Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-04-16
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought BY the Wires IRON The North. East
South and West.

Odd Fellows block, Townvillc, Pa,
was burned, Sunday. Estimated losses,
$50, 900; insurance, gle, 500.
A strike for more wages occurred at the
Globe woolen mills. Utica, \. Y, Mon
day, and unless it is. settled in few days
about 1000 hands will be thrown out of
employment. Two hundred and fifty
men quit work, Monday.
The issue OF standard silver dollars from
the mints and treasury offices for the week
ended April 13, were Si0G, $50; and in
the corresponding week of last year. 1862, :
32O The shipments of fractional silver
coins from April to 13,aggregated 1881, :
453 50.
The steamboat Continental of the New
Haven line reported ashore on Ward S
island, New York harbor, got off at 2.
NJ, Monday. After the cargo was taken
off the Continental was towed to her pier
in the East river. Examination of her
bottom showed the damage was very
slight.
An incendiary fire started, early Mon
day. in the livery barn of j. W Watson,
Talhaquah, /. T., and before the flames
could be checked two blocks, including
IS business houses, four residences and
Is offices, were destroyed. Total loss,
estimated at $50 600; covered by perhaps
10 per cent. insurance.
The manufacturers at Fall River,
Mass, received notices, Monday night, of
Il meeting of tho Cotton Manufacturers
Association, Tuesday afternoon, to con-
slider the wage question. The Barnaby
1t-fl1 rnt1 tn fau
The slashcr tenders at the Stafford mills
are all at work again.
President j. II. Whittemore of the
Naugatuck Malleable Iron Co, Union
City, Ct. Monday, offered to take the
strikers back at the old rate and 10 hours
day, instead of eight. Tho proposition
was declined by the strikers The COM
pany says it will shut down indefinitely
after discharging those not on strike-400
men.
Judge Patterson of the supreme court
at New York, Monday, granted an ex
parte injunction in the action brought by
the Atchison. Topeka 6, Santa Fe against
the Mercantile Trust Co, in which the
latter is restrained from selling certain
bonds held by them, under a deed of trust
liycred to the Trust Co. by the Atlantic
& Pacific Railroad.
Eastern members of the American Rail
way Association arrived at St. Louis by
special train, Monday. and Western and
Northern members came on the regular
trains. The attendance is nearly 1900
members, including nearly every promi-
ncnt official in the passenger and traffic
department of the principal railways of
the United States. Tuesday, the various
committees will be in session.
Angus d. Gilbert, who is accused by
the police of numbering little Alice Ster-
ling of Dorchester, Mass, last Wednes-
day, has had a severe cross examination
by the police. He admitted that he buried
the childs body in the barn cellar where
it was found but he claimed he did not
kill her He identified the shovel with
which he dug the grave and said he buried
the body head downward with the hope
that her feature would be oblitcrated and
Identification thus rendered difficult after
a lapse of time. Still he declares he did
not murder the girl
The treasury receipts for the first half
Of April aggregate $12, 355, coo, indicat-
ing not over s25, 900, 600 for the month
The expenditures so far foot up S2l, 800,
900. torcshadowing total for the month
of moro than $50, 600, 900. At the pre-
sent time the excess of expenditures over
the receipts for the fiscal year to date, is
Sf5, 457, 600 The difference between the
receipts and expenditures by the end of
April will probably be reduced for the
month to $500, 600 excess of expenditures
over receipts. So far this month the
receipts have been Disappointing