Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-03-17
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South and West.

DIR. Carl Peters, the African explorer
issued statement, at Berlin, Sunday,
denying absolutely the charges of brutal
ity ana murder which were made against
him ~ the Reichstag last week and asks
for a public hearing.
The Paris Figaro says the British ex
| Tc Hti0n into tho Soudan is undertaken in
order to engbln England to say her work
of civilization in Egypt vas only the first
phase Of her final development and an
re4atlou Of that country.
The suIs brought By Col JAMES A.
/ Place against tie Boston < Maine, 20 re-
cover damages in 5000 for injuries re-
Z .yad sn railroad accident at Dover y.
+ H., year aeo lass February, has been sct-
'icd NJ the company paying him $1,000.
/ a dispatch from Massowah undcr
sundays date. confirms the reports that
tho Mahdst army is marching against
/ KasS ila, and with this object have for.
warded s.rong re-enforcements, which
were xpected to reach kassala, Monday.
p4imonica Tldio and his son, Pasko.
/ stotnn ,aen on the Lake Shore Railroad,
vere burned TO death in their house at
Geneva, OHIO, Sunday AS they were
| known TO be saving funds to send 10 their
families in Italy it is surmised that they
We're murdered robbed and the house set
on fire.
! The supreme court Monday, in an
! opinion read by Chief Justice Fuller.
affirmed the decision of the supreme
court of California to the effect that the
franchises, capital stock etc, of the Cen
trail Pacific and Sout hern Pacific Railroad
companies are taxibe under the laws Of
that state.
The stockholders of the Shailer x Hall
| Quarry Co. Portland CT, Monday, voted
to consolidate with the Brainerd Quarry
Co. under one management, commencing
next season. This will make the new
company the strongest freestone quarry
company in the country. Brainerd voted
to unite last week.
Attorney General Childs of Minnesota.
has won the first round In the suit of the
state to compel express companies to obey
the law placing them under the juris6ic-
tiou of the state railroad commission
Judge Eagan Of the district court has
denied motion of counsel for the express
companies to quash an alternative writ Of
mandamus.
A portion OF Root block at Newport.
Vt, was burned, ealry Monday. The con
tents were badly damaged by water. H
5. Root, dealer in furniture, crocl1ery
carpets etc, owned the building and
carried large stock of goods, Insurance
on the building, $4,000; oD stock $l2, 600
The total loss is about SIS. 1000; nearly
covered by insurance.
In the thick snow storm, Monday morn
ing, the three masted schooner William
Cobb, of Dennis, Mass, Capt. Megsthlin.
from North Boothbay, Maine for Phil
adelphia, with cargo of ice, while
running into Nantasket Roads for shelter.
went ashore on Harding's Ledge, at
o clock. She was towed off four hours
later by tug and towed to anchorage in
the upper harbor. She is leaking consid
erabiy and it is thought most of Ter shoe
is gone and her bottom otherwise dam
aged,
The captain Of the schooner Van Name
and King, who was towed into Boston.
Monday, today, reports that in latitude
1926 n, longitude 81 W, hn fell in with
the three -masted schooner Thomas w.
HYDE Of Bath, Me, and Captain Carver Of
the Hyde, signalled that he had lost orc
OF his crew overheard, besides losing his
yawl boat and portion OF his Ceckload of
hard pine lumber. The Hyde had been
2S days out from Darien, Ga, bound to
Bath, Me, and was endeavoring to reach
Bermuda.
dispatch from st. Petersburg says the
Czar has conferred upon King Menelek OF
Abgsslnia the grand Gordon of St. George.
the highest military decoration in tie
gift Of the Russian Emperor. and that
Earcn de Meyandorlf councillor of the
f0ssia1 EN- 5assy at Rome, has been en-
trusted to transmit the decoration TO
Abyssinia. 1t is exp acted at ST. Peters
burg that King Menelek will ask Russia
to interven between Abyssinia and Italv
Tor the conclusion OF reace on the basis of
lnaep hdpncc nf Abvssinia and the restora-
ton of tie Old frontiers of Erythrea.
The New York Tribune says that i'm
portsnt developments in the cause Of
Cuban freedom have been secretly coming
TO fruition in Brooklyn in the last few
weeks, and the inacticn OF Congress has
given /: decided impetus to scheme suo-
gested early in January by sympathizers
with the Cuban cause. This was tina ro,s.
ing OF regiment of Americans, together
with largs number of Cubans living in
Brooklyn and New York, who are eager In
throw themselves against the regular
Spanish army in Cuba. The regiment
VIII bh olfcered by men who have seen
years of training in the militia OF several |
states. and Furthermore, by former non. |
commissioned officers Of the United States
army. Much secrecy has been observed in |
TINS latest move of the Cubans, but it was |
learned, on what app ars to he good an |
thorlty, that similar movement has been |
started in Chicago and New Orleans. T, |
Is also said that several rapid fire batteries |
composed Of Maxim or Gatling guns arc
being formed.