Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-12-28
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought BY the wires iron North, Eas.
South and West.

The wholesale grocery house of Lewie
Hubbard & Co., at Charleston, w.
Va, was destroyed by fire, Monday
known. The building was valued at
$20.000 insurance $4,000: goods valued
at 100000: insured for $4,000.
A japanese known as George Taught
fired four shots at Mary Costello. Il Span
ish woman. in the lodging house at 9Ol
Sacramento street. San Francisco. Sun
day. None of the bullets struck the in
tended victim, but later she dropped
dead and her body is at the mOrgue 1t
bears no sign of Il wound. and the physi-
clans say that death was caused by heart
failure. induced by extreme excitement.
Stephen V. White. the well-known
stock broker, made application for re-
instatement on the New York Stock
Exchange. Monday The deacon" az
he is commonly known, has discharged
all his obligations. and there l. little
doubt that the governors of the ex-
change will report favorably upon his
application.
Alfred NJ. Pierce of Bristol, r. L..
whose 4sth birthday he celebrated
Christmas day. was found dead in his
house Monday morning. Death re-
suited from heart disease. Mr.. Pierce
was unmarried, inherited quite a large
fortune from his father eight years ago,
but he had spent every dollar of it and
was in very poor circumstances.
The Chicago Coliseum, which burned
Christmas eve. was set on fire by a pet
dog. An explosion of gasolene set the
dog on fire. Lolite. a dancer in the
Cuban village. says Frank Murphy, an
employe in the N-Ray booth, confessed
to her that he caused the explosion.
She says he told this to her mother
when he called on them about the
benefit to be given the exhibitors.
Itzig Iapko. who sailed under the
name of Max Iapko. and who is wanted
in Russia for the embezzlement of
$500, was arrested >at New York, Mon
day. as he landed from the Etruria
On the ship he had said that he was
bound to America on a pleasure trip
and was going to California" He was
taken to the barge office. where he was
searched and then taken before Com
missioner Shields.
John Agnew and Thomas Kennedy met
a horrible DEATH Monday. in the Alden
shaft at WilkesbarrG. PA. They had been
sent down to cut the ice which prevented
the carriage from running. Starting at
the top. contrary to custom, they cut
away the ice until the car had descended
200 feet, when it struck and the men
could not signal the engineer and the rope
continued to coil on top of the car until
it's weight forced the carriage beyond the
ice formation. The car then dropped,
breaking the rope. when it fell 400 feet.
The men We're dashed to pieces
James Kelley of Lewisboro. was placed
on trial in the Westchester county su-
preme court. criminal branch. at White
Plains, N. Y. Monday on an Indictment
charging him with murder in the first de-
gree. Kelley elopcd with Flora Mead and
they were married in Connecticut. Kel-
ley and his bride returned to LewiSborO,
where they were given a cold reception.
On the evening of Sept. q last. Charles
Mead was shot and killed by his son-in-
law Kelley who claims that his father
in-law and his family beat him and that
he fired the pistol in self-defence.
Mrs. Lizzie Gallagher was burned to
death at her apartments in Brooklyn. in
her efforts to save her children. The baby
had pulled the cloth from the table. up
| setting the lamp. Mrs. Gallagher's cloth
ing caught fire, but she devoted her ef-
forts to saving her little ones. Neglect
ing herself until covered with burning oil.
she carried her three children to safety.
1t was only then that she thought of her.
self. and. running to a neighbors bed
room. rolled herself in blankets. 1t was
too late. however, as. burned from head
to foot. she died soon after reaching the
hospital. where she was taken.
l.. p Bowen Il son of ex-senator
| Thomas Bowen of Demon. Col. COM
| mitted suicide at Sappington. Mont. Sun
| day. His body was found near the rail-
| road track. where an express train had
| thrown it. and near it was an empty bot
| tie labelled poison Bowen was on his
way from Sheridan to Miles City. where
he expected to take a position on the Yel-
| low Journal. Brown was for a short time
mining editor of the Helena Journal Rus
| sell B. HarrisOn's paper in Helena. He
| was once editor of the Deer Lodge New
| to Sheridan, in Madison county, where he
started a newspaper. He was not mar
| ried. Mrs. Bowen. his mother. lives in
| Deer Lodge.
| 1t is officially announced that Horace G.
| Burt. third vice president of the Chicago
& Northwestern Railway Co. has been
named for the presidency of the Union
Pacific Railway Co. Mr. Burt's election
| as president is expected to carry into
effect the policy determined upon by the
organization committee when it was ex-
pected that Mr.. Clark would be able to
erty, but which is impossible, owing to
Mr. Clark's inability, because OF illness.
to accept the duties and responsibilities
| Of active service. The board of directors
is further to include the following: Wins
low S. Pierce. chairman; James Stillman,
| Marvin Hughitt Roswell Miller. E. II.
Hartman. Louis Fitzgerald Henry 3.
/ Hyde. John w. Doane. Otto II. Kahn. I.
Jefferson Coolidge. Jr. George J. Gould,
| Oliver Ames. George 9. Cannon and ia
cob H. Schiff. oliver W. Mink is to be
vice president in charge of the New York
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