Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-05-14
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought BY the Wires from the North, East,
South and West.

Schooner Nellie f. Sawyer, Willard,
New York to Portland, Me , is ashore near
the New Haven breakwater. Wreckel
Scott will cndeayor to float her.
In the bicycle race in Velodrome de
l. Est. Paris, Monday, George Banker.
Pittsburg. Pa. won the two kilometre
event. beating Baras and Nasseur. Ban
ker was scratch :aan.
All the employees of the Riverside mills,
Lebanon, n. H., returned to work, Mon
day, and the mills resumed operations.
The operatives are paid the same wages as
before the strike, which was for an in
crease
Evangelist Costello, who has been max
ing quite stir about Haverhill. Mass
for week OF more, is reported to have
left town, leaving number of unpaid
bills, including II board bill at the Gale
donia house.
Schooner John Proctor is now anchored
at Tnrpaulin Cove. She was boarded,
Sunday evening by the crew of the Guilty
hunk life saving station, who assisted in
keepirg her aiioat while being towed to
rarpatlin Cove where Il steam pump
was placed on board, and is now keeping
her free.
The supreme council of the A. p. A.
closed its session at Milwaukee, at , A..
NJ, Sunday. The Junior A. p. A. was
recognized 1t will he under the jurisdic-
tion of the supreme council of the United
States, and will reach into Canada and
England. Boys and girls between II and
19 will be eligible.
Rumors are current at Amesbury,
Mass, that young business man, mana
ger in one of the largest stores in town, is
about $1,000 short in his accounts with the
firm, and that his last move was to raise
5000 at the bank on the name of his en-
ployer. No legal steps have been taken.
and it is probable that the matter will be
kept out of court. Fast living is given
as the cause.
In the superior court at Newburyport,
Mass, Monday, James Welch was con-
victed under the habitual criminal act, his
latest offence being breaking and enter
ing, ard was sentenced to 25 years in the
state prison. The Haverhill Doodle alder
men were taken to the Lawrence house Of
correct ion, Monday, to serve out sentences
of 15 months.
AS n result of the failure of Deputy
Sheriff John Illingsworth to lock Inspector
Mclaughlin up in the Tombs, at New
York, Saturday morning, District Attor
ney 4 ttorney Fellows, after conference
with } lstice Barrett, Monday, instituted
contempt proceedings against Sheriff
Tamsen and Deputy Illingsworth. jus
tico Barrett will sign the order, Tuesday.
All reports of q German ministerial
crisis or the resignation of Herr Won Koel-
Ter, minister of the interior, compulsory
or otherwise. are declared untrue. The
Cologne Gazette is making Il vicious at
tack upon Herr Won Koeller, and it is
stated that Chancellor Won Hohenlohe
does not approve the papers course 1t
il tho general opinion that the Gazette is
doing the chancellor the same doubtful
service it rendered Gen. Craprivi last
October.
Steamer Esmeralda collided 10 mi es
from Armen lighthouse, French coas t, at
2 A. Nj, Monday, with steamer Mariana,
last reported as having arrived at Huelva,
April a. for Barcelona. The Mariana
was lalen with iron ore, and sank i'm
mediately. The Esmcralda saved eight
of the Martana's crew, including the
captain, and took them to Brest. Eleven
others are missing and were presumably
drowned. The Esmcralda reached Brest,
Monday afternoon, leaking badly.
In the Lower House of the Hungarian
Diet, Monday. Herr Ugron made violent
attack upon Premier Banffy, who, he said,
made an unjust, unwarranted, cowardly
attack upon Mr.. Agliardi. the Papal
nuncio to Austria, while at the same time
he allowed himself to be insnlted by
Count Kalnoky, imperial premier. Herr
Ugron concluded his speech by demand
ing that Banify should say whether he had
resigned his Office. Baron Banffy made
no reply to the attack, which provoked
great uproar in the Chamber.
The Whiteway executive held two cabi-
net meetings, at st. Johns, N. F., Monday.
The sit uation In respect to the confedera-
tion with Canada is not as satisfactory as
it might be. The debt Of Newfoundland
is $l5, 900, 900, and this is a formidable
obstacle of the union. Canada's debt is
only $50 per capita. She is willing to as
sumo s 80. 900, 600 of Newfouudland's debt,
which would represent the same proper
tion of her per capita Indebtedness, but
there is slight likelihood of the imperial
govern ment assuming the remaining S..
900, 000.