Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-05-07
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In the velOdrOme De Est at Paris
Bicyclist Banker won the 100 metres race
flying start, beating Bara and Vasseur.
The Unitarian Society of Hyde Park
Mass, voted, Monday, to extend call t
Rev. A. &. Pettipgill formerly of Booth
bay, Ne. to become its pastor.
A cablegram was received at the navy
department announcing the arrival of the
Alert at San Juan del Sur Nicaragua,
Monday morning. The dispatch says
"All well; all quiet
Harry lie Grand Cannon, the well
known amateur artist and society man,
died at his home No. 60, 5th avenue, New
York, Monday. His death resulted from
an abscess ON the brain.
The French government is informed
that Hova's loss in the recent fight at
Marowar, Madagascar, was 400 men, in
Guiding the chiefs in command. The
French loss was Insignificant
The Tank steamer Lumen, which was
ashore at Monmouth beach, Monday, was
hauled off by the Chapman Wrecking Co.,
and ]ate in the afternoon, proceeded for
New York under her own steam.
A meeting of the Brockton shoe manu-
facturcrs was held in Boston, Wednes-
day, and resulted in the manufacturers
raising the price of mems shoes. The ad-
vances range from five to 25 cents pair.
The situation in the West Virginia coal
field strike was more complicated, Mon
day. The miners at Pocahontas, the only
ones not affected, last week, are seriously
crippled, at least 95 per cent of the men
being out.
Eighty male weavers of the Natchaug
Silk Co, Wllimantic, Ct struck, Mon
day, on account of some being required to
run two looms each on light goods. A
committee of strikers waited upon Supt.
Fenton but was unable to make a settle
ment.
Oscar Wilde, it is announced will be
released from custody, Tuesday He will
probably leave London at onco for the
seaside. The police are ordered not to
maintain too close watch upon Wilde's
movements and not to prevent him from
going to the continent if he wishes to go
there.
At the Temperance hotel at Rome, N
Y, Monday, A1zora Brockway, a dining
room girl, and Arthur Looms. who had
been employed at the Rome, Watertown
& Ogdensburg Railroad station, at Viii
liamston, were found in room. The
woman was dead and the man dying from
the effects of morphine. They left letters
saying that life was not worth living
Schooner J. H. W. Quincy, Quincy,
Port Jefferson to New London, Ct, with
coal, went ashore on Goshen Rec, at $50
z. NJ. Sunday, during dense fog and
remained until, Monday. when she hauled
off. About third of her cargo was
lightered before the Quincy was got off
She is leaking badly because she labored
hard while on reef. She will discharge
at New London and repair.
Governor Coffin of Connecticut is con-
tinuing his investigation into the affairs
of the Whipplc school for deaf mutes at
Mystic, where, it is alleged, the state has
been d,frauded of a large amount through
pupils being Kept ON the roll who had
been discharged from the school. 1t is
estimated that the state has paid about
$4,000 for the board of mutes not at the
school.
The Louisiana Supreme court, Monday.
decid' against the Olympic Club of New
Orleans, knocking out fights before that
institution. This is the second opinion
in the case, the court having in the first
hearing rcmanded the matter. Judge
Fighters decision affirming the right of
the club to give prize fights is thus set
aside by the higher tribunal The result.
Is death blow to prize fights in New
Orleans.