Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-01-05

people on tile lue OF IdllFOauS are COulpletc
ly isolated from the rest of the world.
Mr.. A. G. Schlotterbeck of the firm Of
Schlotterbeck & Foss. druggists, Of Portland
was riding on horseback down Free street
Wednesday afternoon, when the horse slipped
on the ice and fell on him. Mr.. Schlotter-
beck's right leg was broken below the knee.
| In the court at Providence, X. l., Wednes-
day morning, Madame Janauschek gave
testimony in her suit against Henry Buell.,
Jr., of Newport for twenty thousand dollars
damages, caused by fall down stairs from
an unlighled corridor in defendants hotel.
Deputy sheriff f. f. Norton went to Oak
land Tues day in company with officer Ames
and searched the premises of Robert Bick-
ford, for blankets stolen from the Knicker-
booker Ice Co. Eighteen blankets were
found and Bickford was brought to Gardi-
ner and bound over by Judge Larrabee to
the April term.
The following Maine pensions were grant
ed wednesday; Increase, Francis Winn,
Bridgton; Alonzo N. Moore, Pembroke !;
Simon Prescott, Brownville, Chiston c. Dex-
ter, East Corinth; George S. Smith, Bangor;
Loring b. Wass, Addison Point; Charles II.
Jaekman, Sherman Mills; Frederick A.
Stevens, Monroe; John f. Rires, Waldo
boro Aderial Turner, East Palermo.
The Massachusetts, legislature convened
Wednesday and had the most quiet opening
for many years. The Senate elected Halsey
j. Boardman of Boston, president; Herbert
+. Clapp, clerk J. G. b. Adams, sergeant
at arms; Rev. Edwin Dowse, chaplain. The
officers of the House elected are, speaker,
Chas. J. Noyes, Boston; clerk, Edward
Mclaughlin sergeant at arms, j. G. b. Ad-
ans.
Safe crackers worked at Rockville, Conn,
Tuesday night The safe of w. +. Payne,
a coal dealer, was blown to pieces, but the
loss is only a small amount of money and
some papers. The office of J. j. Regan's
mill was entered, but the safe could not
be opened. Geo. A, Jamm, the grocer, had
his safe opened and some papers were stolen
The total loss is small. There is no clue to
the perpetrators. 1t is evidently the work
of experienced cracksmen.
There is fearful stagnation in the coal
traffic owing to the strike. During the twen-
ty-four hours ending at noon Wednesday,
but 200 cars of coal went through Reading,
Pa, in the place of the accustomed 5000 to
5000. The discharge of 400 men employed
in the coal traffic in the Reading railroad
Tuesday night, it is believed will be follow
ed by many others in the future. The COM
pany employs 1000 men made into 400 crews
in hauling coal to the tide water and the in
terror points, and not One-fourth of these
will be required if individual operators alone
continue working.
The year just closed has been a busy one
for Rockland. The record of new buildings
in the city limits embraces some 20 new
houses, many, expensive; one school house
for which the expenditure was $4,000, one
brick block $4,000; stores, store houses
and ice houses, making an expenditure for
new buildings of about one hundred thousand
dollars. Rockland builders and workmen
also have been employed in the Suburbs and
towns. Several new lime kilns
and wharves also have been built this season
in Rockland, and one new marine railway at
a great outlay of capital. The outlook for
the next year is encouraging in the extreme.
Several new houses are in contemplation and
many new kilns will be built. The Lime
rock railroad will be constructed, encircling
the city, and connecting the quarries with the
kilns. This will tend to widen Rockland's
lime market and to increase the force of en-
ployes. The prospect of extensive building
and improvement at Jameson Point, as
summer resort, alsois good. Jameson Point
forms the northern part of the city.
There was a revolution at Jefferson Bar
racks, St. Louis, Wednesday, between white
and colored United States soldiers, that re-
suited in the injury of many men and prob
ably will cost three men their lives. At this
season there are many recruits at the station,
and Tuesday they drew their first pay and
made an onslaught on the sutler Numerous
brawls resulted, ,at the bridge over river near
by which ended in battle between the white
and colored troops. The fight was one of
the most desperate kind, and the white men
in superior force were met by discipline of
the colored troops who had entered on a Sec
ond term of service. For half an hour the
battle ragged without advantage to either side
and on the bridge and road and the river bed,
men lay exhausted and beaten down. Fl
nally the belligerants, blinded and tagged
out withdrew. -Four troops of cavalry were
ordered out and arrived in CarOndolet in time
to save the police from attack. The mutin-
GERS dispersed and they were arrested in de-
tachments on general order to arrest all
troopers. Wednesday, peace reigned, though
bruises, black eyes and gashes on half hun
dred heads, still tell the tale of the struggle,
while in the hospital, at the point of death,
lie troopers Livingston, Peterson and krum-
meknocker all white.