Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-06
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought by the Wires from North, East,
South and West

Barril, the Anarchist who, Friday even
ing last attempted to assassinate Chief
of Police Portas and Assistant Chief
Teixidor. as they We're leaving the circus
at Barcelona, was tried by courtmartial,
Sunday, and it is expected that he will
be executed, Monday. 1t is stated that
two accomplices of Barril also fired at
the officials but succeeded in making their
escape.
Two firemen, Jacob Fakes and John
Devanney, were badly hurt at fire in
the two upper floors of a storage ware
house. 400 Washington street, New York,
Sunday. Fakes stepped into a hatchway
and was struck by descending elevator.
His spinal column was injured and he
may die. Devanney had rib fractured
and scalp torn by a fall. The damage to
the building and contents was 5000.
John II. Walker, 50 years old. sheet
metal worker shot himself through the
head at Buffalo. n. Y. Sunday, and is
now in the Fitch hospital, where the doe
pared for his death by buying a plot in
a cemetery and ordering a headstone for
himself. He had also drawn up a will
leaving all his property to his landlord.
Walker went there from Bridgeport, CT,
year ago.
formal declaration has been made
by the Vatican that the statement that
Cardinal Satolli has been designated by
the Pope to succeed Cardinal Ledochow-
sky as project of the propaganda, is
pure fiction. 1t is also declared that
Cardinal Ledochowsky has no idea OF
| leaving his post.
Saturdays statement of the condition
Of the treasury shows: Available cash
balance, $2l560S, $50; gold reserve, $1i4 ISL
loS; net silver, S22 DIS. $50; United States
notes on the treasury, $50, 100, $50; treasury
notes of 1890, $2s, $50; total receipts. that
day, 1892 37S total receipts. this month
oS3; total expenditures, that day. SS47. coo;
total expenditures. this month. s.. 81. 900.
total expenditures. this year. $50 635 $50.
Deposits in national banks, ST.. 1877 0s9.
The race off Newport, r. l.. be
tween Percy Chubb's old cup defender
Vigilant and Royal Phelps CARROTS
Navahoe for a cup offered by the New
port Racing Association was sailed.
| Saturday, over what was practically
an inside course, and the Vigilant won
| by a close margin of 50 seconds. cor
rected time, after a close and exciting
| contest
Twelve hundred and eighty-nine bales
of compressed cotton which arrived from
the South by the Morgan Line and was
to have been shipped east by the City of
Fall River, were burned, Sunday. on the
| lighter Mystic alongside the FAN River
Line pier on the North river front New
| 1pTh. lie TOTAL loss Is estimated AT W.
900. When the fire had been controlled.
| the Mystic, with its burning freight, was
! towed across the river to the Jersey flats
and beached. The burning of the cotton
was probably caused by boys smoking
cigarettes.
Articles have been filed with County
! Clerk Purroy at New York for the in
corporation of the Florida TRANSFERRING
sula Ship Canal Co. The chief incorpora-
! tors are Robert May Caffall Freeman II
Baldwin, r. Bolet Peraza consul general
| for the Greater Republic of Central
America in New York, Benjamin +.
Cromwell and Francis +. Fleming. The
in mind the building of ship canal and
railway to connect the Atlantic with the
Gulf. The new canal will be of sufficient
| capacity Tor the passage of ocean-going
vessels
| Borden Flats lighthouse half a mile from
! shore. is seriously i'll with appendicitis at
the Fall River hospital An operation
may be necessary. For two days he suf-
Tered intense agony at the lighthouse at
| tended only by his wife. Efforts To at
tract the attention of passing boats or
| people on shore We're unavailing until
noon of Friday. when street lahorars
| thought the bell ringing and cloth waving
! unusual. and investigated A physicion
who was summoned found the man dan
/ gefously III. and ordered his removal tn
the hospital. 81 -
Luclen Lesna. the French distance
crack. saturday, rode against the
watch for five miles at Crescent park.
track. near Providence, r. /. He made
new state records for all distances from
the quarter up to the Rhode Island five
miles, l.esna was paced by a sextatte
ana quint' both making good pickups
and changing pace each mile. The dav
was lalf. a trifie cold but there was III
tie WIND blowing. He made his fret
quarter in q seconds, the mile in 20
ana the five miles in 9.29. The other
events of the day We're. Evbihition
quarter tandem. Snow and Hougbton
in " seconds. Exhibition half by tri,,.
let in 96 2-5. Five-mile pursuit race he
tween hansen Merritt and Leavitt,