Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-02-19
hue, will probably be continued this


week.
The Tooth anniversary of the birth of
George Peabody was observed, Monday,
at Salem, Mass, in a modest way, the
trustees of the Peabody Academy OF
Science, which was endowed by him, nav
ing extended an invitation to the pupils
of the public schools to visit the rooms OF
the institution, which were decorated In
honor of the event.
A fishing boat arrived at Dungenness,
Eng, Monday, with the body of Walter
Schulz, passenger on the Elbe. for the
recovery of which reward of 1900 has
been offered The body, which was
picked up near Dungennes, had life
belt around it and upon one of his fingers
was an engagement ring with the inscrip-
ton . Emmy Schoeller. /"
Edward Harrigan, Jr., the eldest son of
the we'll known comedian, died from
peritotitis, Sunday. at his fathers home
in New York He had been i'll only few
days. Although only II years old he was
skilled actor and had appeared in Il
number of plays at his fathers theatre.
The last part he took was that of Gran
vii C Bright in 1.-The Major.
Amos s. Blake, SO years of age, who in
his prime was "a prominent inventor and
manufacturer, died at bis home at Water
bury. CT, Monday. Mr.. Blake's inven
tions covered 10 patents. During the
winters of 1851, he constructed the first
locomotive ever seen in New England.
The design was small and generally exhi-
bited through the Northern states.
The crowd Of trolley car strikers that
applied for reinstatement at the office of
the Brooklyn City Railroad Company,
Monday morning, damned Montague
street from Clinton street almost to the
| City hail square President Lewis ordered
| the name and address of every man be
taken down and promised to give them
work in the order of tkeir applications as
vacancies were made on his system.
Acting Secretary Hamlin has called the
attention OF Sir Julian Pauncefotc,
| British ambassador to the fact that
Canada charges Il duty on boom sticks
and chains imported from the United
States for the use Of towing logs and
timber from Canada to the United States.
Boom sticks and chains imported from
Canada into the United States under
similar circumstances are admitted free.
At an carly hour, Monday, an Italian
named Sancric AdOtico visited the house
at Psi Crescent street Broclton, Mass.
occupied by Joseph Deangeli, and violently
beat and kicked Deangeli's housekeeper.
| who is said to he Adotico's divorced wife.
Adotico made his escape. Jealousy was
undoubtedly at the bottom Of the affair.
Deangeli says Adotico lives in Boston
The woman is in precarious condition.
T. p. Sullivan of Concord, n. H., secre-
sary of the Granite Manufacturer Asso-
citation of New England, received a mes
sage Monday, informing him that the
manufacturers and cutters of Barre, Vt,
had signed an agreement covering every
thing for year from March l. ternina-
BILE on three months notice. The bill OF
prices agreed upon as basis of settlement
is practically the same as that which eX-
listed for the past three years.
The grand jury of the court of general
sessions at New York, handed in pre-
sentiment, Monday, to the effect that they
have carefully Investigated and con
sidercd the question Of administration and
personnel of the court of general sessions
and reports: THAT from the testimony
of the highest and we believe the most
authentic sources from which information
covering the subject could be derived, we
can find no sufficient cause for a formal
presentment.
The electrical workers, 900 men, went
out on strike at New York, Monday.
At noon the board of walking delegates
of the building trades took charge of
the strike and announced that if any firm
gives employment to any electrical worker
who is not member of the Electrical
Workers Union, the board will order on
a strike every man in the building trade,
and as the board claims it's mandate will
extend to every man at work within a
radius of 80 miles Of New York, so, 1000
will go out on strike when ordered.
The United States court of appeals at
Boston, Monday, rendered a decision in
the case of Myer Sargent ct al ibellants,
appellants, VS.. Horace d. Sargent, claim
ant, appellee, reversing the decree of the
| United States district court for Maine
Diminishing the libel. This cause origin
ally arose out of collision between the
schooner Governor, owned by the libellants
and the schooner Charles H. Tricky,
owned by the claimant, which occurred in
the vicinity of Fauset light off Cape Cod
on the evening of Aug. 25, 1898. This
court thinks that the collision was caused
solely by the fault of the schooner Charles
H. Trickey and reverses the decree of the
lower court and remands the case for fur
ther proceedings