Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-07-12
NEWS NUGGETS.
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South and West.

Marie B. Hay, the 2-year-old daugh-
ter of Cyril Ray of SO Third street,
Lowell, Mass, swallowed the contents
Of box of purgative pills which had
been prescribed for her father at the
home of her parents, Sunday evening,
and died in hour.
A fire in the Henry Noble block on
West street, Pittsfield Mass, shortly
after midnight. Sunday night. did about
$4,000 worth of damage to the occupants
of the block. The fire started in Tettley
laundry and burned up into the ceiling
directly under the private laboratory OF
William Stanley, Jr.. of the Stanley Elec-
trio Co. The delicate machinery in the
laboratory was seriously damaged, but
how much is not known.
The Saundersville, North Uzbridge
and Whitinsville, Mass, cotton mills.
which have been shut down for two
weeks, owing to the dizziness of the
cotton goods market resumed, Mon
day The mills are owned by the
Whitins Bros, and 1900 hands are en-
ployed. If there is not an improve
ment in business another shut down
will follow soon.
The schooner Affair has arrived at San
Francisco direct from Kodiak island. with
60 bags of low grade ore from the famous
mountain of gold which Captain Moore
of the schooner Free Trade so glowlnSly
described to II. Talbot Watson of Eng
land The story of how Watson and his
friends We're duped has been told. but
Captain Gilbert of the Affair says there
is considerable gold on the island ana
that if properly worked claims taken up
there will pay He has located d ledge
for r. p Hotaing and miners of San
Francisco.
Mile Nevins a well-knoWn aeron-
aut has been fatally injured at Elec-
trio park, East st. Louis H., by fall
ing from a balloon. In company with
Prof. Cohn she had gone up in a bal
loon from which they were to drop
with parachutes. When an altitude of
800 feet had been reached the balloon
careened Prof Cohn cut loose his
parachute and reached the ground in
safety but his companion failed TO get
clear and fell to the earth. Every bone
in her body was broken.
In the superior criminal court at
Boston, Monday, Thomas j. Scollans,
one of the defendants in the City hall
fraud cases, who was defauted al the
June term of the court, appeared and
placed himself under the order of the
court. Defendant through counsel
stated that on account of sickness at
Seattle on his return journey from the
Klondilte he was unable to be present
at the June term and added that the
default be removed. Judge Sheldon
said that under the circumstances he
would remove the default and the de-
PENDANT was held in $4,000 ban for trial
The 2Sth round of the international
chess tournament was played at
Vienna. Monday. Pillsbury defeated
Showalter; Alapin and Maroczy drew;
Schleiter and JanoWski drew; Marco
lost to Schitfern; StenitZ and Pills
bury drew; Ialprin defeated Wal
brodt; Lipke and Trenchard drew;
Caro- overcame Baird and Tschigorin
lost to Blackburn. The following re-
suit of adjourned games from the oath
round were announced: SteintZ and
Blackburn drew Halprin beat Jan
oWSki and Baird beat Walbrodt, while
the SteinitZ-Janowsk game had
again to be adjourned.