Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-11-18
NEWS NUGGETS.
Drought by the Wires from North. East.
South and West.

congress from the LIST Missouri district
died at Shelbina Mo. Tuesday.
In the Vermont House Tuesday. the
set to prevent bribery in caucuses and
political conventions was passed on
yea and nay vote.
The directors of the Calumet and Hecla
Mining Co.. at Boston. Tuesday. declared
a dividend of s. share. payable Dec. IL
10 stock of record Nov. H.
Tuesday morning. Mrs. William Terrell
who was snot by her husband in Hamp-
den. CT. Monday night, was resting com
fortably and will probably recover.
The woman suffrage amendment TO the
constitution of Idaho. has Il majority OF
nearly 5000 but the matter VIII have to
go to the supreme court for adjudication.
The Peninsular Car Works at Detroit
Mich. have shut down indefinitely. and
works were re-opened six weeks ago
with force of 1900 men working day and
night.
The London Morning Post has Con-
stantinople dispatch which states that
The Porte has acceded 70 the demands
made upon it by the embassies that all
judgments rendered by the supreme tri-
bunal he revised.
The steamer Taurc of the White Star
Line bound for Liverpool in passing out
at Quarantine. New York Tuesday morn
ing, grounded in Gedney's channel. AT .
!. NJ. her position was unchanged. Tugs
hANe gone TO her.
The Italian ministry Of foreign affairs
denies the statement that u solution of
The differences between Italy and Brazil
has been found. and adds that negotia
lions for settlement OF the disputed
questions are still going on.
The Legislature met at Quebec. Tues
day. The speech from the throne init
mates that in order to stop immigration
rom the province of Quebec to Brazil.
The government will introduce a measure
h.
settlement of land in Quebec
AS a result of the election. the CO.
umbia Cotton Co. has ordered the
large factory at New Ipswich, N H.
stopped weeks ago. to start on half
time. In two weeks it will be run full
time.
More men went To work at kewanee.
H., Monday. than any time within a
year. The shop departments. bushel-
ing furnaces and muck rolls of the
Western Tube Co, which employ near
u 5000 men, We're put in operation.
A shooting. affair occurred at Mcleod.
we miles below Swainsboro. Ga. in
which Felix Rountree and TWO brothers.
,'ohn and Lawson Sutton, were mortaily
wounded. The trouble grew out of a
wrangle over a settlement at Suttons
sin. All the men are well-to-do and
llSnlS cOiIiecleu.
Captain Alfred r. Mahan. Il. S. N. was
placed on the retired list Tuesday. at his
wn request, after 10 years active ser
Vice. in accordance with, the law. The
announcement was received at the navy
department with astonishment. as Capt.
Mahan would have been promoted TO the
rank of commodore in few months and
could then have retired with increased
pay.
Bvan opinion handed down by the
taI court HnDe1lS nj san
Francisco Monday. the British steamer
coquitland. with 6190 sealskins. which
win in June. 1882, and ordered forfeited to
he government by the district court of
Alaska, was released The decision of the
Alaska court was reversed on every point
md the libel dismissed.
The American congress of liberal re-
igious societies, which is the outgrowth
of the congress of religions at the
Worlds Fair. convened at Indianapolis,
ind Tuesday. the pPei1nlng sermon oi,, was
springfield. Mass. The subject was "A
Message to the Churchless. Ministers
from all over the United States are in at
tendance.
A strike occurred in Stafford mill
10. 9, Fall River Mass. Tuesday, by
young girls in the spooling depart
laent, a cut in wages being the cause
assigned Heretofore they have been
paid 1873 cents. but, Monday. they
were informed that the rate had been
lowered to 16 cents. They refused to
accept it. The entire force. 80 in num-
her, left work. Meanwhile II learners
are doing the spooling as best they
an.
At large gathering at Philadelphia,
Monday. of wool merchants representing
he Philadelphia Wool Merchants Asso-
citation. the following was unanimously
adopted 1.-The Wool Merchants Associ-
alton of Philadelphia urges upon the SEN
ate of the United States the passage of
he Dingley bill as an emergency meas
ure.' President Fiske was authorized
10 appoint a committee of three to go to
. Washington and urge the passage of the
Measure. 1t was agreed to place a copy
of the same in the hands of every repre-
sentative of the wool and wooden inter-
est in the United States. urgingstheir CO.
I operation.
The members of the Hamilton Club
Ct Brooklyn, Tuesday night, in their
club house on Remsen street rendered
Rev. DR.. Richard Slater Storrs a ban
Quet commorating his 50 years of Chris
tian ministery and citizenship in
brooklyn. About 100 guests were pre-
sent. After the banquet speeches We're
made by the presiding officer. James
Nc Keen, president of the club, Supreme
Court Justice Willard Bartlett. Edward