Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-03-30
MEMS NUGGETS.
Brought by The Wires from North, East
South and west.

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rived at Suez Monday.
Russia and Great Britain will send con
| sular officers to attend fhe inquiry to b.
| made into the recent massacre Of Arme
| rfapS at Tokat
The Clyde Line steamer Saginaw, which
went ashore at Beach Haven. ". j.. sew
eral days ago. was foated, Monday ant
proceeded for New York.
The motion CT the government to ad
vance the case Of the Joint Traffic As
ISOLATION VIII be made in the suprem.
court at Washington, Thursday next.
Harry O'Neii Of Fayettc City Pa. wa,
found dead and Joseph Marker was found
dying In the oxford hotel Plttsburg Sun.
day night They had blown out the gas
George Forest. 65, a carpenter dropped
dead in Benton park. Springfield, Mass
Monday morning. Heart failure was this
| cause II is supposed he has wife and
daughter living in Halifax, n. S.
The lord mayor of Dublin. accompanied
by two officials of the Dublin corporation
| appeared at the bar OF the House of
Commons, Monday, and presented a petit
ton praying for financial reforms In Ire
| land.
Frank Wyman OF St. Louis. a Harvard
Cambridge, Mass, charged with frighten-
ing young girls. was arraigned Monday.
After a hearing the justice continued the
| case TIL Saturday next. Wyman's family
| Is eaid to be wealthy.
| In the district court at Maiden Mass.
| Monday, the case OF Franklin W. Woods
| of Medtord, who was arrested on the
possibility OF being connected In some
bins in that city. Saturday. was mol
pressed. Woods was at once released
| from custody.
Two men have signfed their intention
| OF subscribing $500 each toward the
| forming Of new company TO bring the
fresh hsh business to Gloucester, Mass
| George X. Bradford. president of the
| First National Bank. subscribed $1,000
| and IL Is thought that the SiG0.oc0 needed
for the purpose will be taken up in a few
days.
Hon. Wayne Macveagh. the retiring
| United States ambassador TO Italy. with
| his wife and daughter will sail from
| southampton for New York, on April TO-
| On board the American line steamer New
York. Hon; Thomas +. Bayard. late
| UnGad States ambassador TO the Court
| Of 81. James. with his family will sail
for New York. either on May or May Is.
| The jury at Lawrence. Mass. has
| awarded Charles NJ. Evans 5000 in the
| case against Maurice O'Connor and VIII
| ton of his wife's affections. Evans
clained that Merrill and o Conner con-
| spircd TO. and that the latter did ALLEVIATE
Mrs. Evans love. Evans sued each for
$4,000. and the verdict of the jury. which
| was announced. Monday. gives Evans
| $3.50 from OConnor and a like sum from
Merrill.
| Stephen Ballion of Pine street Bridge
| port CT. notified the police Monday that
| when he awoke, Monday morning, he
| found his wife missing. She had de-
| parted during the night with his saw
| inss bank deposit. which he obtained a
! few days ago with view toward in
vesting it, Mrs. Ballion left behind her
| TWO small children. The heartbroken hus-
band could give the authorities no clue
| He only knew that she and his money
were missing.
| A boiler exploded in the West feI
| Electric Street Railroad power house AT
Eimlra. n. Y. early Mondav. and the ex-
| plosion shook houses for nearly a mile
around, while the noise was heard over
| the entire city. One-half the boiler was
blown through two brick walls. two cleo
| ,ric cars. and $50 feet into an adjacent
| 1eld. where ii was EMBEDDED in the earth.
| Frank Abr; the fireman, was instantly
killed and the engineer. Philip hunfeldt
was seriously injured. The damage is
estimated at $4,000
A Nov York Sun special from Waynes-
boro, Miss. says: j: w. Hollingshead
| :he white farmer. who was one of lie
| leaders in the celebrated Chambliss
| lynching case in Washington county. last
year. and wnen arrested. turned states
evidence and brought about the convic-
| ton of number of his neighbors. was
assassinated in his dwelling near here.
Saturday night. He was preparing to ger
into bed when someone outside of his
| window fired a load of bucksh into his
| body, killing him instantly.
Policeman John Clark of the Harrison
Newark, n. j., police was instantly killed
by coming in contact with a live cleo
trio wire on Harrison avenue. Sunday
morning. The fatal wire belonged TO the
Hudson Telephone Co. 1t sagged down
on the electric light wire and Owen
| Kelley, a lineman employed by the New
ark Electric Light and Power Company.
had cut the telephone wire and had per-
| mitted the ends to dangle down into the
street. Kelly was arrested and COM
| mitted without bail on a charge of man.
slaughter.
Henry Furlong of No. IS Bennington
street. East Boston, is held in station
/ on a charge of manslaughter in caus-
| ing the death of 5-year-old Louis Shore,
/ Saturday, ON Parmenter street. Fur
long was driving horse, with heavy
load of potatoes, along the street.
which is usually crowded with children
of all ages. The horse was going at q
very slow gait, and spectators say Fur
| long was using due care. Little Louis
Shore was playing on the sidewalk.
He was chasing a little girl when his
foot slipped and he fell into the road
way under the feet of the horse. One
of the animals hoofs struck him on
| the head, and he was thrown under the
wheels. Before the team could be
stopped one wheel of the cart, which
| had a load of about three tons. passed
! over his neck. He was taken to police
station l and DIR. Collins was called,
but the child died few minutes after
reaching the station. Furlong says he
did not see the child. and those who
saw the accident say the driver was in
no way to blame.
The friends of Fanny Award, a
young New York actress, who expected
to appear in the Gaiety Theatre. in
Brooklyn, Monday night, discov-
| cred, Saturday. that she was dead
Two years ago Miss Award, despite
the wishes of her father, who is said to
| be very wealthy, left her home in
Memphis, Tenn, and her natural abl-
| ity fer dancing soon secured her q
livelihood and comparative success
but, according to the physician who
attended her in her last illness, she has
| danced herself to death. During the
| last week, the company to which Miss
Award belonged was playing in the
New England states. A Mrs. Hall of
New York, who is the only known
| friend of Miss Award there sllpDoSa5