Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-09-21
NEWS NUGGETS.
srouahs by the Wirss irum ths North, East
South and West.

r. G. Dan & Co. report 213 failures,
this week, in the United States, againsr
2l0. last year.
A dispatch from Shanghai says China
expects to eoccupy Lao Tung in October
and that Russia is pressing Japan to I'M
mediately evacuate that territory.
The Ammcn ram was not locked at the
Boston navy yard, Friday, several minor
details being incomplete She will be
placed in the dock about noon, Saturday.
Lloyds' agent at Algiers, telegraphs that
the statement sent out Sept 1S, that As
deaths from cholera occurred on the 18th,
was untrue. The sanitary condition of the
city, the agent says, is perfect.
The English foreign Office announces
that Chill has renowned the commercial
treaty between that country and Great
Britain, concluded in 1854. The treaty
would expire by limitation, Sept. B, 1896.
At Narragansctt park, Providence, r..
l., Friday, Frank Agan won the ,. 10 pa e
ia three straight heats, in the remarkably
fast time of =. o. =, 2.0S and 2 0SR break
ing the New England race record for tire,
straight heats.
The British steamer Sycamore from
Boston, arrived mt Liverpool. Thursday
sustained some damage, the extent not yet
known, in collision outside the bar with
the British steamer Bomb, which was al
so damaged
Willard X Page was found dead in his
room at Denver Col Friday Physician
pronounce it case of heart failure. H.
was q native of Maine, and Il protegc of
Hannibal Hamlin While in Washington
he met ex-senator II. A. W. Taber OF
Colorado, who engaged him as private
secretary, a position he held until his
death.
Mrs. Turner, national president of the
W Il. c in general orders issued, Friday,
announces these appointments: National
secretary. Harriette l.. Reed, Boston; pn
tional inspector, May j. Carr Longmont,
Col. national counsellor, Margaret K,
Wickins, Sabetha, Kan, residence, Evans
ton, ILL., national instituting and install
ing officer, Ella J. Mason, Biddeford, Me
The appealed case of the state VS.. Frank
n. Afford. editor of the Mijdletown CT
Herald, for criminal libel, in publishing
articles rejecting on the honesty of Sheriff
Il. S Brown of that county, and deputies,
was settled, at Middletown, CT, Friday,
out of court by the payment of s25 fine,
the cost of the lower court and other ex.
penses. Afford made public apology In
the Herald
Sir Henry Tyler, formerly president OF
the Grand Trunk Railway Co., who is on
his way to Peru, paid Il visit to the
Panama canal, ut Colon, Thursday. He
expressed establishment at the progress
that has been made in the work in spite
of all the difficulties that have to be en-.
countered. The restrictions imposed by
the government of Jamaica prohibit the
emigration of laborers from that island tC
Panama to engage in work on the canal
The federal grand jury at New York
Friday, indicted DIR. Orlando +. Bradford
the notorious associate CT CounterfeiteI
William A. Brockway, who is under ar
dictment In Jersey City. DIR. Bradford
was arrested by secret service agents or
Sept. last He is charged with having
in his possession two metallic plates fol
counterfeiting obligations of the Uniteo
States government for 500. He is ri
present in Ludlow street Jail under SIS,
900 bail.
A letter received, Friday, in Philadel
phia, written, August 80. by Gen. Gomez
commander-in-chief of the Cuban army, a
his headquarters at Camagues, addressed
| to the secretary of the Cuban revolutionar,
party in the United States, sums up th
condition of the military affairs in TIN
excited island, and being written on tn
eve of constituting a revolutionary gov
erument declares il to be the intention o
the Cuhans to raise loans for the republi
/ in the United States
A cablegram received from Martinique