The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-01-21

solute divorce from his wife. DR.. Tinker
was named as CO. respondent. 4. Collector
of Customs Bisbee of Jacksonville, Fla
has received instructions from Washing
ton to refuse clearance to the steamer
Dauntless, the master of which applied
for clearance for Neuvitas, Cuba, with a
cargo of arms and ammunition for Cuba.
.....Prof. James Crafts of the chemical
department of the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology was Jan. 18th, chosen tenn
porary chairman by the faculty. This
choice must be confirmed by the execu-
tive of the corporation. The nomina-
ton of Count Muravief for the office of
minister of foreign affairs of Russia.
created considerable surprise The new
minister is in favor of a pacific policy
Count Muravief is pronouncedly anti Ger
man in his views and a great admirer of
the French DR. Richard c. Flower, in
solvent debtor, Jan. 18TH filed sched-
ule in the Suffolk, Mass, insolvency
court. The liabilities are S273, 600, of
which approximated S113, 600 are un-
disputed. His assets consist of real estate
and large number of shares of various
stocks and bonds of uncertain value...
The deep waterways commission appoint
ed by President Cleveland in November,
ls93 has finished its report and submitted
the same to Secretary Olney. The report
is an unqualified endorsement Of the ship
canal project between the United States
and Canada. A Colon despatch says the
Panama Canal Co. is further increasing
the force of laboIers now at work on the
canal, and so more men are expected to
arrive shortly from Carthagena. :. The
Orange City Bank of jacksonville, Fla
a private institution of which John E.
Stillman is president, has closed its doors
and Il. 5. Leavitt of Orange City, the
assignee, is now in charge. No statement
of the assets or liabilities of the bank has
yet been announced. %. The Congregational
Educational Society, Rev James Haml-
ton, D. D., secretary, has issued an appeal
for the observance of the day of prayer
for colleges, January Is, 1897. The last
Thursday in January is now generally rec
ognized by the churches of different de-
nominations as day of special prayer for
the young men and women in the institu-
tions of learning. Gov. Budd of Califor-
mia, Friday, issued proclamation declar-
ing Saturday legal holiday to celebrate
the defeat the Pacific railroad funding bill
i'll the House of Representatives ;. A de-
spatch from Rome says that Count Cassell,
the Pope's private chamberlain, died Jan.
1OlH..... L ne nllk producers union OF New
England held its annual meeting at the
United States hotel, Boston, Friday, with
two hundred and seventy-two of the two
thousand members present. An attempt
to oust the old officers was unsuccessful
The secretary's report showed for 1896
increased receipts of milk without a cor
responding increase III consumption,
John Hall of Maine was chosen direc-
tor. Emperor William has conferred the
decoration of the order of the Red Eagle
on President Diaz OF Mexico....... The
Rhode Island supreme court has decided
the interesting financial question which
Gov. Lippitt propounded a short time ago
as whether the State could anticipate dur
ing one year the taxes payable in the
next. The court says the moneys may at
any time be appropriated and paid out in
anticipation of revenue to come in later
from any source. The decision is acquies-
ced in by the full bench. .... Joseph Will
lard, owner of the well-known willard $
hotel at Washington, died Sunday morn
ing, aged about eighty. Mr.. Willard was
a native of Vermont.