Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-06-25
stateAanA General.

TheA1ork county Republican Goa. |
vention will be held at Alfred July %.
There were three funerals at st.
Mary's church, Biddeford, one day this
week.
The school at Seal Harbor has been
closed because of an outbreak of ton
silitis.
Rev. A. J. Turner has been secured
TO deliver the Grafton at the celebra-
ton at Columbia, July 4.
Princeton. Union and Spruce Head
are the latest places to announce
Fourth of July celebrations.
The people. of Grand Manan are
making extensive preparations for a
celebration on July l. Dominion day.
This years peach crop will be eaor-
NOUS, the watermelon crop unpreca-
denied, and other fruits in proportion.
Hog packing at Chicago to date
from March l, shows an increase of
10000 head over the same time in 1895.
A rate war is on between the Pacific
Coast Steamship Co. and the Northern
Pacific Railroad Cos. Alaska steam
ship service.
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has been admitted to the staff of house
physicians of the Methodist Episcopal
hospital. Philadelphia.
Thomas S. Burr, formerly night edi-
tor of the Bangor News, has been ap-
pointed demonstration of anatomy at
the University of Michigan.
The Republican convention for
Washington county to nominate State
senators and county officers will meet
at Machas, Wednesday, July s.
Eugene V. Debs, president of the
American Railway Union. will deliver
an address before the Central Labor
Union at Portland. next Monday
Mrs. Russell Sage will deliver an ad-
dress in Saratoga before the Fedora
ton of Womens Clubs on The Career
of Mrs Emma Willard" on July 8.
Alfred Austin, the poet laureate, vii
unveil statue of Robert Burns at IT.
vine on the occasion of the centenary
in July Of the death of the Scotch
poet
Detroit, Mich. will celebrate on July
II the Tooth anniversary of the evacu
alton of the city by the British al
elaborate programme having been pre-
pared.
Joseph X. c. Forrest one of tn
founders of the Chicago Tribune ant
an editorial writer for many years OF
local papers, died, Tuesday morning
at Chicago.
George b. Goodwin, formerly of Ban
gor, who recently resigned his position
as editor of the New York Mercury il
now connected with the staff of th
New York Herald.
r. o. Mead of Howard county, Mo,
has just made a shipment of 3S hogs
heads, or $4,000 pounds, of tobacco di
rect to Liverpool, Eng, at cost of 6
cents per 100 pounds
A paper to be called the Squire
Beacon" viii be published at Squire
Island, this season. by William Ftfy
White of Auburn, grandson of Senate
Frye and Sidney Hagar of Richmond
Brian J. Dunn, who for several year
was engaged in newspaper work il
Bangor and who was recently con
nected with the Worcester Telegram
will study law with Gen. Henry l.
Mitchell of Bangor
Fire suddenly started. the other day
in a showcase in front of ASP Broad
way New Work, belonging to manu-
facturers of celluloid goods. owing t
the celluloid articles in the case takin
fire from the heat of the sun.
The eighth summer meeting of tn
Geological Society of America will b
held in Buffalo on the evening of Aug
o. The six days preceding will be de
voted to a series of geological excur
sions through western New York.
ba Mo- 70 or
capital stock, $780, 900, the machiner
OF whose plant was located until re
Gently at Huntingdon, Pa. when
was bought by Southern capitalists, j
now erecting it's buildings at Savan
nah Ca