Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-30
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.


rhe steamer Monowa sailed from Sid
ney. n: S. W. for San Francisco. Tues
| day with G4l5.oW in gold on board
| The Massachusetts nautical training
| ship Enterprise. Lieut.. Commander j
Giles Eaton. arrived at Boston Tuesday
morning. from Madeira, Western Islands.
! Aug. %
The steamer Catalonia. which arrived
a Boston from Liverpool. Tuesday.
brought 1927 900 in gold consigned to Kid
| DER Peabody x Co, making nearly ST.
@0.oo0 received by the last two Cunarders
| arriving al that port
| Now it is said that the accounts Of
| Harold b. Gray of Hyde Park Mass, the
missing manager of the American
| Wringer Co. show n shortage of $50. 90.
ii his unpaid debts are added to the
| amount. Cray is 50 years Old.
| The Cleveland rolling mill at Cleveland.
! o., one OF the largest plants of the kind
ment. President Chisholm said Monday
| that the mills will probably be started
| after the election.
Information received from Victoria
/ Il. G.. by the authorities at Ottawa. Ont.
indicates that the seal catch in Behring
SEA for the present season will be very
light: A number of sealing schooners
which have been spoken report that their
catch, in almost every instance, is less
than that of the preceding year.
Frank Bell. who was shot by Thomas
wilson, alias West India Rid" in Por
Yer street. Boston. 4 week ago. died at
the city hospital Monday night from
his injuries. The shooting grew out of a
quarrel between Bell. negro. and VIII
son, a mulatto. which arose from Bells
refusal to allow Wilson access to his
house. No. "A Porter street.
The International brotherhood of Car
penters and Joiners recently elected the
following officers: President Harry
Lloyd. Boston,; vice president, Louis f.
TnGGnN - il.,,
w. B. McFarlane. Buffalo: general sec
rotary. 7, J. Mcguire. Philadelphia. re-
elected executive board. A. NJ. Flagg of
Lewiston, Me-. and A. NJ. Swartz. Pitts
burg.
The New Jersey Metal Refining Works
a. Elizabeth. n. j.. resumed operations
Monday, after lying in idleness for two
years large number of men are at
work getting the plant into thorough re-
pur and at present only furnaces are
running. The managers of the plant say
that by Nov. l they will be in fun run
ming order. The renewed activity in this
industry is due to the expressed conf
dence of its owners that the outcome of
the approaching election will be a sweep
ing triumph for sound money.
Before Judge Dewey in the Middlesex
divorce court at Cambridge. Mass. was
heard. Tuesday, the divorce proceedings
o. Mrs. Marietta b. jefferson against her
husband. DR.. Herbert r. jefferson The
parties live in Lowell and are prominent
III society. In the court room were many
Of the prominent and well-known resi-
dents of Lowell. DR.. Jefferson is the
proprietor of the Belvidere sanitarium in
that city. In the case both female and
male detectives figure. Samuel & Sher-
man Hoar represent Mrs. jefferson. while
r. NJ. Moore is the attorney for her hus-
band.
The senior class of the Dartmouth Med
i6al college has elected the following Off
GERS and Commencement speakers: Pres
ident, Frederick c. DuShuitis. North Adj
n las ,-in =
taft. West Gouidsboro Me-: treasurer,
Charles II. Cook, Jr.. Concord ~ H.:
secretary. Herman Spier New Portland
WIFE, Me Class H eraior g Frank
bee. Auburn, Me-: class historian, Ralph
F.. Gallinger Concord. N. H.: executive
committee. J: A. Wiborn. Winchester. N.
T.: w. N. Eames. Manchester. N. H.;
Fred l.. Smalley Lebanon. N. H.; Fred
p. Claggett. Newport, N. H.; A. +. Will
liams, Gardiner. Me.
The Bath Iron Works of Maine will
and the Union Iron Works of San Fran
cisco. the remaining one. Wolf &
wicker of Portland. Ore, will build two
22ia-knot boats. and of the little 2O-knot
boats Herreshoff will have three. Column
hia Iron Works of Baltimore. two, and
Hillman Bros. of Philadelphia. one This
IS the decision finally reached by Chief
Chief Melville. to whom the numerous
and complicated bids opened Sept II.
were referred. The two bureaus under
these officers have devoted their energies
unremittingly for the past two weeks to
canvassing the relative merits Of the de-
signs. offered by the various competitors
for the work. and no doubt is felt that
their recommendations will be precisely
followed in awarding the contracts. The
policy pursued has been to obtain boats
as large as possible under the proposals.
aud to secure as many as the appropria-
ton of S1.300000 would permit. The re-
port of Commodores Hichborn and Mel
vile TO the secretary of the navy will at
McAdoo. He may conclude to leave final
action 10 Secretary Herbert who is ex-
pected from Europe. next Saturday. I'm
der the law. the contracts must be signed
on or before Oct. s.