Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-03-02
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought by the Wires from North, Eas,
South and West.

Fire. early Monday morning. at Berlin
\. H., damaged six business houses Il
the extent of $1,000.
A special from Alexandria. Ind. say.
place was burned. Monday. Loss, 500 GEO
partially insured.
Five hundred employees of the, Globe
ShipDuildins Co.. at Cleveland. Ohio
struck, Monday. against the employment
OF non-union labor.
The German steamer Gera Genoa fol
Sydney. \. S. W.. previously reported
aground in Ischia channel near Naples
has been fioated and proceeded on hei
voyage.
Miss Noodle Nash. pupil of the state
Normal school at Huntsville, Texas. com.
mtted suicide Sunday. by shooting
through the head. She had become de.
spondent over the belief that she would
fail to pass in the approaching examina-
ton.
houses of Evariste ST. Pierre and Tobie
Michaud were burned. St. Pierre's three
children. aged =, and ). We're burned to
death: The cause of the fire is unknown.
locking the house doors and leaving the
children in bed.
In accordance with telegraphic re-
quest from Major Moore. chief of police
OF Washington. Capt. O'Brien. the head
Monday, dispatched half a dozen of his
best men to Washington to look out for
New York crooks during the Inaugural
ton ceremonies.
A special to the Philadelphia Times
from New Orleans says that the private
yacht OF John r. DreXel of, Philadelphia
which was bound from Philadelphia for
New Orleans and which was seven days
overdue, passed through the jet.ies. Sun
day night. and was expected to arrive at
New Orleans, Monday.
The Boston branch of the National
Union of Granite Cutters. to the number
OF over 200 struck. Monday. in accord
ance with the agreement made. Sunday.
President McDougal of the Union said:
There will probably be no new develop
ments. today, as no consultation is ex-
pected with the Manufacturers Associa-
tion.
George Storer Adams. who was wen
wholesale grocery jobber. died. Sunday
ut his home in Brooklyn. N. " Mr.. Adj
ans was prominent in religious circles
and president of the Judson Missionary
Society. He was born in Norwich. s,
Years ago. and served through the Civil
War in the 2lst Regiment. New York Vol
unteers. His wife, a son and a daughter
survive him.
bill which makes it a crime for wh,te and
eolored children TO attend the same
school or in any way participate in school
matters together. This will put school
children. for i'm several rural districts i'm
oklahoma not more than one colored
family lives in a school district This
will necessitate the preparation of n
school building and il teacher for from
)ne to four children. or colored children
will be compelled to go many miles to
school. The school question has already
disrupted the schools in half of the Ok
ahoma towns and bloodshed has been
he result.
The rather frequent shocks of earth
lIak Ike which Utah has experienced with
n the past few months. have come to a
lead in the form of a volcano which has
)urst forth out of the Great Salt lake a |
hort distance south of Promontory sta
ion of the Central Pacific Railway. The
yolcano is right in the lake, about a mile |
md a quarter from the shore, and per- !
IONS residing in the neighborhood say |
hat the cloud of yapor rushed up into |
he air so high that it may be seen at a |
distance. and the water in the vicinity |
'oils and surges into a sea of FOAM The |
'olcanO is situated In the big arm of the |
AXE on the west side of the long range |
# mountains visible from Brigham CITY.
The volcano has been IN action for sew |
raj days. 1t began with small cloud |
md slight disturbance of the water and |
las increased i'm ,prCpOrtion until now it |
5 a most formidable looking phenomenon
md has had the effect of creating fear |
md considerations among the country !
'eople In that vicinity.