Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-11-27
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought by the Wires from the North. East
South and West.

The Norwegian brig Ann Elizabeth
| Cardiff for Christiania was wrecked neal
Falmouth, Eng. Five of the crew wer,
| drowned.
| Fire broke out in the garrett of tn,
Plainville Knitting Cos. mill, Plainville
CT, Tuesday. Automatic sprinkler.
quenched the flames The loss is to ma
chinery, principally, S5O00 insured
The $500 verdict, awarded by the i,lr,
| in the superior court at Boston, last week
| in the case of Joseph Collins VS. Boston &
Maine, has been set aside by Judge Bond,
ana motion for new trial has beer
granted.
The strike of the housesmiths against J
| B. & J. M. Cornell and Milliken Bros.
New York assumed new phase, Tuesday
when the two firms carried out their threat
| of putting non union men at work on tn,
| most hurried jobs.
BY the exploding of a boiler in Ham
| merstcin's Olympia theatre, at New York
| Tuesday, one man was killed, another
| fatally injured and several Others badly
scalded. The cause Of the explosion wa:
| defect in the elbow of the large feet
steam chest of the engine,
The fight between Dick Burge and .Jen
Smith for 1900 a side and purse of $500
| took place, Tuesday night, at the Boiling
broke Club, London. In the ninth round
Burge, who had been badly punished, fell
| several times from exhaustion, and Referee
Angle declared Smith the winner. Burgt
was not able to hit his opponent.
Fire broke out, Tuesday, in the upper
| floor of the wooden factory on Bank street
Waterbury, CT, occupied by the Ameri
can Ring Co, and burned off the roof
| Loss. $40, geo. The fire was discovered in
n closet used for the storage of Irvine
Several workmen narrowly escaped suffo
cation from smoke. The factory was
fully insured
| The New York police commissioners
| Tuesday, 8 to /, dismissed Captain Joseph
| B. Eakins from the department. The
charges on which Capt. Fakins was dis
missed were neglect of duty In permitting
the existence of disorderly houses in his
| precinct, brought by the Parkhurst So
ciety Col. Fred d. Grant was the com
missioner voting against the dismissal Of
| Captain Eakins.
Captain Bray of the Portland bark H
J. Libby, arrived at Boston, Tuesday, from
| Cockburn Harbor, T. l., and reports al
unusually rough passage. The vessel was
severely strained but received no seriou:
injury during a terrific gale, Nov u.
When the vessel was in lat. 40 s., long. A.
| W, Alfred Taylor, one Of the crew, was lost
overheard and drowned All efforts tc
save him were futile. He was throw over
board by sudden lurch of the vessels.
He was IS years old, aud is supposed tc
have belonged in Liverpool, Eng.
Secretary Howard of Fall River, Mass.
who will represent the National Mule
| Spinners' Association at the convention
of the American Federation of Labor, has
forwarded this resolution to be presented
to the convention which reads: Resolved.
| that sufficient sum of money be granted
from the federation funds to send two men
to the Southern states to try and organize
aud educate the textile workers there TO q
sense of the necessity aud justice of q
| shorter day. The secretary says that until
something Is done to shortern the hours Of
labor in the South, it is unjust to ask
Northern manufacturers to reduce the pre-
sent number.