Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-08-08

| c. A. Brockvay & Co.. retail dealers in
furniture. New York. assigned. Monday.
The Calcutta correspondent OF the Lon
don Times says that currency matters ars
slowly but surely settling down and conf
denee 10 returning.
The factory Of the Pacific Nail Works al
Oakland, Cal, burned Sunday. II 10 es,i'
mated that the loss 10 over s2so, 200 and the
insurance sls5,oo0.
| The Massachusetts Prohibition state com
mi,tee Monday issued call for state con-
veution TO be held in Mechanics hall
Worcester, September 9th.
| A dilapidated cid building at Main and
Plum streets. st. Louis, collapsed Sunday
night. The whole structure fell into the
cellar. Three pefsons are supposed to be
| in the ruins.
| A hail storm passed over East Wilton. N
| H., Monday morning doing considerable
damage TO crops. Stones a. large a. al.
ber,s 10 the amount of bushel we're seen
| in one place.
Max Schif. doing business under the
name Of Max Sehif 4 Co., dealer in trim
mings. sss Broadway. New York, assigned
Monday. Liabilities. t45 600; nominal as
sets, So, 900.
NJ. Payie has cabled TO Foreign Minister
Develle, the receipt of Slams official A.
ceptsnce of the French uliimstum. This
| confirms everything effected through Prince
Vadhana, the SiAmese minister st Paris.
Schooner Cora Green Of Bangor, Capt.
Philbrook, from New burg for Boston with \
| cargo of coal, ran ashore on the west end
of Naushon island, Vineyard Sound, Sun
iay night, and has five feet of water in her
hold.
The loss to Lynn. Mass. tfadesmen and
manufacturers from the flooding of the
premises by Sundays storm, will reach SIS
900. One shoe manufacturer had the sole
leather stock in the basement of his factory
damaged $4,000.
The working time Of the New York Cen
trsl employees in the round house at Mott
haven. n. Y, has been reduced three hours
day with corresponding decrease in
wages. 1t is said similar action will be
taken all along the road.
Between noon Friday and noon Sunday
90 new cases of cholera aud l3 deaths oc-
Cured in Naples. Tbr~e new cases and
one desth occurred in Rome. A Buchars Of
dispatch says that cholera has broken out
in the garrison at Soollna.
All efforts 10 bring the southeastern Kan
sss miners strike TO an end have proven
frui,les. for the reason that operssors DO
no, propose to employ any Of the men Who
have participated in the present trouble.
Sunday enforcement Of negroes from
Alabama reached Piitsburg.
A horse attached to a carriage in which
were three ladies and q child. became
frightened. Sunday. and dashed on the
railroad track near Dellwood, MINI. The
csrrisge was struck by a passing freight
train, and the occupants, with the excep-
ton of the child, all instantly killed.
The destruction Of timber fences near
Oakland, ILL.,, BY FIRE last week amounted
TO thousands Of dollars. There has been
no rain in Eastern Illinois for some time
and crops of all kinds are suffering. Cn-
less rain fall. at once there will no, be half
a crop of corn in that section Of the state
wreck occurred Sunday nigh; on the
Vermont Central division near White River
Junction. A special freight, bounl north,
ran into a land slide and passenger train
crashed into the freight, completely demol-
ishing six freight cars and leaving the en-
gine OF the passenger a total wreck. No
one was much injured.
Mary Allen. widow, 20 years of age,
and her son William, aged 81, were found
dead at their home 90 Chestnut street
Lawrence, Mass, Monday. A medical e1-
aminer attributes the death Of Mrs. All-n
| to heart failure and tina, of william to al
coholism. William Allen Was a member Of
the old Sixth Massachusetts Regiment.
Mrs. Nellie Grant Saftoris, who has come
on her biennial visit to America with her
son, Alsernon Sartoris, and her two young
daughters, Rose and vivien. arrived at New
York, Saturday. Ulysses s. Grant, Jr.,
wss at the pier to welcome them. After
undergoing the customs examination they
went by rail to West Point. where they met
Mrs L. s. Grant at Cranston's hotel. Mrs.
Sartoris will remain in the United Statss
for tao or three months, during which time
she intends visiting Chicago.
special to the New York Tribune
from San Frannisco says The looting Of
| the Pacific Bank Of San Francisco by the
| sons of old DIR. X. II. Mcdonald has
| caused a sensation here. The failure Of
the bank was bad enough. with more than a
| million and half dollars loaned on poor
| securities and speculative investments, but
the examination by the bank commissioners
has brought to light gross speculation tha:
may ye, lard the guilty persons in state
prison. The tvo brothers have obtained
from the bank within four years fully
$500 600, for which there is nothing to
| show.
A, meeting Of the directors Of the Peo-
pies Fire Insurance Company at Man
| chester, y. H., Monday, Commissioner
Linehan presented a report on the condi
ton of the company's affairs. He says the
gross assets show = deficit Of $500. .s99
las. December, and that the late treasurer
and president managed the fnsneisl sf-
fairs Of the corporation in direct violation
Of its by laws. He says the stockholders
have been robbed. the capital OF the com
pany impaired and property amounting to
millions imperilled, and urges tina. no