Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-10-05
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought by the Wires IRON the North. East.
South and West.

s. S. Burholder Il Co wholesa milli
ners, Chicago, assigned, Friday Liabili-
ties, 500, 900; no statement of assets made
Maj. Gen. Francis II. 2ugers took
formal command of the department. of the
East at Governors Island New York, Fri
day.
The ST Petersburg correspondent of the
Cologne Gazette denies the truth of the
report of NJ. Dewitts retirement from
the Russian ministry of finance
A special dispatch from Guayaquil,
Ecuador, says IA court martial has con
demned to the death penalty three leaders
of the police mutiny of last Tuesday
Salvatore, an Italian, was sentenced at
Boston Friday, to 10 years in the state
prison for manslaughter in causing the
death of Daniel F. Sullivan by shooting.
. The British brigantne Zee was driven
upon the sands In the Bristol (Eug chan
mel, near the Mumbes, Friday, and broke
up while lifeboat was proceeding to her
assistance. The crew was lost.
I Randall Burt. the oldest locomotive cngi-
neer in point Of service on the Concord
division of the Boston & Maine Railroad,
dropped dead at Concord, N. H., Friday.
He was about IS years old and had wife
and one son. He was prominent Con-
cord business man.
The steamer Campania from New York,
Sept. 49, arrived at Queenstown, at 6. 43
A. M. She covered the 2sl2 knots of her
voyage at an average speed of 212 2 knots
per hour. She experienced strong east
winds for two days and afterward fresh
westerly gales and high seas.
The Beaver line steamship Lake Winni-
peg from Liverpool for Montreal, is
aground in the St Lawrence, near Varen-
nes, Is miles from Montreal The passen-
gers were taken the Montreal on tugs and
lighters are at work removing the cargo.
The vessel is on a soft bottom and the
agents expect to get her off in couple OF
days.
AT noon, Friday, a large balloon was
seen at Worcester Mass. to the northward
and apparently going north. 1t was high
up and was soon hidden by cloud 1t
had drag rope out and two flags
Opinions differ as to whether there was
anyone in the basket but apparently no
more than one, If any
Josiah Morris, aged "a years. a section
hand on the Northern Division of the
Consolidated Road was struck at Sud
bury River bridge near the Lakeview,
Mass, camp grounds, by train from
Lowell, at 9 A. M, Friday, and instantly
killed. The body was badly mangled He
lived in South birmingham and is sur
vived by his wife
Jacob Worth the Republican political
leader 4 1frs nj tn,,
day, at the Republican city convention at
Brooklyn, when his candidate for the
mayoralty nomination, william Cullen
Bryant, was Detected by Frederick W.
Wurster by scvcra votes Worth followers
tried to stampede the convention and de-
layed the voting for nearly 30 minutes.
In the superior criminal court at Bos
ton, Friday, the jury in the case OF DR.
Jacob W. Brown. alias J. Wales Brown, |
returned verdict of guilty of the indlct- |
ment charging the defendant with having |
performed criminal surgical operation on |
Mrs. Maud L. Farrell, Aug. 3, causing the |
woman's death. Brown will be sentenced |
later.
Judge Hanford of Seattle, Wash, has |
cited Thomas f. Oaks, Henry c. Payne |
and Henry c. Rouse to appear in his |
court before Oct. 81, and show cause why |
they should not be punished for contempt |
for failing to file their accounts as directed, |
and answer charges made by President
Brayton Ives of the Northern Pacific
Railroad Company. The order was not
made public until Thursday.
Arthur Beckmap, years old, had a mar
row escape from horrible death at Wey-
mouth, Mass, Thursday. He was play
Ing in the barn Of A. w Baker and fell
down the scuttle hole. He was immedi-
atel attacked by the pigs, which are kept
there, and before he could be rescued was
horribly bitten on the face, hands, arms
and body and one wrist was broken His
is dangerous and blood poison
ing is feared.
United States Consul General Donnelly
writes the department of state from Nuevo
Laredo, Meco, that the amendments to the
constitution proposed by the minister Of
finance, having for their object the alb III
ton of the interstate tariff duties known
as the Alcabala, is now before the Mexi-
can Congress. The amendments, he says,
seek to overthrow an evil centuries old,
fixed by popular habit and PR judic. and
backed by powerful official inter. SIS If
passed and enforced, our ira ie will lie
greatly increased, as these laws have hurt
our relations with Mexico more III N those
of any other country. Their effect has
been to check emigration and to ep out /
American enterprise and capital.