Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-18
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Enoch Pratt, the millionire. banker
ana merchant, died at his county
residence 'Trivoli, Baltimore county.
Nd. at p. NJ Thursday
4 The monument erected at Hagars-
town. Md, by the Philadelphia Brigade
| Association to the memory of the Men
Of the old Philadelphia brigade who fell
| at Antietam, was unveiled and dedi-
Gated, Thursday
| At Mystic park, Thursday. Flying Mig
won the match race, S4O0. half mile
heats in 10iA. Fantasy won the free
for-all trot, $500 in 210. Mignon won
the 2.l3 pace. $1,000, in 2.11. Story's
Clay won the PA pace, $1,000, in 2.15.
schooner Ella F. Crowel which put in
at ProvincctoWn. Mass. on the voyage
from Thomaston. Ne. for New York
win q cargo of lime on fire. has been
| sealed VI. and il IS supposed that the fire
| Is out: The vessel will not be opened for
| I'VE days She is owned by O'Brien of
| Ihomaston.
y dispatch from Brussels says that
the chemicals seized in the house in
/ Antwerp from which the occupants
iied a day or two previous to the arrest
III Rotterdam of Two alleged dynamit-
CTS with whom they are believed to be
j ton of dynamite.
! Monday, two strangers left a horse
1 ana carriage at Richardson's stable
| kittery. Me, and up to Thursday. had
| not called for the rig. Marshal Emit
| Wistle of Portsmouth, y. H.. was noti-
| fed and the horse was found to an
| sWer the description of one stolen from
| Martin y. Bird, an Amcsbury Mass)
| stablekeepcr, Sept. LIST, and the owner
1 was notified.
| The summer cottage Of Henry o.
| Stone Of Chicago was burned. Thurs
| day at Nonquitt near New Bedford.
/ Mass. Loss $4,000: insured Several
cottages caught fire, among them that
in which Gen. Sheridan died. owned
| and occupied by his widow. The fire
was started by a candle left burning
in a dark closet where some photo
graphic plates were being developed
EX-Police Commissioner John Nc
Clave of New York made an assignment
OF his lumber business. Thursday His
liabilities are SOS 600 in the lumber bust
ness and $4,000 in the bicycle business.
His creditors say that his tangible as
sets are only $4,000. He transferred
his residence on I'D street. his country
place at Greenwich, Ct. and two
houses in Newark to his wife. the deed
being recorded October IL, and signed
April IS.
Prospectors have struck several beds
of gold-bcaring quartz at Cape Droyle.
30 miles from st. Johns n F. An
analysis made in England shows a
yield of three ounces of gold and an
ounce of silver per ton of rock. 1t is
said that more promising lobe was
struck. The owners claim that the
reefs are unusually rich. The discovery
is creating great excitement Licenses
TO search 40 square miles of the ada
cent country have been obtained.
After a long and exciting contest at
Denver. Colo, the post office clerks
Wednesday night. completed the election
of officers of the National Association as
follows President benjamin Parkhurst
Washington. d. G.; first vice president
J. +. Coughln. Boston; second vice pres
William Agnew. Cleveland; treasurer f.
T. Lincoln. Boston. Executive commit
tee, J. A. Thatcher, Baltimore: Harry
Barber. GloNersvillc. \. Y. j. y. Dona-
hue. Chicago Finance committee. G. De-
l4ney. -, L, Supple, san Francisco: W. S.
campbell; Cincinnati. The next conven-
ton will be held in Baltimore.
The post office department has ad-
Vertised for bids for carrying the
United States mails on all star and
steamboat routes in the New England
and Middle states. including West Vir-
Sinia. There are 300 contracts to be
let, amounting to $500. 900. These bids
are to include wage service in the
principal cities of these states. Bids
will be received until Dec /, 1896, and
the contracts are for a term of four
years, beginning July l, 1897.
Fore Commissioner Ford of New
York died at his home in Fordham. \.
Y. Thursday. He had been suffering
from appendicitis, and was operated
on few days ago. His death was
directly due to peritonitis. Austin +.
Ford was born i'll Boston August 81.
1891. He spent his boyhood years in
San Francisco In 1874, Mr.. Ford went
from san Francisco to New York to
take a position on the Irish World Mr.
Ford distinguished himself in leading
the Irish revolt from Cleveland to
Blaine.
The fishing schooner Helen f. Whit
ten. of Gloucester, wrecked near Castle
Hlll, Newport, r. L., during the hurri-
cane week ago, came off, Thursday,
by heaVing her over on starhoard side.
Three pumps were not sufficient to
keep water from gaining during her
trip into the harbor. and when hauled
out her keel was quite gone and the
plankinG on the port side in bad shape
Schooner Helen. which went ashore at
Tarpaulin cove during The same storm
came up under her own sail, and is
hauled out at Newport.
Il burned my fingers very badly. The
pain was intense. DR. Thomas Eclec-
trio Oil brought relief in three minutes
1t was almost magical. / never saw
anything like it, Amelia Swords.
Saundersville. o.
Mothers! MOthers!! Mothers
MRS WINsLows SOOTHING SYRUP has been used h.
oyer FIFTY YEARS by MILLIONS Of MOTHERS loe