Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-11-26

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| it was loaded and snapped ssVerai .'ni'S
till the cartridge exploded.
The captain of the schooner n. .. So'-
trell, which arrived at Boston, Monoay'
from Brunswick, Ga, reports thae siie en-,
cnuntared n fierce northeasterly gaze Oh
Cane Hattaras. About 90, 600 feet or her
deck cargo of hard pine was swept INTO the
sea The vessel was so badly strained
rbst she sprung a leak. The vessel Will
probably be docked.
The London Post says nothing is known
at the colonial Office regarding statements
reported to have been made by an oincei
administering the government OF British
Guiana TO the effect that unless Nenezueia
withdrew her claims to the greater part
of the territory in dispute, the imperial
government was prepared to assert the
riuhts of the colony By force Of arms.
A ming blew out of the mud valve at
tbe electric light plant at Washington,
Ind. late Sunday night, frlghttuliy scilc-
inc six trsmps who were sleeping just
above the boilers. Dan Evans OF Colorado
and an unknown man died in terrible
agony, a few hours after the accident &C.
CURED. aud third Will likely die. Z. o.
| Lee OF N0rceStCr. nkStSS.- iuu wv oVHCis
were badly injured.
IL is stated that the English govern
ment has not committed itself in any
| form or to any amount of assistance that
is TO be given the new Atlantic service
between Great Britain and Canada. The
government expressed strong sympathy
with the movement to establish the SER
vice. and asked the Canadian government
10 call for tenders, after which it would
consider the most suitable assistance to
be given,
After killing his two children by lock
ing them in n large box and suffocating
them with gas, Herman Hattenhorst, 81
wears old of Brooklyn, n. Y, boxing
instructor, committed suicide by sending
a bullet crashing through his right temple.
No cause is assigned other than dcspond-
ency over business matters. The bodies
were found at H. 80 A. NJ, Monday, by q
roundsman in the rooms used by the man
to give boxing lessons on the second floor
of No. 1895, Broadway.
There is talk among the Populists Of
indianapolis, Ind, of recognizing tbs
party with the understanding that
Eugene V. Debs shall be made its candi-
date for Governor. They believe that with
Debs as their rallying cry the party can
make formidable showing in next years
campaign. Edgar A. Perkins, president
of the Indianapolis Central Labor Union,
who was chairman of the committee that
met Debs there, Saturday. says he thinks
the labor leader will not accept the nomi
nation for Governor
A dispatch from Southwest Point,
Anticosta, says that Capt Christensen
and IS men, who composed the crew OF
the Norwegian bark Elsie, arrived at Salt
Lake, Anticosti, Monday, very much ex-
bausted by the hardships they have gone
through. They report that the vessel
went ashore, 45 miles below So1thwes'
point during Thursday nights gale, ano
owing to the lateness Of the season, sbt
will probably become total loss. Tn,
Elsie sailed from ST Etienne, about two
weeks ago, bound for London with a cargo
of lumber.
Cardinal Loguc, archbishop of Armagh
and primate of all Ireland. upon the eve
of starting for Rome. has issued pastor
ate in which he declares that the Pope
never stood in greater need of the conso-
lation and support of the Irish people
than now. The cardinal censures the
British ambassador to Italy, Sir f. Clars
Ford, who, he says is also the represen
tative of Ireland, for having bcnagged
the British embassy at Rome during th1
recent celebrations in the capital which
sought to outrage and assault the head OF
the church.
Joseph Godette, aged p AN employee in
the Gilbert Company's mill, was drowned
| tv,t ha Vii ~
about 10 2. M, Sunday. He and Fred
Bombriant, also of Gilbertville, hired a
team and visited Ware 1t is supposed
they had been drinking and fell asleep in
the team on the way home, and that the
horse instead Of continuing along the main
road. walked up the railroad track and
over the bank into the river The horse
was also drowned and the carriage was
smashed Bombriant managed to DRAG
himself out, but was unable to help his
companion,
The Paris edition of the New York
Herald, commenting on the dispatch it
published Sunday, from St Petersburg,
stating that Japan had entirely withdrawn
from her continental policy in Asia and
acknowledged the unconditional right of
Russia to hold Corea and Manchuria with
in her sphere Of political and economical
influence, suggests that the dispatch, like
that from Hong Kong, recently published
by the London Times, tc the effect that a
secret treaty bad been entered into by
China and Russia, is feather cast to see
how the wind blows
Count Herbert Bismarck has l,tely been
stumping Prussian Saxony in the interest
OF the Agrarians In one of his speeche,
he came out in favor of Introduction of
an eight-hour day upon all of the i'm
| perial docks and wharves to go into effect
April ], 1896. At present the employees
work 10 hours. An eight-hour day, he
| argued running from O'Clock in the
morning to 8 o'clock in the afternoon.
with quarter Of an hour for breakfast
and the same length of time for dinner.
Closing the work at O'Clock would give
the men time for daylight recreation. He
strongly urged trial Of this system.
All doubt as to. the guilt of Lloyd Mont
gomery, the lSyears old boy, accused Of
numbering his father and mother and ID