The Republican journal., 1888-10-04

IN BRIEF. The >eectmen of Berwick have
called Il meeting Of voters to see il they will
authorize them 10 offer a reward q $4,000 for
the arrest and conviction of the person who
murdered Charles Eastman. saturday night.
Sept. u. The citizens have already raised
$1,000. 1t is expected that Great Fails will
raise similar amount.....The race for the
rulng championship between Peter Kemp and
Edward lianlan was rowed at sydney. y. :. w,
sept. y. and was won by Kemp. After a half
mile had been rowel Kemp took the lead whcl,
he maintained TO the end. and finished by ten
lengths before llanlan, in u minutes and -
setonds......t ASHER Chaplin of the National
Mon bank. Fall River, is $4,000 short in his
accounts. He has turned over his own prop
erty to the bank. 1t is not thought he took the
money for his own use......Jaek Spratt won in
the free-all at Rochester. y. H.. fair Friday 500.
Big frauds in the construction OF the Washing
ton Aqueduct connected with the water works
OF that city. have been discovered, and are beliey-
ed 10 he due to the incompetency or neglect of
men who " ere given office by this AdminStra-
tio1....A reward Of 500 has been offered for the
capture of Fra'.k Bennett who locked the sheriff
into the Ellsworth Jail and then took his de-
partnre..-..l he grand jury on the killing of
Mrs. lioWes hy poacling fishermen returned "A
true bill OF murder against Philippine and
Grafton. Day, the third party arrested has been
discharged EA-Gov. Seden Connor has leas-
ed his residence in Augusta and will remove
his family at once to Portland where they will
of the heroes who volunteered te come to
Jacksonville as ii telegraph operator for the
W estern Mon Company, is dead......The Fall
River banks and other concerns are represented
to be in very prosperous condition. 1t is
positively asserted that no other bank in that
city is involved in the irregularities of the
Union National and Savings Banks..The
last spike of the Mexican National Railway
was driven on Saturday. The road will be
open for traffic November first. THE present
session Of Congress is already by "A hours the
longest in the history of the republic.. Ellen
Southland Getchell. who died in Boston the 10Th
ut, was a musical composer of much merit,
was formerly editor of the Literary Compan-
ion. and was physician graduating from the
Boston University School of Medicine, She
was born in Augusta. Me-, Feb. %. 1899 ....
Mrs. Azubah +. Ryder, of Orrington. died
ut tho residence of her SoIi-in-Iau. Capt.
Jacob Harding, on Sunday. at the very advanc-
ell age of one hundred and four years. eight
months anc twenty-five days. She was the
Oldest person in Maine if not in New England
1.-THE case of Adam Badeau against the
estate OF L. ;. Grant, to recover 100000 for
alleged services in connection with General
Grants memoirs, was called Monday in the
supreme Court New York, and deferred until
Oct. loth......Pitcher, the Providence defaulter
was sentenced at Montreal Saturday to seven
years imprisonment. The charge on which he
was sentenced was bringing stolen money into
Canada. Pitcher acted calmly throughout.
Friday and Saturday nights frosts have greatly
damaged the Virginia tobacco crops. Farmers
of Contocook, \. H., report potatoes frozen in
the ground......The Connecticut town elections
show large Republican gains over last wears
vote....The yellow fever is increasing again in
Jacksonville. There were 80 new eases Mon
day......A Gloucester schooner has lust brought
in the largest fare of halibut ever landed there
1t is valued at S13,520......The public debt was
reduced l2,41 ,02G 30 during September
The Capt Cod cranberry crop has been dam
aged by frost