Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-05-01
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Massachusetts was defeated In the HOUSE,
Tuesday, by vote OF 149 to %.
The Berlin Reichsanzeigcr gazettes the
appointments by the Kaiser of Major Wiss-
man to be governor of German East Africa.
Fire, Tuesday, burned over large tract
of ground land opposite the Adventists'
campground at Alton Bay, N. H., on Bay
hill.
The New York Assembly has concurred
In the Senate amendments to the New
York city police magistrates bill, by
vote of So to II.
A strike in the Flat Top region. Vir-
ginia, went into effect at noon, Tuesday.
Only five of the SO coal mines are in oper-
alton and Is, 900 men out.
There was a serious riot at Marquette,
Mich, Monday night, between union and
non-union ore trimmers. Two companies
of militia are on the ware there.
Eight of the 10 loom fxers in n 1 Har-
graves mill, Fall River. are on a strike.
alleging wages of $40 so a week instead of
sll, to which they say they are entitled.
The ballot for senator at Dover. Del,
Tuesday, stood: Higgins, Rep, 6; Addicks,
Rep, &; Massey. Rep..6; Pennewill, Rep,
/; Ridgeley, Dem, Z; Mustard, Dem, l !;
absent, 2.
At Albany, n. Y, Tuesday, the Gray
racing bill and Wills two bills to carry
out the anti-gambling provisions of the
new constitution were ordered to the third
reading, Tuesday.
The strike in progress for several weeks
at the Wayside Knitting MILL Troy, N.
Y, was practically settled, Tuesday, by
greater share of the operatives returning
to work at the old scale of wages.
The inhabitants of Laibach, Austria,
were again panic stricken at midnight,
Monday night, by a severe earthquake.
Hundreds of people have again left their
houses and are encamped around the
town.
Among those killed by Capello's column
in the fight at Arroyo Hondo, Cuba, Mon
day. was Pedro Arcilla Douvelger, tie
noted insurgent leader and member of the
party that landed ON the islands with
Maceo.
The French troop ship Tibet, conveying
troops for Madagascar, Is ashore in the
Suez canal. She lies In bad position
and her situation is such that passage
through the canal is suspended pending
her floating.
1t is reported at Pittsfeld, Mass, on
what seems excellent authority, that ex
President Harrison has leased the hand
some residence of Mrs. Thaddeus C1app,
on Wendell avenue and will occupy it,
this summer
The sixth negro was lynched in Butler
l. 4 e
Watts Murphy. His body was found
hanging to tree in the neighborhood
where the other five were lynched last
Sunday week.
The Vienna Wiener Tagblatt says,
editorially: 1t is not an honest policy, and
still less a wise one, that is being pursued
by the allied powers toward Japan. The
allies have no idea of fighting, but hope to
profit by threats.
: The graduating exercises of the Thayer
school Of civil engineering at Dartmouth,
commenced, Tuesday. Among the theses
of the graduates was, Arthur B. Ilsley 3.
S., Limerick, Me-, Experimenting on
Nozzle for Small Water Motors
Rev. A. M Cotton. aged SO years, for
81 years pastor of the First Congregational
church in East Hampton. Mass, died,
Tuesday, after very brief illness. He
was one of the abfest pastors in that
region. He retired in 1880.
A dispatch from Cderberg, Austrian
Slescia, says that 1000 Russian infantry
and eco Cossack cavalry are concentrated
at Sosnowike, across the Russian border.
The ST. Petersburg government is fearing
repetition of the Mahdi excuses of 1898.
The constitutional convention at Salt
Lake City, Monday, after q long debate
decided that women could not vote next
November when the instrument is to be
submitted to the people, but that their
first exercise of the franchise would be in
1896.
A meeting of the Corn Millcrs' Associa-
tion was held at Leeds, Eng. at which it
was decided to make a further advance in
the price of flour by shilling sack.
This action Is taken in consequence of
tho high prices OF wheat in all foreign
market.
A dispatch from Breslau say terrible
conflagration has occurred in the small
Polish town of Brzesinka. Sixty-fivo
houses were destroyed and hundreds of
people made homeless Three persons
were killed by falling walls and several
are missing.
Capt. James F. Mech, adjutant general
of the Grand Army of the Republic I'M
der Commander-in-C Chief Adams, died at
his residence at Lynn, Mass, Tuesday
night. He was AZ years old and one of
the two male members of the Woman's
Relief Corps.
All workmen at Rabuttol's tannery,
Pawtucket, r. l., struck, Tuesday morn
ing. They declare they will not go to
work again at the same wages and further
that they will not work with an Armenian
who had previously been discharged but
who returned to work.
Mendal Howard, 46 years of age, well
dressed and Of progressing appearance,
was arrested at London, Tuesday, on the
charge Of having a quantity of engraved
peltes and other material for forging notes.
He had in his possession passport at
testing his United States citizenship.
Governor Greenbalge Tuesday, desig-
mated the following members of the Leg
islature to represent Massachusetts, at the
Mexican Exposition in 1896: Hon.
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