Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-10-14
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought by the Wires from North. East
South and West.

Brought by the Wires from North. East
South and West.
A London dispatch says: "Ihe
French steamer Cordoba, New Orleans
for Havre, passed the Lizard. Tuesday
and signalled that Captain Beven. IN
command of the Cordoba. when she
sailed, disappeared on the night OF
Oct. 5.
William Jones, referee in the recent
glove fight between Henry Rodrigue
and one Shagner, in which the former
was knocked down and skull fractured.
causing death, was found guilty of
manslaughter in the second degree. at
New York. Tuesday. He was recon-
mended to the mercy of the court
international Cigarmakers conven-
ton Detroit, Mich, Monday, adopt
ed resolution prohibiting local unions
from paying a per capita tax to the
Central Labor unions which have pro-
fessional politicians among their mem
bers Local unions We're instructed to
affiliate with the central bodies of the
American Federation of Labor
The Homestead and Duquesne plants
of the Carnegie Steel Co. We're put in
operation, Monday, after an idleness
of several weeks. Several thousand
men We're given employment. The
Braddock Wire Works of the Consol-
dated Steel and Wire Co. will resume
all departments the latter part of the
week. employing 1000 men.
At Topsfield Mass. Monday evening,
rs Thurston Hurst. a bright schoolboy
of IS years, was crossing the railroad
tracks, ne tripped and fell upon the
rails and was run over by car of a
freight train which was being shifted.
The night being dark and windy he
neither saw nor heard the car before
he fell He died three hours after the
accident
A dispatch from Sebastopo says that
Russia is continuing her preparations for
naval forces at Sebastopol. Odessa and
3atoum have been mobiiized. Gen. Bob
rikoff, chief of the war office staff. re-
Gently arrived at Sebastopol and has held
an important conference with the local
commanders. He has inspected the gar
rison and arsenal and has picked out q
company of submarine engineers: who
have been ordered to hold themselves if
readiness to Immediately embark upon i
gunboat This gunboat is already loaded
with mines. shells and torpedoes.
When the case of the state VS.. the
| Union Loan and Trust Co. was called
| in the supreme court at Boston Tues
| day, Assistant Attorney General Ham
| mond stated to the court that negotia
| tionS for the appointment of tempo
| rary receiver for the company We're
| now being made and were practically
| ended and he asked that the case
| stand upon the trial list for the pres
| ent The court granted the request
| The lower board of the Hartford
| Conn, common council, Monday night
'escinded its action refusing a building
permit for the state refOrmatory, and
instructed the building inspector tc
| grant one. If the upper board does
not concur a writ of mandamus viii be
sued out. The directors propose to de
| mand the state appropriation of tbs
treasurer. the comptroller having re-
| fused to pay the balance unexpendet
-$19, 900.
County Clerk Knot, arrested at Chi
cago, Monday, on the charge of NAL
feasance in office. in connection Will
naturalization papers, which he signe'
: and sealed without the authority of tn
court. was discharged by Judge Payne
: Tuesday on the ground that there wa
no criminal intent on his part and h
| did not know that the papers left un
protected were signed and sealed. TIL
/ court scored the clerk for his loose wa
t of doing business.
At the annual meeting of the Con
. cord & Montreal Railroad at Concord
N. H., Tuesday. Gov. c. A. Busiel wa
" dropped from the directory because O
the favorable view he holds of electri
railways. as expressed in an interview
| last Friday. Gov. Busiel said the ac
= ton in dropping him on account of hi
: interview was only pretext to injur
;, him. Directors of the Concord & Mon
u treal say. in explanation of the actio
with reference to Gov. Busiel. that the
would not recommend to the stock
= holders for election as a director,
man who publicly declared that h
favors policy prejudiclal and injur
% Gus to the interests of the corporatio
II and its property.
The funeral of Ex-Governor Levi T
,r Fuller was held at the Baptist churc
n Brattleboro, VT, Tuesday afternoo
l. Private services were held at the la
"a residence in the morning, after whic
"a the Fuller Battery escorted the body
&c the church. where it remained in sta
40 until 2.3O. The services at the chur6
"a were under the honors of Beausea,
Commandery, Knights Templars. The
We're present: Gov. Josiah Grout ar
staff and state officers; joint commit,
h. of five senators and nine represent:
e. tlves, special committee of five sen;
es tors from the Legislature, heads of IL
or branch houses of Estey Organ Co. ar
in other members of the music trad
as employees of the Estey factories
d brattleboro. the Fuller Battery, del
n cations from the Odd Fellows and r,
ell Men, and large number of the eli
ID zens OF Brattleboro. The floral tribut
were numerous and magnificent.