Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-05-15

,,r,intod Russia The suspension OF news
napers hostile to the government action
continues. The Japanese ministers and
thew members of the foreign legations
are strictly guarded to prevent their be-
ing attacked by ultra patriotic or fanati-
cal natives.
Harvard College turned out strong,
Tuesday night at Cambridge, to hear Jo-
semi Jefferson's Discourse on the
Stage Sanders theater was packed to
the doors. Mr.. Jefferson spoke on various
phases Of the stage, but did not give ad-
vice as to the best training for the legiti-
mate drama. Ex-Governor Russell gave
Mr.. Jefferson a reception at his late resi-
dence in the afternoon.
Reports from towns about New Haven,
CT, tell of injury by the frost to all sorts
of fruit and garden truck. AT the
Spring Side town farm eight or ~ acres
of potato plants We're nipped. A. n. Farm
ham, Westville, is the heaviest loser there
abouts, He had several acres OF straw
berries touched and he fears completely
ruined. Up on the Woodbridge hills the
ground was frozen quite hard
Miss Julia Phelps committed suicide at
her residence in Division avenue. Brook
Ign, N Y. Tuesday morning by Jump
Jog from the window of her room on the
third fl )or to the sidewalk. She died
before the ambulance arrived. MISS
Phelps was about 40 years old. ana
daughter of the late George NJ. Phelps,
the electrical inventor 1t is thought that
she had became insane, owing to the
recent death of her brother and other
relatives.
The tug Vesta towcd in to Gloucester,
Mass, Tuesday, the fishing schooner
Tragabigazanda. whose captain reports
being run into, Sunday forenoon. by
steamer Yarmouth, carrying away both
masts, bowsprits and jib-boom; breaking
rails and doing other damage. The crew
claims the weather was clear at the time
and the steamer did not stop to see the re-
suit of the collision, or otfer assistance,
and that she pever reported it at Boston
on her arrival.
The light harness season opened, Tues
day, at the Gentlemen's driving park,
Baltimore The weather was decidedly
cold, but few hundred devotees of the
t lrf witnessed good sport. The 2.24 trot-
cling, purse 500, Falland, b. s., by Happy
Medium (Payne) won in three hearts; Il.
t. c., second; Clipper, third; best
time, 2 TX, The 2. 10 pacing purse $500,
Robert c., b. e., by Thorndale Idle
second; Budd Doble, third; best time,
2. 80
The large house on the Samuel Barnard
estate, Belmont street, Belmont, Mass,
occupied by J. Eastman Chase, was
burned, Tuesday, with most of the con-
tents. The fire caught through the care
lessness of a daughter who threw
hot ashes in shed near a kerosene barrel
The house was assessed for $4,000 insured.
The house was finely furnished and con-
tained many fine oil paintings Mr..
Chase's loss is unknown, but it is proba
bly, several thousand He and his wife
we've away.
In an interview at Frankfort, Ky,
Monday, Senator William Lindsay came
out strongly against the free coinage of
silver. Beginning with the constitutional
point the senator said that the constitu-
ton no more required the free and unlim
tied coinage of silver than the free and
Unlimited enlistment of soldiers or the
continual declaration of war. He treated
the question as one of pure business and
deprecated high flown defamation and
prolonged patriotic fever in the discussion
Of a pure matter of business.
At meeting of the Boston Scientific
Society at Boston, Tuesday, the announce
ment was made that Percival
Lowell had ordered a telescope of "a inches
aperture of Alven G. Clark, Cambridge
The telescope will be used for observa-
tion of the planet Mars, and the contract
calls for the mounting of it at any place
designated by Mr.. Lowell, who has parties
at work looking for a site with the best
of air. Mexico or Algeria may
be selected. The telescope will be finished
by August 1895.
Three hundred and fifty delegates were
in attendance when Grand Chief f. f.
Clark called the biennial convention of
tho Order of Railway Conductors to order
at Atlanta, Ga, Tuesday. More than
1000 railway conductors are in the city.
Little more was done than to organize.
In the evening the order held reception
at Grand theatre. Mayor King, William
2. Daniels, grand secretary of the con-
ductors =. p. Sargent, grand master of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
u. II. WILKES, assistant grand chief con
ductor. and others made address,.
Several members of tho Missouri Gen.
eral Assembly were victims of a stroke of
Monday, besides Senator Nor
risey, who was murdered at st. Louis
Warner of st. Louis county.
had fight with farm hand and had his
right ear bitten off. Representative
Bourne of Scotland county, became en-
tangled in live electric wire and was Sc
verely injured, a son of Senator Mott of
Carondole was drowned in the Mississippi
river, and Representative Sheen of ST.
Louis. was thrown from his buggy and
severely cut about the head
The London Standard has q dispatch
from Berlin. which it will publish, Wed
nesday, stating, in reference to the reports
of ministerial crisis, that, despite the
semi official denials, it is believed that the
will not be cleared until
Emperor Williams retorn from his shoot.
ing trip to Silesia, whittier he went on
Monday. In some quarters it is believed
that tho crisis will not be removed until
It is known whether DR.. Won Boetticher,
secretary of the imperial home office, re
signs after the fetes attendant upon the
opening Of the North sea canal as it is
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