Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-02-20
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Roth Houses of the Connecticut General
Assembly. Friday. adopted an memoria .i
to Cngress praying for an increase Vi Pa!
of the letter carriers
Prof. w. Wallace. NJ. A.. professor OF
moral philosophy in the UNIVERSITY OF
oxford was killed at London. Friday. by
Il fall from his bicycle which fractured
his skull.
the case of Thomas NJ. Bran. the con-
victed murderer of Captain Nash Oh t,e
barkentine Herbert Fuller, at Boston.
Friday. was continued until Tuesday next
mt o'clock. by Order OI the UNileu o'"'o"
circuit court.
Governor Mount of Indiana. has issued
n circular letter to newspaper editors OF
politics. asking for marked copies OF pa
He saws the press has information he
cannot obtain. and wants the assistance
of the editors.
The Washington correspondent of the
London Chronicle has cabled that ne Is
authorized to deny the stories about LORD
Salisbury accepting the Senate's amend
ments to the Anglo-American arbitration
treaty. The amendments. ne adds, nave
not been submitted to Lord Salisbury.
A New York Sun special from the city
of Mexico says: The failure of the ex-
port house of NJ. Doade & Co.. OF Merida.
Yucatan, has caused a great stir in com,
mercial circles throughout Mexico. ana
will be felt in New York and other export
ccnters. The Indebtedness of the COM
pany is over 81, 100000 and the assets are
$1,000 900.
All work on the Union Elevated loop
at Chicago was stopped. Thursday. be-
cause Of the employment of non-union
stone cutters. who are making holes IN
the sidewalk for the depot iron support port,
out the trades affected being bridge ana
structural iron workers, carpenters,
steam filters. sheet metal workers and
plumbers.
Fire broke out about s A. NJ. Friday. in
the new Webster block. the largest build
ing of the kind at Gloucester Mass. 1t
;idjoins the post office and custom house
and a serious fire was threatened. The
whole fire department was called out.
The tiremen had the flames practically
under control at 1870. and they were con-
to se os 0 % p Tne H0r reae
100000: insured for about $4,000.
r. G. Dun & Cos. weekly review of
trade says: 1T is encouraging that the
failures are running smaller than a year
Sc. 66l .535 against s76SO. 1893. last year. ST.
5JJ0.9S6 in 1895. and sS.534.012 in 1894. The
Neutrality-suspicious. ;la t. RI. s0e have been % Sa AZ
0s6.25o. against sss42, 05$. last year. when
there were somewhat heavy failures in
brokerage. Failures for the past week
have been 303 in the United States against
$50. last year.
day night, Senator-elect Kyle denied the
report that he had made any deal with
the Republicans. He declared that he is
still Il POpulist. has not changed his prin-
ciplcS. and that the Republicans came to
him solidly because they thought Senator
Pcttigrew was against him and they
wished to humiliate Pettigrew. Notwith-
standing Kyle's denial that he has any
understanding with the Republicans. the
latter generally believe the story which
self to support all Republican measures
except the single one of free silver.
The third mate of the steamer Olympia
now ut Tacoma, Wash. tells story
which throws some light on the disap-
pcarance OF the American ship r. l..
New York on July 4 last. and has never
been heard from since. Mate Smith says
that Just before the Cakes was ready to
sail. Captain Reed announced his inten-
ton of making a voyage to New York
lcross the Pacific and around Cape Horn
This route is an unusual one, and it was
not known until now that the captain of
the Cakes had decided to take it. Some
shippers think the OaSes may yet sail
into New York uninjured.
In addition to the general reduction of
- per cent. in the prices of it's products.
the New York Biscuit Co. of Chicago
Thursday made an additional cut of one
cent per pound on number of articles
This last cut applies for the present to
Chicago only. 1t develops that the Amer
i Wednesday. not only met the 35 per cent.
reduction of the New York people. but
went the former one better with a cut of
one cent. on certain Chicago goods. 1t
was to meet this that the reduction was
made by the New York Biscuit Co No
men were instructed to make the reduced
rate.