Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-04-05
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought by the Wires from the North, East,
South and West.

at Lawrence, Mass. were notified, Ihurs-
day, that they would receive an increase
in wages, April 5.
Fire at Goderich, Ont, Thursday, des-
troyed the Grand Opera house, and several
adjoining stores. Loss, about $50, COO;
partly covered by insurance.
The United Press correspondent at
Londno learns upon good authority that
New Zealand is willing to negotiate a
commercial treaty with Canada.
E. W. Chaplin & Co. have restored the
wages paid at their Chapinviile. Mass,
wooden mill to the prices paid before the
10 per cent. cutdown of a year ago
A disease which perplexes the physi-
clans has broken out at Hebcrtville, Lake
st. John, Quebec, and has become cpl
demic. A large number of deaths have
occurred within a short time.
Collector kilbreth of New York, will
soon submit to the treasury plan for carry
ing into effect the landing of passengers
at New York after dark. The plan will
probably be put into operation by April
Is.
Herbert NJ. Bradstreet, a necktie manu-
facturer of Danvers, Mass, with an office
and salesroom in Boston. has assigned.
The failure of a heavy debtor is said to be
the cause Mr.. Bradstreet employs from
80 to to rs hands The factory will be
closed short time.
A man who registered as W. Legrand,
Boston, Mass, lat Merten's hotel, Al Third
avenue, New York, committed suicide,
Thursday, by shooting himself. He was
apparently about 80 years old and had a
light moustacbe. Nothing definite was
known about him at the hotel
G. l.. Il. French. road master CT the
Central Massachusetts division of the b.
&. M. r. X. has been transferred to the
eastern division, and G. X. Thornton, his
assistant, goes with him. The authority
of Roadmaster A. c. Stickney of Lowell.
is extended over the Central Massachu-
sets division.
The Connecticut Senate, Thursday,
passed bill which prohibits the display
of foreign flag on any public building
unless in honor of guest of the state or
nation. The bill to prevent blindness
was passed. 1t requires nurses to inform
the health officer if an infant two weeks
old has inflamcd eyes.
The deal between the General Electric
Company and Westinghouse Electric and
Manufacturing Co. is practically COM
pleted. The plan for pooling the patents
of the two companies has been approved
by their executives committees and Ill
that remains is for the committees to
meet and formally sign it.
George II. Wheeler, .Jr., aged 23, was
arrested at Boston, Thursday, for en-
bezzlement. Wheeler was employed by
Chandler & Co., dry goods dealers, and
Sept. "a, he was sent to the bank with a
check for $4,000. He drew the money and
ran away, visiting Germany, Italy, Japan
and Australia. He confesses his guilt
1t is reported from Simla that the Chit
raj expedition sustained losses more Sc
we're than was at first reported Umra
Khran is reported to have captured two
British officers. Hundreds of natives are
flocking to his standard. All reported
casualties to the British forces refer to
the second brigade, the other brigade not
having been heard from.
The death was announced at Washing
ton, Thursday, of one of the heirs of the
late Frederick Douglass, viz, Paul, the
son of Frederick NJ. Douglass, himself
deceased since August, 1892 The boy
was one of three children named in Mr.
Douglass will who were to receive the
fathers portion of his estate. He will
be buried at Cambridge, Mass.
The New England cotton manufactur-
ers who are travelling through the South
ern states for the purpose of studying the
cotton manufacturing advantages of the
South have passed the last few days in
vestigatjng a dozen or more mills -
North Carolina. Thursday they visited
the largest mills in South Carolina and
from that state will go into Georgia
The inspection board has recommended
number of changes in the cruiser Chi
cage, among which is the doing away with
sail power and six-inch guns. In place of
sail masts, military masts are recon-
mendcd, and in place of six-inch guns, a
fivc-inch rapid fire battery is proposed 1t
is estimated that it will require two years
to put the Chicago in condition for scr
vice.
4 A tragic death occurred at the pension
Office at Concord, N. H., Thursday Levi
L. Woodman. many years a resident of
Concord, and veteran of the 18Th New
Hampshire Volunteers, was in d large
crowd about the desk waiting for his
check, and suddenly fell backward into
the arms of a comrade. He was taken to
the corridor and after breathing few
times died of heart disease.
Joseph Havelock Wilson, Labor NJ p.
has begun a libel suit against Secretary
Comson and exTrcasurer Rogers of the
National Free Labor Association and
publishers of the Pamphlet The libel
lous matter consisted of charges that he
practiccd fraud theft and imposition in
his relations to several labor organizations
Mr.. Wilson has brought such suits before
and had two London editors in court,
without particular success.
The plurality for the head of the Re
publican ticket in Rhode Island, will be
10, sol as compared with 6507 for Cover
nor Brown last year, although the total
Republican vote was over 1000 less than
last year. The Democratic vote fell off
over 5000 and the total vote was AZ, 763 as
compared with 81, sos, the vote cast last
spring. The total vote is as follows:
Lippitt, Rep, 25, 092; Littlefield, Dem,
14.191; Quimby, Pro 1894; Boomer Sec,
1905; Foster Peoples, ESQ.
A opdon Central News dispatch from
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