Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-01-20
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Ex-Governor Wllllam Gsst0H OF Mas
sachusetss, died at his home in Boston, Fri
day.
Mayor Solomon Of Tampa, Fla, has is
fued proclamation agaiDst prize fight
scheduled to take place there Friday night.
| 20 Dou9herty A. Sons, importers of
linens and woolens, 81 Walker and 800
Church street, New York, assigned Friday.
1t is said that the Adams Express Co.
lost $50 600 by the robbery of the Kansas
City, St. Joseph G Chicago train. Wednes-
day night.
Judge Barrett of the supreme court. at
New York. has sppointed Henry Winthrop
Cray receiver of the Thompson-H Houston
Electric Company of New York.
A conference Of the Dsnbury hat manu-
facturers and the locked out employees ter
| minated Thursday night and all hopes of .
settlement Of the trouble had been ADAM
doned.
A man named Smith Hill is said TO have
recruited 46 men at Haverhill, Mass, to
serve in the Brazilian Army. The men
think they may be sent to Hawaii, but Hill
denies it.
Cutdowns in shoe manufactures are the
cuts range all the way from per cent. to
20 per cent, the average being about 10
per cent.
The report from London that the Nor
folk and Western Company is about TO
pass into the hands of receiver is officially
denied. The company is paying aud has
been paying its January interes. ever since
the first of the year.
BY agreement of counsel, Judge Town
send in the United States district court at
New Haven, Conn, Friday, postponed the
hearing on the application for permanent
receiver of the New England Road until
Monday, January %, at 2 P. NJ.
Patrick Lundie, the Fall River, Mass,
constable, who attempted to burn his daugh-
tiers after throwing kerosene upon them
few days sgo, Thursday was sentenced to
nine months in Jail. He was suffering
from delirium tremens at the time.
Edward H. Saxton & Co., wholesale jew
elers, Boston. have assigned. Liabilities
estimated at 100000. Causes are said to
be dullness of trade and difficulty in MAXI
iag collections. 1t was reported in 1892
the firms business amounted to $4,000
Henry Whitcher and wife celebrated
their golden wedding anniversary Friday at
their home in South Hygate, VT, and
friends and relatives for miles around called
to pay their respects. A large number OF
beautiful and valuable presents was re-
ceiyed.
An explosion occurred Thursday night
outside the residence of M. Ducret, editor
of the Cocarde, at Neuilly-Sur-Seine,
suburb of Paris. The explosion made q
tremendous noise. but did very slight dam
age. The police believe the affair was the
work of Anarchists.
A 10 per cent. cut in potters' wages was
! announced Thursday by Wick Bros, at
Kittanning, Pa. The men refused to ac-
cept it aud the pottery was shut down. The
employees are non-union men who took the
place of union men, who struck last sum-
mer because Of similar reduction.
A dispatch from Hong Kong says: The
silver crisis in the East is becoming acute.
TIE situation is complicated by scarcity of
currency in Shanghai, Hong Kong and
Singapore, owing to Shortage OF the sup
ply of Mexican dollars, and the state OF
affairs may easily become dangerous.
The Madrid correspondent Of the Lon
don Central News says: Newspapers here
comment on the reports that the Pope may
take refuge in Spain in case the situation
in Italy should grow worse. Should he
come, the Escurial, or the palaces in Sc
Vile and Valencia would be placed at his
disposal"
Capt Blizzard Of the tug c. W. Morse,
arrived at Boston, Thursday night, from
New York, reports thai, Thursday morn
ing, about two-thirds the distance between
c-,1 1tnht
De sed a sunken wreck. Spsrs and wreck
age were floating in the vicinity and appar-
emily attached to the wreck by tie rigging.
A dispatch from FL Paso, Texas. Gays:
A dispatch to the mayor of Juarez says
Chihuahu is in the hands of the rebels. The
first attack was made by detachment OF
revo.utionists on the west side of the town
which called the Federal garrison to that
point. Immediately the insurgents rushed
Into the city on the east. The masses OF
the people being in sympathy with Santana
Perez there was no resistance from that
| source.
Sheriff Brouard of Jacksonville, Fla,
returned from Tallahassee Friday noon.
He went to get full and detailed instruc-
lions as TO is duty in connection with the
proposed Nit hell Corbett fight. He says
Gov. Mitchell is highly indignant over the
defiant attitude Of the Duval Club and says
the fight will be stopped at all hazards if it
is possible to do so. The fight will not
come off here in that county if he can prs
vent it, and he thinks he can.
Roundsman Charles Bloom, one of the
best known officers of Omaha. Neb.. and
the recognized head Of anti-Cath0lic circles
has handed in his resignstion. being charged
with writing letter to Msjor Bemis in
| which the lives of the mayor, chief of police
and the Republican National Committee
man Rosewater were threatened. The letter
was signed "Guiteau-P rendergast, and the
writer declared he would kill the mayor if
| certain things were not done.
Commenting upon the status of the iron
and steel trades the American Manufac
turer says: 1.-THE most prominent feature
of the iron and steel market today is the
steady lowering of values and the decrease
in the amount of business in all lines. The
number of changes in rates is larger this
week than usual. Nor are there any signs
of higher quotations. The situation todsy
il, if anything, more discouraging than ut
any time since the present depression set in,
aud there are no Indications of change for