Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-01-17
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The schooner Swift was wrecked,
Thursday, near Peterhead, Eng, and six
of the crew were drowned.
Seidenberg, Steifel & Co., cigar manu-
facturers, 1899 Avenue A, New York
assigned, Thursday. The liabilities are
$3.50, 900; nominal assets, $500, 600.
The repair shop in the prison yards at
Sing Sing, N. Y, a two and a half story
building, with very valuable machinery,
was burned, Thursday night. Lose. quite
heavy. The prisoners behaved we'll dur
ing the fire.
The British bark Florence, Swansea
for Harbor Grace, with coal, is ashore at
Carbonear, N. f. 1t is expected that she
will be floated. All the American fishing
fleet has left Fortune bay, owing to the
failure of the herring fishery, and will
visit Placentia in search of cargoes.
The House committee on foreign affairs,
Thursday, completed the consideration of
none of the various matters referred to 1t
for action. Chairman Hit distributed
several new resolutions among the several
subcommittee. and Some may be or
dered reported to the House at the meet
ing, next week.
A notice was posted at the American
Waltham Watch factory at Waltham,
Mass Thursday, that the annual spring
vacation would be taken from Jan 2S to
Feb. >, inclusive. or six days longer than
usual. During that time, the annual
stock account will bs taken and the ma
chinery oyerhauled.
The 10th annual meeting of the Ameri-
can Protective Tariff League was held at
New York, Thursday. There was nota
BILE gathering of merchants and others in
tcrested in the industrial protective move
mont and general enthusiasm was dis
played, increased later by the arrival of
members of the Republican Editorial AS
ISOLATION of New York.
In the circuit court at Chicago, Thurs.
day, Kahn, Schoenbrun s; Co., wholesale
clothiers, confessed Judgment for $3.50, 600
The board of control of the Joint
Traffic Association, at New York, Thurs
day. authorized the chairman, President
Roberts Of the Pennsylvania Railroad, to
appoint committee Of five to take charge
Of the litigation instituted against the as
sociation at the instance of the interstate
commerce commission.
The government steamer Neweld, sent
from Halifax, N. S., over week ago, to
search for the second boat of the wrecked
steamer Ealing arrived, Thursday. She
found no trace of the missing boat, but
brought from Cansoeight survivors of the
Inflated steamer who landed there, a few
days ago, in an open boat. They were
sent to the hospital for treatment. Sew
eral Were so badly frozen that they will
have to undergo amputation of limbs.
At a session of the Lake Carriers Asso-
citation at Detroit, Mich, Thursday, a dis
patch from Toronto stating that the Lake
captains in session had offered their ser
vices to the British government should
the present complications render such ad
visable, was read, and resolution adopted
that the members Of the Lake Carriers
Association tender their craft to the
United States government for use in case
the present complications assume a seri
Gus phase.
Edward f. Arnold Of Mason. Chaplin &
Co., Of Providence, said, Thursday. that
the long talked of consolidation of the
Continental and Fall River Steamboat
lines had finally taken place. Mr.. Arnold
said that the present owners of the prop
erty were members OF syndicate
composed of business men and capitalists
of Providence and that plans had been
made We're for the Development of shore
business. The capitalization of the syn
dicate will be $500 900, and eventually
Will be increased to Sl,O0O,000. Mr..
Arnold said that be did not care to make
public at this time, the names of the per
sons Interested in the syndicate
"A told robbery was committed,
Wednesday night, at Nassau, Mo 1t was
pay day on the Missouri Pacific and five
robbers with handkerchiefs over their
faces, boarded the Missouri Pacific freight
train at that city, and when tae tfain
stopped at the ju1oti0n they held up and