Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-09-24
NEWS NUGGETS.
Drought by The Wires from North. East.
South and West.

Maria Meade, a woman of Lawrence,
Mas wh dong noes court rirbs
drowning in the South canal. The body
was found, Friday.
About 30 houses and small business
buildings in Panama were destroyed by
conflagration is not known. Demonstra-
tons have taken place at Baranquilla
and Cartagena expressing satisfaction
with the withdrawal of the italian consul
and the severance of diplomatic relations
with Italyas ssS
Seventy men were entombed. Friday, In
the Empire mine, owned by Snowden.
Gould & Co.. onc-fourtn of mile below
plosion of gas, followed by another explo-
sion of fire damp. OF the number en-
tombed all escaped or were taken out by
killed outright, and three more or less
hurt.
The hard rain on Wednesday night
and Thursday putoan end to the race
meet of the Terre Haute Trotting Assu-
citation. Star Pointer will be shipped
from Terre Haute, Saturday, to
Springfield, His, where he will so
against his record at the state fair
grounds.
The first contract in connection with
the new elevated railroad system of
the Boston Elevated Railway Co. was
awarded at Boston, Friday. for the
section across the new bridge TO
Charlestown. This section will be
about 1900 feet in length and the work
is to be completed Jan. l.
Upon recommendation of the board
IF pardons, Gov. Tunnell of Delaware,
has committed the sentence of death
imposed upon William Fischer. for
mer negro preacher, to life imprison-
ment. Fischer was convicted for en-
tering the house of Mrs. Maria Hunt
in Wilmington, at night, with intent
to commit assault. Fischer was to
have been hanged on Oct. 18th.
The Chinese minister was seen at the
legation at Washington, Friday, and
talked freely concerning the Emperor
edct surrendering his power. He said
there was no secretcy about it. nothing
to indicate that 1t was a triumph of
one foreign element over another and
that its essential purpose was TO
strengthen China herself at a time
when serious foreign problems were
presented.
Assistant Secretary Howell has issued
a circular reclassifying calfskins and
hides for customs purposes. Under the
present law calfskins are admitted free
of duty and hides pay a duty of 10 per
cent. ad valorem. BY the new classifi-
cation % pounds in weight is made the
dividing line between calfskins and hides
when green salted and u pounds as the
dividing line between dry hides and
skins. If green skin weighs Is pounds
or more. II is to be classed as a hide. and
be regarded as a calfskin. If dry. Il
pounds is to be the dividing line. Under
the old ruling u pounds was the dividing
line in classifying wet skins, 10 pounds
when wet sailed, IA pounds when dry
sailed and pounds when flint dry.
At meeting of the ingram carpet
spinners. held at Philadelphia, an alb
solute shut down of the mills repre-
scented was decided upon. This action
is taken because of the produce
ton of yarn. At the present time,
owing to unusual conditions in the car
pet business. large per cent. of the
ingram looms are not running. While
the looms have been shutting down,
the production of yarns has kept up,
with the result that there has been
an over production and a consequent
tendency toward lower prices. Some
time ago. the yarn men decided upon
scale of prices and the shut down
was to esta blish this firmly. The shut
down will be indefinite.