Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-11-18
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought BY the Wires iron North. East
South and West.

A fire at Washington Depot. c..
early Wednesday morning, destroyed
the main building of the Echo Farm
Creamery Co. The loss is estimated AT
$4,000; insured. The origin is a mys-
terry.
The coal operators of Northern Illi-
nos, have refused absolutely to ardi-
trate their differences with the strl!--
ing miners and the miners will hold a
convention at Streater, on Friday, TO
consider what further action shall be
taken.
Bob Isom, the well-known light
weight colored jockey. is dead at San
Francisco. The colored boy went there
with Colonel J. p. Chinn. and was very
successful from his advent to the
Pacific coast. After leaving Col. Ch;nn
he Joined the Speckles string and i,ad
since been in their employ. In his hest
day Isom was one of the most vigorous
lightweight riders in the country.
When the landing party of the Ger
man cruiser Division occupied kiaochan
Bay, China, on Sunday last, the Ger
man flag was hoisted ashore. The Ger
mand satisfaction for the murder of
Rhenish missionaries near Yen-Chu-Fu
and the robbing of the German minis
ter to China and the captain of the
gunboat Cormorant. the latter incident
having occurred on Nov. 6, at WI
Chang.
News was received at Lancaster. n.
H., Wednesday morning. that. Tues
day night, a tenement house at Ncrlh
cumberland Falls, owned by John
Eames, was burned by some unknown
party. The loss is not over $1,000 The
fire is the fifth of incendiary origin
that has occurred within a radius of
mile during the past three months.
The selectmen of Lancaster have de-
cided to take steps. Immediately. tow
ards providing better protection there
and outlying districts will follow their
example.
A special to the New York World
from Good Ground, L. l., says: An
unknown cat-boat manned by three
men, was upset in squall in Shine
cook bay, Tuesday night, and two of
the crew were drowned. The acct
dent was not discovered until Wednes-
day. when the overturned boat was
sighted through the mist some dis
lance off shore. Some. fishermen rcwed
out to the wreck and discovered the
bodies of two men entangied in the
rigging under the water. The Third
member of the crew was nowhere
about the wreck and 1t is not known
whether or rot he was drowned.
nj Of r1fn
T., has arrived in Wichita. Kan, on
trip to secure 10000 colonists for the
Wichita country who are to settle in
and about the Wichita mountains be-
fore the first of January and by sheer
persistency and force of numbers, COM
pei to open the country to settlement.
Hughes is one of 20 men who are now
making a systematic canvass in Okla
homa, Kansas and Arkansas for
Boomers to locate in the new coun-
try. The plan is to inaugurate pro-
miscuous immigration into the Indian
country at once and begin to hunt for
gold, demanding of Congress at the
same time, the opening of the Wichita
reservation. The movement promises
to surpass the famous colony expedi-
ton into Oklahoma by Captain Payne.
Emperor Frances Joseph in receiving
the Hungarian delegation at Vienna,
Wednesday, made speech in which he
said: 1.-The situation In the East dur
ing the past year has filled us with
many anxieties, which, thanks to the
unanimous action Of the great Powers
now, happily. appears to be removed.
It will now tax the concert of the Pow
ers to proceed to the settlement of the
affairs of Crete, whereby that island.
while the sovereign rights of His Ma
jesty are safe-guarded. will receive a
large measure Of autonomy. We enjoy
the best relations with all the Powers
and cur alliance with Germany and
Italy forms, as it has done in the past
the unalterable basis of our policy. To
maintain and strengthen this basis is
the constant endeavor of my govern
ment and to the guarantees of peace
hitherto existing is now added to
friendly shaping of our relations with
Russia