Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-13
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The stockhouse connected with the
HecIa mill of the Calumet and Heca
Wooden Co. at Uxbridge Mass. was
burned. Sunday night. causing loss of
5000 Insured. Cause. spontaneous com
bustion.
A bad freight wreck occurred on the
New York Central. five miles north of
Poughkeepsie. Sunday No lives We're
lost The fireman was hurt but not seri-
ously. All traffic was blocked and
through trains were run over the Harlem
division. Fourteen freight ears Were
wcdged into the cut where the accident
occurred.
The shoe cutters of Haverhil. have
once more organized under the Boot and
Shoe Workers Union. The other labor
| organizations believe that the cutters
hold the key to the industrial situation
in the shoe trade because they are not
handicapped by machinery. The cutters
will now endeavor to get back the prices
that were in vogue before this season.
The German Chinese difficulty is prac-
tically settled. The Germans refuse To
discuss the occupation of Kiao-Chou bay.
The governor of Shang Tung province
has been removed from office, but will
not be any furtherdegraded: no monopoly
of mines and railroads is conceded to
Germany. but that country is given pre-
ference. Finally. the area Immediately
surrounding kiao-Chou bay is set apart
exclusively for Germany. China yields on
all the other points
The coroners jury at London. Satur-
day. returned d verdict of accidental
death in the case of Walter Croot. the
English bantamweight, who died. Tues
day morning. from injuries received dur
ing the contest for the bantamweght
championship with Jimmy Barry of
Chicago. at the National Sporting Club
on the previous night. According to the
medical testimony. Croots skull was
fractured at the base. due to a fall. after
Il blow in the goth round.
Morris w. Child. managing owner of
the schooner Oliver Pecker, Capt. A. J.
| Hall of Rockland. Me-. former master of
| the schooner. and Stevedore r. G. Nc
Cough. who loaded the vessel at Boston.
left Boston, Saturday. for Norfolk,
where they have been summoned in the
trial of the murderer of Capt. Whitman
and Mate Saunders. Capt. Cain of sta
| toni, Deputy Collector Jones of the GUS
! tom house. and Walter Collins of the
! clearance. department. have also been
summoned by the government to attend
| the trial.
| The Klondike expedition from Ports
| mouth, N. H., kept a Spanish spy busy
| while preparations for the departure OF
the schooner Concord for the Yukon re-
| gion which vessel sailed, Saturday, were
going on Though they wore the garb of
fishermen. the fact that q men. ali
| armed were in charge of a very large
| amount of supplies. seemed suspicious to
the Spaniard. and he took little stock in
| their destination. He has been at the
/ custom house every day and reported
daily to the Spanish minister at Wash
| ingtOn.
Secretary Long, Saturday, received u
cablegram from Commander McCalla
of the United States cruiser Marble
head. now at Port Au Prince, confirm
ing the press reports of the extortion of
the indemnity in the Luerders case by
the German warshps. The dispatch
adds that all is now quiet at Port Au
Prince, but that the captain will re-
main a few days to insure the interest
in his care.
Alfred M. Howe. the young man who
was arrested at Lowell. Il few days ago
| charged with assaulting his parents in
| their home on the night of Dec. 2. was
bound over to the superior court at
| Haverhill, Saturday. under $500 bail. The
officers are inclined to the opinion that
young Howe is mentally deranged. His
| father has partially recovered from the
injuries inflicted by the son. who struck
him with mallet upon the head. and
| was present in court this morning. Howe
pleaded not guilty and waived eXamina-
| ton. As he could not furnish bail he
was taken back to Jail. He will be ex-
amned as to his sanity within a few
| days.
Up to the present time, John Ralph
Hatch. the alleged Centerville N H.
wife poisoner. has been unable to secrr,
the $4,000 bonds required and has remained
in the charge of Sheriff Frank Bradbur,
of Effingham Falls Justice Hobbs OF
Madison. i'm fixing the amount of bail
gave Hatch until Monday to secure the
same, in default of which he will b.
taken to the Carroll county Jail at Ossi.
pee until the third Tuesday in April. 1885
Saturday. 1t was stated that the neces.
sary bondsmen are forthcoming in the
persons of DIR. Vittum of Laconia, Johr
G. Hatch of Clifford, and Charles F.
Hatch of Alton.