Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-02-18
CONDENSED pIspAIcaEs.

CONDENSED DlsPATcAEs.
The New York Senate, Wednesday.
passed bill providing that persons con-
more lives are lost. shall be guilty of
murder In the first degree.
At Salem. Mass. Wednesday, VIM.
Kennedy was sentenced to imprison-
ment for, life, for the murder of Albert
f. Laroyd at Danvers. Mass. Nov.
g. 1896.
The conference between the national
executive committee of the Window Glass
Trust and Eastern importers and job
bers. called for Wednesday, at the Inn
perial hotel. New York, has been in
definitely postponed.
farmer living east OF Greensburg. Ind.
was found, Tuesday evening, in q wood
a mile from his house. He had been muir
dered in the road, robbed of $50 and hid
in the timber
After lying In state in st. Thomas
Episcopal church at Taunton. Mass. for
nearly "a hours In the care of a guard of
honor. the remains Of Major General
ant cemetery. Wednesday,. The funeral
was public.
The creditors of the Amesbury Carriage
Co. of Amesbury. Mass. which assigned
some three months ago. have accepted
90 cents on II dollar in settlement. Loud
4 Bachelor. carriage manufacturers OF
Merrimac, have been attached in the sum
og $1,000 by !. b. Little of that town.
George b. Browne. aged g.. of the old
firm of HOgg. Brown & Taylor. Boston
dry goods merchants for many years,
died at his homestead In Birmingham
Centre. Mass, Wednesday, The deceased
was Il representative TO the general court
in 1880 and president OF the MiddIesex
2onth Agricultural CncfatV from tk7O IN
1872.
Benjamin o. Flower, formerly editor
| and treasurer of the Arena Magazine
Publishing Co. and c. Seldom. Smart.
pany. were arraigned in the municipal
court, Boston. Wednesday, charged with
embeZzlng $500 from II. ID. Campbell OF
| Lynn. Both pleaded not guilty. and the
| case was adjourned for week.
The Kansas Senate has adopted the
concurrent resolutions proposed by United
States Senator-elect Harris. declaring the
proposed arbitration treaty between this
necessary nor wise, but inimical to the
best interests of this government and AL
so requesting the Kansas senators in
Congress to stenuously oppose the meas
are.
The 18th annual convention OF the Ma
tional Editorial Association was opened
at Galveston. Texas. Tuesday. Over 900
delegates were present when President
InOH1IS called tne convention 10 OTueT.
Mayor Fly on behalf of the city and
President Ballo on. behalf of the Texas
Press Association. welcomed the visitors.
and u. p. Herbert. founder of the associa
ton. responded. e
The Madrid El Dia. in an article on the
political situation. asserts in the most
positive terms that u ministerial crisis is
impending and that ii is possible that
Senior Sagasta will return to the premier
ship. The paper also says that there is
a likelihood that General Ramon Blanco.
late governor general of the Philippine
Islands. will replace General Weyler as
captain general of Cuba. f
A telegram was received at Middletown.
Ct. Wednesday from Captain Hamilton
of the schooner Howard II. Peck. MISS
ing for a month. saying that she arrived
at her destination. Darien. Ga. Tuesday
night. The vessel was blown across the
Gulf of Mexico. the telegram says. three
times in the last three weeks. All hands
are safe and none of the cargo was lost.
The conference to decide upon
measures to prevent the introduction
of the bubonic plague into Europe and
to take other action in regard to the
disease. opened at Venice, Tuesday.
Count BONN Iongare. under foreign
secretary, presided and welcomed the
delegates in the name of King Hum
bert.
The trial of Captain John d. Hart. the
steamship agent, at Philadelphia. ac-
cused of setting on foot and devising
means. last summer, for a military ex-
pedition on the steamship Laurada to
land men and arm to aid the Cubans in
the insurrection against Spain. was re-
N the stvtss sTes
to having taken out stores and supplies
to the Laurada as she lay in the river.
but nothing of particular Importance to
connect Captain Hart with the expedition
was developed.
Another forged check for $71.25 was re-
ceived at Amesbury, Mass. Wednesday.
making three checks within the past past
two DAYS, ana; ana tn. s,e asgregate amount be-
on regular blank form of the Ames-
hurry National Bank. is made payable to
W. Y. Everson and is signed John A.
Bartlett" 1t is certified across the face
with his regular stamp in red ink with
the name of George r. Gale, written in.
followed by the word cashier, which is
forged.T The check came through the
Winthrop National Bank of Boston.
Nothing has been heard from the
schooner Lizzie j. Green leaf that sailed
from Gloucester. Mass. Dec. 30. to the
Grand bank on a fresh halibut trip. since
the arrivals of the schooners George
Campbell and Gladiator, who reported
they had seen here more than three
with a fare of 1900 pounds of halibut.
The owner has abandoned all hope of her
ever returning. She carried n crew of Is
men, which was looked upon as one of
the best that ever sailed from Gloucester.
had as commander an experienced navi-
gator.
The National Bank of Redemption of
Boston, Ohio has sued u. 4. Lewis. the
alleged absconding bond forger; for sio,-
T,S. balance due on q note of $lS. 900. which
the plaintiff AYERS was fraudulently and
erilninaliy CONTRACTED. Lewis put up 80,
QUO Of Hardin and Adams county forged
June 5. 1886. Sheriff McLain. the Third
National Bank Of Dayton. and w. r.
Warnock are made parties defendant and
money in their possession arriving from
the sale of Lewiss property is attached.
This suit will be followed by one later of
a. more sensation4, character. Evidence
is accommodating tosshow that Lewis Is in
communication with interested parties.
and 1t is said a well-known citizen Of
Columbus. who is q creditor recently hem
conference with him at Richmond. Ind.
The Pressure Isle farmer who de-