Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-02-13
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought by the Wires from North. Eas'.
South and West.

Prince Napoleon Charles Gregoire
jacques Philippe Bonaparte. third son Of
Prince Lucien Boiiaparte, prince of Ca
niioj Is dead at Rome.
William BARLEY, 20, was frozen to
death at Butler. Pa, Saturday. A
child of Albert Hudle Of Franklin was
frozen to death.
No news has as yet been received con-
corning the disabled steamship Pavonia,
which parted from the Wilson Line
steamer Colorado while that vessel was
endeavoring TO tow her into Fayai.
The warehouse of Robert 3. Storer &
Co. on India street, Boston. containing
a large amount Of hemp, flax and other
East india goods. was badly damaged BY
fire at late hour Sunday night. The
loss is estimated at $4,000.
Samuel +. French died at North Hamp-
ton. n. H., Friday, of pneumonia. aged
leo years. He was son of the Rev. JON
a than French, 50 years minister of North
hampton, and through both sides of an
cestry ineal descendant OF John Alden.
The cold wave continued in Vermont.
Saturday. Al A. NJ. the thermometer
al Woodford 20 below, and ait Pownai
% below, All through trains We're late.
Patrick joyce, an aged man, was
found frozen to death in his shanry
! near Keyser. Md, Saturday. His faith
fui dog stood guard over his body and
had to be killed before it could be re-
moved.
Gen. Edmund Schriver. a graduate of
the military academy of the class OF
1888, and one of the oldest officers IN
the army. died at Washington, Satur-
day night, from complication of dis
eases incident to old age.
Tho nff;cinI cacnr1 ~ Danl NT;vp
Saturday. was 80 degrees below zero.
| This was below the average for the
northwest. temperatures ranging from
% degrees below at Helena. Mont. to AZ
| degrees at Winnipeg and Battle Ford.
ihe cold weather has become a seri-
Gus thing for the people at and near
Stroudsburg. Pa. Farmers are COM
| PEELED to put stoves in their barns 10
keep the cattle from freezing. At
| Tobyhanna the mercury was 26 degrees
| below.
One hundred and fifty feet of the bust
I est portion of South Pearl street, Albany,
| \. Y, was destroyed by fire Sunday.
The loss will reach $3.50 900. about one
half of which Is covered by insurance.
Mann & Anker. makers of ladies' gar
beck & Co, miiIiners. and Mann & Wald-
mann. wholesale dealers in ladies' suits.
are the principal sufferers.
The wholesale and retail book estab-
lishment of A. c. McClurg & Co. at Chi
cago was wrecked by ire which broke
out at 10 A. M. Sunday. and which spread
rapidly through the tive-story brick
su ucture lit tne northwest corner of wa
bash avenue and Madison street occupied
by the firm The stock was probably ,le
| largest of its kind in the country. The
total loss will be about s150.0tv.
Saturdays testimony in the Russell
murder triai at Boston was very sensa-
tional One witness testified that Arthur
i,ogan, one OF the defendants. admitted
| killing Charles l.. Russell in his drug
| store. Another witness with WnO..i
! Chance, the other defendant. lived. said
| Chance had stood outside keeping tabs
on the cops, while Hogan WAS inside.
also that they went there intending to
I,rub the store.
! Two Polish girls had a narrow escape
| from death on The Consolidated Rail
! road between Housatonic and Glendale,
| Mass. They were crossing d bridge
when Il train hundred along. They
! swung between the ties while the train
| passed by. When the train crew came
back to rescue them they We're nearly
| exhausted