Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-01-24
NEWS NUGGETS.
Broush, by The Wires from the North. East
South and West

Tie postoflice AZ Nat.Ck, Il l.. was
entered, early Thursday morning, tbs
SAT- blown open and stamps and cards to
the value Of 500 stolen
The bondholders of the Hotel Bruins
wick New York met. Thursday. night,
and decided to place the hotel in the hands
If receiver 1t is said the liabilities ex
coed $40 900.
The Manufacturers Record says that
several OF the Oldest and largest New Eng
land cotton mill companies are searching
in the Southern states for locations where
On to build mills L. cost $500, 600 each.
La Compagnic d'ApproyisionmentS
Alimentatres Franco Canadian, a joint
stock company Of Montreal. assigned,
Thursday, with liabilities Of st00. 600; as
sets. same amount. The larges. creditors
arr in France.
The London Chronicle says the drawing
in its legal aspects cf the British case in
the Guiana boundary dispute has been en-
trusted by The government to Sir Fred
erick Pollock, corpus professor Of juris-
prudence OF Oxford university.
In the suit at New York Of Charles
Cooper Clark against Bayard Thayer of
Boston, for d images received in a collision
between the yachts ldlewid and Constel-
lation, the jury. Thursday, returned a
verdict in favor Of Clark fov $3.50,
Richard W Stone Of johannesburg. \.
y. one of the largest dealers in produce
in central New York assigned. THURSDAY
He has been doing business of $500. 900
year. but was forced Ia succunb by the
shri, Of
Dispatches received from Osborne.
Eng. say that thu Queen passed very
bad night She was rcstltss throughout
and was indispnsed Thursday morning
Her grief at the death Of Prince Henry of
BattenbCrg is almost rs profound as that
of her widowed daughter, Princess Bea-
trice.
The five story brick building. corner Of
High and Appleton streets, Holyok", Mass.
was destroyed by fire Thursday night ii
was owned by j. +. Comins Loss. about
$40, 600, as besides the building, there was
large stock of dry goods. owned by W +.
Wright and the property of large num-
her Of tenants,
Sir Charles Topper, late Canadian high
commissioner at London, WIS, Thursday.
unanimously rendered tho Conservative
nomination for Cape Breton county lie
accepted. His opponent will be Hon. G.
ii. Murray eX member of the Nova Scotia
Legislative council. Tho election will
take place. Ian. 30.
A Washington special to New York
paper says; President Cleveland has au.
thurized Senator Smith of New Jersey to
make public his opinion of the Davis rcso-
luton reported by the Senate committee
on foreign relations Tho Presidents
opinion is this: ~ regard the Davis
resolution rs mischicvous, inopportune
and unfortunate
Mrs Emma W Norman, aged So the
wife Of DR.. J. II. Worn an, the principal
owner Of Outing. committed suicide
Thursday evening. by shooting. in her APP
partmCnt over the officers OF the maea-
zine at 241 Fifth Ave, New York Her
suicide is attributed to thu fact that she
she was much exercised b. cause an in
valid son was to undergo an operation in
a few days.
The autopsy ut MamaropccS, ~ Y.
Wednesday, on the body of Miss Mary f..
Hills, the school teacher who was found
dead at her home in Benny Brook Park,
evening, revealed the fact that
she had not been murdered, but that her
death was caused by starvation. The con
iition of the stomach and other organs
showed conclusively that starvation ended
her life. The physician said no food had
passed her lips for several days. While
Miss Hills was in the house starving to
leatb, two letters containing money sent
10 her by her brother in New York were
Awaiting her in the post office.