Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-10-23
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought by the Wires from the North. Eas'
South and West.

a few buildings III the OutSkitts VI VIZ
place left standing. Loss. s1Oo, o0o.
Putnam Simonds, aged aboat Sc, Will
crossing the Fitchburg track. at Hud
son, Mass, Tuesday, was struck by I
train and instantly killed. His head wa
cut off
DR.. Nab, i Spencer of Kansas City, Kan
has been appointed county ply stefan o
Riley county, Kansas She is the Hrs
woman in kansas to receive such al APP
pointment.
Prices rallied at New York, Tuesday
at the opening of the Gotten Exchange
There was great nervousness after tn,
semi panic of Monday, but early transac
tions, while heavy. did not equal Mon
days startling figures.
The Paris Soir approves of the British
attitude toward Venezuela and says
France will be compelled to initiate her tt
secure the equitable settlement of severa
questions The paper contends that there
is tendency in the United States tc
abuse the Monroe doctrine
| Monday, the first official steps wert
taken by the Democrats of Portsmouth,
n. H, to test the legality of the state
| police commission law. 1t is understood
that tho action is nominally brought by
ex-Marshal Rowe and that he has the
backing of several leading Democrats.
| The schooner Samuel l.. Russell, OF
Millville, n. j., loaded with 800 tons OF
moulding sand for the Thomas Houston
| Welding Company of Lynn, sunk in the
Saugus river at Lynn, Mass, Monday
night. The crew saved all effects. The
sinking was probably caused by striking
IA sunken pile. The vessel was owned
by John Russell of Leesburg, N. j.
P. A. widener of Philadelphia, has
given AN order to Lieut. Lewis Nixon to
build a steam yacht at Elizabethport. 1t
is said that the plans contemplate yacht
superior to any afloat The order was
given n month ago, but the matter has
| been kept close secret. Mr.. Widener' S
yacht will be about $50 feet long and it
will be built to stand cruising around the
world.
| The Senate and Chamber of Deputies
reopened their sessions at Paris, Tuesday,
the occasion passing off without incident.
Challamel Lacour, President of the Sen
ate and Henry Brisbon, President of the
Chamber of Deputies, addressed the res
pective bodies, each making references to
the success Of the French expedition to
Madagascar and congratulating the troops
upon the result
Jack Dempsy is dying, at Portland,
Ore. Within the past few days he has
been rapidly sinking and it is announced
his hours are numbered. He has tried to
change to country air, but with no appar.
- Ill Ill r
the pugilist's friends to see him. Demp-
sy realizes his condition and says it Is due
to the blow he received at the hands of
Fitzsimmons, four years ago, but his
friends say that it is consumption.
The London Times gives details of the
Anglo Venezuelan dispute and adds
Lord Sa!isbury's ultimatum has not come
a moment too soon. 1t is plain our fellow
countrymen in Guiana can have no
security whatever if unprovoked insolcnce
of this kind is overlooked. When the facts
are understood we cannot suppose that
either the Monroe doctrine or any argu-
mcnts advanced by Venezuela can OBJ
scure the, merits of our contention.
A final decree has been fled in the
Sawyer will case at Salem, Mass, where
" viz NObStl utplOIi VI pOI blODS VI WIG w III
of Samuel E. Sawyer of Gloucester, is
given by the supreme court. The execu-
tors are directed to pay the $40, 900 for
the Gloucester Lyceum and Sawyer Free
Library upon the surrender and cancella-
ton of the will. also to pay the bequest of
$40, 900 to the Female Charitable Associa-
ton of Gloucester, and also the requests to
the various charitable organizations named
in the 4Sth and 10th paragraphs Of the
will
A special committee appointed at the
last session of the Indiana Legislature
has completed an exhaustive inquiry into
the management of the penitentiaries and
the result will be the Introduction of a
bill abolishing the present system of hir-
ing the convicts to contractors. 1t is
proposed TO employ the state charges on
the public highways. the only exception
being made when long time and life pris-
oners are received for confinement The
object is to force convict labor from the
field of competing with free labor.
At meeting at Philadelphia, Monday,
of representatives, of the Citizens Munich
pal Association and State Senator Will
liam II. Andrews, chairman of the Senate
IN "i6o'ihS tpiiluIiOttt, III was ucclQpu
that the investigation of the Senate com
| mittee appointed by the last Legislature
| to investigate the municipal affairs of the
city of Philadelphia should begin ON No
vcmber II, Some of the witnesses who
will be summoned, were present at the
| meeting. and 1t is said that the outline
that they gave Of the testimony they will
| offer was of surprising character .s--
a special cable dispatch to the New
York Herald from Havana, says: The
entire inland has been affected by the
cyclone. The port of Havana has been
| closed since Sunday at noon. The Panama
| and ether steamers. which have cleared
are detained The ferry boats have sus-
pended and are delayed, exchange closed,
wires down and the trees In several place.
felled. The rivers Yumuri and San Juan
are overii0wing the country around
Watanseas, The lower streets in the
towns Of Guines, Aguacate and Nuerapaz
are inundated. All families have been
rescued. No loss of life is yet reported.
| The morning passenger train on the Bos-
ton a albany railroad. met with an acct
dent at Blsnchardville, Mass, Tuesday
| morning. The train left Palmer for Ros