Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-03-13
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

| The President, Monday, nominated James
H. Mulligsn, Kentucky, consul-general at
Apia, Samoa.
The striking stitchers in Martins shoe
shop, Dover, N. H., who went out because
they were not paid, have been settled with
and will SO to work Tuesday.
The wax department of the Tidewater Oil
Works, Constable Hook. Nj, were burned
| Monday. Loss, about 100000. Two work.
men sustained severe burns.
William F. Wiley of Rochester who was
black lacked and robbed of $50 at Dover N.
H., March 3. is now dying at his home.
The police are unable to locate his assail-
ants.
Schooner Mary Lord of Ellsworth be-
fore reported at Woods Holl, was pumped
out, floated, and towed to New Bedford,
Monday, by the steam tug Mercury, for re-
pairs.
The postmaster general, Monday, signed
| the parcels post convention between the
United States and New Foundland. 1t will
take effect as soon as the preliminaries can
be arranged.
The Candee Rubber Company will shut
down its works at New Haven, c., March
II, not to reopen until April 23. This will
throw out of employment 100 hands. Over
stock of goods of all grades is assigned.
Ludwig August Frank, the poet, died at
Vienna, Sunday evening, sged 81. He was
| q native of Bohemia and passed most Of his
'ife in Vienna. He had had a professor
ship in Vienna and had been director of the
Vienna Musical Society.
At the annual meeting of the Yale
Athletic Track Association, Monday, at
New Haven, Hickcock, the foot ball player,
broke the intercollegiate record in hammer
put, with AZ feet and five inches. The
previous record was Al feet, held by
Hickok.
Signs of returning confidence in manu-
featuring circles continue. All departments
of the Cambria Iron Works at Johnstown,
Pa, resumed business, Monday. The
Johnstown Steel Works started up after
an idleness of three months. About 1000
men went to work for the two corpora
tious.
The license vote at the annual town meet
ings held in Massa chusetts, Monday, re-
.ulted: Rowley, no; Cottage City, no;
Edgartown, no; Chilmark, no; North At
tleboro, no; StoughtoD, no; Westfield,
yes; Ludlow, no; Pelham, no; Marshfeld,
no; Shirley, yes; Maynard, yes; Saugus,
no; Watertown, no; East Hampton, yes.
In the German Bundesrath, Monday,
Chancellor Ven Csprivi submitted pro-
posal for the coinage of II 900, 900 marks
in fve.mark pieces; 100000 marks in
two-mark pieces, 100000 marks in one
mark pieces. The chancellor stated that
the proposal was made because of an in
creased demand for tuch coins and also
because the coinsge of silv.r had fallen
below the authorized limit of 22 1000. orc
marks.
The mail train over the Central Railroad
Of Vermont, due at Montpelier, ", at ESQ
o'clock Monday morning, was wrecked at
Browns Mills, in the town of Berlin. at
| 2 40 A. M. Monday. Engineer Patrick
Mckinney was taken out of the wreck at
o'clock dead. His head was crushed, and
bis body badly bruised. He was unmarried
and belonged in St. Albans. living there
with a sister. Fireman McQninney Of
Burlington was badly but not seriously
hurt. He crawled out of the wreck unaided.
Two m iii agents were in the mail car and
it 10 q miracle how either escaped with his
life. for the car was completely demolished.