Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-02-26
NEWS NUGGETS.
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South and West.

The Pope is still ind!sposed with lni1u-
enza, but not so seriously as to confinc
him TO his rooms.
Louise Michel, the Anarchist agitator,
has been very i'll for several days, at Lon
don. She is not expected to recover. 1n
a London Central News dispatch from
Pekin, says that Iii Hung Chang has had
a highly satisfactory audience with the
Emperor.
In the police court at Lawrence Mass,
Monday Richard Snowden, overseer of
the Globe Worstcd Mills, was fined $50
for violation of the labor laws. He set
tied
Coburg is the only city in Germany that
declined to celebrate Bismarck's S0th
birthday. The municipal council voted
down the proposition to observe the day
officially.
The Rome Trbuna said, Monday
"Thc rec ent expedition that King Melinek
sent against the Gala tribes in South
Abyssinia, slew $1,000 tribesmcn and
captured 10000.
The Crown Lithographing Cos. and
Housekeeping Publishing Cos. establish
ments at Seventh street and First avenue,
south, Minneapolis, were destroyed by fire,
Monday. Loss, $780, 600; insurance very
light.
The 3-years old daughter of James Con-
nors of b Main street, Peabody, Mass,
drank the contents of a bottle of rum
which her father had left within her
reach, Sunday morning, and died from its
effects.
The Casino dc Paris, the large music
hall, at Is Rue Blanche, Paris, caught
fire shortly before midnight, Monday, and
burned rapidly. All the spectators escaped.
Only the walls were standing at . clock,
Tuesday morning.
Fire in the Crown Lithographing Co.'S.
establishment in Old Centenary Church
building, Minneapolis. Monday, did a
damage estimated at SEQ, fully in
sured. Several employees jumped from
windows and were slightly injured.
The London Daily News correspondent
in Berlin says the influenza is spreading
rapidly there and already hasmore victims
than any other time since 1899. A ma
jerity of the sufferers are adults. Serious
lung diseases have followed the influenza
in many cases.
The British steamer Ganges, New
Orleans for Havre via Corcubion, Spain,
which while being towed from the last
named port for Havre, parted her towage
lines and disappeared during the gale, off
the island of Ushant, France, was towed
into Havre, Monday
About 1900 employees of the Carnegie
Steel Works were thrown out of employ
ment, Monday, by the closing of number
of the departments in the plant The
converting MILL 10-incb, 23-inch. 33-inch,
36-inch and 4O-inch mills are all idle on
account of the scarcity of orders. Work
will be resumed as soon as orders are re-
ceivcd.
Mary Tanning, aged n, who had been
in trance for nine days at Waterbury,
CT, died at p NJ, Monday She went
to sleep Feb. IS at p. NJ, and could not
be awakened She breathed naturally
and coughed once. these being the only
signs of animation. She took but little
nourishment that being forced into her
mouth.
The case of DIR. Frank +. Brigham of
Salmon Falls, indicted for murder in the
second degree for causing the death, last
October. of Marcia J. Quint, at South
Berwick, by criminal malpractice, was
called in the supreme court at Dover, n
H., Monday There is great interest in the
case as Dr. Brigham is popular physi
clan, with big practice.
A dispatch to the London Times from
Calcutta reports the capture of the
greater portion of the city of Muscat by
insurgent Bedouins. The Sultan fled
from the place, but eventually regaiucd
| the eastern portion of the town The
n - II.
that all of the British residents of the
capital were safely removed.
The Haverhill, Mass. Sunday Times
had sensational article on affairs in
Amesbury, claiming all kinds of malfcas-
fancc in office and that the financial
affairs of the town are SO badly tangled
that it is impossible to straightcn them.
The whole story is false rs Auditor II.
j. Quinn announces that the affairs of the
| town are straight. From present indica-
tions suits for libel will be begun, as the
| article in question deals with town off
Gals and private individuals by name.
A board consisting of Rear Admirals
Greer, Walker and Brown, met at the
navy department, Washington, Monday,
aud qualified Commodore Kirkland, now
commanding the. European station, for
promotion to the vacancy in the rear
admirals grade, which will be caused by
Admiral Greer's retirement, Feb %. The
board found Captain f. " McNair quail
fled for the grade of commodore, to which
he will be promoted, May 8, on the retire
ment of Commodore f. f. Potter, unless
in the meantime Commodore Rush
Wallace consents to retire under the 40
year service law.