Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-12-23

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Chinese resistance TO the French demand
| But unless the Chinese are sustained
they viii eventually be compelled to Yield
Officials of the internal revenue depart
ment, Thursday. seized the plant of the
Hover Urban Brewing Co. in Williams Z
! burg, \. T.. for an alleged violation of
Section 1870 Of the Revised Statutes,
turns Tor the total output of a brewery.
the Brewing Co, ii is said, has for som.
time failed 10 make returns on account
OF revenue stamps. he property is valued
| A new combination of some of the lead
| ing rubber inns in the United States Is
now ia process of formation and is ex-
| pectei 10 be completed in about a week.
! IL will include nearly all the manMact-
nrers of rubber goods. other than boots
| and shoes and hard rubber. 1t is under
stood that the organization will have a
! capital of 10000. co.
Lord Iveaoh has presented the Jenner
| Institute with the sum of ESQ 600 in aid
| Of scientific research in bacter.ology and
! other forms of biology. The Jenner In
| stitute. includes most of the leaders in
| medicine and its allied sciences in Great
| Britain. Lord 1veagh also proposes to ex-
pend Es50,U0 uuon the improvement of
the insanitary Bull Alley area, in the
| heart of Dublin.
Gov. Adams of Colorado, has sus-
| pended DR.. Thomas b. Thombs as
superintendent Of the state insane asy-
I lum at Pueblo, pending a full investi-
| CATION OF charges that have been made
| against the management of the asy-
| lun. This action is taken at the re-
! quest of DIR. Thombs.
| The Dominion Coal Co, operatingsf In
Cape Breton. has shut down tn
Bridgeport. mine, one of the oldest sezfs
| heries. owing to the danger OF d6a
| tinued mining at that point 1t II
/ IL 81, L. clt,, 49,
| Bridgeport and Glace Bay, by 'wA{6
hey viii do all their mining. .sH
The 10Th annual banquet of the New
| England Society. was given al the Charles
! ton hotel at Charleston. S. c.. Thursday
| night. The leading speakers of the even
ing were Senator George F; Hoar of
MASSACHUSETTS,, who responded to Fore
| fathers Day; Senator John L. McLau-
rim of South Carolina, who responded -
| Our Country. and the Hon. JOS: B.
The Mayfiower'' Messrs. McLaurin and
| Cumming took occasion to declare In
more or less pronounced terms against
| the theory OF expansion:
In the United States district court at
Boston, Thursday, Judge Lowell heard
a petition for habeas corpus for the re-
| lease of Bernard d. O'Connell of Low
| ell, who was convicted over year ago
on a charge of bribery and sentenced
| to years imprisonment and to pay
| fine of $500. On Dec. s last, O'Connell
concluded his years sentence and is
now serving out his term in default of
the payment of the $500 fine. JudgNs
| Lowell took the case under advisement.s
Daniel Moses of Pembroke, who was
charged with assault with intent to kill
| upon his wife was discharged after
hearing at Suncook. n. H., Thursday.
Mrs. Moses was shot, Dec. .. and
short time later she died. Mrs. Moses
claimed that the shooting was done by
stranger. but the authorities placed
Mr.. Moses under arrest. He had been
in custody nearly two weeks, but the
authorities were unable to find evil
dence sufficient to hold him. /.
Consul Macrum from Pretoria sends
to the sieate department report of the
gold output of the South African re-
public in which he says the October
report shows that the number of mills.
ana the total of stamps is rapidly in$
creasiag 1t is expected, he says, thar
the output of the Transvaal next year
will exceed that of ,the combined mines
of Colorado, Dakota, California. Mon
tana and Alaska, although, it fell short
Of that last year.
The Rosalie, which has arrived at
Victoria from Skaguay, reports the
wreck of a sloop which left Wrangle,
two weeks ago, with a party OF Il,
bound for Atlin. The sloop was found
bottom up by Indians, and it is feared
| that all have been lost. Fred Smith
of Victoria, just out from Atlin, brings
news of two more rich gold-bearing
creeks discovered. The new find has
been christened Moose and Goose
creeks. News is brought of the wreck
of the schooner Ohio of Victoria. No
lives We're lost.
William G. Spaulding, cashier of the
German National Bank at Port Clin-l
ton. Ohio, ana Mrs. Martha s. Jamie.
son of Toledo, have been arrested OF
the charge of causing the death 81
Miss Amy Meeksr by performing
criminal operation upon her. It
said that Spaulding has made a ca
fessson. The dead woman wa
.eaugnter \of Capt. Meeker, a &
Eacwn farmer os Ottawa county,
lives at Locust Point. a few mfleN
Port Clinton. Spaulding is COZ -
with the prominent SpauldinH HI
owners of vessels and fruit
He was prominent in Port C4l 49,