Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-05-06
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought BY the Wires from North, East,
South and West.

The Milford Savings Bank at Milford.
y. H., Tuesday. began the payment of
the second 10 per cent dividend, ordered
by the court. The bank paid over $25 900
to depositors. The order of the court
makes a value of $SUWn, which will
eventually be paid.
The details of the murder of John
Deane. the Maynard. Mass, farmer. as
far as they are known by those who We're
among the first upon the scene. after
the body had been found. were rected at
Lowell, Tuesday by the witnesses in the
trial of Lorenzo Barnes, the Maynard
wood chopper, who is charged with the
murder.
Exhibition of kinetoscope pictures of
the Corbett-F itzsimmons fight is to be
prohibited in Pueblo. Cal on petition
of the w. C. T. L. of that city. the al
dermen have instructed the city attor-
ney to draw up such an ordinance
The petition was granted without dis
cussion.
4 A cooking main just over the Provi-
dence. r. L.. city line, Tuesday brought
sports from Boston and other cities and
fully $1,000 changed hands on the result.
The stakes We're $1,000 each and side bets
totaled $1,000. California and Massachu-
sets birds Were fought. The Massachu-
sets birds won six matches and the Cali
fornian birds one.
There is movement on foot at Mel
bourne, Victoria. to send 10000 sheep
and 5000 bullocks to England in con-
nection with the dinner which the
Princess of Wales is promoting for the
poor of the slums of London, upon the
occasion of the celebration of the
Queens diamond jubilee, June q.
The ice about Athens. N. Y. is pretty
well sold out now and has been for some
time. There was no trouble in disposing
of ice for fair prices. The only batch
there not sold is that of Rowland & Son.
about 500 tons. Considerable ice was
sold for less than 81 a ton and dealers
thought they did well. There is not now
100000 tons of ice unsold on the Hudson
river.
The house of John Hefferan in South
Groveland, Mass. one of the old land
marks of the town. was burned, Tues
day morning. One tenement was oc-
cupied by the Misses Costello and the
other by the Independent Club. Loss,
$1,000: insured. The fire at one tins,
threatened to spread so that help from
Haverhill was called for.
Everett F. Martin. son of Police Com
missioner A. =. Martin. and the one who
figured prominently in the recent inyesti-
CATION into the alleged Irregularities of
Gen. Martin, in being engaged I'm bust
ness while holding the office of police
commissioner, by Gov WolcOtt has filed
a voluntary petition in Insolvency in the
Suffolk registry. Boston. and Judge Grant
has issued a warrant declaring the estate
insolvent. and fixed the first meeting of
the creditors for June % at 2 o'clock
News reached Montpelier, VT, Tues
day, that William r. Wilson. a prom
inent citizen of Ryegate, is dead. He
was thrown from his carriage while
driving on mountain road in the
town. Saturday evening He was picked
up in an unconscious condition and
taken to the home of a neighbor, where
he died without having recovered sem
He was Il years of age
John A. Davenport, aged so. committed
suicide by hanging himself Tuesday
from the top of the closet door in his
room, 215 East 18th street, New York
The dead man was born in Worcester
Mass, and belonged to one of the very
old families of that city. His father
was Judge Davenport, who was on the
bench in Worcester for 80 years John
Davenport, the suicide. married Eunice
Vine of Worcester and they lived to-
gether for over 60 years. They had two
but wife and children had been
the old man had been suffering from gen.
eral debility. 1t is thought that he be-
came Respondent and so took his life.
A Bluehill young woman--presum-