Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-12-02

| contracts VIII involve an expenditure OF
about M.U0,OO0 per annum. 1t is expected
| that lOo.O0O bids will be received.
At the winter meeting of the state
board of agriculture at Greenfield
Mass IA petition is being circulated and
quite generally signed asking Presi-
dent-elect Mckinley to appoint ex-
Gov. Hoard of Wisconsin. secretary OF
agriculture.
The steel rail department of the Ed
gar Thompson Steel works at Brad
| docks, Pa, have shut down for one
week. During the shutdown needed
repairs will be made. Billets will be
the probable output when operations
are resumed.
NJ Chauvin. the French Social
deputy. arrested Sunday. during the
| demonstration against the visiting So
| cialists at Carmaux. was set at liberty,
| Tuesday.in pursuance Of the vote taken
in the Chamber of Deputies, ordering
his immediate release
In the Italian Chamber of Deputies.
Monday. Marquis Di Rudini. prime min
| ister declared the statement that Ery-
| therea was TO be transformed into "A cirii
and commercial colony of Italy was pre-
| mature, and that final decision as TO the
government course In regard TO its Al
rican possessions had not been reached.
subsequently a vote of confidence in the
government was carried against the Rad
zeal Socialist proposal that Italy should
entirely abandon her possessions in
| Africa.
Gen. Porfirio Diaz. first elected to the
Presidency of Mexico in 1876. and un-
der whose successive administrations
the country has attained a prosperity
never before achieved was inaugura ted
| ia, f.r H.. ca, II
was made the occasion Of general re-
joicing. 1t is known that there Will
be no change in the policy heretofore
followed by President Diaz.
The obsequies of the late Hon. Patrick
Mcguire were held. Tuesday. in 81. Jo-
seph's. Roxbury. Mass. There were l5o
carriages in the procession. The process
sion to the church was escorted by the
ization OF which Mr. Maguire has been
for many years the most conspicuous
member The church was crowded with
friends OF the deceased. The service con
| sisted OF a requiem mass. participated in
| by large number of elergymen. There
was no eulogy The uterment was in
: Mount Calvary cemetery
: In the city election at Marlboro
Mass, Tuesday. Charles l.. Bartlett
was reelected mayor by a majority
reduced from last year. owing to op-
position within the Republican party
chiefly from the \. 7. A. element Next
'"' ""''" VI ai'e. ''ie'' IN nav 1oo'
a's anu t",ee ei'uoiiof'iis
No"'i' H. e'S"' '0iii'ois as S'N
''VPo"i''a'S' i-iSehSe was No'eu
John Fl. Hart, treasurer of the Wire
Nail Association, gave out this state
ment at New York, Tuesday night. AT
a meeting of the Wire Nail Manufac
'ufeis ASSOCIATION TUESDAY y was
W" ~ uia"iNe 'hc ~ gam Aa'i"h' i'9
AFFAIRS VIII pe ""uid up az once us
ao'ii,'oi'iacn' - aue so'e's - '''e ',', :
si""'h ~ oots'ue 'o''Pet'ioii +" hiVh
mas sprung up "''"'h tiie ias' '"o
'ioi'nS.
Monday night, about clock, a pretty
,hnut ~ ye,,rs id c,Iad it ~ amar
can house Lowell. Mass. and asked for
room. She was accompanied ny male
rerie,er.d ,'n'.r ,h ne,,,a Of M 1;rj
ing and was given "A room About mid
night she was seen to leave the hotei
ahiiI b ai.'' han sut 70 ~, citt fsrr,
is evidently a case of abandonment The
woman gave no address, although u is
iai'f M fs o,,ai III guitesIa'io" she 'iaii'ieu ~
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nos f.ar,;e,a = h,,,araa foat ao,.r, ,h1
tracks Dennett and Stevens were
thrown from their positions. bennett
being instantly killed.