Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-07-23
NOTE AND COMMENT.

NOTE AND COMMENT vi
Judge Cooley, Of the Interstate Com oil,
merce tommission, has given the North bu
Dakota Convention some very sensible be
advice telling them not TO embody too If
much legislation In their constitution, ca
bat TO Leave some laws to be made As
hereafter, II Is to be hoped his advice TO
will he taken. AZ
The case Of alleged outrages on the Van /,
No7trand ladies IN France some time ago ..
has completely iilzled out at the State De-
paftineut. Secretary Blaine has expressed
an earnest desire to secure reparation from -,
the French Government, and their foreign =
office has communicated it, entire willing
! ness To punish the offenders If facts are A. -.
stated by the Van Nostrands. our state
department has been waiting three
months for necessary afildavits, and up to f..
date none have been received from the
Van Nostrands.
\ company il being formed. with cap II
ital Of - 900 900, for the purpose Of hold :,
/ ing worlds exhibition in Buenos Ayres
\ butcher in w yoming Territory recent u
/ " killed man because he insinuated that o
ground dog formed the princii al ugredi- 81
ent IN his sausages, When the jury takes
into consideration the ancient character of
( the wittici-m they will probably return |
verdict of justifable homicide n
! II begins to look "a though Mr. Hippo l
| lyte ha, been circulating ISLANDERS about
his deadly enemy, Mr. Legtime, down in
iiayti The latest word from that couu- D
try IL brought by Capt. O'Brien. who says
that the report that Legitme had to en-
list the services OF female troops was e
false. Thus is another vicious lie nailed c
! The way the veteran fighter General
Cook put down the recent riot among the :
savages at the Cheyenne River Agency
shows that he has lost none OF his Old I
time vigor. (
The inhabitants of Whtcchapel are h
said To make the name Jack the Ripper" |
u common subject Of iest. Even death in t
Its most terrible form fails to make any 3
lasting Impression upon the miserable c
wretches who inhabit that squalid section '
Of London. With most of them existence I
IL itself living death. a
( The sensational report that the Sugar
Trust of retiners were storing sugar to
the extent Of over 800, 900 barrels for the
purpose of making Il corner and caus-
Ing rise in the price, appears to have C
been wholly without foundation 1t seems 8
to have come from the action of a v
number of shrewd merchants who took c
advantage of u duh market to lay in a
stock for future trade.
The Auburn Gazette calls Hon. 'rheo-
dore Roosevelt, the new Civil Service
commissioner, Teddy" This is indeed t
rough, but it is to be hoped that Mr.. I
Roosevelt will endeavor 10 bear up under
it. ,
Jury system aud to have the commitment
OF an offender by Justice of the Peace
serve "a an indictment is now being con-
sidered by the Washington constitutional
convention and seems to be In fair way Z
of being adopted.
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{ The Boston Journal thinks that the n
( Hawaiian Attorney General who is now in a
Jail for attempting to nolle pros murder
case in which his father-in-law was the
defendant was rs ereditable to Hawaii as
District Attorney Fellows is to New a
York. He would seem to be more So Z
He was Influenced by the strong ties of
family, while Col. Fellows was controlled
by the claims OF personal friendship.
/ The Standard Oil Company is said to
have discovered cheap method of max
ing gas from naptha. A syndicate. com
I posed mostly of Standard men. has been
organized to buy up gas plants and fur
nish cheaper gas than the old companies.
/ The reported English syndicate which y
was going to buy out the Chicago gas Il
companies should have been styled f
Standard syndicate. The Standard folks p
really appear to be hustlers. They might II
/ terhaps make a good thing in this nev 7
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