Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-05-29
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

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wis. early Friday 1t Is estimated that
the loss viii be $50 GOO The Northern
Grain Mercantile Company flour mill
IS Ia ruins as 4 result. also residences
and boat houses adjoining.
The leaders Of ahe Democratic party In
washington state. declare their intention
10 resclnd the fusion 81 the last cam
uaig,n reorgantzc the Democrats and cor
tltset future campaigns upon the chicago
platform. A general meeting Of Demo
cratic committeeman has been called 70
This end to meet ai Spokane. June H.
A number Of people who have been
interviewed by representatives of the
Paris GauloIs on the subject OF EN-
peror william of Germany, visiting
Paris during the exhibition OF 1900
agree that his visit is inadvlsable, 50
long as the question OF Alsace-Lorraine
exists.
II was announced at Somerswort1.
\. H.. Friday. that beginning June /.
the mills Of the Great Fails Cotton Man
uFacturing Company will run on ~
hours a week time. They have been
running in full for some months. hut
find they have large surplus stock on
hand, and will run on reduced time un-
I'll the surplus IL ilSifbSfA VI
A traffic agreement has been made be-
tween the MerchaTEs' and Miners Irans-
poTtatson Co. and the Ocean Steampship
DO of New York, by which considerable
tonnage will he diverted to Baltimore Tor
Shipment 70 Southern points Under TINS
agreement 2Ae Ocean Steamship Co. WI
withdraw its line from Philadelphia to
Savannah. and the business heretofore
sent over this route win be divided be-
tween the Ocean CO. at New York and
the Merchants ana Miners Line out OF
Baltimore.
The Manchester and Lawrence Rail-
read stockholders at Manchester, =.
H., Friday. elected the following d.
rectors: Charles \. Sinclair. Ports
mouth; George Il. Chandler, Manchcs
ter: John W. Sanborn, Sanbornville.
George w Armstrong. Brookllnc,
Mass: VIM. T.. Fowler. Boston; Sumne I
/ Wallace. Rochester; Amos \. Blandin,
Bath; Hon. Charles a. Sinclair was
chosen president; Henry Chandler,
treasurer and G. e. Gaffney, clerk.
The California Wine Association has
curt the price of California wines for New
Orleans to - cents per gallon. T. .. b. at
san Francisco. which Will in all proba =
bilfty seriously affect the market. SINH
lar cuts have been announced in the New
| York and other Eastern markets. ana the
e,Ihng prices 10 merchants have been
reduced This IS considered to be a Seri-
Gus blow to producers, VINO are Just re-
covering from a long period OF low prices,
but 1t Is held by those Interested that the
| Wine Makers Corporation Will be able 10
meet this cut and bring the threatened
| war 10 an end.
John Il. Johnson late president and
| cashier Of he defunct state National
I Hank of Logausport. Ind, was sen
fenced to 10 years imprisonment in tn
state penitentiary. at 10 o'clock Fri.
| DAY morning, by Judge Baker Of tn
! United States court for the district oil
Indiana There was no sensation and
| Johnson received the words of tha
| fudge without tremor and Mrs. John
son. who was present in the court room
| listened n the sentence without emo
ton. By counting OFF good time John
son will have to serve about seven
| years.
! Mrs Annie Brown, who lives in
! Brcoklyn. tried to kill herself and hel
two children, Friday, in that city. Sh.
| walked into a drug store with her two
sons, Charles and John, ard ordered
| two glasses Of soda water. The drus
clerk gave her the drinks and Wen,
| behind the prescription counter. Then
he heard her say. Goodbye" ana a
minute later the woman and child
we're screaming with pain, caused by a
quantity CT paris green which she had
| put into the soda. It is said that the
woman and her elder son. Charles, who
| is seven years &C age. will die. The
younger, John, has a chance for re-
| covery.
The will of William Lampsen, who
| died at Corning, n. Y, recently and
| left nearly 81 600 900 to Yale University,
will be contested on the ground that
! the testator was of unsound mind. The
| contest will be made by Mrs. Laura
Ann Brooks of ST Paul, Mimi, an aged
aunt of Mr.. Lampson. who is the last
of kin in the first degree, surviving
him. Should she succeed in setting
aside the will, it is said that she would
| receive all of the personal property of
| the estate, which is not far from Sl0J,-
| 000 There are AZ cousins who are cited
| to appear on June %. With the ex-
| ception of $4,000 bequeathed to Butler
| Ward and few minor requests aggre-
eating not more than $4,000, the entire
estate was left to Yale University.