Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-10-08
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The S5th annual meeting of the Ameri-
can Board of Foreign Missions will meet
at Brooklyn, n. Y, Oct. 10 to IS.
The commercial treaty between France
and Great Britain, relative to the trade
between France and Canada, was ratified,
Saturday.
Railroad officials at Denver Col, ad-
mitted, Sunday, that a'freight rate law
will be openly inaugurated Immediately,
and they also admitted that the fight will
be fierce.
Patrick Grant, father of Robert Grant,
the novelist and jurist. died at his home
on Marlboro street, Boston, Monday morn
ing. He was So years of age, and his
death was due to general breaking up Of
the system. He graduated from Harvard
in 1928, and was for many years sue
cessful merchant at Boston.
The wrecking steamer Lord Stanley.
with the schooner g. 7. d. in tow, ar
rived at Quebec Sunday night, from the
wreck of the Dominion Line steamship
Mariposa ut Belle Isle. Owing to heavy
weather she was unable to go alongside
the Mariposa until Thursday The sur
veyors and underwriters found the vessel
complete wreck and after inspection,
condemned her. A portion of the cargo
was saved and shipped to st. John.
Gov. Altgeld of Illinois, was seen, Sun
day night, and asked what course he would
take in case An attempt was made to pull
off the Corbett- Fitzsimmons fight on
Henry island in the Illinois river II do
not know of any projected prize fight, but
if 1t is on Illinois soil we will do all in our
power to prevent any fight taking place
there. The enforcement of the law rests
primarily with the local authorities, but
If 1t becomes necessary for the state to take
a hand, you must say that l will use every
effort to prevent the fight" The Cover
nor has no doubt as to his ability and bis
right to uphold the laws Of Illinois.
A decision has been handed down by
the Kansas supreme court involving the
validity OF one section of the prohibitory
law. The law of 10 conferred upon the
police the authority to enter any place
where it was thought liquor was being
sold and make arrests without a warrant
Under this section, policemen have been
in the habit Of entering places which had
fallen under suspicion and arresting who
ever they caught in apparent possession of
the place. The court holds that this Sec
ton, in so far rs it authorizes All arrest
without warrant for misdemeanors not
in the view Of the officer, is
unconstitutional and void.
The electric locomotive used in hauling
freight trains through the Belt Line tun-
mel OF the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad at
demonstrated, Sunday, that its |
drawing power far exceeds the expecta-
lions of its builders. Forty-four loaded |
freight cars and the three steam locomo- |
tlves, not working, which had been used |
to haul the heavy train on the surface, |
were coupled to the electric giant at the |
tunnel entrance and pulled up the heavy
grade of the tunnel, speed of ~ miles an
hour being developed. The total weight of |
the train was 1900 tons. The draw bar
pull exerted In starting this unusually
heavy load was more than so, 600 pounds
and continued throughout the trip at
more than 40, 900 pounds The Baltimore
& Ohio officials claim that no steam loco
motive has ever approached this record.
Ex-Governor Campbell, the Ohio Demo.
ratio nominee for Governor, is being
severely critised for his bitter personal at
,aks on prominent Republicans, and there
S great indignation over the speech he
made at Morrow, Thursday night In the
,ourse of an attack on the last Legislature.
ne asserted that nearly every measure
passed by that body was tainted with cor.
upton. He referred especially to the
lien law, and said that it cost
5000 to pass it, his inference Being that
hat sum was used to bride the members.
Mr.. Campbell also said that Governor
Mckinley had personal knowledge of the
flair, and offered to prove his statement.
The charges may lead to complications
which were not anticipated by the Demo-
ratio leaders Campbell's utterances will
'robably provoke reply from the Cover
Tor.