Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-01-11
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The civil marriage OF Premier Crispi's
daughter and Prince Lingualossa, took
place at Naples, Thursday.
ST. Johns was quiet, Thursday. The
government is planning work to relieve
the distress of the working people.
A fierce northeast gale ragged on the New
England coast, Thursday, and terrific
sea is reported. No disasters yet reported.
At the New York horse sale, Thursday,
Miss Lavalard, by Lavard Grace W., was
bought by c. H. Wilson, Waterville, Me-,
for $3.50.
Wesley Bawling, thrifty farmer liv-
ing near Lewisburg, Pa, shot and killed
wife, child and himself, Thursday. No
reason is assigned
Three American soldiers were drowned,
Thursday, while crossing from Fort
Niagara to Niagara on the Lake, Ont, by
the boat upsetting
The Boston common council, Thursday
night, indefinitely postponed the order
providing for an investigation of all the
departments of Boston.
In the French Chamber of Deputies,
Thursday, Deputy Hertert moved general
amnesty of political prisoners. The mo-
ton was lost, 345 to 167.
In the billiard contest, at Boston, Thurs
day night, Mclaughlin made 3lS points
and Eames, 200. Grand total, Nc
Laughlin, $50; Eames, 1900.
Mrs. VIM. H. Price of Cleveland, Ohio,
widow of the manufacturer murdered by
burglars, Dec IL, positively identifies
Thomas Grant now under arrest, as one
of her husband murderers.
A dispatch from Shanghai says severe
fighting has taken place near Jehol, Mon
golia, 1870 miles northeast of Pekin, and
hundreds of wounded Cinnamon are re
ported daily arriving at Tien Tsin.
Governor Altgeld delivered his message
at Springfield, ILL.,, Thursday, to Il large
audience. Nearly half of the message
(Which is 25, 900 words in length) is de-
voted to the labor troubles of the year
Wyeth's collar factory at st. Joseph,
Mo-, was totally destroyed by fire. Thur
day 1t was the largest of the kind in
the West and employed nearly 300 men.
The loss will reach $3.50, 900; partially in
sured
American schooner Elbridgc, Souther,
which sailed from Philadelphia, Dec 10,
for Cal BARREN, went ashore on San
Felipe key, West Indies, Dec 81, and
was abandoned, Jan. 1. The crew was
saved
A dispatch from Yokohama to the Lon
don Globe says some japanese newspapers
print report that the King of Corca has
been assassinated, while other papers as
VT hat ho bnc tod xr;th
epilepsy.
On application OF the Eastern creditors,
Judge Wakefield has appointed Joseph
Sampson of Sioux City, Iowa, and G.. H.
Crandec, Lowell Mass, receivers of the
Fidelity Loan and Trust Co OF Sioux
City. Receiver Sampson is president of
the company.
Miners at Spring Hill, n. s., coal mines
Thursday. Trouble has been
brewing between the miners and manage
ment for some time over whether the
work should be in one long shift or two
short ones. Neither side would give way
and the strike resulted.
Cyrus C. Armstrong, secretary of the
Roger Williams Savings Fund and Loan
Association of Providence, for some II
years, was found dead in his bed, Thurs
day, having taken laudanum and opium
The deceased had been sick for some
time and it is believed that while temper
arily deranged. owing to an attack Of the
grip, he took the drugs with fatal effect
The deceased S accounts are not known to
be out of the way.
Senator Lexow, Thursday, introduced
a resolution in the New York Senate,
that the special Senate commit
tee which has been investigating the New
York police department be empowered to
the other New York city de-
partmcnts on request of the mayor. The
resolution was tabled till Tuesday next,
when the report of the police investigation
will be submitted.
a cablcgram received by the officials of
the American watch factory, ut Walthain,
Thursday, announced the death in Birm-
ingham. England, of Aaron L. Dennison
the :" Father of American matchmaking
and the man in whose genius originated
the present mammoth American watch
factory and its offshoot, the great factory
at Elgin, Ill. Mr.. Dennison was born
March II, 1872, at Frceport. Ne.
In the case os Thomas J. Lally against