Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-11-13
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought by the Wires from the North. East,
South and West.

The steam tug Juno with bark Essex,
| is detained at Vineyard Haven, Mass by
a northerly storm.
The Lawrence Beach hotel and out
buildings at Rockawsy, L, l., burned
early Tuesday morning. The loss is about
| $50, 600; partly insured.
The plant of the York Wall Paper Co.
at York, Pa, was completely destroyed
| by fire, Tuesday morning. The plant is
worth $780, 900; insured for 100000.
Four American fishermen were arrested
off the shores of North Bass Island, Lake
Erie, Monday evening, by the Canadian
| cruiser Petrol. The vessel had been
cruising about the islands all day, and
after making the arrest started off in the
direction of Amherstburg.
The case of Angus d. Gilbert, who was,
last June, found guilty in the first degree
of the murder of the child, Alice NJ. Ster
ling, was argued, Tuesday, on exceptions
before the full bench of the supreme court
at Boston. The questions before the court
are wholly upon matters of law.
A few minutes after midnight, Monday
night, news reached police headquarters
at Colorado Springs, Colo, that the San
te Fe Wells-Fargo express agent at that
point had been held up and relieved of
S2u, 900 in cash. A posse with blood
hounds is in pursuit of the robbers.
Raymond Poincare, Republican min
lister of finance in the Dupuy French cab
net and minister of public instruction in
the late cabinet of NJ. Ribot, was, today,
elected vice president in the Chamber of
Deputies to succeed M. Lockroy, who be-
came minister of marine in the present
Bourgeois cabinet.
David Henckly, chief engineer of the
steamship Manhattan of the Maine line
reported to the New York police, Tues
day, that while passing New Haven light
house, in Long Island Sound, Monday
night, on his way to New York, George
W. Champman, water tender on the
ship, jumped overheard and WAS drowned.
An unexpected order was received at
Davenport, Eng, Monday night, for a
detachment of troops to prepare to en-
bark from Liverpool on November Is for
the gold coast, Africa, where they will
join the expedition that will be sent
against the King of Ashantec. 1t is I'M
derstood that similar order has been
dispatched to other garrisons.
The tug Warrior has arrived at Swansea.
Eng, in a damaged condition. She reports
that after towing the British bark High
land Home, which arrived at Fleetwood,
Oct 10, from Portland, Ore, and sailed
for London, Nov. 8, until Sunday night,
her cable parted and she was unable to get
another line to the bark, which was lost
The II men comprising the crew Of the
bark are still missing.
The general term of court of common
pleas, New York, has handed down an
order OF reference in the suit of Henry G.
Judson againt the Flushing Jockey Club,
instituted to test the constitutionality
of the Percy Gray racing law The
court declines to decide the case at pres
ent and directs referee be appointed to
decide whether there was a collision be-
tween the parties to suit and whether
action is fictitious.
Dispatches between the Clyde shipbuild-
ers and their employees continue without
any change. The builders have lost an
order from the Italian government for the
construction of three gunboats and II
torpedo boats, owing to their inability to
furnish guarantee that they would be
delivered at a specified time. The Nor
wegian government has placed an order
for torpedo boats with German builders
for the same reason.
A man named Czizek, o member Of the
Omaldina, secret revolutionary society
that was broken up by the authorities at
Prague, some months ago, was released
from prison, few days ago, under the
amnesty granted by Emperor Francis
Joseph to all political prisoners in
Bohemia. Shortly after his release he
committed suicide and his funeral, which
took place, Monday, was made the occasion
of INSTRUMENTATION. Several rioters
were injured and others were arrested.
Steamer Puritan, which stranded at
Great Gull Island, was loated at A. NJ,
Tuesday, and soon after Z o'clock went
into New London harbor under her own
steam, going to the wharf in front CT the
railway station, where she will await an
opportunity to go to New York to haul
on the dry dock Captain Davis said that
he believed that the boat was mpletely
Uninjured and the divers employed ex-
pressed a similar belief with the exception
that her bottom was scratched and prob
ably dented by contact with the rocks.