Daily Kennebec journal., 1899-04-07
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought by the Wires from North. East.
South and West.

eral head of live stock and about 80
tons Of hay. The loss is placed at $1,000
Terrence Anderson of Plymouth, Pa,
who was demented, committed suicide
Thursday. by jumping down an A0-foot
shaft of the Delaware Il Hudson mine.
AndersOn's wife and two sons pursued
him for half mile, but he reached the
shaft first and dashed himself TO death
Edmund J Moffett, a lawyer. died in
Denver. Col, Wednesday. Mr.. Monett
was II nephew of David II. Moffett, the
well-known Denver banker ana mine
owner he represented the United States
in the trial of the celebrated Alabama
claims case and from 1882 to 1892 he held
the position of vice consul to London,
Eng.
The upsetting of coal oil lamp at
Harrisburg. Pa. Wednesday night. set
fire in Il dwelling house and Mrs Simon
lsapp was so badly burned that she
cannot recover. Her grandson, Rus
sell. aged IL months. was burned To
death.
All the girls who participated in the
| riot ut the industrial home for girls at
Chillicothe. Mo>. have been captured and
| the ringleaders have been locked i'm their
rooms To prevent further trouble. The
| riot is thought to have been melted by
outsiders. Some Of the girls say that an
attorney tod them thar If they wou,d
| have a successful riot the home would
| he abolished.
Frank Hagerman, attorney for the ate
| Trust co. of New York, the principal
creditors of the Kansas CITY. Pittsburg
& Gulf Railroad which did not share in
/ appointing of the receivers filed suit in
the federal court al Kansas City. Thurs
| day, to forecose the mortgage held by
| the State Trust Co. on the Pittsburg &
| Gulf road. south of the Missouri river.
! for S22, 000.0dO.
Samuel n. Graham. wel-known
throughout central PENNSYLVANIA, was in
stantly killed near PhilIpsburg, Pa,
THURSDAY. while attempting to take a ko-
| dak picture of Il large stump which was
about being blown out of the ground with
| dynamite, 4 silver striking him on the
| neck ana nearly cutting his head from
the body. He was member Of the firm
Of Graham, Herd & co.
The pure beer bill. which was framed
| by the New York Assembly on public
health, passed the Assembly. Thurs
day. by vote of so ayes to "a noes
! The bill provides beer shall be manu-
| factured from pure barley malt. pure
hops, pure yeast and pure water. by a
mechanical process.
William j. Bryan is publishing a
book Republic or Empire the Philip
pine Question" in which he will dis
cuss territorial expansion from every
standpoint. His arguments will be
| supplemented by chapters on various
| phases Of the que:tion by Carnegie.
HOar. Daniel, Teller and others
| The secretary of the Belgian Royal
| Geographical Society. Mr.. Du Fief. says
! the statements that the Belgica has dis
| covered new land in Weddell sea vol
| canoes and open water farther south. are
| purely imaginary. He expects capt. De
! Gerlache 10 spend the bad season At
| Punta Arenas. Patagonia. or at Mel
| bourne. Victoria, and to start again for
Victoria Land. in October. But, he add
| ed. everything depends upon the funds
| available for the Antarctic expedition.
| 4 fire which originated in the Harschey
| building. occupied by the Lancaster cara
| mel factory, at Reading, Pa, Thursday,
| lid over Sl00eD worth Of damage. The
| flames communicated to the building Of
! Bard, Reber K Co. hardware dealers.
| The Herschey building was destroyed.
Loss on the building and contents. $4,000.
| Bard. Rcber < GO. lose SiNWW on their
stock, ana their building i damaged 10
| the extent nf $1,000: partially insured
The cause of The fire is not known.
| IN order 70 meet the opposition of TWO
| san Francisco firms who are selling small
grocers sugars refined in Hong Kong. the
Sugar Trust has cut the price of 2ranu-
| lated sugar to 1 l5-l6 cents per pound This
decrease has been more than met. and
| uow, according "a the Chronicle. the
! trust has notified dealers mat ii will not
| sell any cube or any other quality OF
| sugar 10 those who buy Oriental Sranu-
| advance in present prices. consumers of
sugar will save over Si,o"."o a year.
| There are over 5000 cotton mill opera
| tives out in Rhode Island. with dan
| ger of additions. Trouble is now re-
ported at Quidrich. where the WeaVerS
| are out; Lippitt. the weaVerS in
Knights mills. going out. Wednesday;
! River Points. Warren, SlaterSVille and
| Natick. where COO weavers left the
| Knight mill. Thursday. In Comnecti
cut the Ponemah mills at Taftville are
| idle.
| chusettS House. Thursday, by Mr.. Dean
| of Wakefield. that the state directors of
| the Fitchburg Railroad report directly TO
| the general court in accordance with the
public statutes. and state why they have
| not previously complied with the law.
| Chairman Barker of the Gas and Flee
| tric Light commission was before the
| House committee on manufactures. in
\ support of the commission bill for the
| consolidation Of nearly all Of the gas
| companies Of Boston. Tne opponents of
| the measure will be given hearing,
Monday.
| The Presbytcry of the United Pres1y-
| terians AT their session at indianapolis,
| Ind, have voted not to burden the book Of
discipline and government with overtures
| suggested by the general assembly in re-
| gard to the use Of tobacco. The over
| lures read. in part, as follows: The use
| Of tobacco is sinful and therefore ncon-
sistent with the Christian profession Be
| cause the use of tobacco is especially 90
| noXious in officers Of the church. no Off
| Ger shah be ordained unless he promises
| TO refrain from its use. No student shall
| be admitted 10 license to preach the Cos
| pel or ordained. unless he promises to
| refrain from the use of tobacco.
| All train on the Providence division
of the New York. New Haven & Hart
ford were stalled at Canton Junction
Mass. from l +. NJ, until late hour
! Thursday evening, by reason of sew
eral cars of a freight train jumping the
track. completely blocking the tracks.
The engineer and fireman jumped from
their engine and escaped with but few
| scratches and the train crew were only
slightly shaken. The damage to the
rolling stock will be several thousand
| dollars.
The grand jury of Norfolk, Mass,
Thursday, reported no bill against Mi
chael Milan of Quincy, who was charg-
ed with murder. Milan was bound