Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-05-13
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territorial dispute to the arbitration Of
Spain.
Commodore Roosevelt. assistant seq.
rotary of the navy. arrived at Briaga.
port. CT. Wednesday, and was con
veyed on the torpedo boat Porter IA tbe
Nashville, where he inspected the new
vessel
Harry w. Noble of Naugatuck. Conn
brought suit against DR.. James w
Robbins, prominent physician there
claiming $4,000 damages for the alleo-
ed alienation of Mrs. Mobiles affections
The service of the paper has created n
sensation.
a. Troy, N. Y, dispatch SAYS:
About $50 feet of the bank of the
Champlain canal gave way at mid
night, Tuesday, and it win be several
days before boats can pass through
that waterway. The estimated loss to
the state is 1000.
Fire at Northampton, Mass. early
Wednesday,. damaged the building and
stock of the Hampshire Cycle Co. to
the extent of 1000. The blaze started
near the boiler on the ground floor and
destroyed the west end of the building.
The loss is covered by insurance.
James Dodge of Pembroke n H.. a
prominent farmer died at his home.
Wednesday, aged 6S years Death was
due to heart failure. Mr.. Dodge had
served as seiectman and on the board Of
educa tion for several years. His farm IL,
reputed to be one of the finest in the
state. He is survived by his wife. two
sons and "a daughter.
Sailors along the Welland canal want
the Dominion government to pass a
retaliation law that will require Amer
lean vessels to ship Canadian crews to
take them through the canal. Cana
dian seamen claim they are shut out
in every way even train crews being
changed as soon as the line is crossed
VIM. II. Fay, president of the First
National Bank Marlboro, Mass, died
after a long illness, Tuesday The
cause of death was heart disease Mr.
Fay was 76 years old. and had been
identified with the business interests
of Marlboro for many years. He was
chosen president of the bank II years
ago. He is survived by his wife and
| a daughter.
The bureau of the American Repub
| lies at Washington, has received reli
| able information that in the latter par
| Of April a commission composed of j
cavalry officers and six veterinary sur
| geons left England for the city O
Buenos Ayres for the purpose of buyinf
Il large number of horses in the Argen
| tine republic to be used in .he cavalr.
service of the English army.
Ia, h. e II
Patrick & CO.. which occupies a strip OF
| land on Sixth avenue. south between c
and X streets. ut sun Francisco, Wednes-
| day. and TWO hours later there was little
| left but the ruins. The loss ITO plant and
stock Is estimated from Si00. 900 to Si25. 0D0
, with insurance of 5000 coo. The buildings
destroyed numbered 10 all frame struct-
nres. Almost simultaneously five tene-
ment houses on Tenement hill were
burned. The families occupying then
barely escaped with their lives Los.
about Sio.o00.
Col. u. s. Hartman, who has been
recognized at Kansas City, Mo, as the
Western representative of the Cuban
Juntl in this country. is authority for the
statement that $50 men have been re-
cruited for the Cuban army in Kansas
Cry and vicinity. and are now waiting
ITO be transported To Cuban soil, Many
of these recruits have already made their
way to the Gulf coast, he says. and ar
engagements have been made to send
them all to Cuba between now and next
fall, when the yellow fever season in
Cuba viii have been passed. Col Harri-
man also states that an American Yolun-
foer legion of 2I000 are now being re-
cruitcd at various points in this country
for service with the Cuban patriots.
Sir Donald Smith, the Canadian high
commissioner. in an interview with q
representative of The Associated Press
al London, Wednesday, said he was
hopeful the fast steamships between
Canada and Great Britain would bt
running within two years. In regard
to the tariff, Sir Donald Smith remarked
that it was nothing but the accentua-
ton of Canada's attachment to Great
Britain, with which she desires the
closest possible commercial relations
certainly with no feeling of hostility to
the United States, with which country
Canada is eager for real reciprocity.
W. Fl. Hasar, until recently a clerk
for George Z. BuzZell. a shoe dealer OF
Dover, n. H., by whom he had been
employed for the past six years. was
arrested, Wednesday, charged with
having appropriated sums of money
aggregating $500, from his employer
during the last three years. Hagar was
arraigned in the police court after his
arrest. and pleaded not guilty, and was
placed under $500 bonds for a further
hearing. The prisoner is popular
young man and was not known to have
had any bad habits. He has not lived
extravagantly and it is a mystery wha,
he has done with the money.
Elmer Clawson was hanged in thl
Jail at Somerville, N. j., at 1907 A. NJ
Wednesday for the murder of his EN-
ployer, Harry Hodgett, August %, 1896
The murder, on the morning of the
crime, asked Hodgett to re-employ him;
and, on the formers refusal to do so
quarrel began Clawson drew re-
volver and fired three shots at his
victim, two of which t )ok effect Then,
mounting a wheel, the murderer rode
away. Hodgett lived but five minutes
the bullets having entered near the
heart. ClaWson was pursued ana
caught without resistance. The case
was taken to the court of appeals, but
was sustained.