Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-01
DAILY KENNEBEC JOURNAL FRIDAY OCTOBER l. 1897.



= The failure Of the Labrador fishery II
complete. The catch Is below even thai
OF last year.
Boatswain James A. McCaffery. u. s
NJ. retired, died at Portsmouth, N. H.
Thursday, aged 20 years. He served
with distinction during the Civil War
and was well known In naval circles.
A special dispatch from Madrid says
that rumor prevails there to the ef-
feet that an important communication
has been received by the Spanish gov
eminent from the leaders Of the Gu
ban insurgents, suggesting the basis OF
possible settlement of the Cuban diff
f1culties.
Isaac Bell. pioneer in the steam
ship business, one of the principal
owners Of the old Dominion Steamship
Line and director in many financial
and art institutes, died at Newport,
Thursday, aged SO years. Mr.. Bell was
well known for his philanthropy. Death
was caused by pneumonia.
Minister Hoshi Of Japan made fare
well call on Secretary Sherman. at Wash
ington. Thursday, before leaving on Mon
day for visit of several months in ia
pan. Secretary Matsui was presented to
Mr.. Sherman as charge d'affaires during
the minister's absence. The call lasted
some time, but was entirely social no
reference being made to the pending Ha-
waiian question In which Japan has ia
ken an interest.
jeremiah T. O'Sullivan, the well
known orator and politician, whose i'll
ness during his recent Incarceration iE
Salem Jail after conviction on a charge
of libel. aroused much sympathy ami
led to O'Sullivan's pardon by the Gov
ernor. is in a critical condition at his
home at Lawrence, Mass. and his
physicians say that he cannot recover
John Brown. William Burns. Michael
Walsh and Thomas McGlinchey. four
boys who were serving terms of imprison-
ment at the Reformatory for Boys at
Rainsford Island. Boston. have escaped
from that institution. The boys ut the
island. who. as general rule. have been
imprisoned for minor offences. are not
kept In close confinement, but are allowed
considerable liberty at the island. The
escape was made In a boat, Wednesday
night.
A brisk fire broke out In n three-story
tenement house on Wall street Boston.
Thursday. The fire started in the base
ment and spread rapidly to the upper
third floor. jumped from the window to
the ground and received serious and prob
ably fatal injuries. Samuel Coughfin.
bar tender. who attempted TO catch the
woman as she fell. was severely injured.
The fire caused damages amounting to
several hundred dollars.
The directors OF the Hanover Street
Railway Co. OF Hanover, Mass. have
voted to extend the street railway from
-
filed with the selectmen of Norwell.
Thursday. asking for the right to lay
tracks and operate the line. The length
of the new road will be about three
miles and the building of road in that
section will open up an entirely new
At the flreman's muster at Haverhili.
Mass. Thursday. the Warren Veterans
of Pepperell. Mass. played 1S6 it.. SIX
in; Kennebec Veterans of Brunswick.
Me-. 1856 it,, 6s4 in. One of the principal
features of the day was the drill OF
Troop F. U. s. Cavalry at Riverside
park. A gang of pickpockets was
working in the city. and a dozen or
the police.
A dispatch to the Paris Politique Colo
Male from ST. Petersburg says the Az
CHAN mission to Russia has departed for
home bearing the promise Of Russian sup
port in the event of Great Britain en-
upon the Ameer's territory.
the dispatch says the nego
tiatiOns between Russia and AbyssiEia
with the object of establishing
a league to oppose the British advance
in Africa. and. ii is added. Russia is out
in an attempt to reach an understanding
with the United States. with the view of
arresting the extension of the British en-
pire in the Pacific.
The announcement of the sale of the
Union Pacific Railroad property by Spe-
cial Master w. d. Cornish, under the first
mortgage foreclosure, and under the gov
public Thursday. The sale of the prop
erty covered by the subsidy mortgage
will be held in Omaha. Nov. /. and will be
one parcel. A deposit of 100000 cash
five days before the sale. will be required
from each bidder and the upset price is
SIS 100000 The sale of the property en-
braced under the first mortgage Is an
for Nov. 2. at Omaha. This will
also be sold in one parcel.
The through east-bound freight fol
Boston, due at Willimantic, CT, at
A. NJ, over the New England Railroad
was partially wrecked at 100 A. NJ. |
Thursday, three miles west of Wilt |
mantle. The train was moving at thu |
rate of 80 miles an hour when it brok, |
in two. The forward section slackened |
and the second crashed into it. Three |
cars were thrown from the track an6 |
two of them were practically demol |
ished. No one was injured. Traffic |
was resumed completely at A. NJ.
The sealing schooner Casco. just re-
turned to Victoria, B. c.. after ter
months cruise Off the Jaran coast |
Coffee islands and the Komandorsk'
island, brings news that seals are very
scarce and scattered. While last sea-
son they were to be found in herds by
the hundreds, as many as ten have not
been seen together this year. Catches
have consequently been very small
None Of the schooners running to thu
Copper islands has taken more thar
300 skins this year. The cause Of The
scattered condition of the herds is at
tributed to the abundance of food. Or
her way home the Casco spoke the
schooner Carlotta G. Cox. which gav'
news of the Behring sea fleet. No par
ticulars were learned other than the
fact that very poor catches had beer
made there also.