Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-08-17
NEWS
sroashi by the Wires from The North, East
South and Wesi.

the SITUATION IN CuDd, says ehho eh""S'
Captain General Campos gets his l0o,o o'
men, Cuba will get autonomy.
The st. Petersburg Novoe Vremya pub
fishes advice from V~ladivotock, showing
the outbreak of cholera in China, Cores
and Formosa is becoming serious.
The condition of the yellow feveI
patient, Burt +. Hyde, the Connection
man, at Quarantine, Staten Island, wei
considerably worse, Friday morning.
The seven story distillery at Leaven
worth, Kan owned by +. Sherman, wa:
destroyed by fire, Friday. Sherman's los
is $40, 900 and he has no insurance.
Assignee Felkcr, of the defunct Dove
Five Cent Savings Bank, Dover, n. H.,
has declared a dividend of so per cent,
payable On and after August IS, 1905.
The imports OF dry goods at New York,
for his week were SO, O79, 1913, and The
amount marketed 1915, As. For the sam
week last year the imports were 81, 034, 901
and the amount marketed 81, 600, 100.
United States cruiser Marblehead sailed,
Friday, from Grsvcsend, for Mersina, sea
port of Tarsus, Asia Minor, to protect
Americans at the IL tter place, the scene OF
| Ii ltCCIlU lO1btS a III AlhCIlCtI
cool.
A reporter asked Senator Hoar at Wor-
cestcr, Mass, Friday, if he should answer
Mr.. Evans's letter, printed Friday. Mr..
Hoar said that he should not, that the let
ter answered itself; that it was a plea of
guilty.
A Fall River man committed suicide in
a most horrible manner, Thursday night.
He was out of work and having some
trouble with his family, he threw his
sister and her daughter down stairs and
then cut his throat from ear to ear with a
razor.
VIM. Austin Dickinson, aged Ga, a lead
ing lawyer and citizen of Amherst, Mass,
and since 1873 treasurer of Amherst Col
lege, died at his home in that town, FRI
day evening, of heart disease, the result
OF an attack of the grip, last winter. and
overwork.
Hon. Matt W. Ransom of North Caro-
lima, is no longer minister from the
United States to Mexico. The office was
practically declared vacant, Friday, by a
decision rendered by Holmes Conrad,
solicitor general of the United States and
acting attorney general.
Emperor Villain arrived at Tech,
Thursday, and was enthusiastically
cheered by the thousands of people who
lined alCng the route on which be drove
from the railway station to the quay. He
at once boarded the imperial yacht
HohenzollerD, and at 6 p. NJ, sailed on
his return voyage to Germany.
A heavy beer barrel fell on the head of
David Walsh, in front of Kings brewery,
Sc Longwood avenue, Boston. Friday,
killing him instantly. Walsh was en-
ployed at the brewery and was loading
barrels of beer into a wagon, when one
accidentally fell or his head, causing his
death. He was IS years old.
The London Standard prints a dispatch
containing the best of news regarding
the health of the Pope. The dispatch
says that IL nothing unexpected should
happen, His Holiness may we'll attain his
Tooth year. He always is in good spirits
and his conversation is as brilliant as
ever and full Of depth and vigor.
The Vienna Neue Wiener Tageblat gays
that upon the occasion of the jubilee in
celebration of the 50th year of his reign,
which will occur in 1898, Emperor Fran
els Joseph will present to the city of
Vienna, the Prater, a park m forest on
the east side of the city, comprising 1870
acres, which has belonged to the crown
since 1870.
The anniversary Of the battle of Recon,
vile, during which several %sanguinary
cavalry engagements took place at Mars
La-Tour, was celebrated by the German
first dragon guards regiment which made
,aN,, T. --o a., that ,%tl
vas placed upon a portrait of the Queen
Of England, who is honorary colonel of
the regiment.
Word has reached Quebec. that Mrs.
c.. F. Jay Of Cambridge, Mass, and one
of her canoemen, Joseph Audette of St.
Alban, Port Neuf county, were drowned
in the Batiscan river, Monday afternoon,
by the upsettiDg of their canoe. Mrs. Jay
was on an excursion with her two
brothers, W. 2. Greenough of Port Neuf,
and j. q. Greenough of Cambridge.
Numerous letters and petitions, some
sent by telegraph, continue to arrive at
the Executive chamber, Albany, n. Y,
invoking the clemency OF the Governor In
behalf Of Maria Barberi. Some of these
requests are simply for merciful consid-
erations, Others are for communication OF
the sentence to life imprisonment, and
still others for unconditional pardon.
The report of the board appointed to
examine the cruiser Columbia, in dry
dock In New York, to ascertain the ex-
tent Of the injuries received by her while
in the dry dock at Southampton, Eng. ,
has been received by Acting Secretary
McAdoo He telegraphed orders to the
commandant of the Brooklyn navy yard
to have the necessary repairs at once
made. The report shows that the damage
was trivial.
During the progress of a funeral,
Thursday evening. in the cemetery at
Sofia, in which NJ. Stambuluff is buried.
the wooden across which stands at the
head Of the grave of the ex-premier, was
broken and the wrelths which had been
placed on the grave We're destroyed. An
attempt was being made to exhume NJ.
~Stambuloff's remains when the police in.
terfered and prevented any further acts OF
vandalism.
Captain j. Q. U. Adams of the United
States Infantry, stationed in Rhode
Island, who has been spending a f~urlouot