Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-01-29
NEWS NUGGETS.
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South and West.

Inrnbla. Tuesday. elected Perry Carson
tcoored) and Andrew Gleeson (wbiteJ
delegates to the Republican National con
vention. Mr. Gieeson IS an outspoken
Mckinley man
The British steamer Catalonia, Captain
Atkln, from Liverpool, January IG, for
Boston, WIS t0wcd 10 IT. Michael, the
Azores, Tuesday, with a broken shaft by
the German steamer BraunschweIg, from
Bremen, January IL, for New York.
The Limerick Club held reception and
banquet Mt the United States hotel, Bos-
ton, Tuesday evening, 2@5 persons being
present. Among the guests were Hon
Frank VI. Higgins Of Limerick, Nc. ana
Judge Horace II. Burbank Of Saco, Me
The latest and corrected reports II the
number Of persons in the Pont.y prldd
mine, Cardiff, at The time of the explo.
sion ~ fire damp I'm the pits. Monday.
show there were 50. OF these. AZ were taken
out dead, 81 were rescued alive, and are
missing.
Judge Paine of the circuit court, at
Chicago, Tuesday created sensation by
the announcement that he had full proof
that one Of the commissioners Of Cook
connection with murder case before the
grand jury
George Gibbs Of Manchester. y. II. EN-
ployed on the improvements being made
by the Boston q Maine Railroad at Hook
sett y. H., slipped and fell, Tuesday. A
pail OF dynamite which he was carrying
struck rock and exploded and the man
was blown to atoms.
The Western Passenger Association has
refused . l cent rate 70 the Knights Of
Pythias 70 their Minneapolis conclave,
next summer. II il does not grant the
g. 4. K. demands on rates and 80 days
extension, the location Of the grand en-
carnpment will he changed.
The places OF Swift & Co, j. NJ. Stuart
& Sons ard Woodwork Il Co. at Con
cord y. H.. were entered, Monday night.
and small sum Of money taken from
each. Entrance was gained az each place
by breaking the glass in the doors and
reaching inside and unlocking them.
Sir Charles Upper. late high commits
sIoner for Canada 70 England, and Hon.
George II Murray. ex-member Of the
Legislative Council OF Cape Breton, were
officially nominated at Sydney, c b., for
seats in the Dominion House Of Commons
for Cape Breton county. The election
/ will be on Feb. l.
The coroner's jury In the case of VIM
+. Lalor recently found dead in bed at
Lorg Island, l.. almost hacked TO pieces,
Tuesday found that Lalor was killed with
an axe by his mother, Mrs. Minnie Labor.
and that John Fleischauer aud Anthony
/ forstell were accessories TO the crime.
| The verdict is based on circumstantial
evidence, and the accused parties are IN
der arrest
( John Pouline, aged ~, employed as janl-
/ tor Of an apartment house, attempted to
! Kill his wife. Emma. at their home. Is
! Edgerly place, Boston, Tuesday night,
/ fr' hrce shots at her with revolver
/ They all lodged in her body, but it Is be
! iieved she VIII recover. He then put the
muz1le Of the weapon in his own mouth
and fired Il bullet through his brain. dying
almost Immediately. Jealousy was the
cause.
1 The National Board of Trade met at
/ Washington, Tuesday in annual session,
the veteran president Frederick Fraleigh
! Of Philadelphia, presiding. with a good
attendance of delegates. President Fra
I
1 Reports were presented on various sub
! iects, showing the organization to he in n
ilourishing condition. VIM. r. Tucker
was reelected secretary and treasurer by
the executive board.
Several Maine people were in Washing
ton, ID. c., last week. going the round Of
attractions usually taken by sight seers.
A large excursion came from New Eng
land, in which there Wee many people
from Massachusetts Among them were
j. f. Warren aud Mrs Warren, Buxton,
Mr. and Mrs. Kimball of Northeast Hsr-
Dor. Me. Mr.. and Mrs. George L. Tyler
of Gardiner. Me, ana Geo. c. Wheeler
and Mr.. and Mrs. George W. Wheeler OF
Pennington.
meeting of the holders of the Kansas
Pacific consolidated first mortgage bonds.
at which ever IS, 500 600 bonds represented
was held at New York, Tuesday TO consid
or the terms offered by the Union Pacific
general reorganization committee. After
considerable discussion a resolution en-
dorsing the action of the committee rep
rcsenting the bondholders in accepting the
terms offered By the Union Pacific passed
unanimously by vote of bonds. This ac
ton binds all the depositing bonds. |
aihouutlilg 20 over $lU, 4UU UU0 OF posi- !
bic sl1 600, 000 to the general reorganiza-
tion plan.
Ex-Receiver Frederick A iiobbs of the |
defunct Stockbridgc Savings Bank, who |
has repeatedly evaded trial on an indict. |
ment, charging him with the embezzle- |
ment of $4,000. three years ago was tax |
en- from the hospital to the superior court |
at Pittstield Mass, Tuesday, on a reclin- |
ing chair. BY advice of counsel be pleaded |
guilty, and Judge Fessenden sentenced |
him to state prison for a term, the maxi
mum to be ten and the minimum six
years Hobbs was mut h distressed, He
was immediately started for prison. The
case has been one of the most sensational
IN the history of the county.