Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-26

| then had been in failing health. A wild
ow and son and daughter survive him.
| Captain White of the schooner Iolanthe
| from Block Island, with 1850 barrels
| mackerel, at Gloucester. Mass, report
an immense school of fish out there, blu
so close in shore that fishermen are un
| able to catch them. Horsemen driv
| down to the beach and with dip nets loat
| their teams the fish are OF eXcellen
quality. Fishermen expect to make large
catches as soon as the fish move off shor,
and the prospect for good fall work i:
favorable.
William Bolton, charged with Grim
inal assault on Mrs Lille Brakeman
was held to the circuit court by Judge
Bates at Stanford, Ky, Thursday Mrs
Brakeman attempted to shoot Bolton
on the way to the Jail, but the pistol
missed fire, and the woman was dis
armed. There is great excitement, and
lynching is not improbable.
r. G.. Dun & Cos. weekly review of
trade says: Failures are large, the LA
bilities in n the go, three weeks Of September
being SS.Ol9232. against 81, 633.9 $50, last
year. $,,27S.5M in 1884. and SIG. ,l97 in
1888 including the Lombard Concern for
$liU0o0v. The manufacturing failures,
this year. are $6&5,140. against s.. si, Ia,
last year, and S23S2.3i3 in 1884. Trading
have been S., l3i.327, against 81, 1856, 02o, last
year. and S2.6lall2 in 1894 The failures
for the week were 3l5 in the United
States against ZIG, last year.
John Daniels. the wealthy man men
toned in Thursdays dispatches from
Bellows Fails. VT, as committing suicide
ut Guthrie, .. r.. was IA native of Graf
ton. VI. where his boyhood was passed.
in Windham county. He was a son OF
the late Francis Daniels. and has y
mother and two sisters still living there.
Mr., Daniels was Il years old and is sur
Inn M nh
family at Bellows Falls have heard moth
ing regarding the suicide beyond the re-
ports in the papers.
The buildings of the Missouri military
academy at Mexico, Mo, were burned
Thursday. About leo cadets were asleep
in the dormitory " hen the alarm was
given, and so quickly did the flames
spread that many of the students We're
compelled to jump from third-story
windows to the ground. About score
of them were severity injured. Loss
$40 Gee; insurance. $37 900.
AT Thursdays session of the United
brotherhood of Carpenters and Join
crs. at Cleveland, Ohio, il was voted In
favor of fixing a remuneration for the
president which viii enable him to de
vote his whole time to the work. The
salary will probably be $250o per year.
An amendment was made To the CON
stitution which makes the initiation
fees and dues uniform all over the
country.
Much anxiety is felt in shipping cir
cles at Boston for the safety Of the
Bangor barllentine Thomas J. Stewart.
Captain l.. G. Blake and 10 men. which
ton. She is loaded with coal. 1t is
thought that she was caught in thu
storm and either blown off the cost. or
badly crippled or wrecked The first
mate of the Stewart is at Boston on a
vacation.
a terrific northeast gale prevailed
throughout. Thursday night i'll the Eng
fish channel. the Bristol channel off
and elsewhere along the coasts
doing a great deal of damage. Several
sailing vessels were driven ashore in the
Bristol enamel and off Cornwall. and the
steamer Teutonic. from Liverpool. Sept.
q. for New York, was delayed ut Queens
town four hours, after which the storm
ahated somewhat and she proceeded on
banks Agder and Baron floburg were
wrecked off Folkeston during the night |
The crews of both vessels We're saved
The navy department has finally ac-
cepted the great dry dock at Puget
Sound and released the contractor hy
giving him the last payment, including
those reserved. This action provides
the government with facilities for dock
ing and cleaning the largest ships at
any time of the year. Hitherto it would
not have been possible to examine or
repair the hull of modern battleships
pn1iti5t t,1t
Il. c.
AT meeting of Chicago brokers in
tcrested in Diamond Match and New
y ork Biscuit stocks held, Thursday, the
committee having the matter of set
Element in charge was authorized to
accept the pools terms The PROPOSE
ton made by the pool was that it
should put up from $4,000 to $4,000
capital and that the Moore Brothers
should give notes in sufficient amount
to clear the transactions in Match at
5000 and in Biscuit at $50.
The publication of the Apia letter in
san Francisco. declaring that strained
relations existed between the Powers of
the United States. England and Germany
on account of the refusal of Germany to
in celebrating the Queen $
and the Fourth of July. has ere
ated a sensation at Apia. The state
ments are without foundation. The leVee
and ban by the British consul-general
was attended by all the German officers.
The American celebration was Il sub
scription affair. Invested of official char
acter Vice Consul Blackjack remained
away, which accounted for the absence
also of the German official staff.
Rev. Dir. Charles H. Parkhurst was
d passenger on the steamer Germanic
which reached her pier at New York
at S.45 A. NJ, Friday. The doctor spent
his vacation in Switzerland and looks
hale and hearty. To a reporter who
met him at the pier he said: AT the
present time the national issue is of Il
paramount Importance. McKinley's
election means the preservation of ma
tional honor; and the question of the
Presidency should this moment rele-
gate all other subjects to the back
ground"
! a special from FL Paso, Texas, says:
1T was reported here. Monday night.
that a band of 200 armed Mexicans
were up the river IA miles above Ell
Paso, preparing to swoop down on
Juarez and capture the Mexican Gus
tom house. A general call to arms was
sounded at Fort Bliss at p NJ.
Thursday morning. and in half an hour
one troop of cavalry and three COM
panies of infantry had boarded a
special train and were going up the
river in command of Col. Nanvalzah
The troops are now marching through
the Bosque. and Mexican cavalrymen
are stationed at the south end to cap