Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-07-07
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The P,th OF the News taken from ehs
Current Events OF the Day.

W. F. Jones Of Hudson, Mass.. dealer
in wall paper, stationary and variety goods,
has assigned.
Gov. Russell OF Massachusetts, formally
received the officers Of the white squadron
q Boston. Monday.
The pres. mill Of the Moosic Powder
Com;Any .. Jermyn, Pa, exploded Nor
day, killing two employees.
Moses Brothers bank at Montgomery,
Ala, suspended Monday. Liabilities re-
ported 30 be ever $500, 600.
A movement to educase the Jewish i'm
migrants who came TO St. Louis has been
started by the Jewish Alliance.
The bark Itopus Of Portland. Capt.
ruckman, from Txlcshusns, WAS ashore
Monday morning on Nix's Mate, Boston
harbor.
The Philadelphia Clearing House Asso.
citation has dropped botl, Keystone and
Spring Garden National B INKS from MEM
bership.
The Chi;ago Cold Storage Exchange
CempanJ's building and plant and lease
hold has been sold to English capitalists
for Si,5O0.00
The man who Was run over and killed by
= traia at Gorhsm. N. H.. Saturday morn
ins, proves to be Peter Whalen from Prince
Eiwsrd Island.
G F. Burnett & Co., Montreal whole
sale clcthiers, have been served with de-
mand Of assignment. The liabilities are
about 800, 900, direct and indirect.
1t is announced hat the strike at Black
Diamond, Wash, is over, the men having
agreed to the company's terms. The old
men are gradually returning to work at
several other mines.
Fire in the Pswtncket Glaze Paper Works
At Pswtucket. r | Sunday night. did a
damage Of S25 600; insured. The build
ing was stocked with the best and mcst
improved machinery. TIE FIRE is believed
to have been incendisry.
Herman Kottinger, at one time leading
vlolinist on the Pacific coast, and we'll
known as q writer Of prose and poetry, died
Sunday near San Jose, Cal, in grfat
squslor. He wss 90 years old and had
sres. wealth, for which search 10 being
made.
A passenger train on the Rock Island
road wss stopped at Lamont Junction, Kan ,
Saturday tight. by gfssshoppers. which
covered the track for distance OF miles
IL is feared that the grasshoppers will be
blown into the cornfields by the northwest
winds.
The board of aldermen Of New York hiss
confirmed the tax roll, for the present year
The amount Of tx rolls for real estate is
81, AGA 2i7 800 and personal 1921. sos, 5lS !;
increase over LAST year s65 o57 1913 for real
estate aud S24,92l 1856 for personal
property.
The American Furniture Manufacturer .
Association opened It's expo iiion Mondsy
at the American Institute, New York. One
hundred and ftseen 6tns are represented,
comprising leading manufacturers in the
United States. Exhibitors from England,
France. Austria and Bavaria are also in the
building.
B. R. Priestly's five story carpet mill on
Lawrence street, Philadelphia, burned
Monday evening. The loss to Mr.. Pfiestly
ia about 100000; insurance, $4,000. A
qusn'ity OF textile machinery on the fifth
fioar, owned by C. A. Furbush & Co , was
destroyed. Loss. $4,000.
The schooner James Nichols, A. o.
Weber, bound for Hvverbill with coat,
went sshofe on Schooner Ledge on the
south side Of Cuttyhunk, at 80 Sunday
morning, The vessel is q two-msster,
haiiiug from Boothbay, Me-, and had lis
tons OF farnsce coal consigned to The mas
robey Of Hayerhil. The captain and
crew were saved with nothing but the
clothes thsy stood in. There was no in
surancs On the vessel. The Cuttyhupk
srecking company have purchased the
cargo of coal for 500.