Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-10-31

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passed over the child. The trainmer
took him out from between the track,
and found him only temperate,
stunned and with slight cut an hi.
lead.
| The measures taken by the health
authorities at Bombay, to prevent thu
spread of the bubOnic plague have ex.
cited much Indignation among the ma
tives. As protest against the regu.
lation compelling the isolation of suf.
ferers from the disease, mob of 300t
| natives. Thursday. attacked the hos
pital here for infectious disease. They
did considerable damage to the build.
| ing before the police dispersed them
The leaders Of the mob were arrested
The New York court OF appeals has or.
dered a re-argument in the appeal of the
Manhattan Railroad Co. of New York
city; against an assessment by the New
York city tax commissioners for 1895. by
which the capital stock OF the company
was assessed at $l6436, 995. The assess
ment was originally $50. 100000. but after
q hearing the tax commissioner reduced
the assessment to SIG, 436. 995 The road
applied to the special term for a writ 10
review the assessment. but the applica-
tion was denied and the appellate dccis on
affirmed the special terms decision. An
appeal from the decision of the lower
court was argued In the court of appeals
"A short time ago.
The ninth annual meeting and ban
quet of the White Mountains Travel
ers' Association was held in Concord
N. H., Friday night. The following
officers were elected; President. John
F. Cutler of Boston, secretary and
treasurer, John j. Bartlett Concord
y. H.: executive committee Of nine in
Guiding j. Il. Lord OF Kennebunkport
Maine. All the banquet at the Eagle
Hotel, postprandial exercises followed
the banquet. at which addresses were
made by prominent men.
The Poughkeersie. n. Y. police, Fri
day. arrested Thomas Manchester
clerk. and Miss Edna Miner, for the
murder Of Martin Delany,a young man
who was killed. Thursday night. while
peerng over a stone wall at young
man and woman on the Hyde Park
road. Immediately after the arrest
the girl confessed that she was with
Manchester. Thursday night and that
he fired the fatal shot. Manchester de-
clnes to talk. He is married man
ana there is great Indignation over the
affair. The prisoners were remanded
for the grand jury.
The iith annual meeting of the Middle
sex County Teachers Association was
held ut Boston. Friday in the Park Street
church and the Peoples Temple. Tho
primary department met 1T the Park
Street church opening 81 O'Clock. with
devotional exercises. conducted by the
a HsT DR. NJ ! cs L9nsnS E Gsstor ef ,ne
ell. presided. The first paper. on ''Dtvei-
opment of the Moral Nature" was by
Miss Adelaide V Finch principal OF the
training school At Lewiston. Nj Miss
OF the training school M Lowell gave d
paper on History in the Public School.
Nature Study. the last address Of the
Palo Alto. Cal The afternoon session
Mas held AT the Peoples Temple
The price. of Newfoundland fish
dropped 20 cents per quintal in the
Portuguese markets. Thursday. owing
largely to French and Norwegian
competition. This will further accen-
tuate the prevailing depression in
Newfoundland, and widen the area Of
probable distress during the coming
winter Fish dealers are very appre-
hensive of the consequences Of collapse
in the St, Johns market. The resigna-
ton of Justice Winter owing to a re-
duction of his salary under the re-
,renchment scheme. is confirmed. Hon
George Emerson. crown prosecutor, Is
likely To be his successor
A French paper published at Atha-
baskerville Quebec. where Premier
Laurie resides and where he now is
announces that the vexatious Mani
toba school question has been settled
at last. The understanding arrived at
is that the present system OF national
schools shall continue TO exist. but that
religious instruction is secured to the
Catholics. as well as French indstricts
where the majority is French, and
Catholic teachers are to he employed
In districts where the majority is
Catholic. There will be no need now,
the paper adds, of any federal RENE
dial legislation. The paper further an
nounces that the full term of the set
tlement will be made public as soon as
it is formally ratified by the Manitoba
cabinet
Edward J. Crossman of 144l fremont
street. Boston, reported to the police
Friday. that he had found his wife and
nephew. Ernest G. Melvin 10 years
old. unconscious in their room when
ne went u call lieHi. "A physician, VINO
was soon at the house. gave it as his
opinion that both had taken poison.
Mrs. CroSsman was restored TO CON
seriousness after hard work, but the
boy was sent to the hospital in sink
ing condition. and it is said there that
his chances for recovery are small Mrs
Crossman denied having taken any
poison. In the afternoon, police and
physicians reached the conclusion that
the illness of Mrs. Crossman and the
boy was caused by escaping coal gas
and not by paris green.
Fung Yong Heng, the Chinese con-
sui general at San Francisco has is
sued an edict. which he has had posted
on the walls throughout Chinatown to
the effect that if the See Yup high
binder society does not immediately
disband and stop levying tribute upon
respectable merchants and others in
Chinatown. as it has been in the habit
of doing for some time past. and cease
making complaints against him in the
San Francisco courts, he will take the
names of the leaders of the society and
the place of their homes and through
the minister will complain against
them to the governors in Canton and
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