Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-04-23
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought by the Wires from the North, East
South and West.

Rev. Archibald Farrar, d. d., canon OF
Westminster, Eng, has been appointed
dean of Canterbury.
A Bordentown, N. j., dispatch says
Mrs. Parnell's condition remained I'M
changed, Monday night. Her mind is
still blank.
r. Hon. Arthur Wellesley Peel, ex-
Speaker of the English House of Com
mons, has been elevated to the peerage
with the title of Viscount.
An advance in wages in the three cotton
mills at Suncook, N. H., went into effect,
Monday, and 1900 employees are happy.
The cutdown was made, last August.
A general order was issued at the war
department., Monday announcing the re-
tirement of Major General Alex ID. Nc
Cook. The order reviews the career and
services Of the general.
A violent earthquake, accompanied
with thunder, shook Laibicb Austria,
Monday. Eight or 10 buildings collapsed
and a few families who had returned to
their homes, fled back to the fields.
The 11Sth ballot for United States SEN
ator was taken at Dover, Del, Monday,
and resulted: Higgins, Rep, 6; Addicks,
Rep, G.; Pennewill, Rep, g.; Massey,
Rep, 3; Ridgley, Dem, g.; Tunnel,
Dem, l :; absent, /.
Hervey N. Gould of Newton, n. H., was
Monday, arraigned in the Exeter, n H.,
p ,lice court on complaint of the Newton
fire district for the embezzlement of its
funds He pleaded not guilty and the
lse was continued until Wednesday,
In the Central criminal court, Old
Bailey, London, Monday, the recorder
advised the jury to return true bill
against Oscar Wilde and Alfred Taylor
Until the decision of the jury is an
nounccd Tuesday, the date of trial will
not be fixed.
Judge Prentice, Bridgeport, Ct. Mon
day, allowed Mrs Ida FaIkner only $50
for the loss of her husband, DR.. Eugene
Falancr, killed at North avenue crossing,
Bridgeport, four years ago. At pre-
vious trial the jury allowed the plaintiff
the full amount, 5000.
Sumner Chandler, while guarding a
door Of Archie Blodgett' S barn, at Berlin,
n. H, Saturday night, where robbers
were suspected to be, and being under Or
dciS w sHoo tuo HtSu lidu ut StW, uEtl dt
and probably fatally injured Blodgett, who
appeared without warning.
There is an outbreak of typhoid fever
at Stamford CT, more than so cases
b4ing reported. Physicians and the health
board upon investigation learned that the
disease is confined TO families served by
VIM. Blackner, u milkman. Contamin-
ated water used to dilute the milk is be-
lieved to be the cause
The New York police clsim to have as
certained the identity of the man who
murdered Alice Walsh, Sunday morning,
in the hallway of the tenement house. l43
Thompson street. He is not an Italian,
they allege, nor Jack the Ripper, but an
acquaintance or lover of the girl and
man of more than ordinary intelligence.
One hundred and fifty Italian laborers
working on the Essex branch Electric
railroad at Gloucester, Mass, quit work.
Monday. They claim when brought there
by contractors they were promised that
all should have work. This promise they
say was not kept, but the men were di-
vided in gangs of Is each, and at times
more than half were idle, but the con-
tractors promised all of them work if they
would turn to. which they refused to do
Cashier John L Cole of the National
Shoe and Leather Bank, New York, went
before Assistant United States District
Attorney John NJ. OFT, at New York,
Monday, and made an aflidavit on which