Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-07-12
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brouay Vt BY the Wires From the North, East
South and West

The Kansas City Safe Deposit & Savings
Bank, one of the largest institutions of the
kind in Missouri, assigned Tuesday.
1t is reported that the Misses Borden have
purchased the Charles \. Allen property on
French street, Fall River, in an aristocratic
part of the city and will move there TO live.
France has submitted to England and
, America proposals to improve the code OF
signals of merchant shipping. IL these
proposals be approved an international con-
I ference on the subject will be held.
/ A case of wholesale poisoning is agitatine
, Mansfield, O. In all % families are sick
! 10 persons at the point of DEATH the result
'of eating cheese made by a local cheese
company and sold by grocery men.
: The Commercial National Bank of Og-
den. Utah, suspended Monday. Chashier
Hill is a defaulter to the extent of S53 900.
lDepostors will lose nothing. Hill has
turned over all his property to the bank.
The central government has ordered a
squadron to be prepared to blockade Rio
Grande du Sui The latest dispatches say
that Admiral Wanienkolk with the cap
| tured steamer Jupiter has joined the Fed
eral hotila.
J. f. Wing, piano dealer, Lynn, Mass,
| has fed, leaving some 5000 in debts and
numerous creditors to mourn his departure
| His wife and two children were left without
means and Tuesday went to Bangor, where
they have relatives.
| The Malta correspondent of the London
lGraphc reports that the captains of the
vessels which took part in maDeuvres OF
~ H.. 81 ha
Icourt- martisled for not obeying Admiral
lTryons fatal signal.
The banking house of w. Il. Thornton,
tx Son, Shelbyviile, ILL.,, failed Monday
Their liabilities are probably $500 900 and
their assets may reach half million. The
bank was depository for all the city,
township and county funds. =
Charles, Henry F.. and Ella c. IIoyle of
st Louis, who As heirs have jointly man
aged an estate, have made an assignment of
their combined property interests. Assets
, S235 900, less membranes sggregating
, , slGs 600; liabilities about equal to meet
net assets.
Gen Eli s. Parker, the last surviving
chief of the Six Nations Indians, ex-scou'
and guide for the late Gen. Grant. and now
clerk at the New York police headquarters
was stricken with paralysis Tuesday. He
0 retains consciousness and is able to speak
: He is II years of age.
:. The brig 0rodilla Capt. Holland, has
arrived at Philadelphia from Santos. Capt
Holland il the only survivor of the original
crew. eight men having succumbed to the
. ravages of yellow fever. Capt. Holland 5
description of the misery and suferings
from yellow fever in Santos is heartrend-
ing. Thousands have been stricken with
Ii.ease and have died. Business was at a
. complete standstill and there were - ves-
: sells living in Santos river without their
crews.
. There was but one response to Acting
, Director Prestons counter proposition to the
|, silver brokers, MONDAY and that was limited
. to an offer of 100. 600 ounces of silver al
. Il l-2 cents per ounce. The call was from
; New York by telegraph after the close of
the office and was promptly accepted. An
other effort y i'll be made wednesday to Sc
cure more silver and as the price in Lon
7 don Tuesday was up oneeighth pence to
l 80 Is II NAV he that the department viii
have to pay more than II l-2-
The steady increase in the circulation OF
3
uited States bonds is attracting attention
in the comptroller's flee, and may lead to
!. a stronger efor. than has yet heen made tr
= secure an increase of the proportion OF
!, I, tie issues TO the bonds deposited. A stack
o. several hundred letters has already been
received by Comptroller Eckels, asking
tiat he and Secretary Carlisle recommend
clt1 Congress the increase of the note issues
rto 95 per cent Of the par value of the bonds,
of the 30 per cent now allowed.
N Judge jenkins in the United States cir
court at Chicago, Tuesday, handed
hdown a decision. in the sui, brought by
hWanamaker ard Brown to restrain the
Worlds Columbian Exposition directors
from opening the Fair gates on Sunday
ciThe decision is defeat for Wsnamaker
and Brown. the court holding that the com
claimants have no standing in court of
rSquity The issue was demurrer lied by
hthe defendants, alleging that the complain
hsnts rs stockholders had elected the iirec-
alors aud could not now question their dis
ef Friction Judge Jenkins sustained this posi-
81 ion. throwing the case out of court.
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