Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-10-23
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought by the Wires from North. East
South and West.

Leonard Latin. agent OF the American
Express Co. at Brookfeld, Mass. slipped
from his bicycle in front of an Electric
car. Thursday. and was instantly killed
by the car.
The Boston Rubber Shoe Co will start
ts two factories at Maiden. Mass. on fun
time Monday employing some 5000 per-
sons. All the people laid off last summer
will resume work.
A dispatch to the Madrid impartial
from Havana says that five columns OF
Spanish troops have been dispatched to
surround the forces of Maceo in the pro-
vince of Pinar del Rio The columns are
marching separately but acting in con-
cert.
Schooner bessie, Boston for New
Glasgow, with cargo of corn, put
into Liverpool. n. s.. Wednesday night,
leaking, and got ashore on a bar. Her
cargo is being discharged and she may
he iloated.
y superior court bailiff. possessed of
the necessary documents. seized the fur
niture. carpets and everything movable
in and around the City hall at Montreal.
cured against the city by man whose
wife was injured by falling on a broken
sidewalk
The American Missionary Association
at Boston Thursday. received a message
from Rev. l. S. Perry. Orange Park. Fla.
which said that the Sheats law had been
declared unconstitutional and void. This
law provided that ii should be a penal
offence to conduct within the state of
Florida any school wherein white persons
and negroes should be instructed or
boarded within the same building. or
taught in the same class. or at the same
time by the same teacher.
The five-story building on 18th street.
Brooklyn. n. Y. occupied by Oscar f. A.
Weissner. manufacturer of spring beds.
J. kryan and Wanters Bros. diamond
Vino :, inp
facturers of ladies underwear, was
burned. Thursday evening. Loss. $3.50, 600.
Alfred Beaumann. foreman of Engine Co.
80. while standing on an extension of the
burning building assisting two compan-
ions in getting a hose along the second
floor, was caught in back draught and
forced into the flames. When his body
was rescued it was burned to a crisp.
Three firemen who tried to rescue Beau
mann were badly burned.
Lieutenant II. d. Wise. l.. S. A., sta
toned at Governors Island, New York.
who has been experimenting for some
time with a modification of the Hargrove
kites, Wednesday, had a narrow escape
from death. He had flown three kites
on half-inch rope and was Just prepar-
ing to pull himself up to them by a pull
ley arrangement for the purpose of OBJ
servation. when the beam forming the
central spine of the lower and largest of
the kites to which the ground rope was
attached. splintered and the kites came
down with rush. A moment more ana
Lieutenant Wise would have made his
ascent to the kites and would have fallen
with them.
Advices from Apia, Samoa, dated Oct.
:. says: Chief Justice Ide has rem
dered a decision in favor of the
plaintiffs in the case Of Neylan and
Hobbs of San Francisco, VS.. Harris ct
al of New Zealand, for the possession
of the property commonly called
"Polynesian lands of Samoa The to-
tai claim amounted to $685.. $50. The de-
PENDANTS were given until Nov. Ito pay
the amount. but it is believed that they
will do so. II is foregone conclusion
that Americas private interests in
Samoa will shortly be increased by the
ownership of $4,000 acres Of land, which
will nearly equal that of Great Britain
in those islands.