Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-01-15
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought By the Wires from the North, East.
South and West.

South and West.
The Manitoba eli ctions will b. held to-
day. Premier Greenway is expected TO
win.
: The Havana subscription for the planta-
ton people whose crops were DIES roYed
by the rebels. amounted to SOL, 600 the
first day,
fhe upper three floors Of the Peabody
apartment house, 1903 Waverly place. New
York, were We're wrecked 10y fire, Tuesday
night. Loss $50, 900.
Postmaster General Francisco De p.
Gochico and many other Mexican ofiicia
were suddenly removed from Office, Tues
day, charged with malfeaSanca.
Chief Judge John NJ. Robinson OF the
Maryland court of appeals, died suddenly
Of heart disease at Annapolis Nd. Tues
day. He had been judge for 80 years
The fishing schooner Thomas L. Bayard
90 tons owned by Adolph Noss of Glouccs-
ter, Mass, was wrecked, Tuesday, on Gull
Rock of the Nova Scotia coast, and is
total losa,. The crew was saved. Insured
for $il9i'
\ fire occurred in a coal pit at Ost.au.
Silssia, Tuesday number OF miners be
ing imprisoned and either suffocated or
burned TO death Fifteen bodies have
| been recovered. IT is feared that Others
| are in the pit.
In a fit of dependency, Tuesday, Mrs.
Joseph Hildabrand IL Marysvllle. Ka. adj
minstered poison 10 her eight children
| and then hanged herself. Seven of the little
4 2 l,,- f.s >
pccted to recover.
Three Americans hunting on the Rio
Grande, report that they were fired upon
by Mexican soldiers 40 miles south Of
Laredo Tex, Sunday. and they were
obliged to fly for their lives. Complaints
will be made to the Mexican government.
The Cuban forces under command of
Maxine Gomez, attacked the town Of
Bejucal, l5 miles south OF Havana, but
were repulsed by the government troops.
Before they retired, the insurgents set fire
to several houses on the outskirts Of the
town.
The military authorities at Munich have
issued au order forbidong the soldiers to
visit II hrewerics, specified in the order,
whore, the authorities allege, the public
patrons do not show proper respect for
soldiers The order has created great ex-
element among the inhabitants of tAe
localities in which the prescribed brewer
les are situated.
The City Ministers Union of F. Paso.
Texas, printed a call, Friday. asking re-
spectacle citizens not to contribute money
or aid in any way in the support of prize
fighters. The ministers claim that dis
reputable crowds are coming n; that the
city Is being given a terribly bad name:
that money will be taken out rather than
left that the city will be disgraced.
Louis \. Couquc,rd of St Louis. a
stakeholder in the National Linseed OIL
CO., filed in the circuit court at Chicago.
Tuesday, hill for the dissolution of the
concern and the appointment of receiver
The bill sets forth that the company has
violated the state laws has fraudulcntlv
increased its capital stock and is about
10 declare a dividend upon stock wa
tered for the purposes Of speculation
The fishing schooner Fortuna. Captain
Greenlaw from Boston for Georges Banks.
was in collision, Monday night, with The
British steamer Barnstable, off Highland
Light The schooner was cut almost in
two and sank within three minutes.
Fourteen of her crew were saved by the
steamer, but nine men went down with
the vessel Those drowned belonged in
Gloucester, where they had families.
meeting of the International Arbi
tIatlon League was held at London. Tues
day, Sir John Lubbock presiding. A rcso-
luton was adopted declaring that the dis
pute between the United States and Great
Britain was trumpet call to English
speakers on both sides Of the Atlantic.
Summoning them to devise means to Sc
cure the arbitration of future disputes
and procure cooperation in promoting
friendship and abating animosity
Mr.. Witsee of London, colleague of
John Hays Hammond, the American min |
ing engineer who was arrested in Johan |
nesburR, on charges of treason, informed
the United Press Tuesday, that no Cali |
fornlans were arrested except Hammond, |
Charles Buffers and Captain Mcin. AL |
though Hammond had 20 Californians
working for him. j. S. Curtis and Il. II. |
King, the other Americans arrested, are
from the eastern part of the United States.
Z IL. h. Bennink, who is soon to become |
partner in the Boston Store at Brocktop.
Mass, says in regard to the arrest at |
Rockland, Me. of Herbert Sewall: "All |
the stories in regard to Others being i'm.
plicated are without foundation. 1 have
1t from Mr.. Edgar that the most thorough
examination shows that Scwall had no
confederate. Mr. Bcnnink asid that
Sewall returned to the city willingly aud
was most penitent and anxious to make
such restitution as he could. There is
great likelihood that he will be permitted
to return tO his bop,n