Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-20
NEWS NUGGETS.



South md West.
Mrs. Ballineton Booth. wife of the com
mander of the Volunteers of America. Is
dangerously i'll in the Presbyterian hos
pital at New York. She is suffering from
an injury to Il blood vessel near the
heart which may prove fatal.
The fve-story building at Broadway
and Lucas streets. st. Louis. Mo-. occu-
pied principally by the Mermod 4 JAG
card Jewelry Co. one Of the largest
firms of it's kind in the world. was burned.
al an early hour Sunday. The loss Is be-
tween $500.OO0 and $l.OOO,00O.
A Grand Forks. n. D.. special says It Is
definitely known that two persons. Mr..
and Mrs. A. e. Howe. were burned to
death in the Hotel Dakotah fire. Friday.
Mr.. Howe was abed with rheumatism.
and when friends urged his wife to leave
she said she would stay with Al.
The five gas companies in pittsburg and
Allegheny have consolidated. and will be
operated under one head. with capital
stock of 81. 100000 new 100000 plant
will be erected, supplied with improved
machinery, which will effect saving of
about so per cent. in the cost of produce
tiOE.
on Tuesday last Mrs. A, B. Breckelsby
committed suicide in her home in Brook
lyn. She was to have sailed for England
the following day. Friday, her husband.
charged with misappropriating $500 be-
longing to the Armstrong Cork Works
of Brooklyn. of which he was manager
The D. l. II. train due at Albany. N. Y:
at $50 A. NJ. Monday. was wrecked
shortly after 8 O'Clock at Sidney. 100 miles
southwest of Albany. The fireman. Joseph
Shentz of Binghamton. was Killed: and
the engineer. William Roth. also of Bing-
hamton. was slightly injured. Though
badly shaken up. none of the passengers
were hurt.
Mr. and Mrs. a. F.fTyler of Kingston.
N. H.. who gained wide reputation by
their alleged attempt to secure cheap
transportation from Seattle by secreting
themselves in a piano box. have arrived
in Kingston. They deny that they tried
to come home in this way. They assert
that the man and woman discovered IN
the piano box at Seattle were two other
persons who had assumed their name
Count and Countess de Castellane
formerly Miss Anna Gould of New York;
have purchased Italian palace at
Verong. in which are IL ceilings painted
by Tiepole. The ceilings will be trans
ferred to the Castelane's Paris house.
The purchase of this palace effectually
sets at rest the recent rumors that dis
agreement was looked for between the
count and countess. owing to the lavish
outlay of the Gould millions by the count.
Mail advices received at San Francisco
Saturday. by the steamer MoanO. state
that during the great fire in Melbourne
Australia, Nov. %. the entire district
bounded by Elizabeth Flanders and
Swanton streets and flanders lane. COM
prising the great warehouse emporium of
Victoria was reduced to a mass of ruins.
The total amount of damage is estimated
thrown out of work.
While on her way home from the DAN
vers insane ASYLUM at panvers, Mass. to
take a street c3f Friday afternoon. DIR.
Julia H. X. Gary. one of the hospital
staff. dropHed dead from heart disease.
She was 10 years old. lived i'm Boston. and
had been connected with the hospital for
the iH sane for the past 20 years. being the
first woman physician appointed upon the
staff of lunatic asylum in New England.
She had two brothers.
Miss Amelia Koegel aged "a. and Alfred
Keel. is months, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles KOel, were Suffocated in tene-
ment at SOB Bridge street Holyoke. Mass,
Saturday noon. Charles Lorenz jumped
- feet from a window, and Mrs. Schubert
and Mrs. LOrenZ escaped to the street by
the front stairs. making their way
through almost sitting smoke. A two
story wooden building is damaged about
$500 and the loss on the furniture will be
$3.50
In the case of Spender Clay an officer
of the Guards, who Sam Lewis. the
London money lender. recently sued to
recover $55.565 due on two promissory
notes. given by Lord William Neville.
WIN clay = lnuoTStII1eul. JuuSIueul was
rendered at London. Saturday. to the eff
feet that Clay is not bound by the sigma
lures obtained from him by Lord Neville.
because. in substance, they were forger-
les. Clay claimed that his signatures was
obtained by fraud.
Another move have been made looking
to the early resumption of business in the
ear shops at Laconia. N. II. At meet
ing of the incOrporatOrS. the capital stock
of the corporation was increased from
t.Nt rha Shn an ma nj
cry of the plant have been put In good
order and the plant will soon be in opera
ton. Contracts for the building of a
large number of cars have been secured.
and over 300 names have been placed on
the rolls for employment. The plant has
been closed two years.
The bodies of Voltaire and Rousseau
were again eXhumed Friday. at the Pam
theon at Paris. i'm order to settle long
controversy as to their authenticity. The
remains of Voltaire were well preserved
and markedly reScmhled HoudOns statue.
OF the body of Rousseau only the skele-
ton remained. NOltaire's skull was found
to be cloven in two down the centre.
There was no trace of shot wound in
the skull of Rousseau. and this disproves
the general belief that the author COM
mitted suicide by shooting.
r. Monarch. for himself. the Glenmore
Distilling Co. and the Eagle Distilling
Co.. assigned. Saturday. to the Columbia
Finance and Trust Co. of Louisville. The
assets and liabilities are estimated to be
about $3.50 900 each. The depression in
the whiskey trade and inability to con-
tnue loans are given as the cause Mr..
Monarch refused to make any statement
AS to liabilities and assets His residence
is worth 100000. and he was considered
one of the wealthiest men. as well as the
largest distiller. in the state.
Window glass factories throughout the
United States will be able to resume
work Just as soon as they can get the fur
naces hot enough to begin. The resump-
ton means work for about 1000 men.
Friday night. kilograms We're sent from
Pittsburg to the managers of every Win
dow glass plant in the country to start
fires at once. as settlement of the wage
question. which has been so long in dis
pute. had been reached. The workers
will resume at an advance. which is not
as large was expected. and for which Il
strong contention was made.
The body of Miss Grace Dearborn, who
died in New Haven. CT. Friday. as a
result OF ii criminal operation. was taken
to her late home. Saturday. by her father
Daniel o Dearborn. an assessor of Ever
EFT. Mass. Miss Dearborn died at p. M.
Friday. at the house kept by Mrs. Fred
erick Mathis. at 1856 Wooster street. Mrs.
lies noa rI,n hpn 1t11a e.