Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-01-14
NEWS NUGGETS.
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South and West.

Charles C. Painter. Washington agent
of the Indian Rights Association, and
member of the board of Indian commits
sioners, died, Sunday, of heart disease, at
Washington.
Bosco, conspicuous Socialist, sent to
prison by court martial trying the lead
ers of the revolution, last winter, has been
elected to the Chamber of Deputies in
Rome. He pollcd 400 votes more than
did his Monarchist rival.
Bill Cook, the train robber murderer,
and all round desperado, was captured
near Fort Stanton, Lincoln county, New
Mexico, Friday night, by Sheriff Perry of
Chavez county. Cook decided to return to
Oklahoma without formality.
The match skating race, one mile, at
Minneapolis, between johnson, champion of
the United States and Ostlund, champion
of Norway, resulted in victory for John
son, who won by 90 yards in 2 minutes
and As seconds, beating his own record by
a fraction of secOn'.
The two-masted schooner Eva L. Leon
ard of Boston, Capt. Philip Moore, Bos-
ton, owned by A. B. Perry & Co. of that
city, Hobokcn for Newport, with POI tons
of coal went ashore on Ragged point,
near Newport, r. l., Sunday The life
savers took off the crew in the brecchcs
bouy.
Joseph Manseau was fatally injured by
the fall of an elevator in G. II. Pease's
block, Nashua, n. H., Saturday, and he died
a few hours afterward Manseau and two
other men were on the clveator when the
rope broke. In the fall his head was
caught between the door and elevator
floor and he was terribly crushed.
The lighthouse board has awarded n
contract for boiler, paddle wheels and gen
eral repairs to the machinery and hull of
the lighthouse tender Verbena to Babbitt
Wood g. Co. of New Bedford at their bid
of S1O.O 900 The board has also awarded
a contract for repairs to the tender Lilac
to the Bath Iron Works, Bath Me, at
their bid of $2S91.
The treasury department is informed
that the yachts Lagonda and Amadis
which left New York early in January
are believed to be on filibustering OK
petition. Assistant Secretary Wike has
instructed treasury officers at Savannah,
Fernandina and other points south to
look out for them, and report any SUSPECT
Gus movements in contravention of the
neutrality laws.
A new base ball league of New England
clubs will be formally organized at u
meeting to be held at the Parker house,
Boston, Tuesday evening. The new
league will be known as the New England
Association of Base Ball Clubs, and will
be made up of the following cities: Low
ell, Manchester, Lawrence, Brockton,
salem and Haverhill, all with the excep-
ton of Manchester being Massachusetts
cities
Pres Soden of the Boston club said,
Saturday, that work would commence
next week on the two new wings to the
pavilion at the South end grounds. When
completed the structure will be just three
times the size of the present stand and
seat $500 people The new wings will be
of iron and one story high Mr. Soden
feels sure of having everything ready for
he opening game on Lexington day in
April.
Fire at GAINESVILLE. Ohio Saturday
night, destroyed J. w. Judkins' boot and
shoe store; r. NJ. Cummings harness and
saddle store; NJ. Il. Wards notion store;
r. NJ. Patterson's grocery store; Mckcever
81 Stevenson jewelry store; ]. B. Lane
& Sons drug store; Kinney & Kyler's
grocery store; John Hills millinery
store and dwelling house; Louis Meyers
restaurant and dwelling house. The fire
is supposed to have been caused by natural
gas. Loss, $780, 900; partly insured
Mrs. Elizabeth Hickok, aged 90, died,
Sunday, at Amherst, Mass, after brief
attack of influenza. She was the wife of
the late Laurcns p Hickck, d. D., LII.
d., one of the most learned American
philosophers, who was at different times
professor of theology at the Western Re
serve college, professor of Christian Theology
at the Auburn Theological seminary,
president and professor of mental and
moral philosophy at Union college. For
the last 30 years of his life, DR.. Hiukok
lived at Amherst, writing several books
on philosophy.
DR. Fred c. Shurtleff md Miss Lucille
Brandon, his medical student, were ar
rested at Boston, Saturday. on the charge
of conspiracy. They have figured in the
sensational divorce case of Shurtleff VS..
Shurtleff, which is to be concluded, Mon
day, before Judge Braley, in the superior
court. DR. Shurtleff is the libellant in
that case and is trying to obtain a divorce
from his wife, Mrs Grace L. W. Shurtleff,
who is the daughter Of Deacon Roundy OF
Tr, mont Temple. Miss Brandon, who came
from New Orleans in 1898, after the
Worlds Fair, was a prominent witness in
that same case for the libellant
The stockholders of Asbury Temple of
Waltham, Mass, (First NJ. Il. church, the