Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-12-01
NEWS NUGGETS,
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South and West.

| The Missouri National Bank, the
! biggest bank in Kansas City, No, has
| closed it's doors.
| Hon Ira Shafer, the noted lawyer.
| died at his home near Highland, OPP
| posite Poughkeepsie, n. Y, Monday
night.
| Leopold of Lippe is dead at Detmold. She
| was born the Princess of Schwarzburg-
| Rudolstadt. and was G3 years of age.
While skating on a pond near Abnapee,
| aged 10 and eight years respectively.
| broke through the ice and before assist
ance could reach them both We're
| drowned.
Governor Bradley. in an interview
| at Lexington, Ky. Sunday. said he
knew nothing of about an extra ses-
sion of the Legislature and that he was
not a candidate for United States sena-
tor.
Rev. Oliver Crane. D. D., LII. D.,
died of paralysis, Sunday night. at his
home. in Concord square. Boston. He
was a well-known oriental and CLASH
cal scholar. clergyman. poet and au-
| thor.
At a meeting of the executive com
mittee of the Grand Army of the Re-
public at Buffalo. n. Y. Monday. it
was decided that the encampment for
1897 should he held in Buffalo during
the week beginning August %.
| Robert f. Marshall superintendent
of the Altoona division of the Penn
| sylvania Railroad. committed suicide
at the residence of his brother. DIR.
| Charles Marshall, at Washington.
| Monday, by shooting himself through
| the heart with a revolver.
The trial at London of Lady Selma
Scott. mother of the Countess Russell;
| Frederick kast. John Cockerton and
William Aylott for crfminally libeling
| Earl Russell. which was apjourned on
Friday until Monday has been further
adjourned until next Monday. owing to
the Illness of Kast. who is suffering from
pneumonia.
In the December number of the North
American Reviews. published Dec. /,
William j. Bryan presents an article in
which he discussed the result of the cleo
ton as affecting the status of the silver
question. The issue on which the cleo
ton turns he describes as The greatest
issue ever submitted to the American
people i'll a time of peace.
William Steinway of New York. the
famous piano manufacturer and member
of the rapid transit commission, died with
typhoid fever at $50 A NJ. Monday. He
was taken i'll. Nov. 1. with typhoid fever.
and although at first his condition was
sdered serious. he rallied and hopes were
entertained of his recovery up to Satur-
day. when he suffered relapse.
Morello. winner of a Futurity and of
a Chicago Derby. a race horse that has
furnished large page in the history
of the American turf died. Sunday. at
Contra Costa. Cal. Morelo was sired
by Eolus out of Cerise and in the hey
lo sc
800 900.
Lynn shoe manufacturers have be-
gun to reduce the wages of employees,
and during the past few days cut
downs have been in force in some
shops that amount to 30 per cent to
some employees. The manufacturers
say they have to reduce expenses to
meet competition in the trade.
An attempt was made to burn the
long covered bridge across the Con-
necticut river between Hanover. N.
H.. and Norwich. Vermont Sunday
night. The fire was dissolved at $50
and was extinguished before much
damage was done. Kerosene had been
thrown on the timbers.
Martin Julian and Bob Fitzsimmons
telegraphed Dan Stuart at Dallas. Texas.
Monday. from San Saline. Cal: We ac-
cept offer; ready to sign your articles any
time; George Siler of Chicago must be
referee. and the fight must be to a finish.
This is in reply to Stuarts telegram.
Saturday night, Offering purse of $l5.
600 for a finish fight between Corbett and
Fitzsimmons. Corbett has not been
heard from.
Ex-Secretary of State John w. Foster,
who has just returned from Hawaii. says
| that it is probable that unless the United
States supports the H hai nod govern ino
weak to maintain itself under the pres
ent difficulties, some of the large mari
time powers will seize the island. The
German residents. favor annexation.
though most of the English and Germans
oppose.
The anniversary dinner of the Royal
night. Among the guests was Hon.
| Thomas +. Bayard, American ambassa
dor. who proposed toast to Sir Jos.
Lister. the president OF the society. Mr.,
work achieved by the society Sir
Joseph replying to the toast. eulogized
Mr.. Bayard, who. he said. has endeared
himself to everybody with his genuine
love for the old country.
A consistory was held at the Vatican.
/ Rome, Monday at which Canon Giuseppe
Frisco and Monsignor Raffaele Pierroti
were created cardinals. Count Capo
Grossi the consistorial advocate, deliv-
cred an grafton. in the course of which
he favored the identification and canon
ization of Joan of Arc. His Holiness. the
Pope responded: "Ad Factum Rituum
congregational ut Wildcat ct Referat."
Neither Frisco nor Pierotti is a bishop.
They were personally selected by the
Pope on account of their unusually high
/ theological attachments.
| The efforts at Hamburg. to bring
about conference resulted. Monday.
IL, tho apnOipfrapt of q committee of
four ship owners and four workmen to
decide upon terms for q settlement Of
the big strike. The committee met.