Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-04-06
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought by the Wires from the North, East
South and West.

The Blue and the Gray are together on
the battlefield of Shiloh and will celebrate
the great battle, Saturday.
In the English House of Commons,
Friday, the Irish land bill was read the
second time, without division.
A special from Fort Myers, Fla, says
the sloop Robinson Crusoe arrived there,
Friday. All are well on board.
O'Brien, who shot Waddell at Paris,
March p, confessed, Friday, that he was
really O'Brien, the fugitive American
bunco steerer.
By an explosion of powder at New
Orleans, two buildings were destroyed
and IA people are thought to have been
killed, Friday.
Daniel S. Ward. alias "Col. A. j.
West of Atlanta, Ga, at Boston. Fri
day, was sentenced to three years in the
state prison for forgery of checks.
Chauncey Smith one of the best known
patent lawyers in the country, died at his
home in Cambridge, Mass, Friday. AT
one time he was counsel for the Bell Telc-
phone Company.
All dCclOcnU on inc l)clldlfP,
GAINESVILLE & Cincinnati Railroad, early
Friday, 10 miles from Caldwell, Ohio.
Four persons were killed instantly and
one seriously injured.
General Martinez de Campos embarked
for Cuba on board q Spanish warship from
Cadiz, Spain, Thursday evening. and a
tremendous crowd of people saw him off
and cheered him loudly.
tom" Early, proprietor of Earlys
hotel Boston, and well known in sport
ing circles, was arrested at Boston, Fri
day, charged with distributing obscene
cards at his place of business.
Fridays ballot for United States sena-
tor at Dover, Del, resulted: Higgins,
Rep, o. Addicks. Rep, 81 Massey, Rep,
4; Pennewill, Rep, /; Ridgeley, Dem,
o; Martin, DEM, / absent, 1.
A delegation of prominent mill men
from New England headed by G. Lover
ing, arrived ut Ashevillo, n. c., Friday
They visited Vapderbilt's estate and left
in the afternoon for Charlotte, n T..
RIG. Duns & Co. S weekly review of
trade says; The commercial failures in
the first quarter of 1895 numbered $500,
with liabilities, $i7, Sl3, 6S3 There were
35 bank failures, with liabilities, S12,-
6s2, 537.
Four men were instantly killed and
two fatally injured and - seriously in
iured in "a freight train wreck near Alton.
H., Friday. The wreck occurred at
Wood River bridge, on the Chicago and
Alton cut off.
William Hamilton, who served three
years in the Massachusetts state prison
for alleged conspiracy in embezzling
$50, 600 while acting as supreme president
of the Fraternal Circle Society, was rc-
leased, Friday, having been pardoned -. o..
The district attorney at New York, has
served notice upon Tracy, Boardman g.
Plat of the appeal from the decision of
the general term of the supreme court,
which reversed the decision of the jury
which convicted Erastus Wiman Of for
gerry.
Frank Hittich, aged 10, of Ansonia, CT.
threw stone at A. NJ. Branch, aged l.,
years, of the same town, Friday. The
stone crushed Branch s skull and he died
i'm few moments. Coroner Mix ordered
the arrest of the Hitch boy pending an
inquiry.
City Marshal Butterfield of Portsmouth,
Friday, continued his crusade yainst |
houses Of i'll fame and ordered Matte |
Bond, who keeps place at ~ Warren
street, and John W. Lear, who runs
place at 10 Daniel street, to cease doing |
business within two weeks time
Hervey N. Gould called at the Powow
River Bank at Amesbury, Mass, Friday,
and settled matters relative to his note to |
the satisfaction of the bank officials, who
turned 5000 of the town Of Newton bonds
held as collateral over to him. This set