Daily Kennebec journal., 1879-03-08

NEW DIRK, Marcn {. ne damage by nre
at Watersburg factory, Pearl street, was un-
derrated. The total damage was about So
600; partly insured. Eighty females were
thrown ont of employment.
Railroad Matters.
MclIenry of London, has issued circular
inviting the bond and stockholders of the
Atlantic & Great Western Railway to meet
and appoint committee to act against the
recent action Of the trustees.
Personal.
Queen Victoria leaves London on the 25th
and will be absent from England about
month.
Arrest for Murder.
John Cassidy is arrested for killing James
Nolan in Il drunken fight, last night
Heavy Failure.
The failure of Godshaux Bros. & Co., i'm
portcrs of dry goods, San Francisco. New
York and Paris, with liabilities Of over a mill
lion caused considerable comment here. The
largest part of the indebtedness is due in Lon
don and Paris.
Attwert's bag factory was partly burned
this morning. Loss $4,000.
Danger Signal.
Commodore Cltz of the lighthouse service.
notifies mariners that frst-class buoy with
horizontal stripes, has been placed in three
fathoms of water on Townsend ledge, off New
Haven harbor.
Rumored Removal.
1t is rumored the President is about to re-
move Minister Foster from Mexico.
The Spanish Commission.
1t is stated the Spanish Claims Commission
has been in existence nine years, at an ex-
pense of $1,000 annually; that it has adjud-
Gated only thirty cases out of one hundred
and twenty-three, and will resume action
soon.
Unhappy Custom House Clerks.
There is considerable trepidation in the
Custom House, at the announcement that
several hundred clerks are to be examined as
to competency. 1t is believed that twenty
per cent. of them cannot pass examination,
having been appointed on political grounds.
A Race Quarrel.
A despatch from Charlottesville, Va, states
that Mr.. Gilmore, colored shoemaker, was
fatally wounded bv three young students OF
the University The latter state they shot in
sclf-defence, but the negroes state that the
students knocked Off the hat of one of their
number. when the negro promptly knocked
the student down. The students then opened
with revolyers. The student who shot Gill
more is balcd in $500.
Wheat Shipments.
A freight engagement for so, 600 bushels of
wheat has been made for shipments from
Chicago to Liverpool by the New York Cen
trai road, at 40 cents per bushel is said to be
for account of James II. keene, and is the
first shipment of his heavy purchases Of
spring wheat in the Chicago market
A Wholesale Swindlc.
James X. Keene, a well known stock and
grain operator, states that his name was
forged Thursday night to a telegram to j. X.
Fisher e. Co., grain brokers. Chicago, direct
| ing them to sell 5000. 600 bushels of wheat
on his account. This caused the decline in
wheat in Chicago to-day, from 66 to 80 cents.
Keene knew nothing of the transaction until
afternoon, and rcpudiates the entire sale,
which will compel the re-purchase by Fisher
4. Co. of the amount sold on his account
! keene saws he had no intention of making
any sales Of grain at present, and certainly
not at 93 cents. He states that il was evil
IDENTITY the work of an agent in New York. of
a conspiracy formed in Chicago by parties
who were largely short on provisions, and
who hoped by breaking the wheat market to
cover their short sales and buy largely of the
long. Steps will be taken to discover the
author of the telegram.
Railroad Accident.
Jacques Traloup was killed and August
Defoar fatally injured the Erie Railroad,
Thursday night. Both Frenchmen fell from
the train.