Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-02-14

Brought by the Wires From the North. East
South and West.

J. NJ. Naloy. wholesale and retail
stationer, Montreal has assigned. Liabilities.
sG5 900; assets, nominally $4,000.
The striking Berkley Mill spinners,
Providence, returned TO work Monday
The company officials say the matter in dis
pute will be settled.
The national Senate judiciary committee
on Monday decided to report favorably the
nomination of Judge Howell +. Jackson to
be associate justice of the supreme court.
Peter W. French. secretary of the Ma
tional Tube Works Company of Boston,
whose failure was announced week ago.
fled schedules in the insolvency court at
Boston Monday. The liabilities aggregate
S2I9, ,i39.
dispatch from Cartagens, Columbia,
declares thtt the government will grant
preference to French proposals for com
pleiing the Panama canal if assurance bc
obtained that operations will be resumed.
The differences between the Aetna Nut
Company and tbeiI rolling mill hands al
Sou,hington. Conn, was adjusted Monday
upon basis of l-2 per cent. reduction in
wages, aud the men will return to work
Tuesday.
of northampton. Mass. has assigned The
association started over three years since
on A promise TO give $1,000 in five years
81 To on the dollar for each Of tiie 500 odd
members.
During christening at Thomas
ORourke's house at st. Louis, Sunday
night. fight arose in which all present
took part Every obtainable article was
used. A wagon-load Of police finally sue
cccs,c,l in gnelling the row. Six Of those
involved are fatally wounded Twelve
others were seriously burt.
Monday. at IIayerhiil, Oscar b. Hubbell,
for maliciously and feloniously burning a
building in West Newbury, on the night Of
Ian. Both, for the purpose of getting the
insurance thereon, was held in $1,000 for
| the superior court at the May session in
Ncwhuryport.
The new vest-bouni tariff was given ont
at St. Paul Sunday. 1t changes the entire
complexion Of the trsnseonhnep,aI rates
| The avowed purpose in making these is to
build up the country through which the
roads run, and all classes of freigi.. have
! btcH friute'a Atput i& W ~ per TENT
| The railroad committee of the Nassachu-
| sets Legislature has reported a bill author
izing the Old Colony Railroad to take
within three months lsns. on SaHfh bay in
| Boston for the purpose Of increasing its
terminal facilities. To pay for this and
for the construction Of freight and pzsscn-
ger stations, the company is authorized 10
1 issue additional stock to the amount oi
/ - $50 .fn9 to I've soli at auction.
| Monday a. New York, Justice Ingrahsm
decided that the Manhattan Elevated r. X.
/ Co. must pay five per cent. Of the ne,
earnings for the ten years from 1880 to 1896
to the citv Of New York. The justice also
decides that the city is not liable to the
company for the money the latter has pail
to property owners. as damages 10 fiseil
property by the building Of the ROAD.
! The total indebtedness Of Fred 4. Houd
| Ief,e 4 Co., doing an iron and ssee; busi
ness on Franklin street. Boston, who hsvs
| fled . petition Of insolvency. Is nexsl,
S150, goo, divided among number Of firm,
| in Massachusetts,, Ohio and PennsyIvsnis
The property inclading the plant and stoci
/! il said to be worth between 47e.000 ans
90. go. There is ! disputed claim on tis
sock.