Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-06-29
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President-elect Tucker of Dartmouth
college was inaugurated into office We'd
nesday.
The President Wednesday appointed
| James Sheakley of Alaska to be governor
Of Alaska.
II. G. Beinemer & Co., hardware dealers,
Giant Fork, ILL.,, have failed. Liabilities,
upwards of $4,000; assets, about S27, 900.
W. G. Jackson & Co.. coal dealers at 27s
| Albany street, Boston, have assigned to
Arthur Hopkins. Their liabilities are
| $40, 900
Banning, Bissell & Co., New York, i'm
porters, dye-wools, has allowed Judgment
| 10 be entered against the firm for 1923 800,
on time note for money loaned.
During fit of frenzy, Monday night,
Jacob L. Lyons who resides near Ottawa,
| Ohio, fatally shot his wife, then fred shot
into his own brain, dying almost instantly.
The failure of J. B. McGeorge, stock
broker New York, was announced on the
stock exchange Wednesday. He has a
number of outstanding contracts on the
exchange.
In the tennis contests at West Newton,
Mass, Wednesday, Clarence Hobart of
New York beat W. A. Larned of Cornell,
81, go. r. d. Wrenn of Harvard beat
Malcolm Chace Brown. 81, Sc.
The suspension of the ST. Paul & Mime
apoGs Trust Company was announced at
Minneapolis, Tuesday, A card from the
president says its assets exceed the liabili-
ties by 100000, and it will pay in full.
dispatch was received last week from
y.If - Al
schooner Novelty, at Dalhsusie, N. B.,
loaded and ready to sail for Barbados with
a cargo of shingles, was on fire and would
prove total loss.
Near Dadeville, Ala. Tuesday, the body
of Ernest Murphy, colored, was found
hanging in the woods riddled with bullets.
Murphy criminally assaulted young
woman and was captured by posse Mon
day night and lynched.
At Saginaw, Mich, Tuesday night in
FIRE in house on North Jefferson Avenue,
occupied by Caffeine Newman, widow.
and her five children, Mrs. Neumann was
fatally burned, Tida, aged 90, Lena, 10, and
Frank, IL, was suffocated.
Commencement exercises were held in
many of the New England colleges Wednes-
day, including Harvard whose graduating
class numbers $50; Yale, with GRADUATE,
class of 41a, the largest in the history OF
the college; Brown, 81; Amherst, II.
Mr.. Gladstone in the House Of Commans.
Wednesday, stated that Thursday he would
moved the adoption of resolution calling
uponIhe House to expediate the passage of
the Home Rule bill. The announcement
was greeted with cheers by supporters of
the government.
The Bedford Stone Quarry Co., of Bed
ford, Ind, the largest producers of lime
stone in the world, assigned Tuesday. Ina-
biiity to realize in time to meet maturing
obligations was given a. the cause. A. s.
Wishard executed bond for $500, 900.
The business Of the qnarries will be contin-
ued and all contracts filed.
Among the honorary degrees conferred
by Yale university. Wednesday, were the
following: Doctor of Laws, Hon. John A.
Peters, class of ~. chief justice of the su-
preme court Of Msine; Hon. Charles B.
Andrews, chief justice of the supreme
court Of Connecticut: Hon. Wilson s. Bis
sell, class Of 90. United States postmaster
general; VIM. II. Taft, lass Of '7s. Judge
United States circuit court; Doctor Of Di-
vinity, Rev. A. Gordon. pastor Of the Old
South church.