Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-05-09
NEWS NUGGETS.
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South and West.

The German government has received
petitions, with 90, 600 signatures, against
the anti Socialist bill
It is stated that the Russian educational
budget has been increased 5000, 900 rou-
bles, the inrease to be applied to the. sup
port of elementary schools.
The constitutional convention at Salt
Lake, Utah, has performed its last task by
adopting an address to the voters of Utah,
appealing to them to support the new
constitution in November.
The arguments on the income tax case
were closed in the Supreme court, at
Washington, Wednesday, and court ad-
journed till May 90. The opinion prevails
that the court will decide against the tax.
The London Times st. Petersburg cor.
respondent wires that military prepare
lions in the East have been suspended by
Geographic orders Russia is evidently
glad to escape from her very awkward
position
Tuesday night, the east bound freight
train, No. 1874, on the Lake Eric 81 West
ern Railroad, left the track just south OF
Celina, o. Twelve cars were piled up.
Six tramps were stealing ride upon an
oil car and two of them were killed and
two others were injured
A dispatch from Varua says the Turkish
government has abandoned as impracti-
cable, the proposed libel suits which were
to have been brought against London
newspapers for publishing stories Of al
legged Turkish atrocities from their cor
respondents in Armenia.
H. L. Foss, who was arrested at San
Francisco, q short time ago, in connection
with the Chinese forgeries, confessed,
Tuesday Foss detailed infinitely the
transaction of the certificate ring in which
Cyproco. Sullivan and Grecnward were
concerned. 1t is expected arrests will fol.
low
A destructive fire caught i'll the stable
of L. 5 Barrett in the rear of the store
! occupied by George S. Ridlon, Gorham,
n. H., little before Z, A. NJ, Wednes,
day 1t soon communicated to ana wholly
consumed Barrett's drug store block and
the Simon Stahl block on Main street.
The loss is from SIG, 600 to SIS, 600.
The 10th annual convention of the Ma
tional League of Musicians met at Cleve.
land, Ohio, Tuesday. The membership OF
the league is about IL, 000 1t is believed
the proposition to have the league ANAL
gamated with the American Federation
of Labor will be laid on the table. SEES
sions of the convention will continue I'M
til Saturday.
| Firemen, laborers and greasers to the
number of 800, employed at the Illinois
| Steel Company's mills ut Joliet, III. have
| struck for an advance in their wages OF
| 10 to 20 per cent. The strike Of the men
made it impossible to continue running
the mills, and they were closed down at
midnight, Tuesday, throwing 1900 men
out of employment.
The Hamburger Nachrichten says AS
Germany has no interest in the questions
of territory involved in the treaty OF
Shimonoseki, she must have had secret
grounds for interference Germany's &C.
tive policy was premature and unnecces
sary. The declaration of a benevolent
neutrality would have fully proved hel
| laudable desire to do Russia a service.
The Nebraska supeme court Tuesday.
made an important ruling in the suit OF
the state against ex Treasurer Hill. tc
recover 1886, 600 lost by Hill in the bank