Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-12-12

The supreme court declares the printed
| contract at the head Of telegraphic
| blank. providing that the company Is
| not liable for unrepeated messages, is
invalid
Frederick kast, one Of the defend
ants in the action Of Lady Russell
against his mother in-law. Lady Scott.
ana three others for criminal libel, died
At London. Friday. kast had been III
for nearly fortnight with pneumonia
ana Thursday suffered relapse from
which he did not rally.
The National Bank OF Commerce I'd
Duluth, MINI. Friday failed to open
FOR business 4 notice on The doors
stated that. owing 20 inabihty 10 make
any money III the business. the directors
had decided 70 stop. The notice also.
stated that the bank expected 70 pay
,he 4epusitors At an early date.
walter WI Slade and Francis II
Clough. copartners az Walter +. SHADE
\ GO. Nc Burrilvlle, r. "A. proprietors
~ the Clear River wooden mills. pre-
sented a petition in Insolvency ia the
appellate court DIT Providence Friday
ana We're adjudged insolvent. The
liabilities are tar Ill excess Of the
assets
4 Philadelphia paper publishes a
long story 10 the effect that regiment
n 1850 mon 70 fight in Cuba is being
raised in Baltimore New York. Bos-
ton, Washington and Philadelphia. and
another re giiaent has been raised in
Virginia and Tennessee. The men are
III receive S45 month. and must he
NInericars q good reputation
MI. sarah H. Cooper and daughter
Hattie We're found dead in bed at their
nomc at san Francisco. Friday. having
been asphyXiated by gas. For ever
year Miss Cooper had been known TO be
insane. Her insanity WAS mciancholia
with suicidal tendencies. IN the opinion
Of The doctor summoned after the bodies
were discovered. Miss Cooper arose quiet
~ during TIM night ana closed all the
doors. turned on the gas ana then re-
turned 10 The bed 70 die.
Some bodies from the Inflated
steamer salier have been washed
ashore at Nigo. Spain, including that
Of the captain. Il was found that his
watch stopped at $50. Tuesday morn
ing very short time after the vessel
went down. It is stated that the
number Of persons lost was 2S1. Thus
far y bodies have come ashore.
\ special from Caracas. Venezuela. TO
The New York Herald says: Senior An
drade. The Venezuelan minister to the
United States. was to leave Friday. for
Washington with the c. binet's approval
of the Guiana boundary arbitration
treaty but his departure was suddenly
stopped. The Interpretation put upon
this move Il that public opinion has con-
qucred. and that Venezuela viii with
hold her consent TO the arrangement en-
tered into between Secretary Oney and
Lord Salisbury for the settlement Of the
dispute between this country ana Grea;
Britain, thus multiplying all the work that
eliminated i'll this treaty
In the Italian Chamber of Deputies.
Friday Signor Imbriani. the leader of
the Socialist party, declared that the
names of the italian Radicals who had
sent a message Of salutation to the
Cuhans. were worthy of noble memory.
The insurgent leader. Maceo he said
had died for his country. "Eebelion'
he continued, lis not only the right but
the duty of the oppressed. and glory
comes to those who die in such
cause" The remarks of Signor I'M
hriani We're received with prolonged
applause.