Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-07-28
Personal and General.

Prof. Walter Williams. who has been
in the faculty of the Montana College
Of Agriculture has been invited to go
to Cornell University.
The drought which has prevailed for
the past few weeks has compelled a
reduction Of the water supply in the
eastern end OF London to six hours
per day.
y dispatch from Chicago says that
Il meeting of the lines Interested In
carrying iron and steel has been called
for next Wednesday To adopt IA uni-
form schedule of rates.
Mayor Willard of Argentine. Kan.
vetoed an ordinance recently passed
by the council which prohibited sun
day bah playing. giving as his reason
the fact that saloons are allowed to do
business on that day.
Supt D. W. Crafts Of the gas com
pany of Northampton. Mass has
found py experiment that a refuse
from the gas works known as spent
lime" is very effective in exterminat-
ing the army worm and similar pests
Miss Anna l.. Hawkins of Baltimore
who was recently graduated from the
Maryland Institute school OF design
has chosen architecture rs her profess
gien, and her plans for the high school
building at HaVr% De Grace. Md. have
just been accepted.
Another grain rate war has sprung
UP in the southwest The Missouri
Pacific has filed notice with tho inter
state commerce commission of re-
duction of ten cents a hundred pounds
to st. Louis. The other lines are ex-
pected To make Il similar cut.
senator Voorhees, is - years old. and
is very feeble. and although he may
live through the coming winter. it is
generally accepted that he viii not
again appear in the Senate or on the
stump. II will he the first time in
fifty years that the voice of the senior
senator has been silent.
The list of boiling Democratic papers
In Kentucky has grown to- sixteen. 1t
includes several printed in small inte-
rior towns In the agricultural coun-
ties of Iowa also IN" boiling Demo
cratic papers are to be found The
rnly two Democratic papers in Black
Hawk county have renowned the Chi
cago platform.
one of the latest inventions in the
folding line is a gospel car which
looks like an ordinary freight car
when made up in the train. but which
grows and expands into a comfortable.
commodious chapel, with a steeple
and bell tower, when the itinerant
evangelist sets up his wheel house of
worship ON Il siding
Mrs. George Paxton of Muncie. Ind.
was nearly stung to death by swarm
of bees that lodged in a tree in her
yard. The insects stung her over 200
times. A solution of earbolic acid was
near at hand and she quickly bathed
herself in it, and then applied ammo
mia This saved her life, but for hours
her recovery was considered impos-
sible
The first fishery news from Labra-
dor announces that excellent catches
are being made along the southern
part of the coast. but the northern
part is blocked by ice. preventing nav
isation. This ice will probably pre-
vent the Peary expedition steamer
from reaching the coast to land a
party there, which was originally in
tended.
The strange fast of Mrs Henry IN
gram of Battle. Creek, Mich. still con-
tinues. Days and months roll by, and
still Mrs. Ingram does not take nour-
ishment of any kind. She has now
gone lao Gays without food She still
looks well, but has lost over 100 pounds
in weight. When her fast began she
weighed 30 pounds. Hundreds of peo-
pie have visited her home to get a
glimpse of this remarkable woman.
and many inquiries concerning her are
coming from abroad