Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-07-11

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The total number Of persons killed By
the tornado u Pomeroy, Iowa, and eiss'
where 10 placed al 20.
The American yacht Navahce. which Il
to race in several Of the Ensish reeattas'
arrived at Coves Monday.
In an attempt to effect . Wholesale g.
cape from Jail at lonia. Mich. Monday
three prisoners we're shot and killed.
The Elmira Savings Bank at Elmira. N.
IY, re-opened Monday for business, pay.
ing il old depositors . dividend Of Is per
cent.
oficial reports - u the sanita.y condi'
ton Of Hamburg, show that the health con
ditions are good even though the heat Il
intense.
Stanislaw Bresinski. Pole, cut his throat
at Northampton, MAss., Sunday. and a.
tempted to murder 5-year-old boy. Be
zinski will die.
Fuller 4 Warens stove plant in Troy.
IN. Y, has suspended work until business
improves. Five hundred men arc thrown
out Of employment.
During temporary INSANITY, Sunday
Frank Bayes, prosperous farmer OF wau'
seon, Ohio, killed his wife with Ratchet,
then shot himself dead.
The failure Of George +. Watson & Co.,
house furnishing goods, dealers, Jersey
City, was announced Monday. These
liabilities are said to exceed $4,000.
The Glenden Iron Company, Easton.
Pa, has been forced by depression in the
| iron trade to completely shut down. II will
be six months before the fires will be re-
lighted.
Word reached Topeka, Kansas. Monday
of the drowning of VIM. Wadwell. his wife
and four children. while in camp on the
border awaiting the opening Of the Chcro-
kee strip.
A barn owned by Baeder, Adamson 4
Co., at Montvale, Mass, burned Monday
with all its contents, including !? horses.
There is loss of $1,000 and the frc was
probably incendiary.
Schooner Orpheus, at Gloucester, from
the Grand Bank brought two men belong
ing to French fshing vessel that got
astrsy and who were picked up after three
days without food or water.
At San Francisco, Sunday night, Nellie
Horton, a telegraph operator, shot and
killed C. II. Hagan, an Oakland motormsn.
Hagan, il is coniectured. had refused to
fulfill promise To marry the girl.
Il is now pretty generally conceded that
IC. J. Miller, the mulatto who was hanged
at Bardwell, Ky, Friday afternoon, wa,
executed upon the iiimsiest circumst,ntisl
evidence, or probably no evidence al all.
II has been discovered that Oscar y. Hill
cashier of the Commercial National Bank
of Ogden. Utah. IL defaulter ~ the amount
of se5 900. The bank will go into voluntary
liquidation. Depositors will lose nothing
Enlisted men in the navy will now hav,
the privilege of purchasing their discharge
Secretary Herbert Monday issued an order
establishing rules and regulations for the
purchase Of discharges authorized by the
last naval appropriation bill.
The July returns to the department oi
agriculture make the avcrsgc condition OF
cotton s2.7. against s5.5 in June, showing
A decline Of nearly three points. The re.
ports show the prevalence of bal weather
conditions, cool nights and excessive rains
Foreign commissioners at the Fair dc.
clare tha, Emperor William has decided tc
accept the invitation of the United States tt
visit the Exposition. Commissioner Wer
muth will sail for Germany on July 20, ant
it is said, will return as the Emperors es
cori.
Newburyport, Mass. is Threatened with !
water famine The local water company
not being permitted TO use the Merrims'
river water. announces that il cannot keel
up the supply. Monday the water suppl.
Of all the large mills was shut of and sew
eral thousand employees win be comrelle'
to stop work.
Rev DIR. John s. PeNman, rector Of tb'
PRESBYTERIAN church, Civington, N. r., hai
resigned, because of his inability " lopge
sustain and subscribe to the"system OF doc
trine" of his church. Dr. Pcpman was on
of the commissioners to the general assem-
bly, at Washington. lie voted with th'
minority in favor of DIR. Briggs.
Owing to the decreasing attendance al
the Worlds Fair on Su ndnys. the question
of a % cent Sunday admission is now beini
agitated The directors will hold n speeis
meeting this week and the matter ~il cont
up for action. The prOprietors OF the va
rious attractions on the Midway Plaisan' 20
complain of the 25 per cent. payment which
they are obliged to make TO the Fair treas
ury, and they demand n reduction.
There is a widespread and general suffer
ing in the several established iron ranges o.
the Lake Superior district. 1t is the wors
since the black days Of 1872. There h
scarcely n mine on the Marquette, Memo
minee or Gogebic ranges that is not eithc'
completely closed or greatly curtailed II
operation. Probably 10000 men in tb'
upper peninsula of Michigan and northern
Wisconsin are today out Of work by reason
of the closing of these mills.
The Chamberlain Investment CO.. o1
Denver, Col, the largest real estate con-
cern in the West, closed its doors MONDAY
with liabilities of 81 1864, ,llS and assets ol
s. 900 600. The failure was brought abou
by an attachment sworn ont by the presi
dent Of the Denver Savings Bank for S3G0t
on which he held securities greatly in ex
cess OF the amount. The vice president Of
the company is located in London, where
three quarters Of the liabilities will fall.
Charles Abrahams and Joseph Benoit o
North Adams, who have been in Jail a
Pittsfield, Mass, a year, charged with mur
der, were Monday released upon their per
sonal recognizance in $500 each. Abra
hams was charged with numbering his wifi
by saturating her clothing with kerosene
oil and then setting fire to it. Benoit wa
alleged to have been an accessory. Conn
sci for the defense satisfied the governmen
that they have conclusive evidence of th'
innocence of both men.
| Among resolutions adopted at the Chris