Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-04-04
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State Superintendent Of Insurance
Orear of Missouri. Monday. levied tax
Of per cent. on the premiums of for
eign insurance companies doing bust
ness in Missouri. The total tax
amounts to s2i3,Sl5, an increase Of $40
800 over that levied last year.
Angry protests are flowing into Quebec
from Great Britain ana the United
States aS well rs many parts Of Canada
against the plan of dtSecratin% the his
toric plains of Abraham by cutting them
M into building lots. The mayor Of Que
bee will so to Ottawa TO remonstrate
with Sir Wilfrid Laurier. the premier on
the subject.
on complaint Of II. II. Blaisdel of
Surry. Levi L. Carlisle ana his son w.
7. Carlisle were before Judge Peters AZ
battery. Levi was discharged ana w. T.
fined SIS and costs. The trouble grew our
Of the divorce and division Of properly
by Blaisdell ana his wife, a daughter Of
Levi Carlisle.
The village Of SAckett's Harbor. n. ".
was visited by fire. Monday morning.
Assistance was summoned from Water
town and the WATERFOWL department got
the fire under control. The flames con-
stunned the Earl Hotel Madison hall,
Presbyterian church, Methodist church
ana six residences. Loss. $jO0O0; about
half covered by insurance.
All records were broken in the auc
ton sale OF boxes for the coming horse
show. Boston. over $50. 1000 being realz-
ed. while every box was sold. The av-
erage premium was over 5000. and Eu
gene Y. X. rhayer and Eben d. Jor-
dan both paid $3.50. the highest price of
the sale.
Fire broke out at Worcester. Monday,
IN, h., Ill 81 h. bull
7-story office and store building on
Front street. in the heart of the city.
The firm Of Besse Bryant & Co, Bradt
e. Woods. clothiers. and Arnold &
Main. grocers, were damaged to the eX
tent of $4,000.
Owing to the lateness al which the
snow is going and the almost daily adj
ditions it is expected that when the
first warm week comes. the Hudson
will rise to a point not often reached
and lumDermen are strengthening and
securing bulkheads and other river
property in danger from high water.
The body of a l2-year-old girl named
Ofinger has been found in the mortu-
airy chamber Of the cemetery at SalZ-
burg. Austria. An investigation show
ed that she had been outraged and
murdered in the midst of a number OF
bodies awaiting burial. The perpetra-
Tor Of the crime has not been discov-
cred.
The employees of the Aetna Standard
Iron and Steel Cos. works at Aetna
vile and Mingo. Ohio, Monday, We're
notified of an advance in wages OF 10
rer cent. TO go into effect Immediately.
the Aetna Standard was lately pur-
chased by the National Steel Co. by
which company the advance is granted
About $500 men are affected.
Nessrs. d. w. Semple and d. M. Allen
of Tho Klondike Nugget are at Ottawa
from Dawson. They have been carrying
on a war in their paper against the Ca
madam officials in the Yukon ana are az
ottaw1 10 press upon the government
cnrt,in reforms They do not represent
any body of men in particular W nat
my AK is the abolition OF the royalty
On. reduction of 5 to per cent the aboli,
tion If the alternate claim system. ana
thn dismissing of all government onlciais
in the Klondike except Eoiu CONFINES
sioner Senkler.
IT is reported that the chinese nave
cantured Captain Francis Henry May,
s,,nerintendent of the Hong Kong po-
| 1ica Two companies of Welsh F'usil-
iars went TO Canton, Monday night.
IN the torpedo boat destroyer, sent