Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-10
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought by the Wires from the North. East
South and West.

The fur establishment of A e. Burk
hardt & Co.. of Cincinnati, Ohio, has as
signed. Assets, 1880, coo; liabilities, $3.50,
900.
The +. p. Cowen Wholesale Lumber
Company at kanass City, Mo-, assigned
Monday Assets, $4,000; liabilities
100000.
An Arab girl died at Cairo, Egypt
Sunday of cholera in the poorest quarter
of the city Everything is being done tc
prevent the spread of the disease
The San Francisco Merchants Exchange
has received cablegram from Yokohama,
announcing the arrival there, Sunday, OF
the steamer Evandale, overdue from San
Francisco.
A dispatch from Havana says that the
rebel general Maoeo is advancing upon
the town of Santa Clara, while the in
surgent leader, Gomez, is keeping the
field between that town and Matansas /.
Frederick W. Peabody, indicted for libel
against Congressman II. A. Atwood OF
Boston, Monday, pleaded not guilty in the
superior court and was admitted to bail in
$1,000. The case will be tried, this month
Captain E. K. Titus, for years in com
mand Of schooners plying between Boston
and the South, died, Monday, at the
Homeopathic hospital, Boston, of fright 5
disease. He was about 40, and had wife
and two children. The body was taken
to Rockland, Me-, for burial
The dwelling of Fred Pickering at New
ington, n. H., was entered and robbed,
Sunday, in the absence of the family at
church. and $50 stolen from the safe A
man, whose description TALES with that of
a former hired man of Mr. Pickering, was
seen hurrying away from the house.
Word has been received at Nashua, n
H., that Samuel Boggis and Peter Dow
ling, cousins, who left that city, last Au-
gust, for the West, fell off an oyster fish
ing smack at Bell Alton Md, and were
drowned in Chesapeake bay. They were
young men aged 20. The bodies will be
brought East.
DR.. j. q. Moore of Chester, n. H., has
been surrendered by his bondsmen on an
indictment in connection with the Derry
field Savings Bank collapse, two years
since. He Is now said to be in custody of
the sheriff, but is arranging new bonds
The old bondsmen are Hon. H. ID. Upton
and r. G. Sullivan.
At least one life was lost at Sunday
nights fire at Rutherford, N J., the body
of Charles V. Oswald having been found
in the ruins, Monday. 1t is believed that
there other bodies are still under the
debris The missing persons are members
of German family, who lived on the top
floor of the McManus building, which was
burned.
Coroner Arbuckle rendered verdict, at
Cleveland, Ohio Monday, in the viaduct
in which Is people were killed.
He says: Il fail to find sufficient evidence
Of an act committed or omitted on the part
of any person or persons to warrant me in
holding said person or persons criminally
liable for causing the death of any one or all
the persons aforesaid.
A report has been received at London
that the British steamer Principa, Capt.
from Shields, via Dundee Nov
Is. for New York, has been lost 1T sea and
% of her crew drowned. The Principa
was three-masted, topsail, schooner
rugged steamer of 2749 tons gross and 1890
tons net burden. She was built in New
castle Eng, in 1881 and was owned by
the Arrow Shipping Co. of that place
Written, Burdett & Co, wholesale
colthers of Boston, have asked creditors
for an extension of time from four to II
1t is stated that they owe about
$40, 900. A member of the firm says the
firm will pay in full. with an extension.
and more than three-quarters of the credi-
l.
about s3is. 900 worth of goods on band
Warm weather and dullness in trade
caused the trouble.