Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-03-12

day, to John A. kennedy The assets ana
| liabilities are not yet ascertained but Will
be quite large. Preferences amount to
$50, 600. Mr.. Manning said: The
Standard Brewing Co. of Baltimore, Md,
is indebted to our firm and myself up
wards of 500, 600"
Curtis p. Chcsley, aged "A, died at
Atlantic. Iowa, March z. He was for
many years an engineer on the Boston &
Maine, but left during the strike of 1877.
The following two years he was in the
meat business at Rochester, n. H., but
went West in 1880, where up to the time
of his death he was an engineer on the
Rock Island road. He is survived by a
widow, daughter and son.
Mrs Betsey Saunders, Familiarity known
as Aunt Betsey, whose real name is Mrs.
Peter McClustay, celebrated the 105th an
niversary Of her birth at Norwalk, Ct,
| Monday. Mrs. Saunders is probably the
Oldest living person in Connecticut, and
with tire exception of sight, possesses her
| faculties to u considerable degree. Her
hearing is acute, her memory unfailing,
and her physique remarkable for one who
has attained so great an age.
A special dispatch from Oxford. Md,
says the oyster dredging schooner Ida v.
| Seward was capsized in Broad Creek,
Talbot county, Saturday, and it is sup
posed the crew, consisting of seven men,
were drowned The captain of the vessel
was Ben amin +. Wilson. Lewis Sanders
was one of the crew. The names of the
others are not known. An oyster police
sloop is searching for the missing men or
| their bodies.
Twenty-six looms in the Border City
mill No 2 at Fall River, were idle, Mon
day. on account of tho strike of the weav
ers, who left work, in the morning
alleging low wages. The strikers Were
employed on three harness satines, double
cuts for which they received 50 cents, at
90 cents piece. Their pay had fallen
from IS per week to $3.50 They think
they should have 35 cents per single cut.
The strike was not authorized by the
union.
A cable special from Toxic, Japan says:
China has been informed in general terms
of the conditions upon which Japan will
consent to peace. Japan has'bcen notified
that China is ready to accept those condi-
tions and to sign treaty. The CORES
pondence by means of which this agree
ment is arrived at was carried on through
the United States ministers to the two
countries Minister Edwin Dunn at Toxic
and Minister Charles DENLY at Pei.in.
The steam collier Reading of the Read
ing Railroad Co, has arrived at Dutch
Island Harbor in distress and awaits or
ders She had in tow the barge Henry
Clay. While not wholly incapacitated,
her captain considers her too seriously
crippled to proceed without orders. The
fork end of the connecting rod of the
engine is fractured and her speed under
such conditions is exceeding slow and I'M
reliable She is bound from Philadelphia
to Boston.
War has been declared between St
Paul and Minneapolis, and it may be
necessary to restore matters to peace
basis by calling out the militia. The
fight between the cities for the possession
of the capital has reached such state
that Minneapolis men have scattered
broadcast over the state circular running
down ST. Paul in every possible way, and
causing such a furore of indignation in
st. Paul that some kind of retaliation
will be at once made.
:The body of "a well dressed man was
n. j., Sunday, and the police believe that !
the dead man was robbed, murdered and
thrown into the water There is hole |
which might have BEGIN caused by a
fludgeon. Part of gold, chain was at
itached to one of the buttonhQ1 of the
'manrs,vest as though a wat01ldhd the rest |
Of the chain had been snatched away. |
There is nothing to give positive clue to |
the mans identity
James Griffin, IAN unmarried man IS |
years old. was Instantly killed at the |
Pomroy Coal Company's yard at Provi- |
dencc, Monday, while unloading coal |
schooner Gen. f.. s. Greeley The bucket |
he had just loaded had been hoistcd to the |
top of the pocket and dumped when it
became unlocked from the falls. The |
hold had not been dug out sufficient to al |
low standing room beneath the deck and |
Griffin had no escape. The bucket struck |
him directly on the head, crushing the |
skull.
John A. Sweeney lost his life and his |
wife received fatal injuries by the burn
ing of their house, No 60 Henderson |
street, Allegheny, Pa, Sunday. Sweeney |
came home drunk and went up stairs to
bed, leaving his wife asleep on the first |
floor At 2 O'Clock she detected the odor
of smoke and on going to her husbands /
room found the lamp overturned and the
room in a blaze. She repeatedly at
tempted to drag Sweeney to the stairs, but
was unable. She then leapcd from a
window and was horribly mangled.
1t is now known who murdered Benja-
min McCullocb,s prominent business
man of ST. Louis, who ut the time of bis
death was paying teller Of the State Bank
Of st. Louis. Jim Murray, a negro now
in Jail at Clayton, St Louis county, I'M
der sentence Of death for killing Edward
Fitzwilliams, made confession in which
he implicated Harry Smart and William
Hensley In the murder of McCulloch, on