Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-04-19
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought By The Wires from The North. East
South and West.


passed the factory inspector bill.
Governor Morris of Connecticut, Wednes.
day, filed proclamation appointing Friday
May 4, as Arbor day.
The Logan iron and steel works at Burn.
ham, Pa, were burned Tuesday night
Loss, $3.50, 900; partially Insured.
At the inquest upon the death of Mrs.
Jane Booth, Salem Centre, N. H., Wednes
lay, the jury decided that death was due to
natural causes.
The plant of the City Electric Power
| Company at Sacrs mento, Cal, was de-
sIoyed by fire Wednesday. Loss, 800. 600
n 'urance, $4,000.
| Frank Lewis, the boy who disappeared
from his home in Norwich. W., hiss been
found on farm in North Bol.on, VT. He
| refuses 10 return home.
| jerome, the largest ming camp in All
IONA was DESTROYED By fire. Tuesday. Loss
| is estimated at $50 900 with very little IN
'urance. Many miners and families are
| without homes.
| Sparks from New York, n. II. and H.
train set fire to the large ice house of F. n.
| Hubbard at Stables Hill, CT, and 5000
ons of ice were destroyed, Lcss, $40 COO;
! partially insured.
S. L. Clemens MARX Twain and Fred.
| rick j. Hall, composing the Fl m of c. l.
| Webster & Co. booksellers at 81 Fifth ave.
nue, New York, made d generai assign
ment, Wednesday.
| Charles Miller, aged %, was arrested at
New York, Wednesday, for the murder Of
| August L9t ffer, Waterman a. Heide's con-
| fectioneIy factory on Franklin street. Mil
| Ter has confessed the murder.
| The stitchers in Martins shoe shop, at
| Dover, N. H., went on the second strike,
| Wednesday night, because they cannot get
their pay. Some are owed five weeks pay.
| The cutters went out the first IF the work
for the same cause.
| There is the best authority for the state
ment that ne regulations between the mana
gers of various transatlantic steamship
| ices, looking to the establishment of uni
| form rate of passage, has been broken off
and will not be revived.
| About dozen laborers at Wilmot &
Hobbs rolling mill at Bridgeport, CT, strucs
for an increase of wages, Wednesday.
They are paid ID cents an hour and been
Working overtime. If they do not return,
Thursday, their places will be filled.
Gen. Goggio Of the Italian army has been
arrested by the French military authorities
at Latrrbio, charged with being a spy. The
general is said to have been watching the
manTuvres Of Ere nch Alpine troops and to
have had damaging documents in his pos
session.
The German Rrichstag committee, to
which was referred the tobacco taxation
bill, re j ct ID the claus, imposing a duty on
manufactured tobacco. The clause is re-
garded as the essence of the bill, and its
rejection is re garded as securing the defeat
of the measure.
Ex-Postmaster N. D. Sperry of New
empha,ically refused to have his name con-
sidered for the gubernatorial nomination
this summer. 1t is almost certain that he
will be the Republican candidate for Con-
gress from tina. district.
Mr.. Mackey, manager of the Commercial
Bank of Barraba, in The Darling district,
N. s. W., was shot dead, Tuesday, by two
masked robbers. The thieves entered the
bank and mmanded Mr.. Mackey to de-
liver up the money contained in the safe.
He refused and the robbers killed him and
escaped.
REPRESENTATIVES of the Cutters and Last
ers' Unions met members from G. d. Picker
& Co.'s shoe factory, at Somersworth, n.
H., Wednesday, and refused to accept the
10 per cent. cut down on medium grade
goods. The firm stated that the reduction
vas to enable it to compete with other man.
ufacturers. The firm talks of leaving the
city.
Official iispatches received at Rio, Tues
day, from Desterro where the rebels set up
their provisional government, assert that
Admiral Mello's former flagship, the Aqni-
daban, was sunk at daybresk Tuesday
morning, by one of President Peixoto' $
powder boats, the Gus.ave Sampaio, form
ery called the Aurora. The Sampaio ac-
complishsd this result, with three White
head torpedoes.
All the spinners of the New BfiSail knit-
ting Company, New Britain, CT went GA a
strike, Tuesday, for the second time dur
ing the present month. They went back to
work on the promise of the company to
increase the spa / of the machines to such
an extent that it would make up for the for
mer heavy reduction in wages. The spin
ners claim the sgrt ement has not been
kept by the com pany, and they cannot earn
fair day s wages.
r. X. Latimsrs carriage store snd fac
tory, at Montreal, were burned, Wedn 'sday
morning. Some of the empl yes ere boil
ing 8 mixture of shellsc AMI nsptba, which
overfowed and the place was almost in-
stsntly sblsze. The adjoining factories of
Brsyley, Sons & Co, Wholesale druggists,
Imperial Waterproof Company, B. lEugh-
son & Sors. window shades, and Thomas
Hooking, were much damaged. Total loss,
$50 900. CT which Brayley Co.'S loss is
S25 600. Total Insurance, $4,000.
An important meeting of the striking
weavers OF Noe6 Wa.nsutta mill, New Bed
ford, will be held Thursday, when the
strikers i'll appoint committee to confer
with the executive committee of the Wesv
ers' L. ion to t-y and get them TO report to
the general meeting to recommend a csll
ing of all wesvers ont of the Wan 'utta
mills. This sc,ion will be taken OF account
of the report to the strikers that some
styles of cloth known as t 0 Ps ami
V A Ms are being turned out in other
mills of the corporation under other names
at reduced p'ice. the picks and yarn
being slightly changed. 1t is claimed the
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