Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-31
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Mayor Harrison has issued an order
prohibiting public boxing exhibitions in
Chicago.
The employees of a number of the Lee
high and Wilkesbarre Coal Cos. mines at
Honeybrook, Pa, went on strike,
Wednesday.
Word was received at the Office of
George Gould at New York, Wednesday.
that the Countess Castelane. formerly
Anna Gould. gave birth to son, Tues
day afternoon.
The Berlin Tageblatt says Prince Henry
of Prussia win visit the Mikado and the
King of Corea. Its Kiel correspondent
says a further force of marines will start
for China in January
The plant of the f. G. Austin Manufac-
turing Co.. makers of agricultural imple-
ments. CT cage, was destroyed by fire.
"Wednesday night. Loss $4,000, covered
by insurance. Frank Sutton, an en-
ployee, was burned to death.
The collapse of an old warehouse
building on B street S. E., Washing
ton, Wednesday, caused the death Of
c. c. .Hesler, bricklayer, and the Sc
rious injury of several others.
The Madrid correspondent of the Lon
don Daily Mail says Gen. Weyler's me-
President McKinley's message, is a mild
protest. signed by himself alone. He
was unable to persuade other officers to
sign it.
Earth tremors were recorded in the
observatory at Toronto, Ont. Wednes-
day at 6.35 A. NJ, on the seismograph.
The first shock was strong and was
followed by others, continuing some 20
minutes.
1t is reported at Shanghai that the ad-
miral of the French fleet has hoisted the
French flag on Hal Nan island, between
the China sea and the Gulf of Tonquin.
The Chinese offered no opposition. A dis
patch to the London Daily Mail from
Singapore confirms the report of the seiz-
ure of Hal Nan island by the French.
A 10O-horse power boiler in No. mill of
the Griswoldville Manufacturing Co. at
GriswoldvilEe. town of Colrain. Mass, ex-
pioded. about 7.30 Z. NJ. Wednesday. The
night Waterman and fireman, Frederick
Scheiffler. is missing and is supposed to
be buried beneath the ruins. He was 10
years old and had wife and four chill
dren.
General w. a. Bancroft, vice president
of the Boston Elevated Railroad CO.. will
assume the control of the West End
Railway. at Boston. Thursday. and from
that time to the expiration of the West
End-Elevated lease, the West End BOARD
will be operated as Il portion of the sys-
TEN of the Elevated Company. He will
De superintendent. ,..r
Elton johnson. aged 30. attempted TO
murder Ernest Fellows. Mrs. Fellows and
their 13-year-old son Frank. by shooting
them at their home at Camden. n. j.,
Wednesday night. He dangerously
wounded Fellows and inflicted a slight
wound in the boys thigh and afterward
wounded Mrs. Fellows. Johnson then
shot himself, dying instantly.
John Burnham. ex-member of Parlia-
ment and Queens councillor, committed
suicide by drowning, at PGterboro. Ont,
Wednesday. He had suffered for months
from insomnia. His wife found note
from him saying he could not longer
stand the strain. His footsteps We're
traced through the snow to the river,
where his body was found beneath the
ice.
BY order of the United district court
the remaining assets of the defunct Nav
erick National Bank of Boston. We're sold
at auction, Wednesday. by r. l.. Day Il
Co The securities, which were in the
nature of unpaid notes. executions and
judgments amounting to 81. 095. $50, brought
high as $4,000 and one was for $i02, %
which after selling the collateral had
been reduced by the receiver to $S76,090.
Many of the notes were signed by office
boys and persons of no financial RESPONSE
bility Among the assets put up at auc-
ton were SIS, 600 in claims for assessments
on the stock of the bank which have not
been paid.