The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1888-03-08

IN BRIEF Delegates from - divisions of
the brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers met
III New ork Sunday and resolutions were
adopted demanding that members of the BROTH
erhood on roads connected with the Chicago.
Burlington and Quincy strike on the 18th. if
the offending road does not Weld before that
date and if that does not suffice, then it Is pro-
posed that all the Brotherhood throughout this
country, Canada and Mexico, join issue on the
question.....lt is said that the prohibitionists
throughout the country are combining to at
tack the con>titutionality of license laws. grow
ing ont of the decision of the United States SUI
prcme Court in the Kansas case wherein it
was asserted that the people cannot barter away
the morals and health of the pubic..... CLAUS
SpreckieS. the sugar king. arrived in Phiiaue-
phia saturday evening. He says he will never
20 into a "tru>t,'' and will fight the biz organ
iZation by running Il refinery either in Phadel-
phia. New York or Baltimore. Chief En"i-
neer Arthur says there are not 300 competent
locomotive engineers in the country who are
idle. and says the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy cannot ill the places of the strikers
with competent men......A report will be pre-
>cnted to the House favorng the admission of
Dakota. Montana, Washington Territory and
New MeXiro to the rank of States.... Bronson
Acott. the distinguished educator and philoso-
plcr. died in Boston Sunday. aged IS years......
The New England base bali league season will
openApril 2Sth. On Fast Day the Portlands
will play the Colby University team in Portland
.....Gen. Totman. Names smallest man, was
married saturday at Music Hall, Boston, to
Princes Ida ...The first fatality of the Bur
ngton strike occurred at st. Joseph. oIo.. Sat
uIday. George Watts. an old engineer, was
attempting intimidation when he was shot by
a deputy >hertf....As a mass meeting of ship
owners builders and working men held at
Damari>cotta Saturday, resolutions were unali-
lnou>lv adopted endorsing the action of Rep
rcscntative Cummings of New York, in intro
ducing a bill granting tonnage money to vessels
built and owned in the United States. engaged
in the foreign tradc.....A dispatch from Ia
matave. Madagascar, says that a hurricane
wrecked eleven vessels and killed or drowned
20 person>.....Fifteen horses have died from
an epidemic at Concord, n. H.....A winery and
disticry We're burned Saturday night near
Fresno. Cal. Loss 5000, O00...... The imperial
family has ceased to hope for the recovery of
the Crown Prnce......The Phair Hotel, at
Presque Isle. was badly damaged by fire and
water Monday. The damage is estimated at
5000; insured.....The Winslow Packing Co.
having suspended Monday, ii compelled Charles
l.. MattockS, of Portland, who is President and
endor>cr on a large amount of paper, to assign.
lie has conveyed all his real and personal estate
to Hiram knowItOn and Charles Dunn. Jr.
Nothing can yet be learned as to the liabilities
and assets. but the failure is heavy one
Farmers who furnished corn to the company
have all been paid as well as the help employed
by the company.....M Louisa NJ. Alcott died
in Boston Tuesday morning.