Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-10-18
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The supreme court of Pennsylvania,
Thursday afternoon, handed down decl-
sion sustaining the limited voting clause
Of the superior court act
A verdict Of guilty was rendered by the
jury, at Lawrence, Mass, Thursday, with
out leaving their seats, against Newell
with setting fires
G. L. Stukey, cashier of the State
B,nk of Duluth, Mimi, is missing, and
ais 81 coo in cash. One hundred points
have been wired to arrest him. The bank
is amply secured by bonds.
The iron and brass moulders' strike at
the foundries OF the General Electric CO.,
at Lynn, Mass, is beginning to have
eject in some departments, as so men,
me- st of whom are night hands, were laid
off, Thursday night, until further notice
A dispatch from Paris says official re-
turns show that the number of Spanish
troops killed in fighting or by disease since
the opening Of the campaign in Cuba is
1897. This number includes a general,
superior officers and 100 officers of lower
rank.
Advices received at London in regard
to the sinking of the German bark, Ernst,
off 1quique, are to the effect that no lives
were lost. The British bark, Glenclune,
Hamburg, for Port Los Angeles, before
reported ashore on the coast Of Brazil,
has become a wreck.
Secretary Olney has received a COM
munication from NJ Patrenotre. French
ambassador, outlining the programme Of
he. iy,tn al axb of artS
culture and industrial progress, to be held
at Paris in 1900, and inviting the United
states to participates.
Advices received from Bogota are to the
effect that measures are being taken to
secure the recall of G. f. b. Jenner, the
British minister and consul general. 1t
is stated that it has been decided by the
BriGisb government to increase the fortif
cations in British Guiana
The United States grand jury at Bos
ton, Thursday forenoon, before Judge
Pun nam, rendered a true bill against Rev.
Frank Hyatt Smith of the North Avenue
Congregational church. Cambridge, for
the alleged sending of scurrilous and de-
famatory postal cards through the mails.
Mr. Smith is now in Denver, Col.
Maurice Perkins, we'll known news
paper man of indianapolis, Ind. formerly
connected with the New York Sun, and
at one time prominent in Eastern news
paper circles, has been i'll at Indianapolis
for some time. While delirious Wednes-
day, he lesped from third story window
at the city hospital and was fatally in
jurod.
The English foreign office has not yet
rect ivcd notification from Sir Philip
Currie, British ambassador at CONSTANT
nople, of the actual signing of the Ar
mcnian settlement by the Sultan. Conse-
quently all the reports to the effect that
the proposals Of the powers have received
the imperial assent, are regarded as
premature.
A few OF the shops in Constantlnople
kept by Armenians rcopened, Wednesday,
all having been closed by order of the Ar
menian committee. For this act of dis
obedience their owners were fined f15
sterling each, except in the cases of three
merchants. who wcre obliged to pay 400
Turkish pounds each. For these acts of
cxtnrtion several members Of the COM
mittee have arrived.
The thrcc-masted schooner which col
lided with and sunk the two-mastcd
schooner off Pollock Rip, Thursday. was
the British schooner Gypsum Queen,
Captain Bentley, of and from Windsor,
n. S, for New York, with q cargo OF
plaster. Captain Bentley says he does
know the name of the sunken schooner
and that she foundered almost i'm
mediately after striking.
II Il
known dentist of Hartford. CT. convicted
on three counts of iucendiarism in setting
fire to the Woodbridge building, March IA,
was, Taursisy, sentenced to 10 years in
the state prison at Wethersfield Notice
of appeal was filed by Griswold's counsel.
Griswold's counsel was given two weeks
t, prepare reasons for the appeal, and
Griswold was taken to Jail pending the
decision.
AT Lexington, Ky, Thursday, Tommy
Britton broke the worlds record for 9
year-olds held by Silicon and Impetuous
2l5sl. making the mile in the second heat
uf the Lexington stake In 2 15i4. He won
with case and was driven with a viaw to
wiping out the race records. Valley Queen
won Johnston stake, $1,000; best time
! a14sl, by Iron Bar, distanced in third
heat Wanda won 2.a3 trat, $500, in
2.19A. Bell L. won .l3 pace $1,000, in
210l4.
The Lincoln Republican Club Assoc'a-
! ii IN of young republican cit'zsns held it,;
/ LIST annual banquet at the Cnited States
hotel, Boston. Thursday evening The
club was organized last spring, for the
purpose OF advancing the interests and
principles of the Republican party In L e
city OF Boston and vicinity, There was a