Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-11-08
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought by the Wires from the North. East
South and West.

A cable from Panama reports that
Bocas del Toro has been almost wholly
destroyed by fire.
An attachment has been obtained at
| New York, for $4,000 against Charles w.
Vredenburgh, manufacturer of underwear
at Cohoes, N. Y. 1t is stated that Mr..
Vredenburgh left home on account of
business troubles. He has liabilities
amounting to $1,000
The fire in the tenement in Vanbrunt
street, Brooklyn. N. Y, early Thursday, in
which Charles Ryan, his wife and four
children, were burned to death, started in
the lower hallway and extended to the
roof. 1t is supposed to have been caused
by a gas jet in the tower hall setting fire
to the woodwork.
The 40-foot boat built by John Freitich
of Milwaukee, Wis, in which he crossed
the Atlantic, in 1894, and which he has
since been exhibiting in England, was
wrecked on the rocks off the island of
Butte in the Firth of Clyde, during gale
which prevailed In that locality, Wednes-
day. Freitich, who was on the boat when
she was wrecked reached shore In safety.
The London Times publishes dispatch
from Constantinople repeating previous
statements as to the strength of the
Mohammedan revolutionary movement.
The correspondent expresses doubt as to
the statement that leaders for the move
ment are lacking and says disaffection is
strong and general in the army and navy
as well as elsewhere, and has caused dis
may in the palace and u feeling OF i'm
potency on the part of the Porte.
The vessel which sank off Fenwick's
Island in the Delaware bay, has been dis
covered to be the schooner Laughing
Water Of Portland, Me There are no It'd
ings of any of her crew and it is believed
that all hands have been lost The wreck
age which was washed ashore several days
ago at Rehoboth, Del, is believed to have
been from another vessel wrecked further
off the coast. The Laughing Water was
built in 1855 at Essex. Mass. Skillings,
Foote & Co. are her owners.
The signal service reports from Little
Metis light say that the German steam
ship Canadian of the Hamburg American
Packet Co, from Hamburg and Antwerp,
for Quebec and Montreal, with a general
cargo and passengers, is ashore at Little
| Metis light. 175 miles below Quebec, with
utf DOltbul CIdthtu tbu UiukS IulI Vi
water She had on board S3 passengers,
all of whom were safely landed at St.
Ulrica. They proceeded from there TO Lit
tie Metis, where they are now quartered
The Canadian was on her last voyage to
Montreal for this season.
Great excitement prevails in the Chicka-
saw nation over the passage of a bill by
the Legislature. totally repudiatng inter
m arriage with the citizens of that nation.
Chat Is. white men who have married
squaws) The bill disenfranchists them
and takes away their right of holding
| nds in the nation, of participating in
annuities and government funds, and OF
| holding official positions. More than one
half of the property in the nation is owned
by this class of citizens and the act means
the practical confiscation of millions of
dollars worth Of property. The intermar-
riage citizens are preparing to prevent the
execution of the law.
The Manitoba government, at Winni-
peg, Wednesday, sprang a sensation in
connect ion with the parochial controversy
The Roman Catholic contention before
the privy council in England and else
where has been that when Manitoba en-
teIcu Tue CUnitucE6blOu III 1911,
| the bill of rights adopted by the govern
ment declared that Catholic schools should
not be interfered with. The Protestant
contention has been that while such a
declaration was made in rejected bill of
| 1878, there was no such reference in the
adopted bill of 1870. The Catholics pro-
duced bill dated 1870. which had the
stamp of being genuine, and which did
/
toba government reveals by Photographic
process that the date on the bill produced
is really 1873, but that the figure has
been changed into cipher. The evidence
seems conclusive.