Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-09-18
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The strike of the Scotch miners has col
lspsed.
Ex-President Harrison has decided not to
speak outside of his state during the cam
paign.
The Puritan shirt factory of Province
towr, Mass. has started, after over a years
shut down.
Poverty and illness induced Andrew
Pogaktza and wife to kill themselves with
carbohc acid at Bangor, Sunday.
The strike of the Brotherhood of Tailors
in New York is virtually mt an end. Every
demand made by the strikers was complied
with.
Several were killed and several injured
in the fire which destroyed the mattress
factory of Simple 4 Co., at Washington,
ID. c., Monday. -Four dead bodies were
found.
The annual cricket match between Can
ada and the United States began at the
Philadelphia cricket grounds, at Wissahic-
kon Heights, Monday morning.
At Portlsnd, Ore, Sunday, J. w. Stane-
gels, n civil engineer, shot and killed Mrs.
Mabel Calvin, on the street, and then blew
out his own brains. Unrequited infatua-
ton.
Carrieri & Levato, proprietors of a bank
ing and exchange institution in the Italian
quarter, Pittsburg, have disappeared, taking
with them all of the funds on deposit,
amounting to about $4,000.
In glove contest before the Seaside
Athletic Club Mt Cony Island, Monday,
Mick Dunn of Australia made a tool Of Jim
Burton; Joe German knocked out Jack
Skelly, and Critic put Eddie Leober "to
sleep"
A Central News dispatch from Toxic
says the four Chinese generals, Tso
Psokwo, Wei Jiukwoi, Ma Yukowong, Sci
Kiln, with IA 800 other officers and men,
were taken prisoners by the Japanese at
Papg Yang. The Japsnese outnumbered
he Chinese, 3 to |.
Judge Knowles, who is hearing the Union
Psc fic end of the American Railway Union
strike criminal proceedings, has decided
that the only question on which cases would
be heard would be the charge of conspiracy
and force used in delaying railroad traffic
and intimidation.
Madrid advices to the Central News state
that the Spanish government is negotiating
for commercial arrangement with the
United States. The Spanish minister at
Washington has been instructed by his gov
eminent that the leading features of the
new arrangement must be strict reciprocity.
The Boston Museum, for many years the
favorite theatre of Boston's fashionable
playgoers, fignalized the opening of its
5ith regular season, tonight, by return to
the stock company plan. The familiar old
house hereafter is to be the especial home
of lyric drama for which it is excellently
adapted.
An Albany dispatch says: Hon. David
Bennett Hill is a most formidable candidate
for the presidency that he is a candidate
for the Democratic nomination there can
be no doubt as his legion of friends herea-
bouts, this afternoon, enthusiastically pro-
claimed him now as the only hope and re-
fuge left the Democracy of the country in
the campaign to come.
The full report of the inquest held on the
bodies Of the three trsinmen of the Fitch
burg Railroad, killed by collision in the
Hoosac tunnel, September 8, was received
by the railroad officials, today. II states
that Hodgkins, the operator at the western
portal, fsiled to report the entrance of the
two trains to Operator Crosier at the eastern
portal.