Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-11-26
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At a mammoth mass meeting held at
Albany, \. Y, Sunday night, resolutions
were adopted protesting against Armenian
outrages.
Generals Pando and Marin will sail for
I Cuba, from Madrid, Monday, to take COM
mand of the Spanish troops recently sent
10 the island.
Billy Hennessey whipped La Blanche
1.-The Marine, - at Lynn, Monday night
| i n the first round, knocking him down
| tbres times.
| NJ Bartholemy St Hilaire died in his
chair in his study, at Paris, where he
was found by members of his family,
Sunday evening.
| The building in which the art exhibition
is bsing held at Douglass, Isle of Man,
was burned. Monday with large exhibit
of statuary and objects OF art.
The decree of divorce (nisi) granted, IN
May last, at London. 10 John X. Rogers
against his wife, Minnie Palmer, the
actress, was, Monday, made absolute.
The :. II. Howe Shoe Co. J. A Frye
and Boyd & Corey Co, of Marlboro, Mass
have submitted new price list. The
scale is nearly uniform in its reductions
from the present prices.
| Heavy snow storms are prevailing
throughout The provinces OF Piedmont
and Liguria, italy. Railway traffic is
completely blocked, and trains were i'm
bedded in huge snow drifts.
George r. Phelan of Memphis, a player
in Saturday S foot ball game between the
medical and law classes of the university,
died at Charlottesville, Va, Sunday His
death was due to the rupture Of blood
vessel.
The Nebraska Savings Exchange Bank
Of Omaha, Neb has gone into voluntary
liquidation. The deposits amount to
about $3.50 600. They are reported to be
secure, but the stockholders will get
nothing.
Four thousand and eight hundred troops
mostly new recruits, embarked at Bar
celona, Sunday, on the steamers Colon
and Santiago for Cuba. They were given
an enthusiastic farewell. The men were
in excellent spirits.
In view of the charge made by Marquis
Cabrinana that certain members of the
municipal council at Madrid, had used
their official position to their private ad-
vantage, the government has decided to
dissolve the council.
Ninety clothing operatives employed in
the Misunderstanding department of the b.
f. Haley Co, at Newmarket, n II struck,
Monday, against reduction of wages.
The strikers are members Of the local
Union 80 U. G. W. A.
The official statistics show that from
Nov. 20 to Nov %, there were Ia new
eases of cholera and seven deaths from
the disease at St. Petersburg During the
past month there were 236 cholera deaths
in Volhynia and 53 in Kieff.
The Berlin Nossishc claims to have au-
thority to state that tho German budget
for 1862 will show an estimated revenue
of 1,229, Ssh, 22S marks and estimated ex-
penditures of |, 25g. sol. 749 marks, leav-
ing deficit Of 80, 0l7, 52l marks
The satinet mill of Crossley Mfg. Co.
Auburn, Mass, has been attached for
$1,000 by New York creditors and keeper
placed in charge The mill shut down,
Saturday, and from so to rs hands are
temporarily thrown out of employment.
The supreme court at ST Johns, n F.,
Monday quashed the convictions against
the city saloon keepers recently convicted
Of smuggling. The court decided the in
dictments faulty, as the parties ACCUSED
were purchasers, not the actual smugglers
The Alaska Mining Record estimate
the gold output Of that territory for tt
year 1895 at So 900, 600, of which $500, 600
has been obtained from placer workings
on the Yukon river. There are IL stamp
mills in operation, with total capacity of
500 stamps.
Tho fight between Billy Plimmer and
Palmer, at 1l2 pounds, for a purse of
fl500 took place at London, Monday
night. The referee stopped the fight in
the 18th round, and awarded the battle to
Palmer, owing to Planners brother en-
teriDg the ring.
BY an explosion Of cartridges supposed
to be spoiled, at Palma, capital of island
Of Mariorcs, 1870 miles south uf Barcelona
Spain, Monday, 81 women and ii men
were instantly killed, and 80 women and
five men seriously injured, 20 of them
aftcrwsrd dying.
| The British ship Lillian L. Robbins,
New York, June 4, for Japan and China.
has been towed into Saigon. French
| Cochin China with her bulwarks and
stanchions damaged. She lost Yards.
sails, rigging, foretop, maintopmasts and
had her masts sprung.
About loo men employed on the sewers
at Maiden, Mass, quit work, Monday. on
account of not receiving the wages due for
| two weeks. They claim that they were
promised pay, Monday, before IL, and not
| receiving it, left work. No men have been
hired to take the strikers places
A New York Herald special from San
tiago de Cuba says meEsag received from
Madrid are TO the effect that a royal decree
has been issued in Spain emanating from
the Queen Regent which absolves Ameri
can sgndicates operating mines in the Is
| land of Cuba from all taxes for 90 years.
Some employees of the O'Hara dial fac
tory at Waltham, Mass, are out in conse
quencc of reduction Of 10 per cent. in
wages The men say officials give SIS n
reason for the reduction that business is
dull, but they claim that they have been
obliged to work overtime considerably Of
late.
The report circulated early, Monday
morning, that NJ Alexander dumas tho