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NEWS NUGGETS. Brought by the Wires from North, East. South and West. L. R. Wallis, treasurer of the Laconia Gas Co., Laconia, N. H., has assigned. Liabilities, $17,000, largely secured; nominal assets. The Berlin Tageblatt asserts that France and Russia have agreed to intervene at Washington to prevent a breach between the United States and Spain. Victor Groce, an Italian. was found asphyxiated in his room at 7 Rutland avenue, Boston, Monday morning. A gas stove was found open. It was doubtless an accident. John P. Cummings, one of Nashua's (N. H.) prominent merchants and excity officials, died at his home, Monday, after a painful illness. He leaves a widow and two children. Denis Hickey, the 3-years old son of Peter Hickey, died at Portsmouth. Monday, of diphtheria, after a few days' illness. Three other children in the family are sick with the disease. Schooners Oliver Wendell Holmes, Maggie and May, and Margaret arrived at Gloucester, Monday, from Placentia Bay, N. F., with cargoes of frozen and salted herring. More than 15 cargoes of frozen herring are reported on the way to Gloucester, Boston and New York. An injunction was served. Monday, on Miners Savings Bank, West Stockbridge, Mass., prohibiting the paying out of more money. A receiver will be appointed. This action is taken to prevent a run by depositors, who will be paid in full, as the funds are safe, and most of the investments good. The bank recently voted to wind up. The bank was flourishing when the iron mines were in blast. but its business has disappeared within a few years, and there is little chance for growth. As soon as the news became public, the depositors became clamorous, and an injunction was thought the best way to prevent further trouble.
