Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-26
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Steamer Pentagoet, Cakes, Eastport
for New York, arrived at Vineyard
Haven, Mass. Monday afternoon. short
of coal and badly iced up. She will
procure a supply of coal and proceed.
At meeting of the trustees of the
Boston university at Boston. Monday,
Austin B. Fletcher of New York, was
elected trustee. to fill the place made
vacant by the death of eXGov. Rus
sell.
Unless he should change his mind in
the meantime. President-elect Mckinley
Will call an extra session of Congress tor
Monday. March 10. This information was
given to Congressman elect J. S. Stur.le-
want of Philadelphia, by Major Mckinley
in Canton, few days ago.
The Merritt Wrecking Organization
and the Chapman Derrick a. Wrecking
Co. Of New York. which have been in
sharp competition for several years,
have decided to amalgamate their in
terests. They are the only deep sea
wreckers on the Atlantic coast.
The Rev. John Hall of New York,
who has been at Chicago at the bedside
of his son. the Rev. 7. c. Hall. received
word, Sunday. of the death of another
son. Richard ]. Hall, an eminent
physician at Santa Barbara, Cal. The
Rev T. C. Hall is still very low.
That part of the shipping laws of the
United States which authorizes the ar
rest of sailors who refuse to observe
the terms of their contracts to serve
on board vessels, Monday was declared
10y the supreme court to be cOnstitu
a. 81 hi, no u tftin IF
the state courts.
A Washington special to the New
York sun says: The bureau of Cath
bile Indian missions in this city has
received information that the Catholics
of the Sioux nation are to forward a
petition to Congress asking it to con-
tinue appropriations for Catholic mis-
sion schools among the Indians.
Four antitrust bills were introduced
by Thomas F. Keenan, of Boston in the
Massachusetts House, Monday. An
other antitrust bill was introduced in
the House, Monday afternoon by Mr..
George of Haverhill In the House
Monday Mr.. Lyon of Boston intro
duced a bill to prohibit the manufac
turing of water gas in the state.
The residence of Charles j. Barnes.
1888 Calumet avenue. Chicago. was
burned, early Monday His private
library, one of the finest in the United
States, and collection of brica- brac, en-
which a high value was set. were de-
stroyed Total loss. 100000; insured
The adjoining building occupied by A.
H. Cohen, was damaged to the extent
of $4,000.
Three drowned men, supposed to be
members of the crew of the schooner
Nahum Chaplin. which went to peices.
on the bar off Qogue. l.. last Wednes-
day, were found at different point along
the coast, Sunday. One body was found
about two miles west of the South
ampton life saving station. The small
finger on the left hand had been am
putated. A second body was discov-
cred near Mecox bay inlet. fouf and a
half miles east of Southampton. A
pocketbook containing 81 and money
order issued in Philadelphia for sorie
one in Sweden was found in the cloth-
ing. The action of the water had
blurred the writing on the money or
der A third body was discovered one
mile west of Southampton. From a
string tied around the neck was a
small silver cross. Coroner Bennett of
Patchogue held an inquest on the body
found in Mecox inlet. The others were
removed to the Southampton life saw
ing station.