Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-03-25
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brouahs b. the Wires IRON The Herth' East
South and West.

that the wreck of the Reina Regente has
been discovered
The British bark Andrada, Tacoma,
October "a, for Liverpool, is ashore at
Rar,nouth. on the Welsh coast. Nineteen
If her crew have landed and II are still on
board.
Searching parties in the Alma NINE
Evanston, Wy. have recovered all 'ne
bodies except Walter Miller. OF the num-
Fer killed 80 were members Of the Nor
mon church.
The Boston Journal, Sunday, pub
lished interviews with .prominept New
England Republicans, three fourths OF
whom favor ex-Speaker Reed Tor the
Presidency in 1896.
W. Calvin Chase, the colored editor who
was convicted of criminal libel on Y. II. ..
Taylor, the colored recorder OF deeds. some
days ago, was sentenced to 40 days IN JAIL
at Washington, Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gladstone, who returned
to London, from Canoes, Saturday, were
at church. Sunday morning. Mr. Glad
stone had apparently recovered entirely
from the fatigue of the journey.
Mr.. j. P. Pioda, the new Swiss minis
ter. was formally received by the Presi-
dent in the blue parlor of the White House
at noon, Saturday, and the usual compli-
mentary remarks were exchanged. y
Benjamin Munsey, a retired merchant
of Laconia, n. H., died, Sunday Friday,
ne took poison with suicidal intent. He
had been ailipg for many months from
nervous dependency. He was 63 years
old.
There was a fight between MusselmaDs
and Armenian Christians at Tokat Asia
Minor, March 90. The officials ac-
count said that one person was killed.
Later news is that 40 were killed and
many wounded.
Niblo's Garden, famous as a place of
amusement in New York for more than
60 years, closed its doors forever, Satur-
day night, and, Monday, the work of
tearing down the house, to make way for
big office building, will be commenced.
The tug Vilos, bound from Victoria. B.
c., for Haddington island for cargo of
stone to be used on the new Parliament
buildings, was lost near Victoria, in Fri
days storm with all on board including
Contractor Adams. The crew numbered
five men.
Through the kindness generosity of
Steve Brodie, the New York bridge
Jumper, the remains of Clara Hathaway,
who committed suicide at Boston, last
week, We're buried, Sunday, at Boston,
the remains not having been claimed by
relatives.
The gold reserve showed little change
Saturday, and stood at $50, 741,CS2. The
gold coin in the treasury Is $50, 397, 797,
including $40, 143, 200 leld agai- So out
standing gold certificates, and the bull
ion is $50, 466. $50. The general treasury
balance is 1885,, 1887.
Henry H Everett, veteran newspaper
man, for many years attached to the staff
of the Manchester. N. H., Union, died,
Sunday, of pneumonia, aged "a. He was
q native Of Wilmington, N. c., and early
removed to Manchester. He served in
the Civil War in the 22d regiment, N. H.
Volunteers.
The British steamer Storm King, which
sailed from Antwerp, March %, for Bos-
ton, put in to Dungeness, with her bows
damaged, as a result of colliding with and
sinking the Italian bark Giuseppe, SAuan
nah. Feb. 25, for Hamburg. The crew of
the Giuseppe was rescued and landed by
the Storm Kins.
The Spanish royal decree granting auton-
omy to the Azores was received enthusiast
tically by the inhabitants of the islands. In
San Miguel an independent flag, a blue ban
ner with a white hawk surrounded by nine
stars, to correspond with the number of
islands in the archipelago, was hoisted
amid great rejoicing.
A dispatch from Sioux Falls, S. d.,
says: "Senator Pcttigrcw has begun &C.
tion in the courts to have set aside the as
scssment on his land here on mere
technicality. Should the court sustain
the point taken, nearly every assessment
in the county will be knocked out, and
the loss sustained would be enormous"
A cable despatch from South Australia
to London announces that Queen Victoria
has given her consent to the bill passed
by the parliament of South Australia, re-
lieving women entirely from disfranchise-
ment, and securing for them the same
suffrage and on the same terms with
their brothers, and this bill is now atlaw.
Medical Examiner Hough, at New Bed
ford, Mass, Sunday, refused to state to the
reporters, the result of the autopsy held
over the remains of Mrs. Emma Robin
son. The case is still surrounded in the
deepest mystery, and the medical examiner
refuses to affirm or deny the report that
there were traces Of arsenic poisoning
found by the autopsy.
The steamship Berlin, which sailed
from London for New York, Saturday,
reported at southampton that while near
the Eddystope lighthouse on the eastward
voyage, she ran down ana sunk the Ply
mouth trawler Delight. She picked up
% of the Delights crew of "a, the remain
ing two being lost. There was dense
fog at the time of the collision.
The report of the Cunard Steamship
Company for 1894. shows profit of e9i,
900 This does not equal the full annual
depreciation, to cover which &5S, 900 had
to be transferred from the insurance fund
to the profit account. Tho company
thin'-s the falling off is due to the stagna-
ton of business in the United States.
Passenger traffic was as good as usual
While James and William Anderson,