Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-05-08

| Frances. A neighbor OF the Zerckles
wrote to President Cleveland informing
| him of the fact and, Tuesday, the father
| of the children received a draft OF <oUo TO
| he used for the education of the children.
| In the supreme court at Washington.
| Tuesday, Assistant Attorney General
Whitney finished his argument in support
of the constitutionality of the income tax
| He was followed by Jos. II. Choate, who
| began the closing address against the IN
come tax law. /. He will continue, Wed
nesday.
| Medric Lalnaris of Montague, Mass,
where he carried on an extensive brick
manufacturing business. was found dead
| in bed at Brosseau's hotel, Friend street,
Boston, Tuesday morning. having been
suffocated by gas He had undoubtedly
blown out the gas unmindful of the con-
sequences of such an act There is not
! the least suspicion of suicide.
King Humbert of Italy, has signed the
decree dissolving Parliament and appoint
ing May 20 as the day for the election of
members of the new Chamber of Deputies
| The decree fixes the time of the opening
of the new Chamber for June s. The
cabinet. Tuesday, approved the report
| preceding the decree which contained the
| electoral programme of the ministry.
| Twelve hundred employees in the blast
| furnace department of the Illinois Steel
Co.'S mills at South Chicago, Ill, quit
work. Tuesday. Two furnaces are shut
down as result, and the strikers expect
that they have sympathizers enough to
| spread tho Justification to the other de-
| partments 1t is likely that four other
furnaces may be compelled to suspend.
| The big strike among the Philadelphia
garment workers is assuming bright
prospects for the strikers. A dozen con-
| tractors signed the stipulations drawn up
by the strikers, Monday, and as result
| 500 men and women have returned to
| work The strikers declare their belief
that the demands will be universally
| agreed to and the strike over by the end
of the week at the latest.
| The present revolution in Ecuador has
been anticipated by the Ecuadoran gov
| eminent for the past three or four months,
| according to private letters received at
| Washington, and was expected to be more
| serious than the Latin American revolts
usually are. The latest cable news shows
that the uprising is general, extending to-
all the important provinces near the coast,
ana that it is exceedingly we'll organized.
| AT the annual meeting of the stock
holders of the New England Telephone
and Telegraph Co., ut New York. Tues
day, the old board of directors was re
elected with the exception of Frederick
! Aver, who was succeeded by Charles L.
Aver. The stockholders have decided to
rescind and annul the recommendation of
the directory and the vote of the stock
holders passed February 2, 1886, creating
preferred stock.
| Col. Fellows, the district attorney,
| Tuesday, communicated with Gov. Nor
ton at Albany by telephone. in regard to
the sentence of DR.. Robert W. Buchanan,
the murderer. whose twice-imposed death
sentence has once more been postponed,
| owing to some alleged technicalities of
law After his talk with the Governor,
Col. Fellows said he thought the matter
had at last been properly discntangled, so
that the execution could no longer be
STAYED off.
| Monday night rumor was set ailoat
| at ST. Johns, N. F., that the Bank of
Montreal had suspended payment, owing
to the depression in Canadian railway
securities and the deficit in the Canadian
revenue. The report spread rapidly and, |
Tuesday. run was organized on all three
of the banks in that city, the branches of
the Bank of Montreal, the Bank of Nova |
Scotia and the Merchants Bank of Hall
fax. About 800, 900 was paid out before
the run let up.
Warden S. W. Chase of the Kansas
penitcn tiary has sworn to complaint
against Edmund NJ. Morrcll, Governor of
the state. charging him with obtaining |
money from the state treasury, un der false
pretences 1t is probable that Chaso's |
object in causing the Governors arrest is
revenge for bis having caused an investi |
CATION of Chase as warden of the pcniten-
tary for alleged misconduct in Office, al |
though it is said there are grounds for |
the complaint made.
In the English House of Commons, |
Tuesday, Sir Edward Grey under foreign |
secretary, said that Rear Admiral Ste
phcnson with his ships had left Corinto, |
having received letter from the govern
ment of Nicaragua promising that the
indemnity shall be paid within n fort
night and accepting the other terms of |
tho ulCimatum Sir Edward Grey said |
the government understood an arrange
powers by their negotiations with Japan, |
but could not add any information as
to what had already been published in
other quarters
The session of the German Reichstag
opened, Tuesday, with the consideration
of minor matters. Many members re-
manned in the restaurant until the ring
Ing of the electric bells summoned them
to the Chamber to form a quorum for the
copsidcrating of the question of the second |
reading OF the anti-Socialcist bill. 1t
was net expected there would be any ex-
traordinary public interest in the second |
reading stage of the bill, as it consists |
merely of the covering of string of |
amendments to the existing paragraphs. |
After the long printed report of the com
mittee on the bin had been read the
Chamber adjourned.
The subscribers to the stock of the now |
mill at Fall River met and organized
new corporation, Tuesday, to be known |
as Parker Manufacturing Company, and |
to manufacture fine grade cottons. The |
caOital stock will he S4ll0 Q00 with ontiou