Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-25
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:. M. G., A. ID. e. to Her Majesty, the
,een, at Toronto. Wednesday. He was in
us S6th year. OF late years he had with.
lrawn from active participation In poll
les and public life.
The strike at the Brainard, Shaler &
Hall Quarry Co.. at Portland. Conn.,. was
settled, Wednesday, by the $50 strikers
accepting the offer of the company of 49,.
.ents an hour. The men demanded I.
,ents an hour and have been out on
.trike for about two months.
At the San Quentin mine, In the pro-
rince of Ciudad Real. Spain. 1000 min
RS have gone on strike. Forty gen.
iarmes have been ordered there to
prevent trouble. 1t is believed that the
differences will be speedily arranged.
Judge Robert Motion, who for ~
,ears was judge of the city and civil
ourts at Halifax. N. s.. died. Wednes-
lay, at Providence, r. l. He had been
IN invalid for a long time and was
aiken to that section of the country
With the hopes that he might be bene-
tilted.
Two fishing schooners which arrived
1t Gloucester Mass, Wednesday. from
luero Bank. each reported the find
ng Of victims Of the BourgOgne dis
lster. In each case the body after be-
ng thoroughly examined was sewn up
canvass. weighted and then con-
signed to the deep.
The exhuming Of the body OF George
W. Otis. who died last spring and was
buried on his farm at the foot of the
Blue Job mountain. in Pennington. N.
L.. has caused much excitement in that
own. 1t Is alleged that he met violent
tf.at md .Nf t,n N,fc If fra
,xhumed body have been sent to Prof.
Woods of Harvard College for analysis,
IN the suppositiOn that poison was used.
Patrick Moran. a weaver in Kun
lardt's mills, died at the hospital at
lawrence. Mass, Wednesday evening,
rom the effects Of the heat. The 1un-
fortunate man was stricken at his
work. Several cases of prostration are
exported in the city. and Wednesday
vas by long odds the hottest of the
year. a.
Word was received at Boston, Wsdnes-
lay. of the death of David Nevins or New
MS T. Co., commission merchants, Boston.
in Badmanheim. Germany, Wednesday.
Mr. Nevins. it is said. was not in the best
IF health, and had been travelling abroad
tor the past six weeks. The immediate
cause of his death is attributed to heart
d
daughter. He was born in Methuen,
Mass, about 50 years ago.
The officers of the Afro-Methodists
convention at Boston, are announced
as follows. Miss Grace Butler, vice
president: Charles A. C. Beaman, sec
rotary; Miss Oran Yorke, recording
secretary: George Sadler. correspond
ing secretary: Rev. G. II. s. Bell,
treasurer: Rev. T. H. Taylor. confer
ence superintendent of Sunday schools.
The 21st annual New England con-
vention of Sunday School and Chrict-
ian Endeavor Societies of the African
Methodist Episcopal Zion church open
ed, Wednesday. in the Rush A. M. e.
Zion church. Cambridgeport. Mass. The
roll call showed that there were rs
delegates present from Boston, Provi-
dence, Hartford, Cambridge and Port
land.
The German Roman Catholic Central
Societies convention proceeding at Mil
waukee. Wednesday. were somewhat ex-
citing. IAN effor. was made to facilitate
the work Of the future conventions by
cutting down the religious services. One
of the delegates who favored this propo-
sition was roundiy Kissed for several of
be at the future meetings is entirely dis
cretionary with the committees who have
charge of the next convention.
The election for the seat in the English
House of Commons for the Southport d.
vision of Lancashire. 8. W., made vacant
by the acceptance of Mr.. George N. Cur
zon Of the viceroyaltysof India. was held.
Wednesday. and resulted in the return of
Sir Herbert Naylor-I.eyland UiberaD, by
a majority of R72 votes over his Conserva-
tive opponent. Lord Skelmersdale. The
polling was: Sir Herbert Naylor-Leyland
Liberal. 500: Lord Skelmersdale. COnser-
vative. 4S2s. Liberal majority. 272 AT the
last election for the seat. Mr.. Curzon. in
the Conservative interest. was returned
by majority of 764. Lady Naylor-Ley-
land was Miss Jennie. Chamberlain of
Ohio. The result of the cleo
ton is a bad defeat for the government.
Mr. Curzon having held the seat since
1892.
A horrible accident occurred, today,
on the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad at
crossing known as CHEESEMAN'S.
short distance from Petersburg, Va.
Mr.. ]. p. Condrey, prosperous farmer
at Chesterfield county, was returning
home with his wife and little son in
a buggy and when he reached the
crossing the young horse he was driv-
ing became unmanageable and carried
the party upon the track Immediately
in front of the local train from Rich
mond, to Petersburg. All the occu-
pants of the buggy were instantly
killed
Prince Bismarcks brain. according
to the fiattering estimate of the an
t,hrOpolOgiSt Otto. Ammon was DrOh-