Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-05-06

BrsssAi BY the wires frem The North, East
South aad West.

off Cuttyhunk, Friday morning, by steam
tug and towed to New Bedford.
Bradstreet's reports 2i3 failures in the
United States this week. being about so
more than the same week last year.
The Bufford Li,hographic Co, Congress SIS
street, Boston, has gone into insolvency:
Liabilities, Sl2,525; assets, uncertain.
Dun 6 Co, report for the last seven days
ol6 failures in the United States; and for
the corresponding week of last year lsG.
James N. Lombard. dealer in picture
frames, 40 Beverly street, Boston, failed
Friday. Liabilities, Sl5,200; assets, S7lO0.
A Berlin dispatch says only a mracl e
can now save the army bill. The govern
ment will probably be beaten by majority
of 20.
The Columbus Bridge Company of
Columbus. Ohio, has been put in the hands
of receiver. Liabilities, si50,Ooo; AS
sets, $220 900.
A section of the Williamsport, Pa, boom
broke Thursday afternoon. About 10 ,000,-
900 feet of logs escaped through the break
and passed down the river.
Mail advices say that revolution has
broken out in Nicaragua. Ex-Prcshlcnt
Zavla is leader of the insurgents. He has
captured the city of Granada.
The Harvard class races which were 10
have been rowed on the Charles river Fri
day afternoon, were postponed until Satur-
day on account of rough water.
New Bedford carriage manufactures
have conceded the demands of the men for
a niue-hour day, and after two weeks idle
ness the strikers will return to work Mon
day.
Frank T. Vernon, dealer in cardboard
and paper, New York, assigned Friday. lie
had been in business since 1884 and said
his stock was principally supplied by three
Eastern manufacturers.
While blasting rocks on the farm of Mar
tin M. Mason at Cbesham, N. H., Friday
Edward &. Seaver, aged 80, was fatally in
jured and Reuben c. Philbrick was badly
hurt by the premature discharge of dyna-
mite.
1t is thought that the liabilities of Fran
els Ilenshaw & Co., Boston stock brokers,
whose failure was announced Friday, with
not to exceed 100000, aside from the firms
accounts with the stock exchange. This
amount is covered by collateral.
Acting President Lord of Dartmouth
College announced in the chapel Friday
morning that, rs token of respect for the
late Prof. James W. Patterson, all college
exercises except those of religious char
acter will be suspended until next week
| The time for the funeral is not yet fixed.
| Two men were found dead Friday in n
coke pit on Dorchester avenue, Dorchester,
Mass. They were James Davis, aged 80,
& Ell
about 30, who is said to have no home.
They are supposed to have crawled in the
rear pit to sleep and were sufIocatcd by the
fumes from the coke.
| A special from Chicago says In case the
Exposition gates he opened next Sunday, it
is reported that the word for boycott will
be telegrapbed far and wide among reli-
| gious organizations of the country, and that
an effort will be made to destroy the finan-
| cial prospects of the show, in order that u
telling blow may be struck against non.
observance of the Sabbath at future exposi.
| tions.
| Annie Conncran died at Boston Friday.
from Injuries alleged to have been inhi It'd
| by Jennie Sullivan two weeks ago in y
quarrel. The Sullivan woman is iu jail and
will be arraigned for mapslaugbter. SHE
is 80 years old. The quarre! arose while
the women were sitting ashes in the yard uf
a house on Fellows court, South End, il
which they both lived.
The Paris Ma,in said Friday that tho
Siamesc have resumed the OF. nsive against
the French on the AMMAN frontier. It IS
stated that 5000 Siamese have been sent to
the Mekong valley, and that the French
/ .r.I L.,cIayaa tits. ErnrsIr t,nx;lt.u tu
nntensble. Conten,iing upon this news 'he
Ms,in ipsinuates that Great Britain il sup
porting Siam in its warfare against Tho
French.
/ The best observers At Honolulu pre'iic,
darker days for Hawaii in the near fu,1rt
than she has yet seen. The curious course
of Commissioner Bloun, has had bad II
feet on public opinion, and its worst resui
hss been to weaken the Provisional govern
ment so seriously that n conflict with the
Koyalists is sure to come in case Mr.
I,ount leaves the islands without givint
positive instructions for the uphoiJing o
the present government. Trade is s,agnan
and everything is going to the dogs througl
the general uncertainty.
The New York HeraId's Psnams specis
says Sews has reached here of the CON
piste triumph of Gen. Vasqaez, leader %
the government troops avsiust the reyolu
iionists in Honduras. vasquez has ~
sumed command Of the provisional govern
ment. Word has been received that ,h
, new government has been recognized !,
Salvador and Guatemala. During the rev
olu;ion in Honduras Nicaragua openly ai,le
fonilla, AMI il IL more than likely, judeint
from the threats fnsde by Vasques, that b
will soon declare war against Nicaragua.
| The high sea follow ing the heavy eas,
erly gale is breaking entirely over tn
wrecked schooner James A Flanagan Of
Chatham Bar. The easterly weather o
late has delayed the work Of stripping an
. Of removing tho cargo from her hold, ba
. if she does net 90 te pieces the work vii
soon be completed atJ the material an
cargo sold at auction. The following HG
tice to mariners is issued careful sur
I vey msdc this day in the passage lead
. ing through between Handkerchief nm
. Shovelfal shoals, develops the existence o
: dangerous shoal, having but nine feet q
water upon it at low tide. There il chan
nci about 300 yards wide between thi
siioal and Shovelfui, having eight fathom
of water in 1t.
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