Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-10-29
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought by tho Wires from North. East,
South and west.

The English admiralty authorizes an
explicit denial of the statement that or
ders have been issued to double the
strength Of the British fleet in American
waters.
The argument on the Fayerweather
will case before the court of appeals
at Albany, N. r.. has been postponed
until Nov. 80
Attorney General Hancock. at Albany
n. y. has declined to bring an action 10
test the title of Patrick j. Gleason to the
once of mayor Of Long Island City. The
applicants claimed that Gleason was not
citizen.
The Bristol High school foot ball eleven
at Hartford. CT. has been dsba nded
This IS the result Of Il petition 10 the
principal signed by most of the parents
OF the boys, requesting that the team be
dlsbandcd
one Of the most prominent insurance
men in New England has expressed his
opinion after visiting Lawrence. that the
l1s5 by lire at the Washington mills viii
exceed $2u0.h01. The mill Is fully covered
by insurance.
In the municipal court at Boston.
Wednesday Mrs. Rosa Murphy was held
with ihe murder, sept 26. Of her new 5
born babe. 1t is alleged that she
| strangled the child.
| A London dispatch says that the steam
er Nab. savannah for Bremen. which
| passed the Lizard, "Wednesday. signalled
| that the Dutch bark Fairy. Bahia for Ro-
sario, Was abandoned in lat, "a n. long.
| = ". When the crew left. the Fairy was
dsmasted. There We're no fatalities. The
crew of the Fairy was taken on board
| the Nab.
! Judge Gaskill in the equity session of
| the superior court al Boston. Wednesday.
| rendered e decision. disbarfing from prac-
| lice Lawyer f.. j. Jenkins. who was
lcharged In petition heard by that court
| Tuesday with gross frauds and perjury
| common council and a member OF the
! state Senate.
olive sternaman of Buffalo. \. ". was
rrested. Wednesday, charged win hav-
! i:ainham Center. Ontario about year
| go. II is also alleged that Mrs. SterHa-
| man disposed Of her first husband, whose
| aame was chipman. The body Of her
scond husband Was examined recently
u nd evidences Of poison were found.
Louis Kember shot and probably
fataly wounded Morris Velansky. at
Exeter. Ct, Tuesday. and then COM
aitted suicide. Nalansky Will probably
Die Both were Jews. Nalansky says
hat Keinher wanted 10 get him out Of
The way so he could have his wife.
Chief Justice Long Of the supreme
court. al Lansing. Mich, whose famous
ease against extension Commissioner
.ochren has been dismissed by the
federal supreme court. will at once
ommence q similar action against tine
resent commissioner.
Henry ". Budd. a Pinkerton detec-
we in the employ Of the Spanish gov
rnment. is in Jail at Jacksonville Fla.
for an attempt to hribe u. A. Allen.
ho has been employed on the Daunt-
ess to give evidence against the alleged
libusterng steamer.
Schooner Maggie j. Chadwick. from
Tondout, which went ashore on Nixs
fate. Boston harbor. early Wednes-
lay. was hoated in the afternoon by
Iss Nesta and Curlew and anchored
oA the flats. AS soon as the cargo is
ischarged she will probably be hauled
out to he examined.
The steamer Viking will probably be !
I'D in few days to parties at Deer
island and st. Andrews. n. B.. who
liend putting her on the route early
next spring between Passport and St.
;tephen connecting with the adjacent
.anadian towns. The Viking has been
lie for several weeks at Eastport. This
Gamer is worth about $4,000.
L. l.. Welsh of Salt Lake. was found
cad in Il room in hotel in ogden. Utah.
tuesday. from an overdose of laudanum.
welsh WAS prominent politician and
newspaper man. For the past two years
e has been engageh in newspaper work |
Herald. but was at the time of his death /
working on the Utahian. No cause is as /
signed for the act. except dependency. /.
He iSAsurvived by wife and family
II was announced at New Haven, Ct !
wednesday, that DIR. j. Edward Lee. who
Was. Tuesday, sentenced to five years in /
the state prison or malpractice. had been |
,onverted during his confinement in Jail |
The repentance was reported as effected |
hy Rev. John Morse, who occupied an ad- |
Joining cell and awaited trial on the
letter TO his victim. Miss Bird NJ. Palmer !
, skiing her forgiveness and to marry him. |
Mrs. Cora Gabrielle Smith and Fred NJ |
isanken of New York. were quietly mar |
art at Cleveland. Ohio. Tuesday night. |
airs, Ranken was formerly the wife of |
beaumont Smith, the actor, from whom |
: he was divorced year ago. She at one !
tine played as Modjeska's leading lady |.
and was also a member of BoStn & Bar |
fetts company. Mr.. Ranken is prom |
!.ient wool merchant of New York and a |
leading society man of that city.
Another shooting occurred on the Net |
opolitan works at shaft of the open |
aGueduet, Clinton. Mass. Tuesday. II |
make the eighth man killed since the line
was opened and the fourth shooting with |
in the last month. In every case the man |
making the murderous attack is at lib |
crty. The man shot. Tuesday. is q negro |
named Asbury Bell, and his assailant is |
also a colored man named Jackson. The |
police are on Jackson's track.
Lady Henry Somerset president of |
the Womans Christian Temperance
Union of Great Britain. has sent the
following cablegram to Mr.. Edward F.
McSweensy. assistant United States
commissioner of emigration. on Ellis
island. New York harbor: Il have made |
the declaration and will give my per-
sonal bond that if any of the Armen-
ians arriving in New York by the
steamers Obdam or California become
public charges. l will be answerable
for their removal from the United
States"
Chief of Police Douglass Of the New
Bedford department. received "a cable
gram. Wednesday, from the chief OF po-
lice at Londonderry. Ireland, which
reads Property not found This is
construed to mean that Jane Brewster
whose arrest at Moville under suspicion
of having committed the robbery OF dia-
monds at the residence of Mrs. Edward
c. Jones in New Bedford, as was re-
ported by cable dispatches. Tuesday. is
again free woman. 1t Is evident that