Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-04-03
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The ram Katahdin, Commando
Leady. has arrived at League Island
% go out OF commission.
Herbert Gladstone declares that the
tory recently published here that his
ather had learned to ride bicycle IS a
loaX.
The Most Rev. William c. Plunkett. u.
H.. Lord Pluukctt Protestant archbishop
II Dublin died at Dublin, Thursday, aftee
1 brief Illness.
Bafor., the Fifth Avenue Athletic Club.
New York, Thursday night. the decision
WAS given Casper Leon over Jack " ard
OF New York. In Il 20-round bout
George March has been appointed re-
,eiver for Adams. Jeweit Il Co. OF clcvc-
and. Ohio, manufacturers of paper ana
iour bags. The liabilities are about SsJ1 .
og0
President Dlaz opened Congress at
Mexico City. Mexico. Thursday evening
and began his message with review oI
the foreign relations. lie remarked that
the country has no difficulty with any
foreign government.
Albert Eel. the Haverhill, Mass. pro-
vision dealer who disappeared with his
little daughter Il week ago. has been
'ound in Connecticut iowa, but there is
10 trace OF the child. Mr.. Bells depart
ire from home is yet unexplained.
Judge Burnell at Oshkosh. Wis,
Wednesday. appointed Claude ID. Beach
II Chicago, receiver for the Berlin x
Montello Granite co. The company's as
sets are placed at $4,000. aud its liabili-
ties In the neighborhood of 100000.
The Paris Evenmeni says that Presi
dent Faurc has been officially informed Of
the approaching visit of the Russian En-
peror and the Czarina to France. II is
reported also that Count Muraviefi. Rus,
sian minister OF foreign affairs, arrived
in Paris Unexpectedly. Thursday morn
ing. and went at once to the Russian en-
bassy.
Manager Charles Yapp of the Capitol
Driving park Concord. n. H.. announces
l card of races for stakes asgreeating
$500 to be held August 3 TO u inclusive.
the entries to close May |. The trotting
and 3-years-old and 80 for $500 purses
Tho pacing classes are 2.S5 and 2.21 and
liz for $500 each and 3-years-old and 2.A0
for $780,
Advices from Honolulu dated March g
say: The trouble over the attempted land
ing of SO japanese immigrants from the
steamship Sninshiu Mars has been ended
by the departure OF that steamer on the
10Th. taking back 4i3 of her passengers,
who had been found by the Hawaiian an
thoritics not entitled to landing. The feel
ing against the japanese Is constantly il
creasing.
The Flaherty- Erne match is not def
nitely arranged. as the men have not
agreed upon the desirable weight. Erne
proposes l2S pounds and Flaheriy prefers
l26. Flaherty has a new manager in VIM.
y. fkOCIN OF new L OF lily. ana w TIE
Courier Citizen office. at Lowell. Mass.
Thursday night, he signed an agreement
for years associations with him in that
capacity.
VIM. H. Aldrich has begun contest
at San Francisco, to break the will Of
his father. VIM. A. Aldrich. who died
in 1892. leaving an estate valued at
over 100000. The sons share was
left in trust. and he now claims this
clause of the will is invalid.
Captain Martin Larsen. of the British
brigantine Lutzberg which arrived at
Boston, Thursday. from Neuvitas, cuba,
has a population of about ESQ. is COM |
pletely demoraliZed. owing to the trouble |
now going on in Cuba. The vessel took
a cargo of lumber from Machias, but was
Obliged to return in ballast entailing Il |
heavy loss to the owners.
A special to the st. Louis Clobe-Demo- |
crat from Santa Fe, N. NJ. says that
Governor Thornton was scm-onicially |
advised, Wednesday night. that President |
Mckinley has decided not to interfere in |
the case of Borrego and his three COM |
The Governor notified the sheriff. who !
increase the number of guards on duty |
at the county Jail to 10 men.
Gamaliel Bradford. Esq, of Boston. de- |
lievered an address before the Board of |
on the subject of Municipal Govern |
ment. His point was that we do not in |
this country know how to govern cities |
and that the fault lies IN the system and
not with the people Concentration of /
power and a fixing of responsibility is |
needed. one man power is the safest and |
most satisfactory system.
Charles Il. Hastings. chief clerk of the
law and abstract office of Judge r.. p. |
Kirby Jacksonville. ILL.,. was found dead.
Thursday. with his wrist gashed and his
throat cut in two places. He is supposed
to have committed suicide. but no knife
has been found and there is an air of
time a real estate dealer in Minneapolis.
but failed and had since then continually
brooded over his misfortunes.
After an unsuccessful attempt to muir
der his wife. Wednesday evening, John
w. Bowers of Chicago turned a revolver
upon himself, and sent a bullet through
his own brain. dying almost instantly.
About six months ago, Mrs. Bowers left
her husband, and. Wednesday evening,
Bowers called upon her. Failing to effect
a reconciliation, he drew a revolver and
fired o. shot at her. She ran into the
street, when Bowers killed himself
The Cincinnati Price Current summarizes
the crop conditions for the past week as
follows: Little or no better outlook is in
licated for Illinois wheat and where it
has been reported heretofore in Indiana
md Missouri. The situation is generally
otherwise. The season isl
backward for oats and corn
Recent enlarged marketing of wheat in
central regions appears to be abating.
Cambridge Springs, a health resort
about Is miles from Meadville, Ga,
vas almost entirely destroyed by fire,
involving loss Of one lifai
md a property loss of 100000. Thirty
business houses and a dozen residences