Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-11-16
NEWS NUGGETS.
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South and West.

ID. F. Wood g. Co. 5 wooden mill AT
Northboro Mass, will start up next week
after a three weeks shutdown.
The town of Sheffield, Iowa, on the
Iowa Central Railroad. was totally burneo,
Wednesday night. Loss, estimated d.
800, 900.
Ives made 600 points in the billiard
match with Schaefer at New York, Ihurs
day night. Shaefer made III. 1raho
total. Ives. 3400; Schaefer, 1888
Sheriff Ensign of Elyria, o., has re.
ceiyed a dispatch that William Gletzer OF
Columbia. O., was murdered, Wednesday
night. and his body burned in his barn.
The Belgium cabinet has resolved to ere
ate a labor bureau at once. The Socialists
are elated. They say that this step is the
first result of their success at the polls.
A cable from Ecuador, says that the
revolution of part of the garrison mas
been summarily quelled and number Oh
ringleaders have been shot without trlal'
Edith Elder shot and killed Frank
Quinn at Stockton Cal, Thursday, ana
then fatally shot herself Quinn had
wronged the young woman under promise
of marriage.
Capt. Bragg of the steamer Manhattan,
now at Portland reports that the slgnal
buoy on Pollock Rip has drifted hall
mile to the northward in the neighbor
hood of the bell buoy.
Dispatch from Chemulpo to the Lon
don News Agency says the officials of the
Corean government, whose tendencies are
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TO be issued at the beginning of OF 1898.
HIP. Schmidt, banker and general dealer
| in Bremond, Robertson county, Iexas'
! filed "a deed of trust Wednesday, to secure
his creditors in the sum OF s'o,Ooo.
Schmidt's assets are from SlOO ooO 10
1926, 900.
| Robert hampton, Jr, went away from
| West Derry, N H., Wednesday night, and
his family do not know what has nap
pened to him. They are afraid that he
was waylaid Parties have been hunting
FER him, Thursday, but cannot find clue
Steamer Coleridge from Pernambuco
arrived at New York, Thursday night,
with the mate and four sailors from the
three masted American schooner Hannah
McLoon of Rockland, Me, which went to
pieces on the rocks off San Antonio, 20
miles north of Maceio.
1t is believed that the schooner Alaska.
with cargo of lime, which ran ashore on
a ledge at Peppcrell cove, near Ports
mouth. n. H.. Tuesday night, will be
saved Since the accident the vessel has
been sealed. and it is believed the fire will
be eXtnguished.
| Capt. Alvah NJ Curtis and Second Mate
f. V. Ellis of the ship James Il. Dram
mond. were tried in the United States
court at Boston, Thursday, for assault
upon Frank Schroeder, one of the crew.
Capt Curtis was discharged and Mate
Ellis was fined $40.
The chess masters tournament at New
York came to close, Thursday, when
Albin defeated Baird, thereby winning
the second prize. Delmar beat Halbern;
Showalter beat Hanham; Hymcs beat
Rocamorc and Steinitz beat Pillsbury.
Hymes and Showalter will divide the third
and fourth prizes
The two-masted schooner Nettic b. Dob
bin, Capt. Freeman l.. Kelley, which left
Boston. October 26, for South RobbinSton,
Maine, has not been heard from since
Her cargo of 800 bushels of corn was con
signed to South Robbinston parties, and
was insured. She was owned by Joseph
Crandon, Jonesport, MaiEe.
The Bell Telephone Company, at "A meet
| ing at Boston, Thursday, voted to accept
the act passed by the Massachusetts, general
court, at the last session, allowing the
company to increase its capital stock. 1t
also voted toincrease its capital stock from
500, 600, 600 to $25, 900, 600 and the num-
Der of shares from 200, 600 to 203, coo.
The first half of the carnival of fine
horses at the horse show has cclipscd all
| former records at Madison Square Garden,
| New York, and the latter half of the show
promises to be even more interesting and
more largely attended. The box coffee
receipts for the first three days are $1,000
! in excess of those for the same days last
! year.
Herman Aitch, senior partner of the
| importing firm of Herman Aitch & Co.,
was arrested at New York, Thursday, by
deputy United States marshals He is
charged with making a false invoice 1t
| is said that undcrvaluations to the extent
of 800, 900 have been discovered in in
voices of hollow ware imported by the
| firm during the years 1892 and 1898.
/ Letters from St Michacl's, Azores,
! Wednesday report that the Julia LIST, Capt.
Veara. Grand Banks, for Lisbon, put in
at that port in distress, with the loss of
! boats and sails, the vessel leaking badly.
| She had to discharge the cargo, which
was sold there, and the vessel will prob
ably be condemned. The Julia LIST was
| formerly the schooner b. +. Sparks, and
is owned at Proyincetown, Mass.
NJ. b. Curtis was arrested at the Opera
house, Lowell, Mass, Thursday evening,
Just before the curtain rose on Samuel
of Posen, upon the claim of Duncan b.
Harrison for 1901. 30, made up of charges
for two weeks salary, $3.50 for percentage
in the profits an the remainder for Incl
dental expcnes. MIR. Curtis part was as
sumcd by and understudy and he was de
tanned over night at the American house
in cutody Of the sheriff
The New York Herald's Valparaiso
cable says The government crisis con
tinues unchanged. Order prevails every
where and exchange has fallen but little.
1t is reported that the government has
purchased from one of the most prominent
shipyards in England a cruiser superior
to the Banco for $500, 600. There is a
queer and persistent rIuor afioat to the