Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-09-18

NEWS ) NUGGETS.
Brought BY the Wires from North, East
South and West.

| The body of Mrs. Mcdonald of West
Hoboken. was found by diver. Friday
| in the saloon of the steamer Catskiil
| which collided with the st. Johns in the
Hudson river, at New York. Wednesday
| night. ss
The navy department has received the
official report Of Chief Engineer Rocker
| the expert member of the naval trial
boaru, upon the recent trial of the tor
pedo boat Dupont. On the report the de.
partment has decided to accept the boat
| from the contractors, the Herreshoffs OF
Bristol.
The Hooley-Jameson. syndicate ~
| Shanghai. has concluded negotiations by
| which it will take up G16,0O0OOO ($SO OOO. .OOo)
of 5 per cent. bonds which the Chinese
government will issue at 81. Representa-
| tives of the syndicate will go to Pekin
Monday, in order to secure the necessary
| imperial edict. te
w. II. Lever, president OF Lever Bros.
Limited the soap manufacturers of Liy-
erpool England, will sail from that city
for New York, Oct l3, to arrange for the
| erection of factory in this country. The
decision to build a factory is caused by
the new tariff law. which has doubled the
duty on laundry soaps
Major Carter of indianapolis. Thomas
B. Porter and A. l.. Gallagher, prominent
| secret service men. assisted by Sheriff
Green, made one of the most important
captures of counterfeiters for years in
the arrest of Henry w. Brown, a photo-
grapher of Valparaiso, Ind, and Theo-
dore Hanson, a farmers boy. The entire
outfit for making money was found to-
gether with ST. 81 anu S bills of their
work. Brown is said to be an Anarchist
and was intimate with Noebe and Par
sons at the time of the Haymarket riot.
On the last day of the eighth annual
convention of the National Association of
Life Underwriters, at Milwaukee, c. A.
Leveland, actuary of the Northwest Mu-
tual Insurance Co. of Milwaukee. deliv-
cred an address on THE Relations of the
Agent to the Home Office Management. :"
officers were elected as follows: Presi-
dent, Charles w. Fickell, Detroit; secre-
tary, e. w. Cristy, Cleveland: treasurer,
Eli ID. Weeks of Litchtield, CT. executive
l.. l. Register of Philadelphia, John f.
ley of New York, J. w. Smith of ST. Paul
Benz Williams of Chicago.
John Grove and T.. II. Stonhouse have
toppled from handsomely furnished
business office into cell in the Central
at Y Pacific avenue they are known as
70. e! Todd & Sons. members of the
board of trade. with an over supply of
personal notes which they were prepared
to sell at a discount. At their homes
and among their friends they were John
Grove and h. H. Stonehouse, private de-
tectives. The men masqueraded in this
manner it is stated for three weeks
During that time the real Edward E.
Todd who is feed dealer at 1913 Wabas sh
avenue. and his son. were quietly con-
Quoting their business and congratulatins
themselves that they had no outstanding
notes. The amount involved is about
$4,000.
According to telegram received at
Prospero Morales has been chosen as
chief of the rebel forces in the Guate-
mala revolution. which Is taken as in
dicating that he will be Guatemala's
next President. Barrios gained the en-
nifty of Morales by relieving him of
the position of minister Of war, mere
ly it is claimed, because the latter was
too popular. In view Of Barrios hav-
ing chartered a steamer from the Pacific
Mail Company which has been lying at
San Jose da Gutemala with steam up,
it is thought he will follow the example
of Exeta, of Salvador, and leave the
enemy in undisputed possession before
escape to the coast is cut off.
Subsequent to the expulsion from
Brussels of Louise Michael, the French
anarchist, and hers two companions
Charlotte Fauville and Brousson Louix
who had come there for the purpose Of
making fortnight's speech-making
tour in aid of the families of the an
archists executed at, Mont Juich fort
ress. Barcelona for the bomb throwing
outrage during the celebration of the
feast of Corpus Christi in Barcelona, in
June of last year, and in aid also of
the anarchists eXiled for completely in
the crime. the police arrested Is per-
sons who were suspected of being an
archists. The police also. with drawn
swords, dispersed several bands who
were parading the streets shouting and
cheering for anarchy. Some of these
bands were marching in the direction
of the Spanish embassy when dispersed
by the authorities.