Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-04-02
NEWS NUGGETS.
Bseuaht BY the Wires from the NORTH, East,
South and West.

moose county, Ohio, quit work, Monday
morning.
The English House Of Commons passed
the Welsh dis-establishment bill through
it's second reading, Monday, 3of to EGO.
The Minnesota Legislature, Monday,
passed a resolution congratulatipg Prince
Bismarck on his s0th birthday anniyer-
sary.
Mrs. Paran Stevens is reported to be
dangerously III with pneumonia, at her
home at New York. Mrs. Stevens is 70
years old.
Some 80 journeymcn painters at Law
renee, Mass, struck, Monday, owing to
refusal Of the master painters company
that days pay be fixed at s2.25.
by the explosion Of boiler at LoriDg
& Jones leather factory at Woburn,
Mass, Monday, four men were killed and
five men injured. The building was
wrecked.
Charles Camille Doucet, the distjn-
guished French dramatic author and
member and permanent secretary OF the
French Academy, was found dead in bed,
Monday. His age was 80.
The Commercial Bank at Stevens Point,
Wis, closed its doors, Monday, owing to
an extended run. Byron b. Parks was
appointed receiver. The assets are put
at 800, 900; liabilities, $780, 900.
An increase of So, 497, $50 in the ma
tional bank note circulation during
March, is shown in the monthly state
ment issued by Comptroller Eckcls, April
/, making total Of 5000, $50, IA.
About $50, 900 feet of sawed lumber in
the mill yard of r.. Whitehouse at Lin
coin, N. H., was burned, Sunday. Loss,
$4,000 to $500; insurance unknown. The
fire probably caught from burning refuse
Carl PREM, the first witness to fur
nish the Lexow investigation committee
ruptiOn in New York, was found dead in
his room there, Monday, having com
United suicide by taking poison.
All the coke operators in the Connells-
VILE, Pa, region, Monday, announced
that they would pay the IL per cent. ad-
yAnced in wages, inaugurated by the
Frick Co. about two weeks ago. This
will avert strike in the region.
The official treasury statement issued,
April /, shows that during March the
excess of expenditures over the receipts
was seas, 1852. The receipts were $685.
778 greater than in March, 1894, and the
expenditures S., 420, G03 less than last
March.
Herbert Asquith, homo secretary, an
nOunced in the English House of Com
mons Monday that the Irish political pris-
oners O'Callahan and Mccain had been
released. Each had served i2 years Of their
term. O'Callahan's eycsight is going
fast, Asquith said, and McCann has passed
his roth year.
The Hartford, Ct, city election, Mon
day, was very 1uiet The Republicans
elected three aldermen, and the Democrats
five. Hold-over aldermen, six Republi-
cans, two Democrats, which gives the Re
publicans control Of the board by two
majority. The now common council will
stand II Republicans, Is Democrats.
Notice was given, Monday, in wooden
mills at Andovor and North Andover
Haverhill and Franklin Falls, n H.,
owned by ex-Congressman Moses Stevens
a. Sons, that beginning April l, an ad
vance of Is per cent. in wages would be
made. This increases the pay to that
given before the reduction in 1894 and
will affect about 1900 hands.
The Philadelphia &, Reading Railroad
Co., Monday, defaulted in the dayment Of
$1,000 interest on the bonds of the Chester
Valley Railroad, and $1,000 interest on
bonds of the Camden Count Road. The
interest is due semi-annually, respectively
upon the assurances of $3.50, coo and s3D,
600 The reason for the non payment
by the lcsseCa was that the interest was not
earned.
Washington officials are informed from
sources that they deem entirely reliable
that prominent Eastern shipbuildng
firm has agreed to furnish tho insurgents
In Cuba, at m early day, with torpedo boat
to be used TO destroy the Spanish war
vessels now cruising in Cuban waters.
The Spanish government is said to be
aware Of this scheme and has notified the
state departmcnntt.
The New YORK police are looking for
Harry keene Carleton, aged 40 years, who
disappeared from his boarding house, ll6
East 22d street, New York, March Z. He
was bookkoeper for johnson x Faulkner,
11S East 18th street, and was given leave
of absence. March /. He returned to his
boarding house. March = badly injured
about tho face and body. He told several
conflicting stories of his injuries. The
theory of suicide is advanced.
Steamer Ymuri. which arrived at New
York, Monday, from Havana, brought
Captain Greene and five of the crew of
the three masted schooner Nina Jillson,
which was burned at sea. March u. as
previously reported. on the Bahama bank,
while on q voyage from Baltimore TO Gal
weston. The Jillson was Of G15 tons
register, and was built in Rockland Me,
in 1883, and hailed from there. The
vessel and cargo were partly insured.
"A Pawtuckct. r. l.. dispatch said,
Monday, that Joseph Furness is dying at
the Rhode Island hospital and his wife is
under the care of three physicians at her
home on Main street, as a result Of an
attempt at murder and suicide by the
husband. late Sunday niggt. The weapon
used was arazor. Furness attacked his
wife in bed soon after she had retired and
inflicted two ugly gashes in the chin and
throat. He then gashed his throat, partly