Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-02-08

Coal dropped 81 per ton at the breaker,
at Wilkesbarre, Penn.
/ A committee of Reiehstag has approve,
the military loan bill without modification.
Dartmouth College has opened depart
ment for women, with complete collegiate
course and degrees.
A ST. Petersburg paper denounces the
| publication of the Austro- German treaty AZ
an act of perhdy.
A laborer named o'Neill, quarreled with
his wife, Tuesday morning, at Pittsburg, Pa,
shot her dead and killed himself.
| William Means, the president of the sus-
pended Metropolitan Bank at Cincinnati has
| been arrested for violation of the national
| banking law.
| The Pennsylvania railroad is crowded with
coal trains moving to Philadelphia and
orders for the suspension of its shipment
have been received at the mines.
On request of the American consul at Hal
flax, the minister of customs will permit the
purchase of provisions by the United States
fishing vessels, now undergoing repairs at
Halifax.
Bismark delivered a speech Monday be-
fore the German Reichstag in explanation of
the publication of the Austria GERMANY
treaty. War preparations are still going on,
however.
Court of Appeals has reversed the judg-
ment of the conviction of John Greenwo ood
for the murder of Lyman 5. Weeks in
Brooklyn, n. Y, and sent the case back for
a new trial.
Gen. Boulanger attended the performance
at the Theatre Du Chatelet, Paris, Monday
night and was greeted with tumultous shouts
of "Vive Boulanger," both in the theatre
and on the streets.
Matthew Busch of Chicago, cut his wife's
throat Monday, in the presence of their three
children and their aunt. The woman died
almost instantly. No doubt he planned to
kill his wife because she refused to deed to
him about 100000 worth of property left
her by her mother.
The New England Agricultural Society
held its annual meeting Tuesday. There
was a large attendance of members. Presi-
dent Loring delivered his annual address, in
which he took strong ground for the protec-
tive policy for farmers. BY vote of IS to
32 it was decided to hold the annual fair at
Worcester.
A fire Monday night destroyed the resi-
dence of George d. Hill near Bolivar, n.
Y. Mrs. Hill and two small children per-
ished in the flames. The house was heated
by natural gas, direct from wells, and it is
supposed that sudden over pressure caused
the fire. The father is so badly burned that
he is not expected to recover.
Richard X. Fox, proprietor of the Police
Gazette was arrested Monday morning,
charged with violating the penal code by en-
couraging prize fighting. The technical
charge against Fox is that of aiding and abet
ting prize fighting in defiance of law, of
holding stakes, publishing details and pre-
liminaries of fights and making his office a
rendezvous of men bent on violating the
law.
The Governor and Council and the trus-
tees of Dartmouth College, at a meeting,
Tuesday, voted to refer the subject disposing
of its soft timber standing on college lands
in the upper section of the State to sub
committee consisting of f. ID. Currier, Alvin
Burleigh, A. S. Bachelor, Edward Spauld-
ing and b. +. Prescott, with instructions to
advertise for and invite proposals, and sub
NIT the same for final action on the last
Thursday of June next.
The committee having in charge the set
tlement of differences between Christopher
Meyer the New Jersey rubber manufacturer
and other rubber goods manufacturers has
effected compromise, and the formation of
a proposed rubber trust is only question of
a day or two. BY the plan agreed upon, all
manufacturers Of rubber goods who join the
trust will turn over their business and stock
to the pool, receiving in exchange certified
shares in trust in proportonate value. Those
establishments which can make rubber goods
at the lowest rates will be continued in oper-
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expected that the members of trust will
make Is per cent. profit instead of or 8 as
at present. Several thousand workmen will
be thrown out of employment, and prices OF
rubber goods increased. The combination
involves a working capital of s50,000,000
and an annual trade of 00,000,O 900.