Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-04-25
General News.

The loss by fire in New Bedford during
| 1882 was S23, 1864.
| During 1882 there were $50 applications
for divorce, and 27l were granted in Rhode
Island.
! There are l10 persons confined in the Jail
and house of correction at Lawrence, Mass.
James Park, Jr.. of Pittsburg, Pa, one of
! the largest steel manufacturers in the world,
| is dead.
1t is understood that the Quebec Central
railway will lose $500 by the failure in
London of its English agents, Messrs. Cooper,
| Hale & Co.
The building at Cincinnati, O, occupied
| by the Brush Electric Light Co., was damaged
$40, 900 b, fire Saturday.
The High Priests in Royal Arch Masonry
l of the State of Connecticut will convene at
Masonic Temple, New Haven, on Monday,
Nav Z.
A Constantinople dispatch says Suleiman
Pasha, one of the ablest generals of the
| Turkish army, and the hero of the attack on
| the Shipka pass in the late war with Russia,
| is dead.
| Advices from Tamatay state that the ma
tives are busily engaged in making weapons.
| They declare that they will not surrender
an inch of territory to the French invaders
| The sisters of the Congregation de Notre
| Dame have commenced the erection of con-
vent at st. Johnsbury, VT The building is
to cost $4,000. They have school of $50
| scholars.
| 1t is settled by the New Haven city court
that if man is continuously drunk for two
days he can be tried only once for drunken
ness; if he loses his grip and re-begins, then
it is 81 not the same old drunk" and he is liza
Bile,
| The stockholders of the Eastern Union
| Tnlaurapb in Cat
urday and ratified the lease of the Mutual
| Union companv's lines, in accordance with
/ the ruling of the court. There was only one
dissenting voice, and that came from Josiah
| c. Reiff.
The international polar commission an
nounces that. owing to the decision Of the
| American and other governments not to pro-
/ long the polar observations at the different
stations, all expeditions, excepting where they
are icebound, will return to their homes next
September.
Supt. ID. J. Hern, Of the Mutual Union
Telegraph Company says that its offices are
| to maintain their independent existence, not
/ lwifhstanding the lease to the Western Union.
The test stations will probably be abandoned
but the established paying offices will remain
as they are.
| The appropriation for the redemption of
worn and mutilated United States notes for
the fiscal year 1929 is nearly exhausted.
No appropriation for this service for the next
fscal year was made at the last session of
Congress therefore, after the present appro-
priation shall be exhausted, no notes Of this
description can-be redeemed at the treasury
department until Congress makes another ap-
preparation for that purpose.
A dispatch from Chicago states that Satur-
day afternoon the railroad managers of that
city, in accordance with an order issued by
Commissioner Fink OF New York, announced
reduction on east-bound freight from
Chicago to New York to 80 cents on the
seseDth class and live hogs, and to 35 cents
on the ointh class.
II il declared II Chicago that the Nickel
Plate il dissatisfied with the 10 per cent,
share allotted it in the east-bound live stock
fp6ol, and Arbitrator Adams has called Z
lmeesing IN New Yosk to consider its demand
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