Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-09-11
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The business portion of Sidney, Kitsap
county, Wash, was burned, Sunday. Loss,
$50 900.
Three new cases of small pox were re-
ported at the New York health department,
Mondsy.
St. Andrews church at Belleville, Ont.
was destroyed by fire, Monday. Loss,
S35 900; insurance. SlS,500.
Willard j. Sampson, one of the best
known business men in Portsmouth, died
Monday, aged As. A wife and three daugh-
tiers survive.
1t is now found that twelve persons were
killed outright and sixty others injured in
the accident to the Cologne express between
Noyou and Chauny, Monday.
The Fairfield ice houses, ten in number,
belonging to the Cincinnati Ice Company,
at Hamilton, Ohio, were burned Sunday
night. The loss on the houses was $780,
| 600.
A northbound mail train onLthe Wabash
railroad was ditched near Lanneman, ILL.,,
Saturday afternoon. The engineer was
killed and the fireman received fatal inju-
ries. Others on the train received slight
injuries.
w. F. Collner & Co., general storekeep.
ers at St. Petersburg. Pa, were robbed
Saturday night, Sept. J, of $40 900 in notes,
bonds and cash. The fact has been kept
secret till now in hope of catching the thief.
The burglary was committed within 10
minutes after the storeroom was locked W
at 10 o'clock. The supposition is that the
thief had secreted himself in the storeroom
during the day. There is no clue.i
Schooner Seventy Six, Capt Lea, of and
from Tbomastor, Me-, arrived at Vineyard
Haven, Monday, with a cargo of hard pine
lumber from Satilla River, Ga. She report.
that about $50 2. M, Sunday, when of
Nobska, during light southwesterly wind
and thick fog, she was struck by steamer
Gsyhead, which was returning to New Bed.
ford from Nantucket, carrying the
schooner's bowsprit and all her head gear
She was towed to Vineyard Haven, Mon.
day morning.
Officers of the steamship Sikh at Tacoma
Wash, report that the steamship Mogul
whose place on the Northern Pacific line
was taken by the Sikh, has been purchased
by the Japanese government and is nov
manned by the Japanese officers and crew
The price paid is said to have been $35, 900
The Mogul will be used as transport OF
be refitted for cruiser. The Sikhs off
GERS understood that the Japanese govern
ment had given the Japanese Steamship
Company 50 800 900 with which to purchase
steamers.
Chinese advices say: "Admiral Ting
commanding the Chinese fleet in the gulf o.
Pc Chi Ii, has been degraded for cowardic
and incapscity, deprived of the peacocl
feather, and ordered to leave the feet AM
take minor command ashore. The reasol
for the summarizes of this action is no
given. Hitherto, Ting has been regarde,
as an able officer. His disgrace is believes
to be due to his failure to prevent the en-
trance of the Japanese fleet into the Gul
of Pc Chi Ii. and consequent capture of al
island in Society bsy."
Reports from yachtsmen, beach parties
and others who have been on Long ISLAM
sound or along its shores during the pas
few days are numerous regarding the grea
amount of wrecksge that they encountere,
be,we en- Southport and the Norwalk river
S cries are told of numbers of spars ant
the parts of vessels being encountered. A
phipps Beach section of the house O
some barge or canal boat has been WASHED
ashore. So far as ian be learned, no yes
sells have been lost in this vicinity, notwith
standing high seas and northeast winds.