Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-04-10
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought by the Wires from the North, East
South and West.

Sir Thomas POWELL Buxton has been
appointed Governor of South Australia
to succeed the Earl OF Kintere.
The Montreal & Sorel Railroad has
been purchased by the Atlantic & Lake
Superior Railway. The purchase price IS
said to be about 5000, 900.
The three masted schooner VIM L. Bur.
roughs, Captain Eldridge from Perth Am
boy, with a cargo of coal, is ashore at the
Narrows, Boston harbor. 1t is said that
she lies on q rocky bottom.
Captain Brewer lined up the candidates
for the Harvard foot ball eleven. Tuesday.
for the first time this spring This men
were coached by ex-Captain Emmons
Practice will continue until the middle of
May.
An explosion of gas occurred at Nanti-
coke, Pa, in No. 2 slope, operated by the
Susquehanna Coal Company, at noon,
Tuesday. A number Of men were at work
in the slope at the ime, and six were
badly burned.
II. l.. Shepard, the newly appointed
receiver for the Consolidated Light and
Power Company, has arrived at Dover.
n. H., from Rockport Me, to assume
charge of the concern. He is an electrician
and good business man.
A dispatch from Yokohama TO the
London Pail Mall Gazette says the peace
negotiations between China and Japan
will be concluded within a week. Seven
of Japan S eight conditions have been ac-
copied. Cholera is spreading in the in
fccted parts
Monday night, an extra freight train
on the Southern Railway ran into Slide
two miles west of Marion, n. c.. Engi-
nccr lee was caught under n car and in
stantly killed. Fireman Early died few
hours later from his injuries. Nine cars
were wrecked.
At Smiths Mills. p, O., Monday night.
the mail train from the south at 10 o clock
ran against Il boulder that had fallen on
the track and the engine was overturned.
Engineer +. j. Rooney ard Fireman l..
A. Emerson were confined in the cab and
were terribly scalded and soon died
The British ship Dundrennan Palmer.
Chittagong, Feb 2. for Dundee, previously
reported wrecked off Struts point southern
coast of Africa, is total loss, with her
cargo. The ship sank almost immediately
after striking. Three of the crew were
saved, but the remainder went down with
the vessel.
The Italian government has decided
not to occupy the territory of Adua.
Abyssinia, although the chiefs and people
have offered to submit to Gen. Baratier'.
The government is informed that a severe
fight occurred between troops and band
OF brigands in Sardinia Monday. Two
of the brigands were killed, several
wounded and number made prisoners.
bad wreck occurred on the Buffalo.
Rochester Il pittsburg Railroad. early
Tuesday, between Punxsutawney and Big
Run, Pa. An official account of the acct
dent says the train struck a washout and
left the rails, piling up the locomotive
and Is empty gondolas promiscuousIy.
Engineer Taylor and Fireman Shea were
buried under the wreck and killed.
Brakeman Robbins was severely but not
seriously injured.
The complications in the Chappele
divorce case, Baltimore, were augmented,
Tuesday, by the filing of another suit
the tenth since the legal troubles began, a
few weeks ago. Thomas C. Chappelle
now alleges that David Stewart, attorney
for Mrs. Chappelle entered into an = ee-
ment with John S. H. Frink. Ports
mouth, n. H., and Henry B. Ball and
Mrs. Mary Ball Chapelle, Boston, to de-
stroy his reputation by making false
charges, and that those charges were
communicated to other persons and
through them his business mas suffered
and he has sustained pecuniary losses.
He asks S75 900 damaoes