Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-30
I NEWS NUGGETS.


uly evening, THAT It's result OF the AUS
gleich negotiations a final agreement or
the subject is expected, Tuesday.
For various reasons, some of them
business reasons, the Yale, Athletic
Association has decided that the foot
ball eleven shall not be seen in any
games in New York city.
A fire at New Kensington, near Pitts
burg, Pa, Monday. destroyed the
Opera house, Harmer's block, Jacobin's
block and number Of dwellings,. The
Central hotel was also damaged. Loss
| 5000
! The condition of the Hon. Thomas r.
Bayard was very much improved.
Monday. even over that reported
| favorable last week. He was able to
! be about and, Sunday was taken out
| for a drive.
| 1t is officially announced that there
were 2300 deaths from the plague. last
| week, in the Bombay presidency
| The epidemic is spreading and there
| has been a fresh outbreak in the state
of Hyderabad.
| Cavill of Australia, Saturday, defeat
ed Cornell of San Francisco. at San
Francisco, in the third of a series OF
| swimming races for the worlds cham
pionship. The victor swan $50 yards
| in IL minutes, 10 seconds.
| All negotiations between the Ameri-
can Wire and Steel Co., and their
striking employees at Cleveland, have
been declared off. The strikers have
again take up the battle and say they
will fight to the bitter end.
The following dispatch has been re-
| ceived by The Associated Press at New
York. from Tom O'Rourke. manager for
Tom Sharkey: Providence. r. l.. Aug
letic Clubs offer of $4,000. all the purse
to so to the winner. Let Fitzsimmons
shut up or put up. (SigneD Tom
| O'Rourke." 4.s2 u.s..
| A special to the St. Louis Republic
| from Hillsboro, Mo-, says over 80 per-
sons were poisoned at a barbecue given
at Morse. Hill. and but for the prompt
attention of physicians, it is probable
several deaths would have occurred. Ii
is supposed some one placed Paris
green in the meat.
Joseph f. Stoddard, laster en-
ployed at Packard & Fields shoe fac
| tory, Brockton. Mass who was arrest
| GU, cuHudy hight, oi suSHIClOu Vi bcl.ls
the man who started the many incen-
diary fires here, was brought into the
police court, Monday. He was
held in $4,000 for an examination
Tuesday. Later he confessed to having
set fire to the Satucket block, Saturday
| night last.
DR.. John Hopkinson. an English
electrical engineer. and his son and
two daughters have been killed while
ascending the Dents de Veisivo. in the
Canton of Valais. Switzerland, the
mountains of which are among the
highest in Europe. and which are ex-
posed to furious torrents and destruc-
tive avalanches. The party had gone
en- their perilOus trip without the as
sistance of guide. .
Preparations making for peace
jubilee at Kansas City. Mo-. this fall
promises to evolve the greatest demon
stration Kansas City has ever seen.
The movement is already well under
| way and a universal desire is shown to
express in fitting manner the salts
faction felt over the achievements Of
the army and navy and the culmina-
ton of peace. Mayor Jones has .ap-
pointed committee of representative
| citizens to have general charge OF tho
demonstration.
Word was received In Fitchburg. Mass.
Monday. that Judge s. c. Hayden and
| Miss Addie c. Gillette, who formerly was
Judge Hayden's stenographer and who
| recently was refused admission to tho
1 Worcester county bar were married in
Woodstock, VT. Saturday. The wedding
follows an acquaintance between Judge
Hayden ard Miss Gillette, both of whom
| belong in F'itchburg, the woman having
been an inmate of the judges home while
employed by him. which was marked by
several sensational features. These in.
clude the divorce of the former Mrs. Hay
den and the opposition of the women oil
Miss Gillette to the practice of law
based on moral grounds. which. after sew
eral hearings, resulted In her rejection. /,
Major J. NJ. Walsh. ex-commissioner
of the Yukon district, has arrived at
Seattle, WASH, from Dawson en- route
to Ottawa, Canada to make his official
report. He estimated this seasons
fgold output at $11.OO0.000. while the
clean up for next year will undoubted-
ly aggregate $20.0O0,OO0 He predicts
that further developments in the Yu-
kon will go beyond the expectations of
| CNSiy DOuy. SoAAtCAuiIi6 tAC SItu6taoAi
at Dawson, Major Walsh said: The
district in the vicinity of Dawson is
over-populated by about 10000 people
and they must either move out rand
seek new territory or leave the dis
trict." ~ 955
Twelve men escaped from Jail at
Goshen, N. r., early Monday morning
Two of the prisoners sawed their way
out of their cell during the night and
hid in the toilet room. When the jailer
entered the room he was seized. his
keys taken from him and he was
locked in a cell. The remaining cells
were opened and the II prisoners
marched out of the Jail. Two who did
not want to go We're marched ahead al
the point of the jailor's pistol In the
hand of James w. Crum, one of the
men who had assaulted the Tailor
Ward was soon captured and one OF
the Jo!1nsons gave himself up as soon
as he could get away from the gang.
A movement is on foot at Atlantic
city looking to the prohibition Of build
ings not firepr0of on the board walk.