Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-28
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought BY the Wires from the North, East
South and West.

The races at Franklin park, Saugus,
Mass, were not trotted, Thursday, owing
to the rain.
The annual convention of the American
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers is
in session in Quebec.
Prompt action on the part of the police
saved Waldron block in Portsmouth, from
destruction, early Thursday morning.
The sgd annual commencement exer-
cises of the College of the Holy Cross were
held, Thursday. The graduates num-
bered A.
More than 1000 persons attended the
monster benefit to John L. Sullivan at
Madison Square Garden, New York,
Thursday night.
Liebereoht Won Kotzc and Baron Won
Schraeder have each been sentenced, at
Berlin, to three months Imprisonment in
a fortress for duelling.
The arrest of wealthy land owner at
Gatafe, SPAIN has led to the discovery
that he is the leader of bands of pickpockets
whose scope is international.
In the tennis tournament at Newton,
Mass, Thursday, Hovey and Hobort de-
feated DR.. PIN and Mahoney, the greatest
team of all England and Ireland, in three
straight sets.
Appearances indicate that the gates of
the Hamilton Corporation at Amesbury,
Mass, will be opened, Monday morning
next, and that all who desire to return to
work can do so.
BY vote of 1856 to II the Talbot Mills
strikers at Lowell, Mass, Thursday, re-
fused the proposition of the mills, and
voted to stay out until satisfactory com
promise is made. The meeting was enthu-
siastic.
Mayor Aubrey Hull of Quebec, Thurs
day, was found guilty on the charges of
boodling, principally by getting notes
shaved by civic contractors and not paying
them. Judgment was given against him
with disqualification from office.
AT special meeting of the stockhold-
ers of the Bell Telephone Company at
Boston, Thursday it was voted to increase
the capital stock from $50, 500, 900 to SELL
$50 900, and the number of shares from
205, 600 to $4,000, par value 300.
A private meeting of the striking weav.
ers of the Hamilton mills, Amesbury,
Mass. was held, Thursday, to decide rs to
going to work, Monday. if the gates are
opened as expected. They were unani-
nous In voting to remain out. The at
tendance was small.
Tho flve-story building at 20 and %
First avenue, South, Minneapolis, Mimi,
occupied by Mcdonald Bros, wholesale
crockery, was burned, Thursday night
The side wall fell, crushing group of fire
men. Six were taken out dead, three are
missing, and many others are injured.
Loss, $50, 900; large insurance.
Mrs. Edith M. Tobin, aged Is, was
arraigned in the Exeter, N. H., police
court, Thursday, charged with burning
John II. Thyng's farm buildings at
Brentwood, last September, and was held
without bail for the supreme court. Evil
dence was given that for petty grievance
before the fire she threatened to make
Thyng 'pay dear" Two men testified
that she admitted to them that she set the
fire.
The Berlin Tagebiatt publishes an ap-
peal from the European colonists at
Iskanderun, in northern Syria, asking the
Western powers to protect them against
the Moslem lnountaineers, who are daily
piIlaging them and menacing their lives.
The Vossische Ieitung says the Macedon-
ian question is certain to come to the
forefront OF European diplomacy since the
rising against oppression in that country
has been successful
The tug Albert Victor, returning to
Weymouth, Eng, reports that l2 miles
southwest of Portland Bill, in the Eng
lfsh channel, she DasSed throuph two
miles of floating barrels, boxes, loose Oil
and wreckage A carved mahogany
stanohion four feet long and a quantity of
wreckase have come ashore at Godnor. 1t
is presumed that the vessel to which the
floating cargo, etc., belonged was sunk in
with some other ship.
Hon. Il. ". Patterson. register of the