Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-07-18
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought by the Wires from the North, East,
South and West.

South and West.
Captain Hanson Of the steamer Read
ing. at Portsmouth, N. H., reports that
the bell buoy on Pollock Rip IS foot mark
| Is missing. -
Comptroller Eckels,. Wednesday, called
for report of the condition of national
banks at the close of business on Thurs
day, July II.
The Danish bark Hainaller, Capt.
Nielsen. Sydney for; Jaluit, was lost Oh
reef in mid-ocea "A part of the crew
has arrived at Manila.
Kurd Martens, ex-lieutenant in the Ger
man army and an heir to an estate valued
at So, 600, 000 In the fatherland, shot him
self through the head, Tuesday, while on
debauch, at San Francisco
Steamer Mama colided, Tuesday, with
the Northern King in fog at the foot Of
Sugar island in st. Marys river. The
Mama was cut down and sank in shoal
water She was valued at $l10, 900.
A Santa Fe freight train from Denver
to Colorado Springs fell through bridge
just south of Monument, Col, Wednes
day, killing three persons, fatally injurinq
three and seriously injuring Is others.
Notices were posted at the Riverside
mills at Olneyville, Tuesday, announc-
Ing that wages will be advanced on An
gust g. The notice contains a statement
that further particulars will be announced
later
Joseph hickman of Pleasanton, Neb.,
Tuesday night, shot his divorced wife
through the heart, shot his neighbor in
the arm, and cut his throat from ear to
ear. He was temporarily insane from
drink.
Robert Lincoln, president of the Chi
cago Gas Trust, said, Tuesday night
There is no truth in the statement that
the Chicago Gas Co. is financially embar
rassed." he declined to further discuss
the matter.
1t is said at the state department a,
Washington, that Vargas and Ruiz, tive
alleged American citizens arrested il
Cuba as revolutionists, agreed to
| leave the island If released from arrest
and they wore accordingly deported.
When the torpedo boat ,oEricoson was or
Long Island sound, Wednesday, til,
| starboard low pressure cylinder was
wrecked, breaking the steam pipe connect
| ing with it, and scalding five of the 10
men in tho engineer force. All will re.
cover
| Hotel Richelieu at Chicago, Tuesday,
| passed into the hands of a receiver on ap
| plication of H. X. Bells proprietor OF
the hotel Judge Payne named William
| Chugunin, who has been secretary of the
| Richelieu Hotel Co -, and fixed his bond
| at S25, 000
A fruit man estimates the damage t.
| fruit and vegetables from tho late spring
| frosts and terrible drouth that at present
prevails, at $500, 600 within a radius of
| dive miles of Grand Haven, Mich. The
total rainfall for the past two months has
been less than half an inch.
The bank of Norborne at Carrolton Mo,
has been place In the hands of receiver
| The Carroll County Bank, located at
Dewitt, has also met the same fate.
| This makes three banks that have col
| lapsed in that county within one week.
Every other bank in the county is III first
class condition
| Meadow brook reservoir, supplement
tary reservoir, near Norwich CT contain
| ing So 600, 900 gallons of water, was
emptied, Wednesday, by breaking of the
| bulkheads. The water inundated many
| acres of farm land, destroying crops and
swt eping cut hay into the Yantic river
| Cattle and horses were rescued with diff.
Guilty The Norwich town turnpike was
flooded by the choking of culverts so that
travel was impedcd. Owing to the wet
| weather no water famine is feared.
The frequency of lynching in Florida,
| coupled with the efforts of Liberian agi-
tators, threatens to result in an exodus OF
| negroes. Reports from West Florida in
dicate that the Liberan movement has
assumed large proportions. j. Warner a
| negro preacher of Birmingham, Ala, has
been in that section for some weeks work
| ing up the Liberian scheme, and his
speeches have affected the negroes In
Washington county alone 800 negroes,
heads Of families, have agreed to take ship
for Liberia, and are now disposing of
everything they possess.
There was considerable excitement in
the vicinity of Berkeley street and Column
bus avenue, Boston, at 2. 80 A. NJ, Wednes-
day. when a watcbman In the Youths
| Companion building discovered several
young men tearing down the American
flag from the Peoples Temple. Throw
ing up window, the watchman dis
| charged shot from his revolver to at
! tract the attention of policeman
Several officers responded to the report, and
the young men took to their heels. fol.
lowed by tho policemen. During the
| chase several moro pistol shots were fired
to bring the men to a ftnp, and fiualy
two OF them surrendered. At station 4
they were booked as Joseph and TT ,tore
Duokett, brothers aged Respectively 90
and p, who claim e., live AT % Cazenove
street, They Pleaded entity and were
sentence 10 one month each in the House
Of Correction M evidenca WAS ..srered
and the men had no explanation 10 offer
| They had no counsel Altogether the
| men were charged with The larceny OF