Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-04-08
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brough. by the Wires from The North. East
South and West.

Count Mattel the eminent Homco-
pathist, died at Bologna. Tuesday.
The Assabet WOODEN mills al May
aard. Mass. employing 100 hands.
viii run but four days u week until
business improves.
The Society of the Army of the Po-
ionac viii hold it's 9th annual re-
union at Burlington. Vt. Sept. Is and
u. General orland Smith VIII be the
orator. and Captain Jack Crawford the
poet scout. the poet.
John Hunter was arraigued before
Justice Agard in Holland, CT Tuesday.
-harged with the murder Of Angelo Il.
Ahorn a. Crystal Lake. Monday. Hun
.er entered plea Of not guilty, and
sas bound over to the superior court
without bail
It has been ascertained that the ru-
nor circulated nj johannesburg. Mon
lay. u tho effect that the British gov
rument has agreed % cancel the con-
rention Of 1854 and recognize the fun
.ndepe ndence cl the Trlnsyaal is
without foundation in fact
Schooners Wilhelmlna and Mary
Ellen Of st. Johns. ~ F.. were in the
Straits II Belle Isle. March IT, while
ngaged in the seal fishery in the gulf
# st. Lawrence. They had combined
arews Of 100 persons. all Of whom suf-
fered severely from the intense cold and
xposure they underwent for several
nights. 4 number of the men We're
ably frost bitten. They were rescued
and brought home by another vessel.
The crews lost everything. No further
news has been received from the seal
ing steamers.
John Francoeur. day Waterman at
the Chace mill, Fall River. Mass. who
was found unconscious in a barn on
the corporation property. Saturday
eight. died Tuesday night at Z. with
1ut having recovered consciousness.
The opinion in police circles is that the
man met his death through accident
ally falling down a stairway in the
barn. but many circumstances sur
rounding the case are yet to be salts
tactorily explained, He had a wife and
nine children, the oldest ~ years the
.-oungcst 10 months. He was about As
years OF age.
The venerable Elder Hitchcock. who
vas the Chicago agent for the Method
st Book Concern in Chicago, at the
time Or. Lanahan claims the frauds.
which he enumerated in Baltimore.
Monday. were alleged to have been
committed, said to a United Press rep
rosentativc at Chicago, Monday night
The whole matter was exploited in
1872. and all the parties were exon
rated, nothing having been found in
The charges made by him. 1t can do
the church 10 harm. for it is ancient
history" Rev. Lewis Curtz. the pres
mt Chicago agent of the Methodist
Book Concern, said: THAT hap
>ened in 1872. the persons Or Lanahan
focuses were all eXonerated and in one
ease he was sued for slander | believe
he was perfectly honest in his actions,
but he misunderstood facts as they
axist."
The court of appeals at Albany. y
Y. handed down Il decision. Tuesday
which holds that clubs are not amen
able to the state excise law. and the
inference is that they cannot be re-
qliired to take out license to sell liquor
under the Raines liquor taw law.
Judge Haight wrote the opinion. in
which all of the judges concurred He
holds that club organized for literary
social and such like proposes and not
especially for drinking purposes. is not
amenahle to the state excise law and
need not take out a license. He holds,
also that club as whole, buys stocks
of liquors and each member is ar
owner Of the stock and liable to re-
place its value when he uses any of it
Under these constructions of state
excise law it is expected that the
i;aines liquor tax law will be declared
unconstitutional. so far as it requires a
club to take out an excise license.