Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-05-16
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Grand avenue, New Haven, Ct, swsiiowe co
Quantity of rough on rats and hudanum'
'riday, and died in great ag my. D.sap-
ointment in love was ,ha cause.
The bodies of two young Enxtishmen
n. M. Rogers and W. McDonaid, nave
,een found IN Hasqohala, 2 eeseft' oo
| GILES from PLen;x, A, T. The men we're
| ,rospeetors and persisted of tilrst while
attempting to cross 40 miles OF desert on
| 'oot.
Heavy frost at Rainbow, CT, Monday
rieht. cut down the unprotected tobacco,
| omato plants, and much early gard,
auck, including potatoes. Tobacco plants
| a P. aonnock and across the river we're
uined. The frost affected other sections
p river.
A committee from the striking employees of
tue Stotts' mill, Lowell, Mass, conferred
it'll Major Stott, Mondsy afternoon, and
,e offered about one half what they asked
Tor. They met in the evening and voted 10
accept. They ~ill 60 to work Wednesday
morning.
The Connecticut supreme court OF errors,
tuesday, handed down decision refusing
new trial to Jack" Cronin, under ten-
eence of death for the murder of Adelbert
J. Skinner at South Windsor, CT. Tie
court finds no error in the superior court
proceedings. Cronin will be hanged Au-
gust "a.
At Hauser Junction, Idaho, Monday
.vening, 200 industrials boarded another
Pacific freight train, and after putting Il cir
,wn engineer in charge, started off at q
lively gait. A large force of United States
marshals is stationed at Sand Point, Idaho,
md it is hardly possible the wealers can
pass that point.
A special to the St. Louis Globs-Demo-
crat from the City of Mexico says there is
much excitement in government circles over
the discovery that there are in circulation
full $500, 900 worth of counterfeit govern
ment stamps of the 50-cent denomination.
The larger cities of Mexico have been
Hooded with them.
The Behring tea fleet, which has been
| gathering at Port Townsend, WASH, since
he middle ofsApril, sailed Tuesday. The
heet included the warships Mohican, Ad-
ms and Alert, tie cruiser Yorktown and
he cutters Rush and Albatross. The route
will be from there to Ska, thence to Gu IA
laska, which will be the northern headquar-
tiers.
Calvin and is army at Green. burg, Pa,
ire becoming desperate. But six lOaves OF
mead were furnished the men there Mon
lay, and many of the m are starving. Gal
Jin called on the mayor, Monday night,
and said unless it was furnished he would
turn the men loose and let them loot the
town. The mapor told Calvin he had no
su,hority to supply the army with food.
The Paris Matin prints an interview with
an intimate friend of President Carnot
whose name for obvious reasons is not
gwen, in which the gentleman interviewed
is quoted as saying that he is authoriz ed to
state that M. Carnot will positively not
seek reelection. The President, he gays,
| regards it as his duty to set an example of
avoiding undignified intrigue for a renewal
Of power.
Lord Rosebery, Sir Charles Dixie, Lord
George Hamilton, the Earl of Northbrook
and Mr.. Lecky, the historian, are among
the number Of distinguished persons who
are to take part 10 the banquet at London
TO be given in honor of the officers of the
United States cruiser Chicago. The Globe
says that the event will be thorough ma
tional tribute and ads: mo country in
sympathies than the United States"
The state department, Tuesday, received
tel gram from Minister Baker, ANNOUNCE
ing that the Nicaraguan government bad
given satisfactory assurance of prompt
compliance with the peremptory demands
of the United States in relation to the pun
ishment of the murderer of Mr.. Wilson,
the American who was killed at Psma in
March. Officials of the state department
declare that Minister Bakers dispatch
gives every indication that the matter will
be closed without further delay.
Despite assertions to the contrary, it is
authoritatively stated that the investiga-
ton of the coast defence vessel Monitor is
still going on. Photographs of defective
plates have been taken Fl m a model of the
vessel, and mechanics formerly employed
by the Carnegie Company have been here
and have pointed out places where the
armor is faulty. While the Monitor is to
be placed on the dry dock osten IDLY to
have her bottom cleaned, those in position
to know say the real object is to remove
% poor plate on the port side forward of
the Monitor, which contains the most de-
fects.
The first session of the 10Th annual con-
vention of the Amalgamsted Association of
Iron and Steel Workers was held at Cleve-
land, Ohio, Tuesday. President Garland
occupied the chair. About $50 delegates
were present. Only routine work was dis
posed of. Members are reticent in the
probable action on the question of wages.
The opinion seemed against any material
change in the present stale. Vice Pfesl-
dent Harry Hooking said he did not believe
there was any reason to fear trouble in the
matter of wages, as the association would
be prepared to present proposition that
the manufacturers could accept.
The debate in the italian Chamber Mon
day, on the war budget, was exceedingly
stormy. On the vote the government got
only nine majority, and the opposition set
up lideous din of juhilstion. After the
vote the Chamber was found to have been
without quorum. The vote therefore VI as
null flied and the whole question will be
debated again. The situation is ex-
tn mely complicated if not critical. The
popular hostility to the military expendi-
ture is very strong and the opposition lead
cry ire making the most of it without
respect to consequences. The semi-official
newspapers hint that dissolution is likely.
L