Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-07-15

who in some way wandered from his home
in Berwick, Me, was taken into custody
by the Waltham police, Sunday night.
he will be detained until word Is received
from his relatives.
Fire in the printing house Of r l..
| Peck &, Co, II Ford streat. Hartford,
CT, Sunday evening pretty well destroyed
| the contents of the top floor. The goods
on the lower floors were soaked with
water. Total loss about $4,000
A ship passing through the Baltic North
sea canal, Saturday, came into collision
with the French ship Emile near Rend.-
burg and the latter vessel Immediately
sank. The suuken vessel has greatly
impeded traffic through the new water
way
Frederick REMAIN, congressman from
the 1tSh Illinois district. died at Vandslia,
H., Sunday, after an illness of more than
three months. His death was the result
of a complication of diseases, the principal
being nervous prostration. Col. Remain
was born in Illinois in 1877.
The bill of exceptions filed at Boston by
the counsel for Angus ID. Gilbert, the con
victed murderer of Little Alice Sterling,
WAS dlIONtu III d liOulIltu IOEl1l III Uuc
superior court, Saturday, and the argu-
ment for new trial will be made before
the supreme court in November.
The brick block of A. McCallum, dry
goods dealer, Northampton, Mass, was
Quilted by fire, Sunday evening, and the
entire stock practically destroyed by fire
and water. The building was valued at
$50, 600; insured for s25 900. Stock val
ued at $50, 600; insured for $40. 900.
The New York Heralds correspondent
in Guayguil, Ecuador, says that CORE
spondent for the Herald with General
Sarasti's staff of the Riobamba, telegraphs
that a group fof 30 men, including several
officers of high rank have deserted. They
Joined Alfaro's forces in Alaust, Saturday.
Benoni Knight, aged 20, one of the
best known farmers in western Rhode
Island, fell from a 32foot hay loft at his
farm in West Greenwich, r. L., Saturday,
dropping behind a pair of horses. He was
fatally kicked. His right leg was broken
in two places and internal wounds in
llicted.
Late Sunday night, report reached
Buffalo, n. Y, that the steamer Cibola
of the Niagara river line. was destroyed
same night. The docks and freight sheds
were totally destroyed. The fire was
spreading and the New York Central
depot was threatened
A sailing dory containing three men
was capsized outside the entrance of Mar.
bleahead harbor in the heavy squall, Satur-
day, Galcn Coffin, stereotype block maker
OF Boston was drowned, his son Arthur
a., -. 4 L.
field was picked up while swimming for
shore and is all right
! 1t is generally believed at Valparaiso
that the cabinet crisis will remain IN
solved until there is definite settlement
with The leaders in the fusion of the
liberal parties In the country. Arm
strong has offered to the government of
Chilli warship, of the cruiser type of
great strength and speed.
| The Austrian government has decided
| to proceed with tho construction of o
canal connecting the Danube, Moldau and
Elbe rivers. The chief cities of Bohemia
| and Austria have offered one aggregate
subventiou Of IL, 900, 900 forms to con-
struct a canal which will link the Dan
ulc, Moldau, Eibe. Oder and Vistula riv
ers, and the project is being seriously con-
| sidered. 80
Members OF tho Order of Railway Con-
ductors say the Pennsylvania Company
| has begun systematic war on their or
| ganizatioD, and that all conductors who
do not withdraw from the order are being
| quietly dropped and their places supplied
with men who are not members of the
order. II is said that the failure of the
Atlanta convention to restore tho non
strike clause to the constitution has
caused the company to believe that the
conductors cannot be relied on in case OF
strike, and for this reason the company
is employing new men.
Trustworthy reports received at
Panama, Saturday, from Barranquilla,
says that II fresh uprising has occurred
among the Liberals in Santa Marta and
that attempts were being made to invade
Colombian territory by way of Geagiras
on the Venezuelan frontisr General
Eliseo Pagan, statesman, and formerly
President of Colombia is dead Further
reports from Carthagena say that the loss
by tho explosion of the boiler of the
electric light plant there will reach tho
sum of s240,o00 Twenty seven persons
were killed and injured.
Mrs. Marie Wainwright, a wealthy Dos
ton widow, is IN San Francisco In search
of her son, who is probably In the regular
army under an assumed name. She be-
lteves he is at Camp Monterey. She says
he disappeared from Boston shortly after
inheriting $50, 900 from his uncle. James
Dwyer. two years ago. Dwyer and VAIN
wright, the young mans father, were
prominent as lumber merchants for many
years n Bangor. Me- The uncle also left
mis- nephew valuable real estate ut Con-
cord, n. H., which IS now neglected, ow-