Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-19
NEWS NUGGETS.
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South and West,

| Watson spoke to the old settlers a. Re
publican City and left there for Colorado
deacon Thomas J. Haines. the oldes
resident at Newmarket, N. H., died
Friday. He was 80 years and 4 month:
Iold, and was the Oldest Mason in thu
state.
X. G. Dun & Co.'S weekly review OF
trade says: Failures for the past weel
We're 3l1 in the United States against
23l for the corresponding period OF
last year.
| Inc Cincinnati, Hamilton q Dayton
freight train collded at A. NJ, Fri
day, with the pay train I'VE miles easi
or Connersville, Ind. six persons are
reported killed.
Antony Grasso was sentenced to life
| imprisonment in the superior court at
Suiiiy to killing Barthold Vitoldi at
| Danbury. July n. The men quarreiled,
ana the murderer empted the contents
OF MS gun into his victims body.
james $. Horton, lawyer and author,
died, Thursday, at Lake Geneva, Ill.
His age was 81. His literary produc-
tons have appeared in Scribner's. the
Century and other periodicals.
The Manufacturers Record of Bati-
more, publishes 15l letters from Southern
| manufacturers giving their views as to
the effect upon business If free silver
| should win. of the Isl communications.
| IA are against free silver. - in favor of
| it and the others are on the fence.
| r. j. Johnson shot his wife at Min
neapolis. Mimi. Thursday night, and
then shot himself. Physicians say he
will live but she will die. Dependency
| is supposed to have been the cause Of
| the deed.
1t is announced that the Lowell, Mass,
Morning Times, which has been pub
| lished for the past y years. and TIN
Evening Star about six years old. will
suspend publication, Sept. ~. in conse-
quence of insolvency proceedings begun
two months ago. against Campbell &
Hanscom. publishers of both papers.
Gardiner. Morrow 4 Co. of Holidays
burg Pa. who closed doors FRIDAY
were reputed to be one of the strongesI
banking institutions in that part OF the
state. 1t had many depostors. The
bank was Incorporated, and WAS rated a I
$500 900 Friends of the bankers are con-
fident that the depositors Will be paid
dollar for dollar.
The Cars new steam yacht Stand
ard which went on trial trip In tic
North sea. has arrived at CopenhageA.
She reports that she found the Norwe-
gian steamer Corisande In a sinking
condition and took off her crew. land
ing them al this port,
Members of the New England Rail
road Agents Association and their
wives will leave Boston. Saturday. GA
their ninth annual excursion. The trip
will comprise a visit tn Montreal at 4
the White mountains. and II given
through the courtesy of the Boston d
Maine. Canadian Pacific. Quebec Cen
trail. Maine Central Railroads and the
Pullman Palace Car CO.
Dublin authorities are attempting tos
secure the extradition of lyman for
trial there for the part he Is alleged a.
have taken in the Phoenix park muir
ders 1t is the popular belief that IT,
nan was police spy and that he had
relations with the government at the
time Lord Frederick Cavendish and
Mr.. Burke were assassinated in the
park.
The Plant line steamship Grande
Duchessc. launched by the Newport
News Shipbuilding x Dry Dock Corr
pany, Jan. 30. went to the Capes ard
back, Thursday, in charge Of ship
yard crew She amply demonstrated
her good qualities The Grandc
Duchesse is one of the costliest and
most gorgeously finished passengc;
vessels ever built in this country
In regard to the right Of the alleged
dynamiter Tynan's claim to American
citizenship. which has been questioned
Secretary Mclaughlin of the Irish nS-
tional alliance said that lyman OH
tanned his final citizenship papers III
I,
mon pleas of New York his sponsor ca
the occasion being General Dennis t
Rurke.
John Burt, a negro. attempted to as
sault a two-years-old in a vacant
house on South Third street. st. Louis |
Mo, Thursday He was discovered |
and captured. and in ten minutes the |
excited crowd that gathered had rope
around the negro's neck. AT this |
juncture two policemen appeared and |
after a hard struggle rescued the negro !
and took him to a station
\ despatch from Rome to a news |
agency at London. says the Pope has
issued a pronouncement in which he
says: After long study, | must con-
firm the DEGREES of my predecessors |
Anglical rite are absolutely invalid |
His holiness also entreats the Angli- I
can clergy to return to the Catholic |
church
The Copenhagen police have arrested |
a man named Marchner. native of |
Leipseig, who is suspected of being an |
anarchist The Car and Czarina are |
now visiting the King of Denmark. and |
in View of the discovery Of the lyman |
dynamiter conspiracy. the Danish po-
lice are keeping extraordinarily close
watch upon all suspicious characters
Their Imperial Majesties will sail for
Great Britain on Sunday next
On the night of Sept. Is mob at
tackled the Presbyterian church al
Aguiras Calientes, Mexico, the pastor
of which is the Rev. ID. II. Sharp. The !
mob broke the windows and doors with |
stones. Mr. Sharp's house was also
attacked. On the 10Th inst. a crowd |
attacked the Morelos Protestant col
lege in the same city, breaking every |
window in it. Several arrests have
been made and the authorities are
anxious to identify the leaders United |
states Minister Ransom has also been
appealed to use his best offices with |
the government to secure the punish
mppt pf the Offenders