Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-03-12
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought by the Wires from the North, East
South and West.

Gen. Harrison was aDlc U pc up MIN
day. He is entirely out of danger and as
physician says he will be able to be out In
few days.
The Belgian government will join
France in protest against the action OF
Venezuela in expelling the French and
Belgian ministers.
A dispatch from Rat Portage, Man /,
saws that the Sultana mine there is on
fire. Twenty miners are imprisoned and
it is feared all will be lost.
The ballot taken for senator at Dover,
Del, Monday, resulted: Higgins, Rep
8; Addicks, Rep, s; Massey, KEEP, +
Wolcott, Dem, 6; Tunnel, Dem, d;
absent, 5.
The finishers in c. E. Coffin's hat fac
tory, Newburyport, Mass, struck, Mon
day, against cut in wages, which they
saw amounts to SO per cent Of the pre-
vailing schedule.
The Toledo, Ohio, High school build
ing, a four-story brick structure. was al
most destroyed by fire, early Monday. The
loss is estimated at $4,000, with in
surance not known.
The Russian yacht Czarina, with NJ q.
Onou, Russian minister to Greece on
board, was wrecked, Sunday, in the gull
of Patros, Greece. The fate of Mr. Onou
and crew of the yacht is unknown.
SThe Yale faculty, Monday, stated that
the current rumors of additional cases OF
vaiioloid among the students were with
out foundation. There is no room for
doubt that the disease has disappeared.
1t is reported that the German govern
lncnt is sending two war ships to Guayra
to enforce the payment of the per cent.
unpaid guarantee in the construction of
the Central Venezuelan railway built by
Germans. .
Late Monday afternoon information
reached Socorro, n. NJ. that the fire in
Old Abe mine was under control, Sun
day afternoon, and he rescuing party
brought out the impri soned miners, five
Of whom were dead.
The three masted schooner Joel F.
Shepherd, which sailed from Hampton
Roads, February 4, with a cargo of coal
for Quincy Point, Mass, and for whose
safety much anxiety was felt, arrived in
Quincy Bay, Monday
Fire in the four-story wooden building
formerly Hook & Hastings organ factory,
now occupied by the Globe Dye House Co.
and some carpenter firms, caused a loss of
$4,000 to $40, 600, Friday
The arguments on the part of the gov
crnment in behalf of the constitutionality
of the income tax, was resumed before
the supreme court of the United States at
Washington, Monday, Assistant Attor-
ney General Whitney continuing his ar
gument.
The fast mail on the Missouri Pacific
struck a carriage containing Mrs. Thomas
Allen and her daughter and Miss Martha
Deacon, at grade crossing at st. Joseph,
Mo-, Sunday Mrs. Allen was instantly
killed and the two young ladies were prob
ably fatally injured.
The case of the state of Louisiana VS..
the Olympic Athletic Club in the attempt
to annul the charter of that club was de-
cided in favor of the latter, Monday, by
the lower court. The effect of the deci-
sion will be to permit glove contests to
take place at New Orleans.
News was received at Brattleboro, VT,
Monday, of the death at his home in
Omaha, Neb., of Col. Silas M. Waite, late
president of the ruined First National
Bank of Brattleboro. He was in the en-
ploy of the Omaha and Grant Smelling
Company Friday he was stricken with
apoplexy.
The Barre band of Cuban insurgents,
defeated and dispersed by Gen. Garrich,
has been reduced to 40 men and negotia-
tions are pending for their surrender.
Public sentiment in the province Of
Santiago de Cuba now the only really
disturbed district, is very strongly in
favor of peace.
The Norfolk Iron Works Co., manufac-
turers of heavy government air compress
sors and pumps at Norfolk, " - which
shut down several weeks ago, throwing
500 men out of employment, res,imed
operations, Monday. with full compile.
ment of help, and with orders sufficient TO
keep the works running till fall. &
Signs of settlement of the strike at New
York, in which the electrical workers and
their sympathizers are engaged, were enJ1
tirely absent, Monday. The tieup was
tighter than ever and work on several new
buildings was ordered stopped by the
board of walking delegates. Everything
is now quiet on the river, but the situa-
ton is very strained.
A stock company is being formed at
Portsmouth, N. H., for new evening
new spaper. Nearly all the capital stock
OF Sl2, 600 has been pledged. and it is
expected that the new daily will be started
carly in April. 1t will be Republican and
will have for editor well-known journal
ist now connected with one of the most
vigorous Republican organs in New Eng
land.
John +. Temple, the noted Abolitionist,
died at Chicago, Sunday night, aged so.
He was born in Germany and emigrated
when II years old. In 1885 he and other
men organized the first nti-slavery society
in the state Of New York. at Utica Mr.
Temple was delegate from New York at
the historical meeting of the Pennsylvania
Society in Harrisburg and other famous
gatherings.
The failure of Clarence McKim was an
nounced on the New York stock exchange,
Monday He had been in business since
1887 and was a large trader on the bear
side of the market He is said to have
been caught short Of sugar on the recent
advance and over 10000 shares were
I,oufbf in for his acrorpt Nloufl..y He