Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-11
NEWS NUGGETS.
3roueh. BY the Wires from North, East
South and West.


Interior department shows that the
amount paid for pensions during the last
year was $40 AZ e37
The fun bench of the Massachusetts SUI
pTeme judicial court sent down a decision.
Thursday holding that Boyd Ewing. re-
cciver of the Cardiff Coal and Iron Co,
can maintain suit against the estate OF
). b. King of Boston. to recover on a
judgment of Sa4SS recovered in the United
States court in Tennessee.
The latest intelligence received at st.
Johns, " F.. from the Labrador coast,
reports the complete failure of the cod
fishery this season. The catch is very
small and the low prices probably
mean severe winter for the fisher
men.
The Berlin Nord Deutsche Allgr-
incline Zeitung says nothing is known
in semi-official circles of the report
from China, via San Francisco. that
Germany has purchased the harbor Of
Tung Yung Row. near Foo Chow, for a
naval station.
In response to the request of the gov
eminent of the United States, the
British police have been directed by
Her Majesty's government TO furnish
liilbi EtttAiNu ~ lilt q HlAtu SldltS du-
thorities when anarchists are known
20 be embarking for the United States.
The Master Car and Locomotive Paint
ers' Association of the United States and
Canada. in session at Old Point Comfort
Va. Thursday. elected the following Off
GERS: President. G. +. COpp. Lawrence,
Mass; vice president, II. G.. Masters. Chi
eago; secretary and treasurer Robert
Mckeon Kent, Ohio. No other business
of public interest WAS transacted.
The Queen has written the following 10
Earl Cadogan, the lord lieutenant of Ire
land with reference to the recent visit Of
the Duke and Duchess of York: Il am
greatly pleased to hear OF the very loyal
and kind reception which my dear grand
children met with everywhere in Ireland.
md / would ask you to let this express
sion OF mine he generally known.
Michael Leonard of 20 Kossuth street,
Providence. who was shot i'm the abdo-
men at Hyde Park. Mass, Tuesday night,
lied at the Massachusetts General hos
pital at about SO +. NJ, Thursday
James a. Comick, also of Hyde Park is
under arrest as the supposed assailant,
ana tho charge reads assault with piss
toI. AS his hearing is fixed for next Mon
aay. IL Is likely the complaint will be a
more serious one.
J. r. " Hard, Elmer DwigSins and law
DwigSins who compose the firm of j K.
Willard 4 Co, bankers and brokers with
offices in New York city Buffalo Wash
lhgton, Philadelphia. and Montreal Ca
NADIA thursday. assigned to james l..
Starbuck, with preferences forA 500 900 Ia
VIM. II. Osterhout No statement of TIE
condition of the firm is vet obtainabIe
hut II IS estimated that its liabilities vii!
reacn MWn,@o. Jay Dwiggins is at pres
ent travelling in Europe.
Three records were broken at the Ma
tional Circuit bicycle race meet q,
Waterbury, CT. Thursday. under tn,
auspices of the Waterbury Wheel Club
The worlds tandem record OF as ~
made by Casey and Eckberg at Proyi.
dence, r. L.. recently was lowered ono
second by r. c. Hausman and Georg,.
II. Collet of New Haven: the mile state
record of 1.47 So made by Willie VIM
die, paced by a ''quint" at Charter oar
park, Hartford, Oct. 3. 1895, had three
afths of second clipped off IL by Floyd
MacFarland of San Jose.
The Boston Globe says: Thomas II
Snow, for 10 years past the trusted
bookkeeper of the Barbour Stockwell
Company, iron founders and maehin-
lists, walked out Of the office of that
concern at 205 Broadway. Cambridge.
Mass. week ago last Saturday, and
has not since returned. He is q fugi-
tive sought by the officers of the law.
His late employers are authority 70,
the statement that a warrant is out
against him, charging embezzement of
money amounting to a considerable
sum
freight train on the Lake Erie &
western Railway near Albany. Ind.
was wrecked. Thursday. on a trestle.
Eight loaded cars were smashed.
charles Manor of Portland, was killed,
and John Collins of the same place was
fatally injured. They We're stealing a
ride 1t is believed there are other
men under. the wreclSaae.
John MorrisseY who Claimed to helnnp