Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-10-20
News Of the Day.

The new harbor at Galveston. Tex
Is now completed and is an entire enc,
cess
| Grapes are selling for u cent nor
pound in Monroe county, Michigan ,be
cheapest ever known.
For the first time in forty years tho
circuit court Of Logan county Ken
lucky. convened in regular session re-
Gently without a murder case ON the
| docket.
Owing 10 the increased depth of the
| locks at Sault Ste. Marie. Mich the
| steamer Queen City has broken tho
gram carrying record by taking l34 OO0
bushels of wheat and AZ, 900 bushels of
rye
gigantic pine tree recently cut in
Pennsylvania scaled s033 feet of lumber
II made II saw logs. none less than l2
feet and some 20 feet in length. The
top end of the butt log was IS inches in
diameter
Feminine county clerks are rare but
Miss Georgia Richards. who occupies
that position in Arapahoe county, Col
orado receives a salary of $4,000 a year.
the largest paid to any woman official
in the West.
bronze tablet has been erected at
the Judges Cave near New Haven,
Conn, To mark the place where Goffe
ana Whalley, who condemned Charles
l. TO DEATH sought refuge to escape
from Charles H.
In 1901 there were only 2sO.O0O persons
in the limits of the United States who
"a
now over 100000 of our people. Ger
mans or descendants of Germans, read
and speak that language
All of the collieries of the Lehigh
Valley Coal Company have been or
dered to work six days a week until
further notice. This is the first time in
years that the miners have had a
chance to work full time.
President Jordan of Leland Stanford
University, California, is most prom
inently mentioned to succeed the late
Prof Goode as assistant secretary of
the Smithsonian Institution and direc-
tor of the national museum.
One of the greatest lead prospects
ever discovered in the mineral district
was struck at a depth of ten feet in
Dueneweg, Mo, the other day Solid
chunks of lead. weighing 15 to 100
pounds each, are being taken out.
The total number of southern cotton
mills last year was 435. OF these fif-
teen have been crossed out" and
merged into other concerns. and three
were burned, reducing the number to
a20. To this number. however. 55 new
mills We're added during the year,
making the total now AIS.
Great Britain and Australia are the
only islands which exceed Cuba in nat
ural resources. When not wasted by
war Cuba produces, with a large share
81 her soil untouched, slO0 900, 900 worth
u sugar and tobacco annually. besides
he products of orchards and forests.
rivers and mountain mines.
Dr. Alice Bennett is one of the first
omen to make a special study of in
sanity. and was the very first to occupy
practical Craftsmanship of a great in
'titution. For 16 years she was super
htehdent OF the women'S department
the pennsylvania state insane hos
pitai, position she has just resigned
n order to devote herself to private
practice.
Canada is taking rank as large gold
PRODUCER. with the result that at 49,
'arious points in the Northwest large
owns are springing up. At Kootenay,
'rltlsh Columbia. in one year hamlet
las grown to a thriving town Of 5000
inhabitants. The gold mines in that
district are exceedingly productive, in
reasing their output rapidly. Mr..
iobson. the prominent California min
ng engineer, says he has seen in
British Columbia three times the area
# auriferous deposits that are known
o exist in California.