Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-26
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According to reliable adviees receivct
| at Constantinople. 10000 Armenians il
the province of Van have been forcibl,
compelled to embrace Islamism DURING
the past two months
Daniel Carroll, the 19-years- old you'll
charged with the murder of Rober
Rowan, was found guilty at Chicago
Thursday, and death was the punish
ment imposed.
Judge Parsons of Nashua. H., Friday
rendered decision in DR.. j. c. Moore
case The motion of the defendants
council for a continuance is denied
trial on the one indictment set for Octo.
Der II.
The plant of the Walters Pierce Oil
Company in East St Louis, together
With four freight cars and 200 feet OF
trestle track of the Big Four Railroad
was burned. Thursday. Loss, $4,000.
insured.
Mrs. Pnoebc A. Gould. aged 10 years,
residing with her daughter Mrs Gilman.
at the corner of Becker and May streets,
Haverlill. Mass. committed suicide. Fri
day, by hanging herself to the hedpost in
her room. She had been in feeble health
for a Ions time. and life had become Il
burden.
The 2G-round bout between George
Dixon of Boston and Tommy White of
Chicago. for the featherweight cham
picnship Of the world, at New York,
Friday night, ended III draw after %
rounds.
y royal commission on the financial
relations between Ireland and Great
Britain has handed in seven differing
reports and two memorandums as the
nearest approach it can make to an
agreement
The London Standard expresses sym
pathy with MIR. GladStoncs utteranceS.
but contends that he suggests nothing
practical The Standard urges the gov
eminent TO continue to cooperate with
the other Powers. and not to enter upon
rash enterprises despite the prevailing
excitement.
Harry Conway was killed at Chicago
Thursday. by Grace Clark, who shot him
while they were in bed together and then
killed herself. They died in each others
arms. Conway was Il brakeman on the
Northwestern Railroad. he disagree
ment which caused the shooting was over
letter from a young woman written to
Conway.
Rev. d. W. Clark of West Concord. y.
H.. for the committee on publication has
issued an appeal in behalf of those who
are interested in the citizens movement
effort to he made to bring about change
in the interest of economy and the en-
forcement of all laws in Concord at the
coming election.
The body OF the man found. Thursday.
in the water between Paddock and
Sheep islands, at Hull, Mass, has not
been identified. 1t was thought at first
10 have been case of murder. but medi-
cal examiner has decided that the man
committed suicide.
A syndicate of bankers of Paris and
London, has secured control of 100000
shares of the capital stock of the Elk
ton Consolidated Mining Company, .
Cripple Creek Corporation owning the
Big E,lllton and Water mines. The
price paid was 81 per share.
The lighthouse steamer Rose was en-
whistle off the west end OF Fishers
island. near Providence. K. l.. the bell
buoy being withdrawn. Coasters have
long clamored for the change, as the
Race is dangerous in bad weather
The siren is considered superior To any
of the buoys in that particular locality.
The Everett mills of Lawrence Mass.
will start all departments, oct. .. They
have been shut down for eight weeks.
They produce cottduades, cheviots. de-
MINIS and dress goods and run 50,o0l
spindles and 1445 looms. and employ
1850 operatives.
The London Daily News sees in the
prescntat ion of photograph of the Ger
man imperial family to the Sultan and H.
the expulsion from Berlin of Prof. Thou
magyar. the well-knoWn Armenian lect
urer confirmation of the statements telc-
graphed from ConstantinOple that Ger
many's influence with the Sultan is now
more powerful than that of all the other
Powers
\ dispatch from Rome says that Mon
signor Eonette. papal delegate at Con-
Htantinople. recently returned to Rome to
explain the Turkish situation to thu
Pope. He has now returned bearing
letter to the Sultan expressing the grief
of the Pope mt the massacres. and i'm
poring that i'll the future. the lives Of
the Christians in the Turkish dominions
he made secure.
The three state mine inspectors, ap-
disaster at Pittston, Pa, on July 8.
whereby % lives Were lost. have made
their report to Gov. Hastings. They say
that in their opinion Mr.. Lagcn. who WAS
in charge of the mine. erred in judgment
in going so fap into the mine from the
bottom of the shaft. and his error CAUSED
the loss of his own life rs well as of those
subordinate to him.
Professor George +. II. Markoe, aged
about 60. and one of the originators of
the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy,
was found dead, Friday morning, in the
laboratory of the Joseph Burnett Co'%