Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-01-19
NEWS KuG6Eu.
Brought by the Wires from the North, East,
South and West.

r. G. Dun & Co. says: The failures.
this year. up to Jan. 10. in amount OF
liabilities, were "a, 522, 531. of which 81,
1873, 42S were manufacturing, and $3, 1886,
6O3 trading concerns. Failures for the
week were 373 in the United States,
against 407 last year.
Clifford King, James H. Meyers and
Charles Houghton, non unon shoemakers,
assault upon Napoleon LaPointe, Emil
Blanchette and Joseph Lincoln, striking
shoe workers, and were fined $40 each.
They appealed, and were held in $500
each for the superior court.
News was received at Portsmouth, Fri
day, of the death of Benz. NJ. Bailey of
that city, at the Odd Fellows Home. He
was 80 years old and one of the last of the
foremen caulkers who worked on the
Piscataqua river He had also held posi-
ton at the Kittery navy yard for years.
He is survived by three sons.
The Lehigh Valley tracks at Audenied,
Pa, dropped into coal mine, Friday, as
a Pennsylvania freight train was passing
over it. The engine just cleared the brink.
A carload of sugar, another of lumber and
the tender of the locomotive are out of
sight. Six other cars were smashed in the
wreck The greatest excitement prevails
in the vicinity.
Suit was brought at New Haven, CT,
Friday, by the Mercantile National Bank
of New York, against the firm of Quigley
6, futile of New Haven for $40, 5000. The
defendants are VIM. p. futile and Edwin
0. Quigley, Orange, n. j. Several valu-
able pieces of land in New Haven, belong
ing to the defendants We're attached. 1t
is alleged the defendants gave notes of
$50, 600 to the bank and failed to redeem
them.
Colonel A. B. Logic, the prominent
dry goods merchant who left Bridgeport,
Conn, under aloud, a short time ago,
has forwarded his resignation as COM
mander of the 1st Regiment Uniformed
Rank, X of p. His successor will be
chosen by the regimental officers in New
Haven, Monday. Logic was very popular
here. The estate which he left behind in
ventoried liabilities of $50, 200, while the
assets amounted to less than $500.
Edward o. Quigley was arrested at New
York, Friday, by Detective Kelley of the
district attorneys office. 1t is said that
the charge against him is the stealing of
between $4,000 and $4,000. He was
book keeper for the Mercantile Bank. The
officials in the district attorneys office re-
fuse as yet to give out any information
regarding the arrest. The exact amount
of the theft has not been made known nor
the method employed by the prisoner in
getting the money.
A dispatch from Fusan, Korea, to the
London Central News, says that a detach-
ment of Japanese from Ka Ku Tong at
tackled body of Tong Hak rebels in the
province of Ho Hon on the night of Jan.
H. On the morning of the 18th the at
tack was renewed, and the rebels after
desperate fighting were defeated and dis
persed. The Tong Haks made their way
northward. Hundreds of them We're
killed in the fight and many of their cat
tie horses and arms were captured by the
japanese.
Several hundred unemployed men gath
cred again at the Montreal City hall,
Friday morning, and did considerable
speechmaking. They were peaceable but
were prevented from entering the building
by the police The mayor received a
deputation of the Central Traders and
Labor Council and discussed what WIS
best to do. He promised to see what
could be done in the way of giving the
unemployed work. He announced that
he had received $11O0 in subscriptions for
the needy. This amount and any that
he received would be distributed without
delay.
| Kingston, Jamaica, advices to Jan. 90,
say: Chief Clarence has taken his cause
and that of his people in hand, and is
urging Great Britain to insist on the
rights of the Mosquito Indians as guaran-
teed by the Managua treaty. The question
has been in allegiance pending careful in
vestigation by Great Britain. Not only
has Nicaragua violated the treaty with
Great Britain but England has real
grievance of her own in the imprisonment
and deportation of Edwin d. Hatch, British
vice consul at Blueflelds, Mosquito, in the
withdrawal Of the exequatur of Herbert
Bingham, British consul at Greytown.
and in the large and substantial damages
suffered by the British merchants and
planters in the Mosquito reserve. At any
hour one may expect to hear of naval
demonstration by Great Britain.
The comments of the ST. Johns press
on the Munion Bank revelations
are severely condemnatory. The worst
feature of the affair is that 81, ZOO, 900
was lost on directors accounts alone.
The shareholders met again, Thurs
day, and elected a new board of directors.
The desire that these be empowered to
liquidate the bank and the government
has been requested to supply legislation
to prevent suits being taken. Threats to
prosecute the late directors are made, and
the government will likely be impelled by |
public clamor to indict them as they did |
the directors of the Commercial Bank |
The government will adjourn the session |
of the Legislature on Saturday for month |
to prepare the public accounts and finan-
cial measures for presentation at the reg
ular session which opens about the middle
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