Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-10-02
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought by the Wires from North. Ea..
South and West.

Senator George F. lfoar of Massach-i-
sets. WAS passenger. Or the steam
itavel from Bremen. which arrived al
New York. Thursday.
The steamship CITY Of Topeka arrived
~ Seattle. Wash. Wednesday nicl &
from Alaska, bringing 100000 in gold bal
lion. mainly for San Francisco.
The London ST. James Gazette a
nounces that George Du Maurier, tnc
novelist, y confined 10 his bed with "A
serious affection Of the heart and lungs.
Al the close of the inquest upon the
BODY OF Nephila Porter at Nashua " r..
Thursday verdict was given to the ~
iect that death vas caused BY heart troA-
Die and as revealed by an autopsy.
Half the business portion of Ladoni /.
y miles southwest of Paris. Texas VS.
DESTROYED by IRE. which originated IN q
and two others persisted in the flames.
Honolulu adviees. under date of Ser.
H. are mat Consul General Mills " II
send ihe remains Of Kate Field TO lie
no facilities for that purpose AT Homo
lulu.
The match race between Joe" Whit >
head, national amateur rowing chara-
pion. and f. H. Ten Eyck of Worcester
over a mile and a half course viii a
turn at Worcester. Mass. Thursda T.
WAS won by Ten Eyck by two lengths.
Time 9.ss 20.
News has been received at Port Tow
n
james A. Bourland at Tugidak. Alask 4,
on Sept /. The vessel and cargo are Il
total loss The crew was picked up by
sealing schooner The Bourland carried
supplies for the Alaska Trading Co.
Governor Mcf.aurin of Mississippi he:
Just returned from a tour of inspection
uf Inc cotton farms in the Delta, where
Mississippi has 5000 acres in cotton. and
he reports that crops are much better
than he expected. In some places tie
yield will be one bale better to the acre.
An attachment was recorded at Salem
Mass, Thursday morning, against Jose;,h
brought by Adolph Sklarevitch a minor
for S59Fl. also an attachment against John
Mccarthy of Haverhil. for $1,000 on Il d.
voree LIBEL brought by his wife. Johanna
Mccarthy.
News has reached Vienna that DUKE
Albert of Wurtemberg. was seriously in
lured by wounded stag while deer
stalking in. the Austrian Alps. The
throwing him down. and but for the
timely arrival of attendants. the infur:-
ated stag would have killed him.
The miners held largely attend d
night. but the session was strictly an e,s-
ecutive one. From what leaked out ii is
believed that 1t was decided to "sta;sd
pat" Several mine managers are pro-
pairing to start uR and state that thy
can get all the men they need at the So "
scale.
John c. Bodewig and George W. John-
SON. charged with having wrecked MT il
train on the Chicago IL Grand Trunk
Railroad at Battle Creek, July L. Is.
during the A. r. L.. strike. causing the
DEATH OF the fireman and the injury of
conspiracy in the United States court at
Detroit, Thursday.
i dispatch from Tonawanda. n. Y. 10
a New York morning paper said that Il
canal men were accidentally poisoned ut
! an Nn~tl,
CARA street. Rat poison was used instead
of corn meal by Thomas Smons. one Of
, their number who had prepared soup for
except Gilbert Snyder. who. IL is thought.
cannot live.
The Cincinnati Price Current SUNNI /
rizes the crop conditions for the pas:
week as follows: Wheat offerings in The
interior have been discouraged by adj
Nancing prices. The new wheat crop is
securing an excellent start. better thIn
a year ago. The area has been main
tanned The corn situation is not esp
cially changed. The week packing OF
hogs was l>5.m0. against 10000 for tie
corresponding week. one year ago.
A disastrous freight wreck attended by
loss of life, occurred at Filson station.
near sand Patch. Pa. on the eastern
slope OF the mountains. on the Baltimore
\ Ohio Railroad. at l2.15 \. NJ. Thurs-
land states that the entire train crew.
consisting of the engineer, fireman. con
ductor. two brakemen and Il hagmar and
two tramps who were stealing ride
We're killed. Thirty-four cars which Wee
loaded with coal. together with the en-
CINE and caboose. are piled up on the
track and traffic. both east and west, is
entirely suspended
a special to the New York World from
Ithaca. Mich. says: =. T. Rarnum',
only brother, George, was murdered close
70 his lonely house near Harrison,
Wednesday night George Barnum went
there some years ago. and outside OF
occasionally visiting the local G. A. II.
post and going to town four times year
10 Get his pension money. avoided the
haunts of civilization. When found his
money was gone. his head was crushed
in and revolver which he always ear
rfed was missing. The Barnums quar-
relied wears ago over matters connected
with the show and they separated.