Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-08-07
NEWS NUGGETS.
srcuqhs by the Wires from the North, East
South and West.

William +, Doty, commission mer.
chant of Bridgeport CT, has disappeared
and his creditors say that he took about
$500 in cash with him,
The grand circuit races announced for
| Tuesday at Buffalo, n, Y, were postponed
on account of rain. The entire pro
gramme will be advanced one day.
| The Rocky Mountain Savings Bank of
| Denver, Col, assigned, Tuesday. It was
mixed up somewhat with the lately de-
funct Union National Bank and the col
apseswas expected.
During the session of the Wesleyan con-
ference at Plymouth, Eng, Tuesday, a
vote OF sympathy with the relatives of the
victims of the recent outragcs in China
was unanimously passed.
| Judge Goff, at Richmond, Va, Tues
day, in the South Carolina registration
case, dismissed the complainants bill for
an Injunction. This decision uphoids the
present registration laws.
A London Central News dispatch from
Milan says that EIenore Duse, the cele-
DRAFTED actress, Is suffering from melan-
cholia and her condition causes her Lon
| GUn lfleDuS IDuCu uUtoStDtSS-
Charles Foster an oldtime actor, died
at New York, Tuesday of Bright's disease.
He was the author of Twenty Years
Dead, ," y" The Swamp Angel. y "The Old
Straw Man, and other lively dramas.
Early Tuesday Deputy Shorff Ali
Wornor of Critendon county. Ar, was
shot and killed near Jones Landing, or
the Mississippi river, by negro whom he
was attempting to arrest The Negro
escaped
The congress of Deaf and Dumb Asso
Among these in attendance at the open
ing session was Rev DR. Thomas Gal
!audct of New York, who represents the
| United States at the congress.
New York morning paper SAYS that,
is result of the daily increasing de-
moralization in coal rates, caused by thu
oal carrying railroads, the individual
anthracite operators have decided to tax,
matters into their own hands Ii is an.
nounced that they will forthwith place
I. 600, 900 tons Of anthracite on the market
\ - a ton unless prompt action is taken
by the oal-carrying companies to restore
prices and to limit the output.
Samuel Untermeyer, counsel for Fred
orick W. Annes and George NJ Pynchon,
| made application to Justice O'Brien in the
| supreme court chambers mt New York,
| Tuesday, for an injunction to restrain the
| reorganization committee OF the Whiskey
| Trust and the Manhattan Trust Co, from
| making use of certain securities of the
| Whiskey Trust These securities, it was
claimed, have been deposited with the de
PENDANTS for the benefit of the stockhold
ers of the old Whiskey Trust.
Papers were issued at Boston, Monday.
in behalf of the American Bell Telephone
Co, upon the National Telephone Manu-
featuring Co in u suit for an order re
Straiuing the latter from infringing the
Berliner patent. The suit as brought,
will test the validity of the Berlinef
patent and will be fought by the National
Company with the assistance OF several
other powerful corporations The hear
ing is assigned before tho United States
3ircuit court for the first Tuesday in
september.
A dispatch from Kreuzberg, Germany.
says that number Of field laborers in
Argenau, having become discontinued for
some reason and desiring to be revenged
for their grievances, set fire TO the build
ings upon an estate there. The authorj-
ties were called upon to arrest the laborers
who resisted the officers, and in the fight
which eDsued five persons were killed and
six wounded. The buildings upon the
estate were entirely destroyed and all the
horses and cattle burned to death.
James Morse, a carpenter, went into a
saloon on Fairfield avenue, Bridgeport.
CT, Tuesday, with a friend who called
for baer. Morse ordered beef sandwich.
When be attempted to swallow the first
bite he began to strangle. He called to his
companion to strike him on the back.
The latter did 50, hut this only drove the
destruction up instead of down. Morse
finally fell TO the floor and before relief
could be obtained he was dead He was
IS years old and is survived by his wife
and seven children.
One hundred and eighty-three laborers
mostly Italians, employed by J. B. Reilly
& Co, contractors, struck at the Woon.
socket, r. l. water works storage reser
voir, Tu ,sday. The Italians claim the
strike is " the removal of an alleged oh
noxious boss, James B. Reilly, who repre-
sents John B. Reilly, the senior partner
They say they will work under Supt. J.
W. Keyser, the junior partner, at the pres
emit rates. 81 % day, but want 81 80 if a
new man is in charge. Laborers of otha,
nationalities say they want ST. so per day,
any way.