Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-11-12
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

An explosion occurred in Blackwell
colliery at Alfreton, near Derby, Eng,
Monday, by which seven men were killed.
| At Marlboro, Mass, the Massachusetts,
state board of arbitration has decided in
favor of the firm in the matter of the de
mand of $. H. Howe Shoe Co.'S finishers
for higher pay.
bat" Shea, who shot Robert Ross at
TROY. n. Y, at the 1894 spring election,
was again sentenced, Monday, to be cleo
trocuted at Clinton prison, in the week be-
ginning Dec. 23.
The billiard match between Frank Ives
and Thomas j. Gallagher tega , Monday
night at Maurice Days Academy, New
York. 1t is to be five nights play, for a
purse. Ives to play 5000 against 1900, or
900 against $40 each night. He was 2S7
points behind the task at the close of the
nights play, having made 3l3, while Gal
| lagher scored $40.
A dispatch to the London Central News
from Darmstadt, the former home of the
Czarina, denies the report that
the Czarina, whose ACCOMPLISHMENT
is now momentarily expected, has under
gone the Caesarian operation and was
expected to die from its effect. Her
brother. the Grand Duke of HesseDarm
stadt. has received no alarming news
from St. Petersburg.
A phenomenal run was made, Monday,
by Chicago Burlington & Quincy
passenger train. The distance from Gales
burg H., to Mendoza, 50 miles, was
covered in so minutes. including five stops
and two slow-ups. Superinter dent Rice
estimated that the stops and slow. ups
caused loss of 90 minutes. This makes
the actual running time go minutes, or at
the rate of so miles an hour.
The American Board has learned by
correspondence with its representatives in
Constantinople that Rev. Ralph B. Lar
kin and wife, missionaries to Mardin,
eastern Turkey, and Rev. Albert W. Hub
bard and wife, missionaries to Sivas, wes
tern Turkey remained in Constantinople
and are safe. They will not go to their
respective fields until some relief comes
to the disorders in the country.
Through the arrest of James Stevens
Chaffce 81 Mt. Vernon street, Roxbury,
Mass, Monday the police recovered prop
erty valued at over $50, 000 alleged to
have been stolen by William Barrett,
who is in the state prison, serving term
for the murder of Constable Harrington
of Weston. Chaffee' 5 arrest was brought
about by an attempt TO sell a collection of
postage stamps valued at $1,000, to q
dealer who identified them.
A rum crazed stranger entered the
s,loon of Jerry Goggin OH the landing at
d Iver, n H., Monday night, and, draw
!, Iy.t har To
flourish it in real cowboy style There
were several men present in the saloon,
bat before they could get the weapon away
from the man it was discharged and the
bullet passed through Edward Cassidy's
thigh. The stranger, after firing the shot,
icaped from the saloon and is still at
large The officers have learned that the
stranger was Berwick saloon keeper, but
are unable to obtain his name.
David H. Roberts wholesale dealer in
window glass at AIS and 420 West Broad
way, New York, has disappeared, and is
said to have sailed for Europe, The sheriff
closed up the place, Monday, on an at
tachment for 1914 geo obtained for Chen
beers & McGee Glass Co of Pittsburg, Pa,
from which concern Roberts received the
bulk of his glass. Roberts made state
ment of his affairs in February, 1894,
when he claimed 10 have assets of Sli2, 900
and liabilities of 500, 600. 1t is thought
that he has large number Of outstand-
ing accounts, besides the stock OF glass at
his store.
The supreme court Of the United
States, Monday, in an opinion read by
Justice Brown. sustained the Edison In
candescent Light patent against the claim
of the Consolidated Electric Light Co,
using the Sawyer Mann system, of which
it was claimed that the Edison system
was an infringement The court said that
the claim made for the Sawyer Mann
patent was too broad to sustain the patent.
The case came from the United States
court for the western district of Pennsyl-
vania, which gave judgment in favor Of
the Edison CO., that Judgment being
affirmed.