Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-08-07
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The paymasters of some of the Lowell
mills report that they are unable to get
small bills from the banks and Saturday
paid some of the operatives in gold.
Saturday. Tho.. Prentiss, a 5-year-old
boy, a. Turner'S Falls, fell into hole
while playing in a sand pit, and was found
dead. 1t is supposed he was smothered.
Intense excitement was caused at Texar-
kama, Friday night. by the shooting and
probable wounding of Capt. w. }. Alien,
editor and proprietor of the Daily Inter
state News, by John J. King, county judge
of Bowie county, Texas.
The famous five-masted schooner Cover
nor Ames, now plying on the Pacific coast,
recen ntly left an Oregon port with 5000
feet Of lumber for Southern California.
Freights are ruinously low. and it is not
improbable that the Ames will round Cape
Horn in the fall.
The New York Herald prints the follow
ing cable from Bangkok The Saigon
papers say there was some severe lighting
between the Siamese and the French on
Jnly 20 on the Mekong river. 1t is said
that 800 Siamese were killed while the
French losses were slight. The latter have
occupied several more islands.
A. J. Bates G Co.. shoe manufacturers,
Webster. while paying their employers
Saturday. notified them that the shop would
shut down till further notice, About 200
hands are thus thrown out of work. This.
together nth the closing of the Slater mills,
will leave fully one-half of the laboring
people in the town out of work.
The new steel steamer Chippewa of the
Niagara Toronto line, just added to the
route, has established the best record on
the great lakes and proven herself to be the
fastest vessel afoat in the passenger busi.
ness between Duluth and Kingston. She
made the distance from Toronto to Niagara
across the lake, 50 miles, in one hour 40
minutes, or q little over 20 miles an hour.
Della NJ. Rogers. a proposing blonde,
"a years old, of Haverhiil has sued Dennis
G.. Buckley for alleged breech Of promise,
and $500 is the amount of financial value
the fair Della claims for her broken heart.
The case came up before Judge Carter
Saturday, and the defendant. who has just
married another girl, gave bonds to contest
the suit, and started on his wedding trip to
Salisbury beach.
The urupires in the naval contest be-
tween the English red fleet, COMMANDED by
Vice Admiral Fairfax, and the blue fleet,
under the command of Rear Admiral Fitz-
rov. have Decided that the red feet, which
was assumed to be the feet of an enemy,
failed in its objects, and have awarded the
victory to the blue or defensive feet. This
is the first time in the history of British ma
reuvres of this kind that the defensive
feet has won.
James H. Walker C Co, dry goods, Chi
eago have confessed judgement on note
for s5945, and made formal application for
the appointment Of receiver. So far a.
developed the suspension of business in
wolves 90 600 600. Judge Windles ap-
pointed W. A. Mason and the Chicago Title
and Guarantee Trust Company ~ receivers
fer the compsny. To conform to the wishes
OF all parties concerned third party will
be appointed to act with the other svo.
The hearing in the case Of Mrs. Lorraine
Gould, charged with performing criminal
operation on Miss Eva Shav, was concluded
at Rutland, VT, SATURDAY, and she was
bound over to trial At the county court with
$500 bail. Miss Shaw died at Mrs.
GouId's house there several days ago. II.
II. Pifkin Of Fsirhsven, who il charged
ith being an accessory, has also been ar
rested and will have . hearing soon. He
belong to one of the leading families Of
the town.