Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-12-19
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought by the Wires from North. East
South and West.

In wreck on the L., d. & w. Railroad,
near Roachdale, Ind, Sunday. one man
was killed and eight or ten seriously in
jured
ers seriously injured, Sunday, by the col
lapse Of a house in course of construction
on the Rue des Appenins. at Paris. 1t is
feared that five bodies still remain buried
in the debris.
The house and barn on the Marlboro
driving park. Marlboro. Mass, was de
stroyed by fire, Sunday, as We're also four
horses, a quantity Of hay and barn para
phernalia, all valued at 5000. The prop
erty was insured.
Thomas ID. C4eary, &c years of age sim
gle, who lived with his brother-in-law,
Thomas Y, Connors, in South Boston.
while asleep in his room, Saturday night
Or early Sunday morning.
Nearly the whole OF the business part
Of the town Of Triton. in the center Of the
dag hight An Ds Of SnI Rn IN bos sain
house exploded. The Masonic hall and 10
stores were destroyed and hotel and
large lumber mill were damaged.
According to dispatch to the London
Morning Post from Hankow on the Yang
tse klang about 100 miles from the sea,
q French expedition has been dispatched
UP the river to kWei Chau and one gun
southern capital of China, about 50
miles from the rivers mouth.
The stockholders of three more Boston
national banks, the Howard, Market and
North, voted, Saturday. to go into liqul-
dation. 1t is part of the arrangement by
which a general contraction of bank cap
ital in the city Is provided for and the
business of nine institutions concentrated
in one large one. the new National Shaw
NUT.
Early Sunday morning burglars en-
tered the iewelry stores of Alexander
Weed and sigismund kronholtz, both
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in the center Of the city, and secured up
wards of sl50o worth of booty in each
place. Entrance was made by the rear,
The goods taken were of a miscellaneous
nature.
The Italian papers say they learn that
Emperor William will pay a 10-days visit
to Rome in January, and give magnifi
cent fancy dress bali at the German en-
bassy in the Palazzo Caffarelli. The cos
tunes, it appears will all be of the time
of the Roman empire, His Majesty APP
pearing in a Roman tur@c, with a great
purple cloak.
The police of Brussels have unearthed
a mandatory where spurious master
pieces of all the foremost modern artists
lets, Puvis de Chavannes and Baudrys
were seized. They are all excellent imi-
tations. The sharpers amassed 1000,000
francs from the sale of their forgeries, a
majority of which have been shipped to
America.
The new South Union Station at Bos-
ton. it is ANNOUNCED, ydll probably be
opened within few days of jan l.
ming of trains. When the gates really
swing open, the travelling publicsof Bos-
ton will be able to boast of the largest
railroad station in the world, and ST
Louis and London will have to be con-
tent with second place
Fire partially destroyed the works of
the Merchants Foundry and Machine Co.
n al fa o o b sary senaay VAS us
sured. 1t is thought the fire was of in
cendiary origin. The foundry had been
ing the Eagle Stove Co foundry, and had
recently been purchased by Warren, Fl.
L., capital.
Herbert E. Knight was arrested at
Cambridge, Mass, Sunday night, on a
house of Daniel A. Buckley. last Thurs |
day, and the robbery, at the point of the |
pistol. of Mr.. Buckley's watch. 1t is |
the Jail at Manchester, N. H., for rob-
berry, during which time he escaped. but |
was afterwards captured He was re-
leased, last March.
Turtle Greek. eight miles from Pittsburs: /
Pa, JOS. West, aged 80, is dead ana II |
others injured, two seriously. The sled
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every direction. The two seriously in
jured are: W. B. Maddey, both legs bro
Ken, and JOS Common, leIt leg broken ana
injured BADLY about the head.
John Card, Waterman on the Bos-
ton Gas Cos. wharf at Commercial
street, Boston, was found lying at the
bottom of the run, Sunday morning.
dead. He had apparently fallen 80 feet
from the staging above, and was kill
ed by the fall. He was 50 years old
and lived in Everett.
FORMER Police Captain John J.
Mount of New York, 50 years of age,
died suddenly, Sunday, of heart dis
ease. Capt. Mount was appointed to
the municipal police force in 1850. He
distinguished himself in the draft riots
of war times. He was retired from
service, II years ago.
After many days of hard, patient
work the Dorchester police succeeded,
yesterday, in capturing two boys, Al
phonsus Mclaughlin and Herman
Frigeroth who. they believe, have sys-
teGlltically robbed many houses in