Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-05-17
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heavv frost caused great damage to
f.,;. md Garden truck in the Chemung
ra,,sr about Elmira. N. Y. Wedne sday
night 1t is estimated that two thirds OF
the crop is ruined.
President Cleveland, Thursday, signed
rrocIanation submitted to him by Secre
t.rv Hoke Smith. opening for settlement
Wav o. the lands of the Yankton Sioux
Indian reservation.
Tones & Laughlin. operating the extern
siro Amorican Iron Works, Pittsburg. Pa,
have voluntarily advanced the wages OF
all skilled worimen 10 per cent ABOUT
1000 men are affected.
A. J. Aliens dwelling house at Maple
Grove farm, some three miles from INC
center of the city of Worcester, Mass was
entirely destroyed by fire. Thursday.
Loss. 5000; partially insured.
Another engagement is reported De
tween Spanish and Cuban forces in Arroyo
Naranjo, near Guantanamo, Cuba, In
which the insurgents were forced to with
draw. The rebels were commanded by
the brothers Maceo.
The weekly bulletin of the l.. A. w.
lust issued, state is that these sanctions
have been granted: May Is, Thornton
Academy Athletic Association, Saco,
Me- May Is, Portland High School
Athletic Association. Portland, Me.
The London Times will say, Friday,
that the indemnity from Nicaragua for
the expulsion of pro-Consul Hatch and
the outrages on other British subjects
was paid Great Britain Thursday, through
the London Bank of Central America.
Sharinton Varney, aged SO years, a
prominent Adventist and Good Templar
in New Hampshire, dropped dead from
heart disease, Thursday. at the Cocheco
| Wooden Mills, East Rochester, n. b..
where he has been employed for many
years
The Upper H ouse of the Prussian Diet.
Thursday, ~ TO SO, adopted the resolu-
ton submitted by Count Won Mirbacb,
declaring that steps should be taken for
the prompt settlement of the currency
question by an international agreement
on bi- metallism.
The New York Legislature adjourned,
Thursday the greater New York bill be-
ing finally lost in the Senate after the
referendum was adopted. Is to IA. The
bill was killed by laying on the table
motion to reconsider the vote by which
the amendment was adopted
The Pennsylvania express train contain
ing General Harrison rolled into the
Market street station at Newark, n. j.,
at 2. 90 p NJ. Five thousand people were
in the station and its approaches. Mr..
Harrison was cheered as he walked out to
coach in waiting and was driven rapidly
to the Lyceum.
At Thursday nights meeting of the
A. q. H., at New York, the present Off
GERS were reelected and installed. Phila-
delphia was chosen as the place for the
next annual convention. The conven-
ton adjourned sine die and the next con-
vention will be held on the second Tues
day of May, 1895.
An unknown man jumped from the
Brooklyn bridge, early Thursday morning
He was evidently uninjured. The jumper
was picked up by two of his companions
in a row boat and was rowed over to the
bulkhead in front of Marston's CONNER
cial yard, adjoining the bridge on the
Brooklyn side.
Brockton, Mass. was arrested, late Thurs
day night, charged with the murder of
Nils Paulson. This is the result of
careful autopsy of the body found in
bog hole in the meadow in East Bridge
water, April %, with evidence of blow
back of the ear. Paulson had been miss
ing since March 20.
One new case of small pox was dis
covered at Claremont, N. H., Thursday,
in the Charron family making in all %
cases Forty. six cases of measles were
reported, last week. There are now 16
small pox patients in the hospital. Six
are convalescent. One will be discharged,
Friday. The new case came from the
infected area. Only two cases are serious.
The French torpedo boat No. 20
foundered, Thursday, northwest of the He
D'Aix, short distance from Rochefort
France. There were nine persons on the
boat when she sank. four being drowned
and five picked up by b passing vessel
Tho ba rbette iron and steel ship Admiral
Duperre, struck rock bott I'M in the gulf
of Juan, causing her to leak badly
Fire at Coney Island, Thursday, destroyed
over 90 buildings and did 1925, 900 dam
age. William Gallagher jumped from the
roof of the Woolsey building on Surf
avenue and was fatally injured. This is
the third big fire that has visited Coney
Island mt the beginning of the season.
The first two fires caused about 500, 600
each. Some place the damage by Thurs
days fire at between $3.50. 900 and $780,
000
Another step was taken, Wednesday,
in the Ashburnham. Mass infant mystery,
on complaint of Deputy Sheriff W. H.
Richardson Of Ashburnham. A charge of
murder on three counts was made against
Miss Ada Chamberlain of Wardsboro, VT.
She pleaded not guilty, waived examina-
ton and was bound over without bail to
the August sitting of the grand jury of
Fitchburg. Deputy Sheriff Richardson
took her to the Jail in Fitchburg She
has confessed to having given birth to the
child, the last of February. while she was
visiting Mrs. Myron W. Grover at Ash
burnham. She claims, however, that the
child was born dead, and without Mrs.
Grover knowledge. She says she hid 1t
herself in the stone wall intact How the
mutilation happened she says she is igno-
rant A farmer in Vermont she names