The Republican journal., 1896-11-05
Monroe, Me

MOulOC, MIC.
In BRIEF. Omaha reports that the
freight car famine is still assuming alarm
ing proportions in the West. The Mis-
souri, Pacific is short over six hundred
cars north of Kansas City, and the Union
| Pacific Burlington, Omaha Elkhorn and
Rock Island are far behind in the number
of required cars in Nebraska, while the
| .... Upon recommendation of Hon. John
E. Russell, Franklin county, Massachu-
sets, has been selected as one of the
places for the experimental rural postal
delivery. The service began November
l, and will continue until July L.. The
| report that Consul General Lee would re-
| turn for time to the United States on
account of i'll health is incorrect. He has
not been sick since his arrival in Havana
and he has no intention of leaving his
| post at present. -. Edward W. Box, editor
and part owner of the Ladies' Home Jour
nal, and Miss Mary Louise Curtis, daugh-
ter OF Cyrus Curtis, proprietor of the
publication, were married Oct. - at the
/ country residence of Mr.. Curtis at Jenk-
intoWn. Pa....A cargo of As, 3l5 bags of
sugar was brought into port at Boston
| Oct. DIST, ON the ship Joseph 3. Thomas
I of Thomaston, Maine, from Honolulu.
/ This is the first cargo of sugar from the
Hawaiian islands ever landed at that port
.... Columbus Delano. ex-secretary of the
interior, died Oct sd T The annual
financial statement of the Dominion for
the year ending June 80, 1896, is made
public. The deficit for the year is 1868, =
ISL, the increase of the debt s.. 52S, S31,
the net debt is now sos. 52S, 3O4 The
revenue on account of the consolidated
| fund was $50. GIT, 4S4, and the expendi-
| lures $50, $50, 966.... Col. Q. W. Peabody
| member OF the banking firm of kiddcr
| Peabody Il Co. since its organization in
| 1881, died at his home in Milton, Mass,
\ oct. sd, aged G2 years. .... Charles F.
| Crisp, the eX-Speaker of the House of
] Representatives, died at Atlanta, Ga. /,
| Oct. 23d, of heart failure. He had been
under treatment for five weeks for ma
lalial fever. Mr.. Crisp was the choice of
the Democrats of Georgia to succeed
Senator John B. Gordon in the United
States Senate and would have been chosen
to that position by the Legislature at it's
approaching session had he lived. His
nntimely death throws the political situa-
ton into chaos and makes the choice of
Senator matter of great uncertainty ....
A special from Akron, Ohio, says that
DE-. Tanner, who many years ago gained
national notorety by his sensational pub
lie attempts at fasting, was one of the
two men cremated in the burning Octo-
Der 21st of the pottery plant of the
Whitemore Robinson Company. Just be-
fore the Cabinet meeting Oct 23d Secre-
tary Olney presented to the President,
Moustapha Tahsin Bey, the newly APP
pointed minister from Turkey, the cere-
monies taking place in the blue room.....
Eugene Tompkins, proprietor of the Bos-
ton theatre was Oct. 23d found guilty in
the superior court upon the complaint
charging him with giving a concert in that
theatre on the Lords day, THE con-
cert not being of a sacred nature nor for
a charitable object" He was fined $50.
..... The civil and religious ceremonies in
the marriage of Prince Victor Emanuel,
Prince Of Naples and Grown Prince of
Italy, to Princess Helene, third daughter
of Prince Nicholas |, ruler of Montenegro,
We're performed in Rome Oct. 24th. ID.
| Lowell Moore, formerly treasurer of the
financially ruined Globe Investment Com
pany, was sentenced at Boston Oct. 23d to
the State prison for not less than three
years and not more than three years. six
months. He was convicted of embezzl
ing 50, 141 in 1894.
FISH AND GAME. Saturday evening,
Oct. 18th, the first moose killed near
Columbia Falls in 40 years was proudly
carried into that town by Frank Hartford,
Philander Worster and B. B. Tibbetts.
But the next Monday afternoon, NJ. H.
Haycock, Fred Tibbetts, Henry Morris
and Charles Morris, returning from hunt
at considerable distance, came upon a
bull moose within mile of the centre of
the village, which they easily killed. 49,.
The Maryland authorities have decided to
| take energetic measures for Kidding the
rivers of the State of that nuisance and
humbug, the German carp. This accom-
| plished, they will give earnest attention
to the black bass and endeavor to protect
him and his family from their many foes.
800. Game Warden F M. Perkins of Brad
ley passed through Bangor Oct. 23d with
10000 landlocked salmon from the Au-
burn hatchery en- route for Jackman where
he is to distribute the fish in some of the
ponds in that vicinity.....A pure white
| deer has been shot at Grand lake. so it is
reported &c. The number of smacks en-
ployed in deep sea fishing in the North
sea is over 1000. They fish in fleets of
$50 vessels. Over 20 900 men are employ
ed in this fishery alone and they remain
at sea never less than two months at a
time There was a 100 pound moose on
the train which arrived at Bangor, Oct.
24th, from over the Bangor e Aroos-
took This king of the forest was about
seven years of age and he had evidently
been killed some time, as his hair pulled
out easily. The moose was killed by a
Fitchburg, Mass, railroad conductor,
John Foster He and E. ?. Smith and G
Ii. Thomas had been hunting in tie
region around Sherman and Ashland.
They secured caribou, a moose and a
deer. Charles f. Oak, fish and game
commissioner put 1000 Sebago handbook
ed salmon from the Auburn hatchery into
Sebec lake October oath. Sunday, a
number of sportsmen went up and inter
viewed the mill owners in regard to keep
ing sawdust out of Wilson stream. A
petition to the Legislature asking for the
enactment Of a law prohibiting the dump
ing of sawdust into the stream is to be
circulated.
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