe Ma
graih. who fought Billy Plimmer-
The final meeting of the Connecticut
board of Worlds Fair managers was held
Tuesday. Treasurer George II. Day re-
ported all bills paid and q balance on hand
of nearly $4,000, which will be returned to
the state treasurer.
Albert Ryder. one of tie crew of the
wrecked schooner Aberdeen, was arrested
at Giouces ter. Mass, Tuesday, for stealing
sl56 belonging to Captain Davis. Part of
of the money was found on his person and
he limited stealing il.
Two hundred and fifty-nine men with
,heir families have applied to the Hartford,
Ct, street board for work on the public
streets under the provision of the $4,000
appropriation recently voted by the Ct y
council over the mayors veto.
At Salem, Mass. James O'Neal of Have'-
hill, charged with attempt to kill his wife,
is On trial This is the case where the man
struck Lis wife with Ratchet and cut her
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killing the woman by the exer!lons OF his
two sons.
Advices by steamer from China announce
the complete anninilat on. by earthq Jake,
of the ii y Of Kuchan, Persia, cOntai ing
&c, 900 inhab:taats. Twelve thousand were
killed. Ten thousand b. les have been re-
covered. Fifty thousand head OF cattle
were destroyed.
As the result of a fire in Pawtucket, r.
| Tuesday night. John J. Kenyon, manu-
fscturer of tapers, shoe lacings, will lose
about $40, 200 on machinery and sock by
water aud smoke; partially insured. Henry
Gill, manufacturer of t,pe, $4,000; insu,-
ance unknown. Damage to building and
ether tenants is slight.
Mrs. Stephen Davis, aged 20 years, died
q. the Oxford, Mass, poor farm. Thurs
day, the result Of an assault committed by
two men about Thanksgiving. Edward
Bouregard, 80, and Mitchell Beargeron,
%, are awaiting the action of the grand
ilry, charged with the crime, Mrs. Davis
skull was fractured. She identified the
prisoners.
Howard B. Hodgate, ticket seller in the
Boston office of the Grand Trunk Railway,
was arrested Tuesday, charged with en-
bezzling Sl75 of the funds of the company.
1t is stated that tn, amour tmbezzled is
much larger. Hodg tie is p years old and
lives with his parents in r >xbury, where he
has been prominent in church work. He
was held for trial under $500 bonds.
Miss Annie D. Hallock the Biilgeport,
Ct, school teacher who saved three men
from drowning at Berkshire pond, last
month, was Tuesday presented with gold
watch, chain and charm valued at $50,
bearing the inscription, Bridgeport citi-
gems to Miss Annie D H ,llock, in recog-
milton of her brave act of Dec. l8, 1893"
She had already received a medal from the
New York Life Saving Association for her
born,srn