Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-04-20
NEWS NUGGETS.


Collector Stebbfns OF DeerHelus mass,
is short $4,000 in his accounts
Thornton Parker. colored, was executed
at winchester, Va, Friday, for attempted
assault upon Mrs. Melton.
The Soldiers Colony Co. has bought
10. 5000 acres in south Georgia. where IL
proposes to start an immense colony.
r. G. Dun & Co. report failures for
the past week as 24l in the United STATES,
against gig in the corresponding peilod
of last year.
The 5lst anniversary of the American
Institute of Homeopathy will be held at
Newport, Il. J., beginning June 20 and
continuing week.
The bone mill, owned by the Capital
Soap Manufacturing Co, st. Johnsbury,
Vt, was burned, Thursday night Loss,
$4,000; insured for $4,000.
o. L. Sypher & Co., New York bric-a-
brac dealers, and Eugene Honeywell OF
New York customs department, are
charged with frauds to extent Of several
thousands dollars.
There was another fruitless break in
the senatorial contest at Dover, Del, Fri
day. Three of the Higgins men voted for
Massey. who was greeted by his supporters
on We lnesday. No choice.
During a small fire at 800 East Houston
street, New York, Friday. four persons
were severely burned. They are Morris
Lemisch, 22 years old. Mrs Rebecca
Lemisch and her two children Rose and
Rebecca.
In the Bow street police court London.
Friday, Oscar Wilde and Alfred Taylor,
charged with serious misdemeanors, were
brought up on remand and Were formally
committed for trial, bail being refused in
each case
Frederic Stinson, the well known
theatrical manager. died ut New York,
Friday, of ple,ira pneumonia He had
been sick but u ,fow days. Mr.. Stinson
was the author of several plays, the last Of
which, "The Divided House, was to have
been produced in Chicago, this week.
-Four iron beams, comprising the APP
paratus of the Chicago Ship Building
Co.'S yards at South Chicago. fell, Fri
day, to the deck of steamer in the course
of construction, and on which number
of men were at work. Two men We're in
stanily killed and four others injured,
two of them fatally.
The great shoemakers' strike at Lon
don, which has dragged on for weeks is
likely to end within the next 10 days.
The trade conference which met to find
compromise between the strikers demands
and the masters requirements. found a
basis of settlement mutually satisfactory.
Work will probably be resumed. April 90.
The railroad commissioners held
ti,,<, ,t -, g., ~
pose of acting on the articles of associa-
ton of the Ossipee Valley Railroad Co
certificate of approval was issued. and
thecompany is to construct, Eext year,
an electric road through the Ossipee val
ley towns from Cornish to the New
Hampshire line.
In the case of tho United States
schooner Henry L. Phillips of Rockland,
Me-, seized by a Canadian cruiser off the
north coast of Anticosti, June Z, 1894,
for fishing within three miles of the coast.
and sold with contents by Marshal Archi-
bald, at Sydney the chief justice in the
admiralty court at Halifax, Friday, gave
{, Judgment of forfeiture against the
vessel and cargo with costs.
Reports of the sale of the New York
Mail and Express have been revived
K. e. A. Dorr. publisher of the paper,
Friday, said: 81 am authorized to state
on behalf of the owners of the Mail and
Express, that the paper has not been sold
and is not for sale. We are unable to
trace the source of the reports recently
circulated that the paper had been or was
about to be sold, and cannot understand
how any newspaper would give currency
to rumors SO absolutely without founda-
tion.''
The main business portion of Ardmore
l. T., six solid blocks on Caddo street,
north and south of Main street. were des-
troyed by fire. Friday Sixty business
houses were entirely destroyed. The loss
will aggregate $500 600. The United
States court house and Jail were destroyed.
The heat was so intense that the vault
and safe in the court house were cracked
and the court records partly destroyed
The Masonic temple was burned. Many
families have campcd out in the stream.
Mrs. Neil was fatally burned.
The Berlin Manufacturing says, in a
(ader on the increased price of oil: "Mr
Rockefeller, the American oil magnate, is
too smart a business man and speculator
to leave room for the assumption that he
is surprised by the present developments |
The rapidity with which the movement
came upon the market forces us to the
conclusion that there was an understand
ing among interested parties including
Rothschild aud Nobel. Tho movement
will stimulate the boring enterprise in
Germany and the Carpathians
The Come cticut river at Hartford, CT,
receded. Friday, to 22la feet above low
water mark, and it is expected will fall to |
20 feet by Saturday Hundreds of hou ses |
on the east side of the city and in East |
Hartford, are still under water to the first |
story. Col Samuel Colt of pistol fame, |
who built a dixie around his factory
property in the south part of the city, once
offered to dam the entire city for $50, 900 |
aud guarantee its safety from all future
floods. A similar offer was made to the
city of Albany but was also declined.
Frank p Wakeley, at one time promi-
nent Republican of Fairfield, Ct, was
found dead in Lafayette hotel at Bridge
port, Ct, early Friday He had been on n
spree with George b. Weed of Bridgeport.
Weed says he awoke about 2 O'Clock and
nd al-.l., t.,