Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-11-12
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought by the Wires from North. East
South and West.

The Spanish war Office is preparing t.
send 20o0 more troops to Cuba. Tho
steamer CadiZ sailed from CadiZ. TUES.
day. with a cargo OF munitions OF war.
The Transyaal government has decided
to claim Ct 600 sterling indemnity from
the British South Africa Company tC
cover the damage sustained by the Jane
son raid.
Clapp & Co. with Offices in the Mills
building, New York, dealers in stocks
and grain. have failed No particulars
concerning the failure are obtainable
George Jackson, colored was found
guilty. at Boston. Wednesday. of man
ing. Sept q last. of Frank Bell. also col
ored. The shooting was the result of q
quarrel over Il can of beer.
The body of an unknown man. aged 81
was found in the woods about half "A mile
from Canton Junction, Mass. "Wednesday
morning. Medical Examiner FaXon
viewed the body and concluded that deaih
WAS caused by IA self-administered dose
of Paris green.
The Texas was not placed in dry dock
at Brooklyn, Wednesday. She will be
iioated into the timber dry dock three
days hence. She must be lightened by
the removal of 800 tons of coal.
The board of directors of the National
League and American Association of Base
Wednesday. The sale of outfielder Tom
Bonner of the New Works TO Kansas CITY
was arranged. The amount paid Is said
TO be merely nominal
The New York sinking fund commits
sioners Wednesday. awarded the Sit. D46.-
$40 of the city bonds recently offered a,
public auction, to Nermlige q CO., at the
price of 1Gi Il. This comprises all the
bonds offered. and the price paid yield
the city profit of S7l5.1a4 on the whole.
The city of Newton. Mass. Wednesday
officially celebrated the Goth anniversary
of the beginning of the work of Rev.
izing the Indians of New England. Elio,
preached his first sermon Oct. ~. 1876. a
Nonantum, in the wigwam of Waban, an
Indian chief.
Rev. w. Johnson. bishop of Fort Scott
district of the Independent African
Methodist church, was convicted in the
federal court. Fort Scott. Kan. Tues
day. of making false pension atfidavits
and must go to the penitentiary.
The Silver Democrats of Frankfort
Ky. county, having control of the
Democratic organization. have taken
steps to rule sound money men out OF
the party. and in their call for county
convention will recognize as Democrats
only free coinage men.
The officials of the English foreign ofiica
take exception to the statements which
have been made that Venezuela will not
be represented directly in the arbitration
tribunal. The foreign office authorize
suggest that there is still doubt whether
Venezuela will have her own member Of
the tribunal: at any rate. Great Britain
regards the United States representative.
as acting for Venezuela.
John Fannanske of South Boston. com
mitted suicide, Monday night in barn
two miles from West Midway, Mass. The
body was found, Tuesday. Fannanskf
was clerk for Grocer l.ehy at 31s Broad
his employer. Monday afternoon. and lief,
Immediately taking bottle of rat poi
son with him. He was II years old. OF
engaging manners and good ability.
The first death in Kansas blizzard
this season. is reported from Goodland
on the Colorado border where, Tues
day, the body of j. n. Moran was
found in a snow drift. He had evil
IDENTIFY lost his way in the night and
finally, turning loose his horses, sought
shelter behind the wagon box.
The three men who were so terribly
burned in the explosion of the water
gas retort, at the straw factory of viii
liam Knowlton & Son at West Upton
Mass, Tuesday, are all dead. Thoma.
L :
Fred o. Bulmahan at midnight, ant
John Williamson early Wednesday.
Fire started in Bugbee's drug stori
in the Front street hotel building, Ira
verse City Mich, Wednesday morning
and before it was put under contro
that building and Is others We're des
troyed. Inc losses aggregate $4,000
With 100000 insurance. Edward New
bury, a porter in the hotel, was burned
to death.
Clapp & Co.. stock brokers. New York
have failed, and attorneys for the as
ssnees say it Is difficult to determine
what the liabilities are. but it is assume,
that they VIII amount somewhere in TIL
neighborhood of $150.000 If all the peopl
who owe the firm money would settle tn
diierences. the assets will fully equal tn
liabilities. The losses which carried dow
the firm arose from its wheat trades All
contracts on stocks have been closed out
| Governor Wolcott of Massachusetts
i will not make nomination for rail
road commissioner at the meeting O
the Executive Council, Thursday. III,
| will leave with the members of hi
Council at IL A. NJ. Thursday. for a tou
of inspection through the state and vii
not be at the State House again til
| Monday.
Ex-City Solicitor Peters of Haverhil,
Mass. IN behalf OF James II. Center O
Haverhill. and w. p. Estes of Bradford
who were injured in wreck on the Bos
ton & Maine at Concord. N. H.. in Au
/ gust. has brought two suits for $50 90
/ each against the company for allege,
damages. The attachments have bee
made. in Suffolk county where the case
will be tried. Since the accident tn
| plaintiffs have been suffering from inju
hqV NOT al. >
be about.
George Fairchild, engineer of