The Republican journal., 1896-09-17

llldttti. IL may DC necessary 10 abandon
the quarry. Lewis Inglee Of Machias
was found dead in bed Wednesday morn
ing, Sept 9th. lie was in his usual health
when he retired Tuesday night. He was
50 years old, and a son of Major Ebenezer
lnglee of Machlas, a soldier of the Revo-
luton.
IN BRIEF. The public debt statement
issued Sept. LIST shows net increase in
the public debt, less cash il the treasury
during August, of S12, 342, 6S:3. 81. Cash
in the treasury decreased 81, eI2, OIL 81.
The total debt at the close OF business
August 81, was 81, 221 ,s43, 1876 40 total
cash IN the treasury, SS49, 1SS, 746; gold
reserve, 500, 900, 900. In the month there
was a decrease in gold coin and bars of
S11, 4s1, 942, the total at the close being
$3.50, S25, 200. 90. OF silver there was an
increase of 81 Al, S62 81. ... J ohm f. Cen
try won the big free for all pacing race at
Fleetwood Sept. 2. Agan was second and
Robert j. third. Time, 2.03 81, 2 Oh l. 4
and 2.03 IA, the fastest ever trotted or
paced. -. Commander John Clark Newell
of the United States cruiser Detroit, at
present on the China station, is dying at
Seattle, Wash. Capt. Newell arrived
there five weeks ago on his way to Wash
lngton to make report on the central
China missionary massacres, and was
taken i'll a few days after his arrival ~
Crowds of Armenian refugees are arriv-
ing at all OF the Black sea ports. MANY of
them are manned and all are pennileSs....
Queen Victoria has signified her willing
ness to receive a petition protesting
against the traffic in opium and spirituous
liquors, to which document are appended
1000, 900 signatures. The names We're
collected by the Woman Christian Tenn
perance Union, Miss Frances L. Willard
president of the World W. G. t. o., and
Lady Henry Somerset, president of the
British Woman's Christian Temperance
association, heading the list u. Lewis g.
Tewkesbury of New York, who owns
Mascot, 2.04, has purchased from G. j.
Hamlin, the champion PAGER Robert j.,
with a record of POI IL. The price is
not stated, but it is known to be fancy
one. Mr.. Hamlin reserves the racing
qualities of Robert J. for the remainder
OF the present season.. DR.. j. 3. Goode,
assistant secretary of Smithsonian Institu-
ton, and in charge of the national mu-
scum in Washington, D. c., died of pneu-
monia Sept. 5th. He had been employed
in the Institution % years, having charge
of various divisions. He represented the
Smithsonian Institution at the Columbian
exposition. He published papers on
ichthyology, the museum administration
and fishery economy to the number of
more than hundred go The labor troubles
at the Plant shoe factory in Lynn are be-
lived to be nearly over, Non union men
have taken the places of many of the
strikers Inert (Ia0rOa Wbifa-
head the Irish American dynamiter re-
Gently released from Portland prison with
his mind shattered and who escaped from
the home of his relatives at Skibbereen
has been found at Cork. The malignancy
of the yellow fever in Cuba is increasing
with the advance Of the season. The
disease is most dreadful type and is
now playing havoc with the unacclimated
Spanish troups, according to official re-
ports received from sanitary inspectors of
the United States marine hospital. ......
The State department has received tele-
gram announcing the death of American
Consul John B. German at Matamoras,
Mexico. ..... The internal revenue collec-
lions for the district including Maine,
New Hampshire and Vermont for August
are $50, 72S. This shows a falling off of
over S11, 600 compared with the CORE
spending month last year. British
troops Sept. It'll captured Makonio, an
important Marabele chief, who had taken
an important part i'll the native revolt.
He was tried by court martial and SEN
fenced to be shot, which sentence has
been carried into effect. The Martin
Cellulose works, Matthews tobacco fac
tory and Methodist church at Owensburg,
Ohio, we're burned Sept. Sth; loss S25, 600.
Arthur Sewall of Bath and the Cramps of
Philadelphia are interested in the Cellu-
| lose works.