Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-06-15
AUGUSTA. MAINE MORNING
xsws NUGGETS.
Brought By the wires irem North, East
South and West.

Ashland knitting mill, Ashland. N. H.,
exploded Monday, causing considerable
damage, but no one was hurt. Operations
will be slightly interfered with while re-
pairs are being matfe.
The report of New Hampshire's state
treasurer Scion A. Carter. for the fiscal
year ending June !. shows that the state
debt has been reduced $l59. 1882, leaving
the present net debt. $1.661. 761 Is, and the
total liabilities, -. 253 i5o..6.
Howard A. Scott was elcctrocuted at
Sing Sing, Monday, at ILL A. NJ He
was declared dead ar 11.30. The crime for
which Scott was executed. was the muir
der of his wife in New York city on the
afternoon of October 70 last.
The New York. whose hurried depart
ure from Boston several days ago caused
some excitement there, has arrived at
Hampton Roads She will go up to
Newport News for coal and then return
| to the roads and await further orders.
1t was learned at Brandon, VT, Mon
day, that Lewis Tennien, son of Jerome
| Tennien of that town, was drowned a;
Lake Dunmore. Sunday, by the capsiZ-
| ing of a boat in which he was rowing
with two companions. Tennien could not
swim.
Rockland says: fire was discovered in
H. r. Smith IL Cos. bakery. in Ford )
block at A. NJ. Monday. The blaze was
confined to the block, which was badly
$4,000.
A lamp explosion in the residence of
Stephen Welsh. near Sharpsburg, Pa.
early Monday, set fire to the house and
badly burned the -four occupants. Welsh
and one of his children are in critical
condition and may die. The house was
destroyed.
Willis was taken into court at Taun-
ton. Monday morning. and was charged
before Judge Fox of the wilful murder OF
William +. Randall. Willis pleaded Not
guilty" and the case was continued until
Friday. Willis being held without bail.
He had no counsel.
The woman who committed suicide in
the vestbule Of Calvary Episcopal
church. New York. Saturday afternoon,
has been positively identified as Mrs. Jo-
sephine Doriat. She was native OF Bof-
deaux. France, a divorcee and Is years
of age. She had been ladys maid.
Word was received from South Digh-
ton, Mass, Monday. to the effect that
during the thunder storm, Sunday, enor-
nous hailstones fell, some of them
measuring two inches in diameter. Hun
dreds of dollars worth of damage was
done to window glass and growing crops.
Harry Whallen. the human ostrich, .
who was operated upon at the German
hospital, Kansas City. Mo-, Saturday,
and from whose stomach the surgeon
took two pocket knives, three knife
blades, three ounces of fine glass, and
lacks. nails screws and staples to the
number of 20. died at \. NJ, Monday, as
a result of the operation
J. Richard Mulrey. convicted in two
trials of obtaining money from the city
of Boston by false pretences, was SEN
fenced in the superior court at Boston.
Monday. to eight years in the state
prison p. j. Finneran, convicted with
Mulrey at the first trial, received a SEN
tence of Is months in the house of cor
rection and Il fine of Slf00.
A large steam pipe in the warp dyeine
department of the Lower Pacific mills.
Lawrence. Mass. burst. Monday, justaS
the employees We're going 10 work. Henry
Sharroek. who was in the room at the
time. was seriously burned, but no one
else was hurt. 1t is thought Shamrock is
not fatally injured. The damage TO the
plant will cause "a temporary suspension
of day or two, during which about 800
hands will be idle.
James A. Beers was held in the district
court at Spencer. Mass, Monday in $1,000,
on charge of rape. He was committed to
the Worcester house of correction Beers
is accused of causing the ruin of four
girls, Ida Matthew. Is: Maggie Dermody
Is, Eva Snay H. and Mary j. Beaudreau
L. The girls had been in the habit of go
ing to his house and the alleged assaults
cover period of two years. The Matthew
girl was fined SIS in court for having i'm
proper relations with the man and the
other girls We're discharged. The town
is greatly worked up over the matter.
Three young ladies We're killed by
lightning. Sunday evening. while on their
way home from the Methodist Episcopal
church at Jaconsburg, Ohio. They are
Minnie Mcclure. Alpha Taylor ana Emma
White. each aged about 10 years. Sarah
Bohrng was badly stunned and may die.
They We're walking together in the road
about 100 yards from the church when
they We're struck by lightning. 1t is be-
lieved that the steels in the corsets worn
by the girls that We're killed were the
chief cause of their deaths as Miss Bob
ring, who was only stunned. wore none.
Mrs. Edith T. Bruno. an aeronaut, met
IL terrible death by drowning in the Ten
nessee river at Riverside park. five miles
from Chattanooga. Tenn. Sunday. When
1000 feet i'm the air the parachute was set
adrift and began to fall rapidly. Tossed
and beaten about by cross winds. ii fin
ally was seen to be drifting far out over
the stream and finally struck the water.
The basket upon which she relied as a
buoy and buffer against the water over
turned and was like a milestone around
her neck. dragging her under. Her feet
became entangled in the ropes and she
was liable to eXtrcate herself. The
BODY was recovered.