Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-10-10

ing them control of the town. no
ter will probably be taken into the coui's.
Three men have been arrested at boi-
falo, n. Y, charged with enpe.Alins
large amounts of money from tne cry :.
padding the pay rolls of the street pureau
with dummy names The prisoners are
Howard ID. Herr. cashier OF inc uepaio
ment of public works, John NJ Da"aD!,
deputy SUPERINTENDENT, of streets anu
Joseph Burke, formerly n'pector Oh
streets.
snecial from Ocala, Florida, says:
s.E,rh, Griper nostmaster at Dunnelton,
Fla disspuesred several days ago ana
the nostsl authorities at Washington nave
or5arsd an examination of his accounfs
u-h;cb ara said TO be short $500. 6rlner
has taten deep interest in the progress
of tho revolution in Cuba and it is SAID
that he has been preparing Aoi i'oi
Join the Insurgents.
/. Fire aft 9th and Smith streets, Clncln-
natl Ohio. in a tenement house at a.
NJ. Wednesday resulted in the burning 10
death of Mrs Ponso, aged so years, ana
the fatal burning of Mrs Davis, aged 81,
Tnlis Davis, aged 10, and Raphael Davis,
a hoy aged 3. Ida Misconsky, aged o. anu
Mamie Ponson aged 10, were badly burned
bnt NAV recover The building was partly
saved The property loss is small.
The department Of agriculture has been
advised of the discovery of pleuro-pneu-
mopia in cattle shipped from Australia to
Great Britain. This is an imp ortanS mat
FER to the United States, inasmuch as
Australia promised to become serious
competitor of this country in the European
meat and cattle trade The existence OF
nleuro-pneumonia in the first shipment OF
Australian cattle is for this reason
significant.
Elisha H. Atwood, a well-to-do resident
of Lynn, Mass, 5S years Of age attempted
suicide by stabbing himself IN the abdo-
men, in the Lynn Woods, Tuesday night,
and is not expected to recover. Atwood,
Saturday last, gratified rarely INDUCED
passion for liquor and was arrested Tor
drunkenness Sunday he was Dalled TO
appear in police court, Monday, but he did
not appear and was defaulted. AT bis
home she had trouble with his wife and
went away.
The London Times publishes an inter
view had by its correspondent in Paris
with Prince Lobanoff, the Russian minis
ter of foreign affairs. According to the
correspondent Prince Lobanoff denied
the truth of the rumor that the Tsar was
contemplating a visit to France or to any
foreign country. The approaching ma
ternity of the Tsarina, the minister said,
absorbed the interest of the Isar and of
the Russian people to the exclusion of
everything except the most pressing prob
lens.
The western freight war has reached a
critical stage. Railways are anxiously
looking to an inevitable car famine when
the movement of grain begins. 1t is eX-
pected between Jan. / and the opening of
navigation the demand for cars will be
unprecedented. The Rock Island has
over 10, coo box cars and Burlington 1O,-
900, all of which, according to officials,
will not be sufficient to haul the corn
alone on their lines to market in less than
10 months. There is no possibility If east
bound cars all going back west with loads.
The grand jury at Washington, Wednes
day began the consideration of the case of
Miss Elizabeth NJ. Flagler, daughter of
Gen. Flagler who shot and killed Ernest
Green a l2-years-old colored boy, Aug. 3
About 20 witnesses were served with
notices to appear before the grand jury.
Neither Miss Flagler nor her friends ap-
pcared before the grand jury but it is un-
dcrstood the statement made by her before
the coronCr's jury was placed before the
members. There is strong impression
among ssthc habitues of the court house
that an Indictment will not follow.
Parties in Vancouver, 3. c., of sport
ing procliyties have wired Corbett's
managers, Offering the use of small
island in that province within few
miles Of Vancouver for the COrbett-t, itz-
simmons fight. An option for the use Of
the island has been secured for six
months and an attempt will be made to
bring thc1ght that way should it not come
off in the South. The negotiations were
kept secret until Tuesday. The legal
aspect OF the proposition has been looked
into, and as the meeting of the two men
is classed as an exposition of scientific
development, no interference with the
contest G aOticjpatp6