Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-07-17
TELEGRAPHIC SPARKS.

The Whittemore Manufacturing Co, Of
Mansfield, Ohio, have assigned; liabilities
not stated.
NJ. b. wheelock, a druggist Of Lisbon, y.
H., failed Tuesday; liabilities unknown.
The managers Of the Atlantic Cotton Mills
AT Lawrence, Mass, have decided to stop
work July 26th, no, to resume until August
llih.
\ man by the name of Porter. foreman on
the farm Of ex-Surgeon General Cilley, at
Hamilton, Mass was found hanging in the
barn, dead. "Wednesday morning. Tie leaves
wife aud two children,
The strike Of the operatives in the mills At
Burnley, England, has ended, The employees
will resume work At an advance of ) per
cent on the wages they formerly received.
The grave Of John May, at Conseohocken,
Pa, who murdered his sister and committed
suicide, last week, was robbed last night.
The body WAS cut open and carted away.
The murderer was buried in the Potters's
field, last Sunday, without religious ceremony
OF any kind
Edward Yard, Jr., lace merchant, 81 Leon
ard street, New York, made an assignment
amounting to $3.50, 600.
Piper, premier of Nova Scotia, has resigned
and w. ). Fielding has been called upon 60
form new cabinet. Both are liberals.
The two hundred and fifty men on a strike
at the American Printing Co.'S works at
Fall River, Mass, were paid of Tuesday.
They held a meeting Wednesday forenoon.
but nothing OF importance was done,
The democrats of the third district of Ar.
kansas have nominated James X. Jones by
acclamation for senator TO Congress. Judge
f. c. Mitchell will oppose him AS an indie.
pendent candidate.
John Burns, aged "a, who, with two other
men, outraged Mary Crowley, near Calvary
cemetary, Long Island City, on the night Of
May 22d, was, Wednesday morning, sen
fenced to ten years in the State prison.
Gov. Farnham Bradford will Thursday
publicly announce his withdrawal as a can
dldate for Congress in the second district of
Vermont. There are five other candidates
in the field
+. S. Browns dry good store at Fall River
was entered last night and goods to the amount
of $1,000 were stolen. II was evidently the
work OF professional burglars. Within
month j. ii. Winning & Co.'S store was
entered and several thousand dollars were
stolen. There is no clue. This second rob
berry causes some uneasiness.
At Henry, Ills. Wednesday, Rev. s. c.
Thompson Of the Presbyterian church, his
son Sidney and Freddie Bishop of Medina,
n. y, were drowned by the overturning of
boat.
Cuban adyices state that the sugar ware
house of Del Pine and Del Gado was burned
at Matanzas; loss half a million dollars.
Hiram Campbell Sons, iron manufact.
urers, OF lronton, Ohio, have failed.
The consolation races of the regetta at
Conneaut, Pa, that were to take place We'd
nesday were postponed until Thursday on
account Of the roughness of the water.
The republicans the 5th district of Indiana
Wednesday, nominated Geo. w. Grubbs for
Congress.
The work of the National Teachers As
sociation at Madison, Wis, was continued
wednesday with an address by Thomas W.
Bickneli OF Boston, the president.
a detective arrived at Providence. II. L.,
from France Wednesday evening bringing
Frank H. Cushman, defaulflng teller Of the
Merchants National Bank, of that city.
Hall dozen Amherst College seniors who
were arrested commencement week for Great
ing disturbance, pleaded guilty, "Wednesday
At Amherst, and were each fined Sll and
costs.
Albert Miles, colored. was hanged at
Natchez. Miss, Wednesday afternoon, for
wife murder
The Kansas Republican State convention
for the nomination Of State officers met
Wednesday afternoon at Topeka, J. A. T.
Dixon was chosen temporary chairman.
The anti National Monopoly Greenback
Labor and National Union parties met in
Joint State convention at San Francisco,
Wednesday. Resolutions supporting Butler
were unanimously adopted. Eight Butler
electors will be placed in the field