Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-11-09
NEWS NUGGETS.
srought by the Wires from The !isrth. East
South and West.

he has changed his mind about coming to
this country.
The Electric Street railway and lighting
system at Vancouver, B. c., has been sold
to an English company. The price paid is
said to be S350,000
RELIGIOUS services were held at noon,
Wednesday, in the church at Llvadia, to
which the body of Alexander Ill was re-
moved the previous night.
The Union Lesgue Club, New York,
Thursday night, made Rev. DR.. Chas. n.
Parkhurst an honorary member. DR..
Parkhurst is the first clergy man to enjoy
that distinction.
A collision between a passenger and
freight train, resulting in the loss of six
lives, occurred at Rosensteel sizing, lbs
miles east of Pittsburg, on the Baltimore
& Ohio, Wednesday.
The internal revenue collections for the
district of New Hampshire. which COM
prises Maine, New Hampshire and Yer
mont, for the month ending October 81,
amounted to $50, IA.
Schooner Eddie H. Wicks wret ked on
Block Island, Tuesday night, will be total
loss, except her sails which we're stripped
from her, Wednesday. The crew was
saved by the life savers.
The Pail Mall Gazette prints Yoko-
hama dispatch saying the Jadanese are lay
ing torpedoes at Port Arthur and are in
other ways completing the trap which they
have been preparing for the Chinese.
The government cruiser Constance
,rrived at Quebec, Thursday, with the
schooner Mare Louisiana, seized at the
Instance of Collector Niece of Point
Esquimaux, On suspicion of smuggling
rum.
The First National Bank of San Bernan-
dino, closed its doors, Thursday. A quiet
run as organized that went On all day,
Wednt sday. Nothing was thought of 1t.
but on opening, Thur day, rush was COM
mpnced and Cashier Kohl closed the doors.
The bank was doing the largest business in
the city.
The American Board of Commissioners
for Foreign Missions has received from
Spain, through the state department ut
Washington, The sum of ST. 600 as indem-
nifty for the loss Of property and Other III
iuries il fiicted upon It's work at Ponape
one of the Caroline islands, by the Spanish
authorities few years since.
At WakefirH II. Msss., Thursday an extra
coal train while shifting from one main
line to the other jumped the iron and sew
eral cars were thrown from the tracks ana
piled up. Both main tracks were blocked,
DELAYING both inward and outward trains an
hour or more. No one WAS Injured and
the loss TO rolling stock, mostly coal cars,
will not be very heavy. '
The St. Petersburg municipal council,
Thursdsy, voted an unlimited credit for the
purpose of defray ing the expenses OF the
rec, ptiOn here to Emperor Nicholas and the
funt r Il of Emperor Al xauder and also the
erection of a monument to the dead Gar.
The council also adopted a proposal to
open a national subscription for monu-
ment for the late Emperor to be erected IN
St. Petersburg.
Amherst has protested Dartmouth's centre
rush, Csverly, on the ground that his true
meme is Horne and that he last year attended
Harvard college. If these reports are true,
he is ineligible for the ID ntmonth team,
both because he entered Dartmouth from
another college ard becau-e he became
professional ~ ADOPTING an assumed name.
The case will re investigated Thoroughly
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Saturday.
APPLE named Aretonis Vachika3ks, en-
pioy. d At White Bros. & Cas- tannery.
Low. II, Mass, was fatally il ired by re-
volving cylinder, Thursday morning, and
lied sooI after reaching the hospital
Roger Kane. el. vator man in the Massachu-
sets NJ IL, 40 years, fell down the ele-
vator ". II from the fourth story. He wa.
BADLY inju ed but it is thought he will live.
John Callahan hat his skull frsctnred by
the bursting of a steam chest ct kendAlls
mill and i. is thought he will die.
Tho we~honnd passenger train on thu
Burl ppror & Mi.sou.i River Railroad, wa
.tcpp ID, tn 8 nv right, one mile east OF
Il, anris, Neb., by two highw", men. rhf
would-be robbers had se'reted tneins lve'
On the blind baggage r, and, climbing
over the tender, revolver IN hand, d-Insnd
the engineer TO stop the rrai" the ilgh
waymen were masked and evidently ba'
confed. rates NO w.re expected 10 o. d.
bis point. hu, wro f ii ID I" show up. IN.
robbers iumpei of The tr,in and "rhfr''
re IN gin, er To pull out. There wssn clue
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