Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-05-11

his home on Athens street, South Boston.
by shooting. He had been out of work
and respondent for some time.
The question of substituting for an ad-
verse committee report bill to abolish the
death penalty came up in the Massachu-
sets House, Friday. and after debate, sub
stitution was refused, 43 to 1a5.
Matthew Derile who was run over by
the cars at East Boston, Thursday night,
at the time Mrs. Jennie Davis was killed,
and who suffered loss of both legs and one
arm, died at the hospital, early Friday.
Billy Woods of Denver, whipped Jack
Slavin in three rounds at Montreal, Fri
dao night, badly using up Slavin, and
" Buffalo Costello of Montreal, whipped
Slavin's brother Bill in much the same
way.
The Langdell Bingham mills at Phila-
delphia, were burned, Friday night The
mills were operated by William P. 10th
& Co., and the building owned by John
Sidebotham. Loss, 500, 600; fully in
sured.
One new case of small pox was dis
covered at Claremont, n H., Thursday,
making in all 10. Measles are also preva-
lent in town. Many of the French are
leaving for Canada. Business continues
as usual.
Early Friday. Bert Hall, who keeps .
grocery store at Lexington, KY, shot and
killed his clerk, Volney Baird The lat
ter's undue intimacy with formers wife
ho nf ha Hall WAS
arrested.
Nathaniel Benham. 65 years old, an ex-
pert mechanical engineer, of Hartford, CT,
was instantly killed about 10 A. NJ, Fri
day, on the tracks of the New York & New
England Railroad, by train from Spring
field, as it entered Hartford.
Ola Anderson of Concord, n. H., has
been awarded the contract for furnishing
GO, coo cubic feet of granite for street work
at Albany, N. Y. All the dressing must
be done there, under recent law. This
is the first contract of this kind ever given
to Concord.
Finance Minister Turner of Victoria,
b. c., has presented the colonial office a
protest on behalf of the British Columbian
seal fishermen against the delay in the
payment of the compensation to the seized
vessels awarded by the Behring sea arbi-
tration tribunal.
A dispatch to the Madrid Impartial
from Havana says the insurgents have
attacked Caney and destroyed the railroad
bridges between Cristo and San Luis
Some insurrectionists have embarked near
Santiago de Cuba. 1t is suspected that
the rebel leader, Calazoo, is about to arrive
in Cuba.
At meetings of the local branch of the
Granite Cutters Union and Malufactur-
ers' Association, at Concord, N. H., Fri
day evening, each body voted unanimously
to ratify the agreement made by theiI
committees, Thursday, on the bill of prices.
The committees will meet. Saturday, tt
sign the articles of agreement.
The intercollegiate debate at New
Haven, Friday night, between the fresh
men classes of Yale and Harvard, was
won by Yale, after an inspiring forensic
contest The subject was, Resolved,
that the term of office of the President
should be extended to six years. and that
he should be ineligible for reelection"
A fire originating in the explosion Of
naphtha in the New Bedford dye works,
New Bedford, caused loss of $500 to
that concern, $4,000 to the adjoining block
of C. +. Perry and damaged another
building owned by Perry and owned by
the f Il. Tinkham Shoe Co. The total
loss will be about $4,000; partly insured.
Jem Smith boxed Ted Pritchard al
London, for purse, Friday evening" and
defeated him In the second round. Pritch
ard had some advantage throughout the
first round and maintained it in the sec.
ond until Smith gave him swinging
right hand blow on the head which sent
Pritchard through the ropes and he was
unable to respond to the call.
In the superior court at Boston, Friday,
William A. Reagan was given $4,000
verdict against the Boston Electric Light
Co. Reagan is a roofer, and while work
ing on top of fremont street building,
received severe shock from an i'm
properly insulated wire, and was thrown
into the street, five stories below, receiv
ing serious injuries.
Henry Schultz, for 10 years the head
book-keeper and confidential man for H
A. Caesar 81 CO., dry goods. Green street,
New York. was arrested, Friday and
brought before Justice Tainter, charged
with stealing S26S2 from his employers.
Schultz refused to make any statement
and demanded an examination which
was set for Saturday.
The fire in South Scituate, r. l., wood
lands, which the residents have been
fighting for three days and nights, is
not under control and unless heavy rains
fall it is estimated the week will not see
the last of the conilagration. An area OF
ksquare miles has been burned over, and
500 cords of wood, freshly cut destrt yed,
with loss of $50, 900 There are numer-
Gus other losses, and the amount cannot
be estimated
Tho Boston police have in custody
Walter s. Coffin, claiming residence at
270 West First street, New York, charged
with uttering forged orders for sums of
money in Boston, last month He has
admitted his guilt and it is likely that
he will also DO complained of for passing
several worthless checks. Coffin is wanted
in New York city for larceny He is Al
years of age
Robert Sheerard, and Anglo American
newspaper correspondent, obtained $40,
Thursday, at Paris, in the suit brought
by him against the British consul, who
spread the report that Shperartl yas Oscar