Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-01-22
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South and West

The steamer Ravensdale arrived 1t
New York from Cardenas, Cuba, With
a full cargo of sugar.
Judge Daniel f. Mcmahon WAS
chosen. Friday. to succeed James j.
Martin as chairman of the executive
committee of Tammany Hall.
jefferson. alias Jack knight If
Pensacola. Fla. was hanged at Mobile.
Ala. Friday. for the murder of Frank
Dantgler knight made a full confes
sion on the scaffold.
Fire destroyed the Simpson Lumber
cos. box factory at North Beach. Cal.
Thursday night. The Simpson Lumber
COS. loss is $4,000 and the WaShburn-
Moen Co. adjoining. $1,000 The insurance
was small.
Train No. 81 of the Atlantic Coast Line
from New York for Florida, and train No.
y, local from Charleston. coilided 80 miles
west of Charleston. s. G.. at 10 A. NJ.
Friday. Two men were killed and NUM-
der injured.
Two carloads, Of St Louis thoroughh-
breds left ST. Louis for Little Rock.
Thursday night to be trained over the
clinton Park track for the coming sea-
son. The best known horses in the con-
signment were those of w. -. Sippy. who
owns Assignee. Merry Monarch. Whirl-
away and Achieve.
An explosion occurred in wheel mill No.
> of the American Powder 60. at Acton.
Mass at 3 a. NJ. Friday. causing Il dam
age of about $1,000. The building was en-
trely destroyed. So far rs is known.
there was on one in the building At the
time and the cause of the explosion can
NOT be ascertained.
NJ. Vercort, editor Of the lie Jour and
NJ. Adjalbert. writer for Les Dr0its de
l. Homme. fought duel with swords at
Paris. Friday, on account of dispute
arising out of the Dreyfus case. NJ Yer
cort sustained three flesh wounds and his
opponent was wounded in the forearm.
The seconds stopped the lighting.
Sixteen miles of the Hennepin canal is
now completed and ready for the water
to be turned in, one thousand men are
at work in Bureau county. Illinois. the
work being pushed night and day. Con-
gresham Prince is making active efforts
in Washington to secure the necessary
appropriation by which the canal may
be completed in five years.
August NickersoM. a sailor. died at
Port Townsend Wash, after living II
days with broken neck. Nicllerson
who was a sailor or the American bars
Caryphone, while Off Cape Mendocino
II days ago. fell from the main yart
through hatch to the hold. a distanc-
of As feet
During the is hours ending. Frida J
morning. Il vessels carrying in tn,
aggregate more than 1000 600 feet oi
lumber. passed in through the Golda'
Gate at San Francisco This arrival 81
so many lumber-laden vessels is du,
wholly to the unprecedented demand
for tonnage to engage in the Alaskan
trade.
There is at present glut in the labor
market at Juneau, Dyea and Skaguay
More workingmen than there are Jobs
by far, have gone to those towns viii
the result that wages are coming dowl
and many men are now eating up theil
supplies and earning nothing. When {
good fail of snow comes. followed by
freeze the situation will be changed, fol
then the transportation Of supplies over
chilcoot and White passes viii commenc
in earnest and every man now there cal
set work.
News has reached Helena Ark. OF {
double tragedy at the mouth Of the 81
Francis river. Nelson Tucker. a We'll
known fisherman. shot and killed hi
wife and then blew out his own brain-
He had heard it rumored that his VIII
was unfathful and had threatened t
do just as h. did Tucker had alwav
borne a good reputation and his wifi
had always been considered above r.
preach
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