Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-04-11
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The Tobin dressed stone bill has been
reported favorably to the New York Sen
ate.
Mrs Emily Freeburn James, the wife
OF ex-Postmaster General Thomas L.
James, died at New York, Wednesday
night, of pneumonia.
Schooner Lizzie ". Hannum, the
"shelT' schooner, Capt. Sanchez, was
wrecked on Great Ledge, Buzzard's bay,
Wednesday. The crew was saved.
Francis Kossuth, son and political heir
of the late Louis Kossnth was elected,
VIZ d 1esday, to represent the Tarpolosea
district in the Hungarian Reichstag.
The celebrated conspiracy case of Bout
well and others against William MARI and
"a others, at Montpelier, VT, for $40, 600
damages, was closed Wednesday. with a
verdict for the plaintiff for 1921. So and
costs.
Twelve men arrested in Brooklyn, n.
Y, for unlawful acts during the recent
trolley strike, were sentenced, Wednos
day, by Judge Morore to imprisonment
in the penitentiary varying from 60 days
to Is months.
y ELdltDktUD lltlnICh az
department shows that the salaries paid
annually to persons employed in the treas
ury at Washington aggregates 81, 1855, 49S.
The number Of employees from Maine are
IS; salary, $l05, 95l.
The big steamer St. Paul, which dis
appointed so many people on March 81 by
refusing to bulge from her ways, was
successfully launched at los p. NJ,
Wednesday, at Cramps ship yard, Phila
lelphia, in the presence Of nearly 90, 600
persons.
Joseph Buck, a boarder, shot and killed
Tcssie Williams in house at Magazine
and Komcrn streets, Newark, n. j.,
Wednesday. After shooting her he turned
the revolver on himself and fred dying
almost instantly. Jealousy is supposed
to have been the motive.
The general store Of Watts Bros Wash
ington Depot, CT, was struck by light
ming about midnight, Tuesday, and
destroyed by fire. The building was
owned by the railroad company and was
damaged about $1,000. Loss to Watts
Bros, about $4,000; with little insurance.
Perry, the train robber, who few years
ago tried to rob car Of the American Elk
press Co. on the New York Central,
escaped, with five other inmates of the
Mattewan state asylum, from that insti-
tuition. late Wednesday night. They as
saulted a keeper and escaped through a
scuttle.
The London Standards Berlin CORE
spondent says: ~ learn from II Chinese
source that there is reason to doubt the
ont, az 10 aynartationG pf
japan has noe abatcd her excessive de-
nands. especially as to the session of a
part of Manchuria, to which China on no
account will assent"
Coroner Phelps continued the inquest
into the death of George Cutler at Stat
fords Springs, CT, Wednesday. He states
Il at he has traced all possible clues to the
supposed murder without success. The
evidence now shows that the man was in
Il row, got beastly drunk and accidentally
fell on the rocks in the river on his way
home.
After lingering illness, Mrs. Henry
NJ. Storrs, wife of the late Rev. DIR.
Storrs, and mother of the assemblvman Of
that name, died at her home in Orange,
\. j., Wednesday. Mrs. Storrs was a
woman of marked literary attachments.
She was the daughter Of President Hitch
cock Of Amherst college, and was about
D. years old.
The steamship Harolde entered the
Latchford lock of the Manchester, Eng,
ship canal, Wednesday, at full speed,
smashed the gates, passed through and
dropped Is feet into the water below.
Tho gates weigh 500 tons. One sank and
the other hangs across tho lock. The
attendants closed and bound with hawsers
the upper gates, preventing the disaster
which otherwise would have resulted
from the Is foot difference of the water
levels The Harolde was much damaged