Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-09
NEWS NUGGETS.


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about $l1, 600; insured.
Bishop Keane formerly rector of thu
Catholic University at Washington. ha.
|, been nominated bishop assistant at tho
Pontifical throne. 1t Is understood thai
Bishop Keane will be stationed at Rome
Stephen Won Papay. chief of the pri.
vate chancellerie Of Emperor Francis
Joseph, died at Vienna. Friday. He
was credited with having a powerful
influence with the Emperor.
Simon Cooper the negro desperate
who has killed five people, was surround
ed by a sheriff'S posse in Sumter county
south Carolina, Friday, and finally killed
Cooper kept up a fusilade with his rifle
on the posse, but a lucky shot finally
| downed him.
Lorenzo w. Barnes of Maynard
Mass. was arraigned in the district
court at Concord, Mass, Friday.
charged with the murder of John
Deane, in Maynard, Dec. II. After
hearing the evidence Judge Keyes held
Barnes for the grand jury.
George Robins. an employee of the
Boston & Maine and belonging at
| Concord, n. H., attempted suicide by
taking poison at the home of Charles
Mitchell. Concord, Friday. He is not
expected to recover.
| Fall River, Mass. mill men are to
| circulate a paper for signatures to an
| agreement to curtail production two
days week. a plan to export l00G,-
600 pieces of the present stock of cloths
is also under consideration.
| A. l.. Mann & Co. one of the largest
| shoe manufacturing firms of Stoneham,
| Mass. may leave that town. to locate in
| New Hampshire. The firm occupies the
John Hill factory, and when the business
Is brisk employs about $50 people. The
| claim is made that the price of labor is
| too high there. and the labor unions be-
ing strong are able to maintain the price
| The contidentially circulated news that
a site had been granted to Germany for
| turns out to be incorrect. Germany has
not sought any such concession. The ru-
| NOR is supposed to have its origin IN the
| fact that negotiations for an extension
of the general settlement have been pass
| ing through the hands of the German
| consul general.
| William Judson of Plaistow. y. H.
| who was arraigned, Monday. for as
sault upon his wife with intent to kill,
was, Friday. put under $500 bonds to
| keep the peace. He could not furnish
| bail and went back to Jail. He will
| probably be kept there go days when
| his family will furnish sureties.
The dead body of William Speidel.
| aged q years was found. Friday, in
the yards of the Erie Railroad. at
| Port Jervis. n. Y. The body was
| frozen stiff and bore evidence of foul
play. a white handkerchief was
stuffed in the mouth. The pockets Of
| the young mans clothes had been
| turned inside out and q watch which
he carried was missing.
Joseph Boulanger. a half-breed of Ell
gin, Kan. announces that he will imme-
diately bring suit to recover 40 acres CT
land in the heart of Kansas City, Mo.
now worth between $40, 900 900 and $50 900
| 100. The land was bought by the govern
French trader. who was the grandfather
of the present claimant. Boulangs
claims that his grandfather, being igno-
rant of legal forms, had never filed the
patent. and that the transfers OF the
property since have been invalid.
Christopher Wartenburg. an aged Ger
man farmer. and his wife. who live on
farm near Lace. Du Page county, about
robbers, Tuesday night, and are now dy
ing. The couple were found at their
home late Wednesday, bound. gagged
and with their feet frozen in tubs of
snow. The Wartenburg is remote from
the public highway and it was only by
the chance call of a neighbor that the
vi tnt couple was ulStON-
cred. After ransacking the house. the
strangers departed with 81, leaving their
victims to suffer.
lmry Lesco, a Hungarian. found his
home at $50 East Main street, Bridgeport,
Ct. dark when he returned from work
Thursday night. His five small children
We're CRYING and his wife had disap
Pfa asd The They said said their mother had
would never see them again. Lesco
quickly discovered that $3.50 in gold.
which he had just received from the sale
Of property in his native land. had been
taken from the house. He told the po-
lice that he did not believe there was an
other in the case. No trace of the miss
ing woman has yet been obtained.
a man about 80. entered drug store
IN Main street Bridgeport, Conn, Fri
day, and purchased half an ounce of
carbolic acid. He said he wanted it to
kill rats with. He walked out after
obtaining the poison and drank it in
front of the store. He Immediately
fell to the sidewalk unconscious and
was carried to the emergency hospital
lie did not regain consciousness and
IL ID minutes was dead. Nothing was
found on his person by which he could
be identified
A Fl. Martin of Martin & Co., bank
ers and brokers. doing business on
Grove street, Hartford CT, is missing.
He was last seen, Tuesday. when. il is
said, he left for Cleveland, where he
has a brother. He carried all his per-
sonal effects from the office. AT the
Heublein Hotel, it was stated that he
left there under cloud; he owes about
Sl25 to parties there. 1t is said that
financial troubles are at the bottom of
Martins absence.
The Ri. Hon. and Most Rev Frederick
Temple. d. D.. the recently appointed
archbishop of Canterbury and primate of
All England. was enthroned in the cathe-
oral of Canterbury. Eng. Friday in the
presence of II bishops. $50 clergymen and
a large attendance of the laity AS the
procession entered the cathedral an en-
thusiastic rtualist named Greenwood
cried out: Both the ceremony and the
archbishop are frauds" Efforts were
made to quiet Greenwood, but he contin-
ued his disturbance until he was seized
by policeman and locked up. The APP
proaches to the cathedral We're densely
packed with people and the edifice was
illled to the limit of its capacity
Isaac n. lngrham related his recollec
IONS OF Jay Gould before Charles n.
bender as commissioner. at Grand RAN
ids, Thursday. in the suit of Sarah Ann
Jewell against the Jay Gould estate for
a share of his property. on the ground
that she was his first wife. He first met
Gould in Syracuse in the spring of lS5a
ana the following spring went with Gouli
as chain bearer. He knew OF Goulds
marriage to Sarah Ann and l.pox,. ~,