Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-03-06
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought by the Wires from North. East
South and West.

Humbert, died at Rome, Sunday.
The Shanghai correspondent of the Lon
don Daily Mail says that the leader of the
rebels in the province of An Houi. the
tured, So of his followers being killed.
A carboy of benzine exploded in third
class railway carriage on the line tf
Dwinsk. south of St. Petersburg, Satur-
day night. The carriage, was burned. sis
women and man were Killed and 10 Oth'
ers were injured.
Charles A. Whittemore, member OF
the board of assessors of Melden, Mass.
was held up and robbed of his watch. d
diamond stud and $50, Sunday evening
made good their escape. The AFFAIR oc'
Cured within 100 yards of Mr.. White.
more'S home.
Mr.. ]. NJ. Cook. the head of the great
tourist agency. is dead at London. He
never recovered from the illness which
he contracted while conducting the re-
cent tour of Emperor William of Ger.
many in Palestine.
The Bombay correspondent Of the
London Morning Post says: 1.-The bu.
bonic plague is raging here with un-
paralleled severity. According to the
official returns there We're 972 deaths
last week, but these quite underate the
mortality.
The register of the bankruptcy di.
vision of the high court of justice a,
London has ordered the prosecution OF
Ernest Terah HoOley. the company
promoter, against whom receiving or.
der in bankruptcy was issued, early IL
June last.
A conspiracy among the cOnvicts II
the state prison at San Quentin, Cal.
to murder the guards and effect {
wholesale delivery of prisoners ha.
been revealed to Warden Hale through
the faint-heartedness of one of the con.
spirators.
The Governor of Idaho. nominated
reign, the latter being the former lead
er of the Knights of Labor, as mem
bers of the board of arbitration. Payne
was confirmed, but Sovereigns nomi-
nation was rejected by a vote of II
to 10.
The fire losses in the United States
last week, are reported at 81, IL, 900. and
since Jan. l the total is reported at $685.
916.970. This, in two months. is more
than a quarter of the entire loss in
either of the last two years. At this
rate the losses of this year are esti,
mated at $161. 06O, $50.
Frank X. Ranno. meter taker and
collector for the Union Electric Co. of
Manchester. N. H., was arrested Sat
urday on charge of embezzle-
ment from the company. He, will be
held pending on examination of his
books. 1t is claimed that he owes the
company from 500 to $500.
John G. Crawford, who completed a
two years sentence in state prison at
Concern, N. H.. Saturday, for breaking
and entering in Laconia. has been sent
to the county farm hospital, being in
the last stages of consumption. He
had no relatives or friends, and the
county officials took charge of him.
Burton, the last of the dynamite con-
spirators, has just been released from
jail at London. He was sentenced in
1855 for completely in the explosion in
the underground railroad at Praed
street, in 1883. whereby numbers OF
passengers were injured and in the ex-
plosion at the Tower of London in 1885.
through which several visitors. were in
jured. '
Two English seamen, Thomas
French and Robert Scott, became in
yolved in quarrel on board the
steamer Chicago, at Boston, Sunday,
and in the scufi1e French fell 80 feet
through hatchway and broke his
neck. soon after dying. Scott was
saved from a similar fall, being snatch
ed back just as he was going over.
The police, after investigating the
case. arrested Scott on a charge Of
manslaughter. Both men were con-
siderably Intoxicated and in their
wrestling about the deck approached
the open hatchway before the other
seamen realised their danger. Just as
the men were about to fall, the others
rushed forward and managed to reach
Scott. but French had already gone
through the opening. French was 3S
years of age and lived in Hull, Eng,
from which place the steamer sailed,
last month.