Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-10-14
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

~ dispatch from Havana says the sick
and wounded among the Spanish soldiers
on the island of Cuba number 1900.
Owing to depressed business. the Fall
River Machinery Go. of Fan River. will
rum only Elae hours day and suspend
operations entirely on Saturdays.
The government receipts from internal
revenue, Tuesday. were S29s.3ll 10; Gus
toms, S4il .6S53.: miscellaneous. S239 SD1. e.
The national bank notes received for re-
demp-ion were s2ei. i54.
Tuesday was the first business day of
the term in the supreme court OF the
United States at Washington. and in the
first hour nearly 100 motions Were made
AMI received by the court.
The Hamburger Nachrichten the per-
Sonal organ OF Prince Bismarck says
that although the ex-chancc!lor is suffer
ing from neuralgia in the face which is
especially troublesome, there is no change
in his general health.
Steamer Evelyn, Huelva for Philadel-
phia. passed up Reedy island. Tuesday.
reported having on board the captain and
eight men of the wrecked Norwegian
bark Lovise. Mobile for Rosario. They
We're nine days in two small boats.
The grounds for refusing to grant the
extradition of lyman from France are:
First. that the evidence that he is idcn-
tical with No. l of the Irish Invincbies
Is insufficient: second. If his identity with
No l be granted proof Is lacking that
he participated in the Phoenix Park muir
t'iS, anu tfiith. tEt tiSt Is cONtItu by
prescription.
A dispatch from Ferroe says that Il
mutiny has occurred on board the Span
ish warship Alfonso Kill. lying at that
port Forty gunners rebeled and at
tempted to seize the boats and go ashore
A fight between the mutineers and the
marines and others on board the ship re-
suited. with the result that the revolt was
suppressed and the mutineers put in
irons.
The body of the Most Rev. Edward
White Benson, archbishop of Canterbury,
who was stricken with apoplexy in Ha-
warden church. Sunday and died almost
Immediately afterward. was placed in
coffin and conveyed to the Hawarden
church where services for the dead were
held Tuesday morning. The body will be
taken to the cathedral at Canterbury
Wednesday.
In a, fight. Monday night, between a
posse headed by Heck Thomas and the
Green gang of outlaws, at Oolagh, |. T..
two outlaws We're killed and the others
captured. The dead men are Jim Green
and his brother and they were members
of one of the worst gangs of desperadoes
in the Indian Territory. Green and his
gang rode into Oolagh for the purpose of
robbing the town.
The United States Cotton Co. of Cen
trail Falls, R. l., has decided to make a
reduction of to 10 per cent. in the scale
OF wages. the same to go into effect. the
18th inst. The mills have been on short
time for several months and are now
shut down entirely. The superintendent
thinks that under "A reduced schedule the
mills will be able to run continuously
The employees, some COO in number, will
accept the arrangement.
The 9th annual conference of the New
England branch of the Womans Foreign
Missionary Society of the Methodist Epis-
copal church opened at Watertown.
Mass. Tuesday night. with about 10 dele
gates present. Each Methodist Episcopal
church in the six New England states is
entitled to send one delegate and the
Watertown Society has made arrange
ments to care for about 300 visitors There
was a communion service and covenant
meeting conducted by Rev. 0. w. Hutch
lnson. pastor of the church.
-, General Edward S. Bragg of Wisconsin.
was appointed by Attorney
General Harmon. special assistant to the
United States district attorney for the
eastern district of Wisconsin, His duties |
Will be to aid the district attorney in |
the suits of the United States
against the Manufacturers Investment
%. OF wisconsin. to recover large tract |
Of land. Gen. Bragg was of the commits !
sion that under the Congressional enact |
lnent. mace an investigation of the facts
Oh TINS ownership, on behalf of the gov
ernment. Gen. Bragg was a prominent |
candidate for nomination for President
before the national Democratic conven-
ton at indianapolis