Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-10-15
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The Pollock Rip lightship got adrift
in the recent hurricane and is now
anchored eight miles off Great Point,
Nantucket
The gale which set In at Halifax, T. S..
early Tuesday evening. continued all day
Wednesday. the wind blowing with terri
fic force and rain falling heavily. Every
thing In the harbor was tied up tight and
there was no damage to speak of. A
small yacht driven ashore Is the only cas-
ualty reported A heavy sea Is running.
Initial steps have been taken for the
formation OF an Irish political league in
the Quebec district. The projectors an
nounce that II is proposed 10 form a
League OF lrlshmen and their scattered
kindred. who may be adherents of either
political party. for the purpose of infu-
encing public affairs, both provincial and
federal
The schooner Richmond which went
ashore on York ledge, one week age,
and was towed 70 Kitttery Point in q
water-logged condition. was sold. Tues
day, to Capt. r. b. Hoyt for S225. The
underwriters had previously made a
settlement with the owners
Annie Weir the ex-slave. who sued
her old master. VIM. Weir, for q years
pay at So per week. was. Tuesday, given
u verdict of 1889. She had worked for
him ever since her emancipation with
out wages on his agreement to lodge,
clothe and feed her as long as she lived
Upon his second marriage he discharged
her
Before the Massachusetts ballot law
commissioners at Boston, Wednesday,
the arguments in the matter of the rival
Democratic state conventions Were
made. Col. Samuel Elder made the final
summing up for the Faneuil hall peo-
pie and Counsel George w. Anderson
closed for the Music hall meeting. The
counsel were allowed three hours each.
A dispatch from Georgetown. British
Guiana, says that alarming riots have &C.
CURED among the coolies in Demerara.
rested, and while they were being taken
to the lookup by the police the latter were
attacked by the mob and finally were
Three rioters were killed and many
wounded. The rioting was the outcome |
of strike among the laborers against a |
reduction in wages.
The desperadoes who robbed the |
Sherburne Mimi, bank and murdered |
three persons, have been positively |
identified as ]. II. and Lee Kelihan. |
IS and 2S years of age. Their parents |
live in Rock Rapids, Ia. and admit |
that the boys are their children. The |
Jail where Lee is confined is well |
guarded and there is no danger of a |
iynching.
The clothing store of Geo. E. Clarke
& Co. at Gorham. n. H., was broken
into. Tuesday night. and clothing and |
jewelry to the value of $500 was taken. |
A half-inch hole was drilled in the top
Of the safe, but evidently the burglars
We're frightened away as nothing fur
ther was done toward opening it. No
clue has yet been obtained as to who
the persons are.
Mrs. Mary Christ,wh is charged with
the abduction of little Ether Dougherty
from her home in the North End, Bos-
ton, week ago, was, Wednesday. ad-
judged insane. She will be committed
to the Austin Farm, pending further
investigation as to her true indentity.
The woman's right name is believed to
be Mary E. Huston and she sticks to
the statement that her home is in Rox-
bury. She says she lived at one time
at Fishkill Landing on the Hudson
river. The police think the woman has
been confined in the insane asylum at
Fishkill on the Hudson
~ special from San Francisco says:
Gov. Nicholas A. Grevenitsky of the
Russian seal industry. whose home is on
Bering island, is now on his way to
washington with the draft of a new
treaty aimed at the regulation of the
seal industry. There are 80 of these
seal islands located 200 miles from the \
aslatic coast. The treaty which will be 2
presented to the PRESIDENT through the
minister, establishes a 30 mile {
INIT and provides for strict patrol j
system. The governor is given 500 ma I
i've troops for this service and has a
orce of two gunboats at his command
iov. Grevenitsky says the seals herds
ire constantly decreasing and cannot
asst long at the present rate.
A committee of the New England In s.