Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-20
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The Car, Monday: attended parade
of the troops at St. Petersburg. His
presence has quieted the rumors regard
ing the condition of his health
1t is very doubtful if Nine. Melba will
pc heard again this season in America
either in opera or concert She will not
appear again in public until she has fully
recovered from the attack of influenza
from which she has been suffering for
several weeks.
laine. the millionaire philanthropist of
Boston. is coming to Chicago next week
to e, assist the bureau of charities of the
anthropy which it is to inaugurate in aid
OF the destitute poor of the city.
The schooner Jenny Greenback. which
capsized east OF of York hubble. Monday
afternoon. could be seen. Tuesday, in
ter occurred. A tug boat went out from
Portsmouth and an attempt will be made
to tow the disabled craft into the lower
harbor. The name of the cook. who was
as first stated. He belonged in Thomas
ton. was "a years old and unmarried His
body has not been recovered.
The trial of Edward j. Ivory. the al
legged irish-Ameriean dynamite eonspira-
tor. was resumed at London. Tuesday.
Contrary to expectations. there were
very few spectators in the court room
when the proceedings began. Among the
VI.
Sheldon. Dr. Coutts, G. Z. Hammond and
j. NJ. G.. Shaw. A female clerk in the
Glasgow hotel. at which Ivory stopped
testified to the prisoner having received
kilograms from Boulogne France where
he said he had friends.
Ernest Dedring. 81 years of age. mar
ried and living at % Boylston avenue
Jamaica Plain. Mass. was found dead
of his residence, having been frozen to
death 1t seems that Dedring was out
Monday night. with some friends, and
that late in the night they accompanied
he got into the house, they left him in
the back yard near the door. He was
under the influence o.
liquor, the police state.
The New York Morning Advertiser
says: Where the United States cruiser
stuck off Governors fslant
on Tuesday last. the navy yard tug Mar
keeta made soundings.. Monday. under
the tug was Capt. Royal N. Bradford of
the cruiser. An officer ON the tug in
formed a reporter for the Advertiser tina
the soundings showed that the grounding
or ignorance. The office
confirmed the report that a commission
would be appointed to inquire into the
of the Montgomery mis-
hap.
A rather startling development ir
with the failure of the First
National Bank of Newport. Ky. is tina.
John Trapp. ex-sheriff of the county
who was elected president of the bank q
week ago. to succeed DR.. Gunkel. who
resigned. refused to accept
he office unless the banks affairs wer
thoroughly investigated. 1t seems tina
:. w. Nadel who was elected to succeed
ioutsey as cashier. had made sufficien
investigation himself to warrant him IL |
his friend Trapp that all was
not it should be. Therefore the bank |
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week. |
Hundreds of Eastern people. who Sc |
,ured divorces in Oklahoma, Slipped GU |
II the territory without paying the costs |
Known of. provides that no divorc |
granted in the territory shall be valid |
inless the costs are all paid. and whe; |
divorce is granted it becomes effective |
or either party only when the costs have |
been fully satisfied no matter against |
whom assessed Hundreds of such d.
-ofces on the court records Will soon be /
and. as many of the parties |
lave since been married. it will leave |
hem guilty of bigamy and open to Grim
nal prosecution.
The New Hampshire bank commission
tuesday, made its annual report of the
arious financial institutions of the stat |
o the Governor. The list includes two |
tate banks, IS savings banks. u trust
ompanies and 10 building and loan asso
iations. OF the 10 savings banks. nine
re in the hands of assignees six are in
liquidation under the manage
nent of their officers. and 10 are .enjoined
rom receiving or paying deposits. Two
# the trust companies are liquidating
heir savings department and Il third is
n the hands of an assignee. The latter
$ the case with one of the building and
pan associations. The assets of the saw
ngs banks aggregate $6S.312 $3.50. a de-
rease for the year of $3.3g92 I5; deposits.
IS, 215 It's, a decrease of 1888, 527; amount |
t Western loans. $1932O. ass. a decrease of
/ .S1S,024. or in a greater ratio than the
decrease in deposits. Total number of
epositors, $l62.444, a decrease of 1858 for
he year.