Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-02-04
NeWS NUGGETS.
Brought by the Wires from North, East
South and West.

The Cuban Insurgents have dynamit,d
and destroyed pontoon railroad lin"
near san Felipe province of Havana.
\ government inspector, who paid a
surprise visit recently to diamond mine
near Pretoria, is convinced of a genuine
discovery. He saw diamonds uncarthcd.
OF formation similar To the Kimberly
diamonds.
Thomas Monahan. who it is claimed
shot and killed Frank Dudley. a railroad
Waterman and VIM. Thettis Of Shelburnc
burne. At Gorham. n IT,. last October
has been held for the April term Of the
supreme court on 4 plea of not guilty.
a special To the Detroit Mich. Jour
nal from Ishpeming says the advance
in wages Feb. I, at.the Carnegie mines
of Iron Wood. averaging ten per cent.
will be made general throughout the
Gogebic IRON range. between 5000 and
looosemployes being affected by the in
crease.
by the will of Josephine Mellen Aver.
which was filed in the Middlescx probate
Sl0o,0o1 is left to the Aver Home for
Women and Children in Lowell. and SO.
600 to the Pennsylvania Hospital at Phil
adeplia. Mrs. Aver was the widow Of
the late ]. G. Aver of Lowell the noted
patent medicine man, and died in Paris.
about three weeks ago.
A special dispatch from Rome says that
some of the grain dealers on the Corn
Exchange OF Casena. province of Forli.
who accepted reduced prices. We're Vio-
lently attacked by the members for at
tempting to corner grain. The troops. it
lis added, had to clear the Exchange. The
dispatch adds that there were outbreaks
at Castel-a-M Mare, Wednesday. and that
the troops frequently charged the mobs.
Michael Shelvey. who attempted sui
eide at Lowell. Tuesday afternoon. by
leaping into the canal from East Mel~
rimac Street bridge, made another un-
successful effort to end his life in the
police station Wednesday. He used a
very dull jacltknife on his left wrist
After he received attention from a sur
ccon he was removed TO the city farm
hospital
Bishop Vincent Of the NJ +. church
al Topeka Kas.. appealed ia sita!e
Temperance Union, Wednesday night
to take ~ The chewing gum habit AMI
drive il 0ut OF Kansas. He asserted
that the chewing gum vice has made
millionaires out of few men in few
years and instead Of doing any good
whatever. was cnccura&ing daEgerous
habits among the people.
Frederick +. Graham claiming (" la
an En"i!shman who recently sWindlvd
New York ana New jersey capitalists
out Of $2l.o00. in d sale OF non-existira
phosphate mines in the state az
Oaxaca. has left Mexico, and there
good reason to believe he has gone L"
ALASKA where detectives will folio"
aim. as he employed names of Mexican
officials in entrapping his victims.
c. I. hampton. q saloon keeper OF
Buffalo. n. y. but who. previous 10
entering that business was CONNER
cial traveller, had occasion from time
to time to cross the border on business,
MAS arrested, Wednesday night, and
placed behind the bars, on complaint OF
Mrs. c. a. Cuthbertson. comely Cana
dian widow. who charges him with e%-
acting sums of money from her, until
the entire amount reached between
$20G0 ana $500 Reports are to the
effect that nj the Widows Solicitation
HAMPTON quit travelling. and with Slooo.
furnished by Mrs Cuthbertson. tStah-
lished Il saloon in quebec. MrS. Cuth-
bertson says Hampton misappropriated
her loans. Hampton denies the charg@
ard SAYS he can establish his lnn"-
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