Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-22
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought by the Wires from the North,
East, South and West.

Fire. Thursday, destroyed the general
store of VIM. Egans & Co., and 10 resi-
dences at Thurmond, w. Va. The loss
will exceed $4,000.
David Callahan, formerly a promi-
nent attorney and state senator, died
at his home at New Haven, Conn.
Thursday. of paralysis, aged As.
The schooner Mary e. Morse, former
Iy of Bath, Me-, was sold at marshars
sale. Thursday at Philadelphia, to F..
c. Pendleton of New York for $6575.
The Gloucester mackerel seining fleet
sailed from Halifax N. S., early Thurs
day morning. The steamer London
City, which arrived, reported mackerel
schooling outside.
For the summer dog show at Mrs
James Lorillard Kernochan's estate at
Hampstead, l.. l., 1143 dogs have been
entered. The list includes SO Boston
terriers. 81 bulldogs and "a toy spaniels.
Wainwright's hotel, two dwellings,
ings were burned at Rennsaeler Falls,
N. Y. during Thursday night. The loss
is $4,000. The Ogdensburg firemen re-
sponded to a call for assistance.
Enoch B. Colwell, an extensive dealer
in fish, died at st. John, N. B., Thurs
day night, aged "a after suffering some
months with paralysis. He was for
many years an alderman and had also
filled the position of deputy mayor. He
was unmarried
The Massachusetts House, Thursday,
Inv, nf n 81 rpfuSpH
sideration of the vote of yesterday re-
jecting the resolve for a constitutional
amendment to provide for the estab-
lishment of municipal fuel yards by
cities and towns.
Two prisoners in the Snake Hill.--N.
j., penitentiary, made a break for
liberty, Thursday. One of them,
Charles Austill, was shot and will prob
ably die. The other Roy Carroll, was
finally rounded up. Both were serving
terms for robbery.
The Hamburg American Line steam
err Pennsylvania, which has arrived at
New York. from Hamburg, Cologne
and Plymouth, brought 235 cabin and
272S Storage passengers. This is the
largest number of steerage passengers
ever brought by a single vessel.
The directors of the Bank of England
at their weekly meeting, at London,
Thursday, reduced the banks rate of
discount from 4 to 31A per cent. The re-
duction was attributed partially to Of
fers of American gold and to gold ship
ments from New York to Paris.
Announcement was made, Thursday,
ha consolidated E,yohn of Now
York, of the suspension of S. B. F'itz-
gerald. on whose account about 5000
shares of stock, including 700 shares
of st. Paul were sold out under the
rule. The amount involved is said to
be about $4,000.
Ralph M. Cole of Tottenville, N. Y, a
student at Wesleyan University, at
Middletown. Conn, will lose the sight
of one eye as a result of an accidental
blow from a golf club, Thursday. While
playing on the university ground a
companion missed stroke, and the
club hit Cole in the eye.
S. G. Ramsey, general manager of the
Peninsula Consolidated Railroads. is
dead of yellow ever at Merida, Mexico.
Two sons. who live in the United
States, survive him. He was a brother
of the chief clerk to the general man
ager of the Pennsylvania Railroad with
headquarters at Philadelphia.
The drought in Porto Rico has been
generally broken by copious rains
which were preceded by fierce electrical
storms and slight earth shocks, the
longest lasting four seconds. The crops
suffered severely and their ruin was
narrowly averted. The hot spell was
the most severe on record at San Juan.
The jury at New York, in the suit of