Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-10-20

the entire passage and lost and spill
sails.
At the dinner Of the Methodist Socia
Union at the American house at Bostor
Monday night. the principal speake
was Bishop Joseph c. Hartzell, bisho
of Africa, who delivered an interestin
address upon Africa as a Missio
| Field
i The steamer Livingstone, bound down
collided with and sunk the propeile
| Grand Traverse, bound up, three mile
below Colchester light. on Lake Erie
Monday. The crew of the sunken vesse
escaped to the Livingstone. The stem Q
the latter vessel was stove and she Il
badly damaged. The Grand Traverse wa
valued at s25,0 900 and was well insured.
The factory in the eastern part Of Wa
terbury. CT, was burned. Monday even
ing. The fire started in the attic. where
repairs We're being made. from cause
unknown. The factory was occupied by
| the Waterbury Wrench Co.. manufact
nrers of patent bicycle wrenches, ant
VIM. r. Norman & Co., manufacturers ol
shears and various novelties. Loss $35,
| 010; insured
An official cablegram to Consul Genera
| Murguindo of Uruguay, at Washington
from the President re- Of the republic, an
i dicatc in England to furnish funds fol
I the construction of the new port of Mon
tevideo. Work will be Immediately com
menced The project involves the ex-
penditure of about $4,000 900 in gold. and
| when completed the port charges, which
now amount to nearly S. per ton, will be
| reduced one-half.
| General Morton c. Hunter was stricken
with paralysis while attending services
at the Presbyterian church at Blooming
ton Ind. Sunday morning. He was re-
! moved to his home, where he remains
| expected Gen. Hunter is II. and has
| been a prominent figure in national poll
tics. He defeated Daniel W. Voorhees,
| for Congress i'll that district in 1874, and
| subsequently served two terms. He was
| stricken with paralysis, Dee %, 1895, suf-
| ferlng second stroke, Sunday.
1t has transpired that Miss Mary
Gwendoline Caldwell and the Marquis
| De Monstriers Merinville, whose mar
| riage was announced to take place at
| Dresden, Monday. Bishop Spalding of
| Peoria, to oiiiciate, We're quietly mar
| ried fortnight ago at the Hotel
| Angleterre in Baden Baden. The pres
ent whereabouts of the couple is un-
| known.
Admiral Selfrdge cabled the navy de-
partment. Monday. that the Marblehead
left Smyrna. Monday morning for Glib
| raltar on her way home. having on board
all the men of his fleet whose terms of
enlistment will shortly expire. The atl-
| mirars message contained no reference
10 the other ships of his command nor
any movements he contemplated. The
San Francisco and Bancroft are still with
the flagship Minneapolis and il Is thought
had their mission been other than peace
full he would not have detached the Mar
behead at this time.
a special from Aauas Calientes. Mex
leo. says: On account of the corn
famine that now exists in the states
Of Aguas Calientes Guanajuato and
Vera Cruz, the federal government has
remitted the duties temporarily on
corn importations to the amount of
$4,000 bushels. 1t is said that all this
supply will come from the United
States. 1t will be sold at low prices by
government agencies among the poor.
Captain Weiss of the steamer Bel
sian King at Boston from Antwerp,
reports that Oct. 10 tho position given),
she passed a portion of the wreck OF
Il vessel standing well out OF water. 1t
had apparently been a long time in
that condition as the frame was almost
bare. What remained of the vessels
bulwarks was painted white. The
wreck lies directly in the line of trans
Atlantic liners and is a dangerous OBJ
struction.
The trial of DR. Joseph Clifford Moore.
on charge of over-isSue of stock for the
fourth indictment. opened before Judge
Parsons, Monday, in the supreme court
at Nashua. n. II. A host of jurymen We're
called from which to select a panel
Prominent witnesses were summoned by
the state among them Hon. Frank Jones.
Gov Charles A. Busiel and Gordon Wood
bury. This session of court was used in
the selecting of a jury. many being ex-
cused because of opinions formed Dr.
Moore on appearing in court greeted his
old friends fanliarly. but showed evi-
dences of confinement. The trial excites
but little comment.
The fact has just leaked out at Keene
NH, that Jailer w. S. Tuttle. while max
ing his tour of daily inspection of the Jail
discovered some mortar on the floor and
becoming suspicious. began an inveStiga-
ton He found that the sheathing over
bath tub had been removed and hole
dug in the brick wall large enough for a
mans body to pass through. The work
had been done with the broken leg of an
iron bedstead and it is supposed that
there We're confederateS outside. A whole
sale Jail delivery was frustrated by the
timely discovery. Sixteen prisoners. hard
characters. were shackled together and
placed in the dungeon. Sunday night.
They are awaiting trial, Tuesday. before
the supreme court.
y Toronto dispatch to the New York
sun says: The latest and most au-
thentic information of the crops in
Canada shows that the statistical po-
sition of Canada this year is far less
favorable than for a number of sea-
sons, AS matter of fact, Canada will
not cut any figure at all among wheat
exporting countries in 1861. Last
year Manitoba raised $4,000, 600
bushels. This year there are only Is
900, 600, or barely sufficient for home
requirements and seeding next season.
The London St. James Gazette says
that the immediate release of DR.. l.. S.
Jameson and Major Sir Jonn Williugh-
by, the Transval raiders, who with Ma
jor r. Grey, Col. H. f. White. Major r.
White and Hon. Henry +. Coventry.
we're convicted of violating the foreign
enlistment act and We're sentenced to
Is and months Imprisonment respect
ively. is probable. Their release will
ne granted, the paper says. upon a
medical report declaring that the state
If their health is such that further i'm
prisonment would be dangerous to
them.
The trial at Boston, of the 500 600 ac- |
ion brought by Howard B. Hodgate Of |
toxbury against the Grand Trunk Rail- !
way Co., for malicious posecution, re-
,lJltpI Monday in q yar1int nf T-S0O |