The Republican journal., 1896-05-14

Aroostook county for phosphate this year.
Last year the phosphate bill of the
county was S4O0, OOO.. go. The State en-
campment Sons of Veterans will be held
at Freeport, June 10 and II. Special
rates have been granted on railroads and
at hotels to members of the order.....
\ syndicate has made a proposition to
build narrow gauge railroad from the
tide water at Boothbay Harbor to Wiscas-
set. The road is to be completed for
travel by Nov. /. As surveyed the road is
about Is miles long, and passes through
the towns of Boothbay Harbor, Boothbay
and Edgecomb to Niscasset.. Fifty men
are employed at Sorrento putting in new
water system, and pipes are now being
laid under ground. The water will be
brought from Long Pond, six miles away.
The work is now nearly half tinished...
The annual meeting of the Maine Con-
densed Milk Company, was held in Port
land May 5th. Directors for the coming
year were elected. 1t was voted to build
and equip factory at Whiteiield, n. II.
Reports made by the officers showed the
company to be in a healthy condition.
IN BRIEF. The grand jury at New Y ork
May 1th indicted James B. Duke,
president, and the directors of the Ameri-
can Tobacco Company. They are charged
with conspiracy and violation of the law,
in that they injured trade and commerce.
The charge is that they formed a trust or
monopoly of paper cigarettes. The evi-
dence is presented by the National Cigar
ette and Tobacco Company..... The com
mttee on ways and means of the Massa-
chusetts Legislature, Friday, voted, to
!, against tearing down the Bulfinch front
of the State House. The House refused
to reconsider the rejection of the bill es-
tablishing a Uniform fare of two cents a
mile on railroads. see. The big new battle
ship Oregon had her second days outing,
at San Francisco, Thursday, and swung
down the bay at the rate of 16 knots.
The Oregon will earn for her builders
$50, 900 for each quarter knot in excess of
the contract speed of 15 knots. They are
quite confident that she will go faster in
clear sea water..... James Creelman, cor
respondent of the New York World, and
Frederick W. Lawrence, correspondent OF
the New York journal, have been expell-
ed from the island of Cuba by order of
General Weyler. The Spaniards in Havana
are intensely indignant at Creelman's ar
ticle representing that non combatants
were massacred by the Spanish at Campo
Florido. Col. North, the ''nitrate
king" who died last week in England
worth hundreds Of millions, was in early
life sailor before the mast on one of the
Black bali line of packet ships.....H. II.
Holmes, the murderer, was hung in the
Philadelphia county prison Thursday fore
noon. The whole world must feel relief
at the end of this tiend. His body, i'm
bedded in cement in pine box, was Fri
day afternoon buried in grave ten feet
deep. Rev. Father MacPhee conducted
the service \ layer OF cement two feet
thick was laid on the box. When the job
was finished the remains of Holmes were
pronounced safe from grave robbers.......
Gov. Morton has signed the Greater New
! orE bill. .... Henry Cuyler Bunner, editor
of Puck, died at his home in Nutley, \.
j., May l1th. He had been i'll for a long
time.
PoITIcAL POINTS. Hon Charles Z.
Iittleteld, who will present Reeds name
before the Republican national convention
in ST. Louis, arrived at his home in Rock
land May 7th, and was questioned re-
galding the movement being made by the
Bath Times to have the Maine delegation
unite On Harrison. He laughed the idea
TO scorn. editor Patten,' said he, "has
not the slightest reason for thinking that
Maine or New England will abandon Reed,
and this editor, who has been kicking in
the traces ever since the State convention
at Portland, because his pet resolve was
turned down, would not have one iota of
influence with the Maine delegates, and |
am positive of my ground when | ak
in their behalf as well as for myself. You
may state positively that the Maine dele
cation will vote for Reed until he or some
one else has received the nomination...
A Portland despatch of May 7th to the
Boston Globe says: at has been an open
secret for some time that Hon. William
W. Thomas Jr., of this city has been
asked to allow the use of his name as a
candidate for governor when the Republi-
can State convention meets at Bangor.
This morning Mr.. Thomas said that
under no circumstances could he consent
to anything of the kind. He does not
desire a nomination and would not take it
even if offered to him by the convention" :"
...Senator Quay does not despair of seeing
Mckinley defeated for the presidential
nomination. -. The expected happened in
Indiana. All hope of defeating Mckinley
instructions centered in ex-President
the opponents of Instructions some en-
couragement that he would address the
convention he changed his mind and con-
cluded not to be present. 1t is doubtful
if his presence would have made any diff
ference, and perhaps it was that doubt
that finally decided him to keep away.
AS it was the resolutions were carried
with rush, and Mckinley was most
etfusively endorsed. .... The Michigan Re-
publican convention instructed for Mckin-
ley and voted down gold standard re-
solution. go. The Boston Traveller is con-
Quoting a popular vote by coupons among
it's readers to ascertain their Presidential
preference. p. A. Cole of Garland sends
this laconc reply: 81 enclose 21 Reed
votes. Out of 22 OF my neighbors u are
Reed men; the other is crazy. .... McKin-
ley carried the California, Indiana and
Michigan conventions May 7th, but Cleve-
land carried the States themselves four
years ago. %. The Nevada Republican State
convention May 9th, chose six delegates
to the National convention. They are
uninstructed. The platform favors the
restoration of currency to the basis e Xlst-
ing prior to 1873, with free and unlimit-
ed coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to i;
recommends the displacement of Neva-
da's Senators and Representatives as non
residents, and favors tariff protection.....
Henry A. Wing OF the Lewiston Sun will
probably be district delegate to the Demo
or,tin patiop.1 convention r Rupk