Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-10-15
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought by the Wires from North. East.
South and West.

A dispatch from Norfolk, Va. states
that the British steamer Tevidotdale
from Galveston. arrived. there. Wednes-
day. having on board the captain and
crew of the schooner Frank O. Dame
of Boston. Brunswick. Ga. for Phila
delphia, with railroad ties.
At spirited meeting of the Tillson
Light Infantry at Rockiand, Tuesday
night, lasting several hours ii was voted
To lease their armory. Elmwood hall.
for polo purposes. and committee was
appointed to make terms with the State
league folks. who are after the lease.
y commercial traveller from Portland.
who has been a weekly visitor at Mon
mouth, many years, and knew Delmar
w. Merrill at the hotel, was in Mon
mouth, Tuesday, and said that he saw
,lerrill with a woman answering the
description of Mrs. Trask a Few even
ings since in Il Boston theater. At that
time he had not heard of the elopement,
SO thought nothing in particular at
seeing the young man so far from home,
Zimmerman Il Forshay. the Wall street
bankers. New York. have opened sub
scriptions for the relief OF the sufferers
Ecuador. They will forward all such sub
scriptions at their own expense by cable
ia their correspondent in Guayqul. In
answer to an inquiry as TO whether as
sistance was needed the firm received the
following cable dispatch from Senior Jose
VI. Carlo Aguirre. the Governor of the
province; In the name of the govern
nlent and the people of Ecuador. | thank
you for your offer. and if any assistance
can be rendered by the New York Stock
Exchange or others. it will be gratefully
i lN..l. NT II,
fire destroyed totally more than one-half
of the city. including the richest and fin
est part. The losses aggregate more than
100 600, 600 pesos. and more than $1,000 peo-
pie are homeless and without bread.
When ali the sight-seers had been
driven out of Prospect park. Niagara
Falls, Monday, two hack drivers who had
taken refuge in the Inclined Railway sta
down to Prospect Point He wore a elm
namon-brown overcoat and a black hat.
He took off his hat. placed it on the stone
railing. and empted his trousers pocket
into ii. Then he sprang lightly on the
parapet, screened hts eyes with his hand
for a moment while they searched the
Canadian shore through the mist and
rain, and unhesitatingly leaped into the
river lie struck within three feet of the
edge of the cataract, and when the hack
men arrived at the point. five seconds
after the jump, he had been carried down
with the roaring waters. The hat was a
cheap one, with a Knox brand in it. 1t
held 10 cents in small change. The body
which went over the American falls. has
not been recovered.
Helen kellar. blind. deaf, scentless,
. tasteless. has passed the Harvard ex-
animation with credit. She had no
preparation and the examiners did not
know who she was. She will enter
Radcliffe (Harvard annex at young
! er age than most freshmen Helen
Keller was born in Alabama. July 81,
1880, her father being Confed-
crate officer, and later a United States
/ marshal. No attempt at education was
made for the first seven years of her
apparently hopeless life. 1t was when
, about eighteen months old that she
! lost all senses, but that of touch. In
1897 she was taken to the Perkins
School for the Blind, in Boston, and
placed under the care of Miss Sullivan.
who devoted her life to the education
of the little unfortunate. Three years
later she had learned to articulate, and
with a rapidity undreamed of by those
who had to do with children in the DOS
session of the full faculties In 1894 she
was removed to the Wright Hamoson
School in Boston, refusing to become
an inmate of school built in London
and named after her. Soon after she
became apt in interpreting the speech
of others by feeling their lips, and now
is able to communicate with anyone
/ within reach of her sensitive finger
tins.