Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-02-08
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The entire city of San Jose, CAL, was
awakened at o'clock. Wednesday morning
by a sharp earthquake. No damage was
done.
Fire Wednesday destroyed the greater
portion of the business houses of Mont
gomery, Mo. Seventeen stores and Office
buildings were burned. Loss, $3.50, 900 =;
insurance, about half.
Steamer Barcelona, Liverpool for Hall
fax, 22 days out, for which considerable
anxiety was felt. arrived at St. Johns, N.
B., Wednesday. She met with adverse
gales and her supply of coal ran short.
Sealer Minnie was Wednesday con-
demned with everything on board by Judge
Crease in the admiralty court, at Victoria,
B. c. The Judge severely criticised the
statements of the defence, the condition of
the log and the fact that the crew was not
brought forward as witnesses.
The Paris Steele Wednesday contained a
violent article against England. The writer
says Great Britain has acted in Newfound-
land, Egypt, Madagascar, the Soudan and
Siam as though the world belonged to her.
He adds that the time for an explanation
from Great Britain is approaching.
Ithamar Howe, former Boston hotel
man and stew ard of the Meganiic Fish and
Game Club, which has a summer home at
Spider lake, Quebec, has brought suit in
the supreme court at New York against
Isaac o. Woodruff, druggist and president
of the club, for $4,000 damages for the
alienation of his wife's affections.
The Paris Temps says the French gov
erDment in West Africa took possession of
Half-Cavally on the Liberian frontier, in
response to the inhabitants appeals for
protection from Liberian i'll treatment. The
dellmitation treaty of 1892 is still unsigned
and was not regarded as hampering French
action. Liberia has now consented to sign
the treaty and the French force will be
Withdrawn from the frontier.
The Petite Republique Francaise of
Paris says Gen. Mercier. minister of war,
has decided that canned goods for the use
of the army shall be, in the future, exclu-
sively of French manufacture. Hitherto
these goods have been furnished by Amer
leans, who held . monopoly Of the business.
The change will increase the cost of the
goods to the government 1870 per cent, and
it will be necessary for the war department
to ask for a supplementary credit in order
to procure its supplies.
A dispatch from Compiegnie, France,
states that train which left Paris at III
o'clock, Tuesday night, was derailed at
that place about midnight 1t is reported
that seven persons we're killed and 20 more
or less injured. The train was bound for
points in Belgium. The passenger train
was followed closely by freight train, and
the driver of the latter did not have time to
stop his train before it crashed into the
wrecked passenger train. One of the pas
senger carriages was swept ahead of the
freight train for half mile and broken
into splinters.
The 9th annual encampment of the De-
partment Of Massachusetts, G. A. r., was
held in Faneuil hall, Boston, Wednesday.
Department Commander Hall delivered an
eloquent address. Reports submitted sho =
the namber Of comrades in good standing
for the year ending December 81, was
% ,6S7. net loss Of 57i. Losses during
the year: By death, 499; suspension, 195 !;
transfer and discharge. 293. A total loss
of 1888. The total mustered into the va
rious posts transferred and feinstated was
1914. A large majority Of the 2l0 posts in
the department are in flourshing condi-
ton.