Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-07-13
NEWS NUGGETS.


King Oscar paid visit to Emperor VIII
liam If Germany OH board the Hohenzol
fern at Stockholm, Friday morning. The
The limited States cruiser Marbleheao
manned her rails and salnted the King as
his majesty passed through the harpor'
In Slatersville, r. L, Thursday, three
bows, Edward Rippett, aged o., John
Keegan, aged 5, and John McGuill, ageo
). lost their lives by drowning. IL IL
supposed that one of the children lost his
balance and, in falling off the wall ~
feet high. tried so SAFE himself by grasp
ing the others, thereby causing all tnree
to lose their lives.
The American steam yacht Yampa, be-
longing to Chester W. Chaplin, capsized In
Fay's yard, Southampton, Eng, Friday,
and was completely wrecked. The yacht
was lust about to be launched, all prepare
tions having been made, when she sud
denly fell over with great crash. Several
men were injured, two OF them employees
at Fay's yard, fatally, it is thought.
The London Daily News publishes a
dispatch from Paris stating that in con-
sequence of high words exchanged in the
Chamber of Deputies, Thursday, NJ.
Arnoud Denoix, a Republican deputy,
challenged Serault Richard, Socialist, to
fight duel. The challenge was accepted
and pistols were chosen as the weapons to
be used. The meeting will take place,
Friday. =
The London Times publishes an initial
report OF British crops. 1t says that ow-
ing to the prolonged drought, the condi-
tion of all the crops. except hops, compares
most unfavorably with the conditions pre-
vailing on July L., 1894. A comparative
table gives the following: Wheat, 1913
in 1876 to Ills in 1894; barley, SO in 1895
to 1O2 9 in 1894; oats, 76.4 in 1895 to
1854 in 1894.
1t is feared another highlander war has
broken out in Chinatown, San Francisco.
Shortly before midnight Thursday night,
Chung Woy was fatally shot while cloth
ing the shutters of his store. The China
man who did the shooting is under arrest,
but the organization to which Chung Woy
belonged will have satisfaction, it is
thought, by killing some member of the
rival organization.
-Four more striking weavers returned
to work, Friday, at the Hamilton mills,
Amesbury. Mass. Thursday night, there
was considerable hooting and jeering by
strikers when those who were working
came out. This was stopped by the police
with the result that one officer has been
complained of for assault in pushing a
woman off the sidewalk. The strikers
have received help in money from out of
town.
Winthrop Cones general store in Nor
folk, CT, was entered by burglars, Friday
morning, the safe bowed and sig secured
Cone and number of persons living near
the store went to the scene of the robbery
and some Is shots were exchanged be-
tween them and the burglars, but nobody
was hit. There were four men in the
gang and all escaped. More than 20 safes
have been cracked in that vicinity in the
past year and no arrests made.
Sheriff johnson, at Salem, Mass, has
received from the counsel for Fred Nj.
Smith, convicted in the Haverhill con-
spiracy case, who defaulted on his bonds,
check for $4,000, the full amount of the
bond, the bondsmen thus relieving them
selves of the trouble and expense of a suit
on the bond. This Is taken to indicate
that Smith does not intend to return, as.
while it relieves the bondsmen, it in no
way affects Smith, who is still in default,
and liable to be taken at any time If he
returns.
eMrs. John Overall was probably fatally
shot by Mrs. Clarence Chaflins, at Hunt
ington, W. Va, Thursday night. Mrs.
Chaffins learned, early in the evening,
that her husband had been seen walking
ON the leading thoroughfare of the city in
company with Mrs. Ovrall. She secured
loaded revolver and went in pursuit.
She saw tho couple just as they were
boarding an Electric car. She entered it
and fired three times at Mrs Overall, when
her husband seized her and wrenched the
weapon away as she was attempting to
fire again.
At a recent meeting Of the Newark
Presbytery, Rev. Dr. F. Ernest Hauser.
formerly instructor of the Bloomfield
Presbyterian seminary was found guilty
OF the charges preferred against him and
deposed from the ministry. The charges
were bigamy and refusal to cease living
with the woman whom he claimed to be
his wife. DR.. Hauser is sold to have a
wife and three children in Germany and IL
is also asserted that he claimed that his
first wife was insane, which he said,
made his second marriage legal. DR..
Hauser Is well known throughout the
Eastern states and has had before him as
students some of the most prominent
young ministers now in the pulpit.
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General
Maxwell, the socalled "headsman" of the
present administration. remarked day
or two ago that, although he has not made
much display of his activity as a distri-
bntor of post office patronage, the official
figures up to date will show that he has
beaten Gen. Clarkson's record in the
matter of fourth class postmasters by 5000,
and excelled the record of Vice President
Stevenson for the same period by over TO-
900. With such an official round ND. Mr..
Maxwell says, he is entitled to a little
vacation, and therefore be Is making ar
rangements for a fishing excursion with
a party OF congenial friends on Lake Eric.
Samuel L. Clemens, the well known
writer, returned from an extended tour
OF the continent six weeks ago. He was
not in the best Of health and Immediately
proceeded to his home In Elmira, n. Y.
While there, in the care of a nurse. he
was served with an order signed by Jus
tice Patterson Of the supreme court. or
dering his examination in supule,nentarr