Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-04-27
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Fire in the Standard Vinegar Co 9
works and Somerville Iron Works at
East Somerville, Mass, Sunday diu
$4,000 damage; partially insured.
Edwin Fl. Barry, So years old. who for TO,
many years was an engineer ll e,lp,oH Msrd ID
fired a bullet into his left side; sunday
from the effect of which he died
Charles Mahoney, a government de-
tcctive from Windsor, ont, was shot
and fatally wounded, Sunday, while at
tempting to capture par OF neSro
robbers at Belle River, Ont.
Shepherd Thayer, aged II, one of the
most prominent citizens of North
Adams, Mass, died, Sunday. Friday,
he sustained a shock of paralysis, re-
manning unconscious until his death.
Thomas O'Corner was stabbed in the
left eye in the Brookside saloon on Cor
ham street. Lowell. Saturday night: by
Menry Silk, an English operative. II is
alleged, and has lost the slght OF MS eye
Edwin Morse, the veteran pool seller
and book1naker, widely known among
1ace track habitues, died of heart
trouble at his residence in North Cam
bridge, Mass, Sunday night, aged DO
years.
Rear Admiral Richard w. Meade, T..
S. N, retired, is seriously ill at Dr..
Joseph Tabor Johnsons hospital in
Farragut square, Washington, although
his condition, Saturday, was consider
ably improved.
The body of Walter C. Abbott of Conan
street Salem. was picked up in the river
at Beverly. Sunday. Abbott was known
for some time to have been temporarily
it,vn md iC c1;nnncpd
mitted suicide while in that condition.
A banquet was given. Saturday night
by the Montauk Club of Brooklyn, to
Hon. Chauncey NJ: Depew, in celebration
course. &C rise was made by Mr.. Depew himself
In it he referred to the financial CUES
ton.
Buchanan Schley, surveyor of GUS
toms in Baltimore, has been removed
from office by President Mckinley. II
is charged at the treasury department
that Mr. Schley has wholly neglected
his duties during the last year.
What is regarded as an important ar
rest by the authorities has just been
made at Paris, an Englishman named
Halford being locked up. Assisted b.
an American named Gill he is accused
through series of robberies, of OBJ
tanning nearly $4,000 by means of va
rious confidence tricks.
Antonio Maxine Mora, who. after o
quarter of a century of personal and
international contention. received iii
1895 from the Spanish government
1899, ,509.76 in settlement Of "a claim for
the confscation of his property in
cuba, died. Saturday, in his apart
,nents in the Hotel Grenoble, No. 200
West 57th street, New York.
Labor Agitator William kershaw,
was sent to the house Of correction in
New Bedford, Saturday, for 20 days fer
refusing to pay his poll tax. While
addressing a crowd in the South Park
during a strike several years ago ker-
shaw was assaulted, and since that
time he has refused to pay poll tax
to city (which will not afford him
police protection" He was committed,
and served 20 days, last year, for the
same offence.
Judge F.. d. Ely of Boston, Saturday,
filed his report on the gas explosion at
the corner of fremont and Boyston
streets. Boston, March 4. The inquest was
held to ascertain the cause of the death
of William 4. Start, and Judge Ely con-
dennis the Boston Gaslight Co. in these
words: In my Judgment, the facts here
inhcfore stated requires me to find, and
do find. that the negligence of the l'o5-
ton Gaslight Company is gross and mex
cusible. therefore find that the death
of said William a. Start resulted from
the unlawful act of the Boston Gaslight
Company"
William Jennings Bryan will. if the
plans of the plaintiff are carried out
play IN important part in a civil action
which was begun Saturday in the Third
District court before Judge Moore. to re-
cover $12o from the New York Bmetallic
Association. A. Van Beuren Il Co.. litho
graphers and bill posters. of Nos 12S anc
% re'h pegn ang nnry I tHe Sans
dent of the association. is made a CO
defendant. The plaintiffs allege that earl,
in February they printed and caused t'
be posted in CONSPICUOUS parts of the city
1000 three-sheet posters announcing /
series of lectures to be given under tn
auspices of the Bimetallic League. Mr.
Brvan delivered two of the lectures. TIL,
bill for posting, it is alleged. has not beer
paid and Mr.. Bryan will be called us
witness.-New York Herald.
"a company headed by Mrs. Gen
Tom Thumb mourns the sudden dis
appearance of Arthur Vaughan, VIII
has been acting as its manager. II
was last seen. Thursday at PlaistoM
Mass, where the company played to
full house, and it is alleged that whe
he disappeared he took the funds, leav
ing members of the company to settl
blllS out OF their lndlVldual purses.
is also stated that three ponies belong
ing to the company We're taken from
stable by n printer in Exeter. n. ii
to whom Vaughan was heavily in
debted. The members of the compan
state that they have been playing t
good houses and will continue thei
circuit.
Cashier Harry w. Cassin CT tn
Georgia Loan, Savings & Banking 20
has misappropriated about $4,000 &
the institutions funds. He has alway
been known as a young man of eS
emplary habits and fine business qua
ifications, but he applied the bank
funds to private enterprises and los
all. He sent good money after ba;
until finally his defalcations reache
the sum above stated, and discover
followed. Friends and relatives of tt
young man have made up the shortag Q
ana the bank will not lose a dollar
the sum stolen. Young Cassin will NJ
ne prosecuted. His connection with II
Co