Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-05-20
lie will sail for Halifax and Bermuda,

He will sail for Halifax and Bermuda,
Saturday.
Seventeen electric vehicle transporta-
ton companies were incorporated at
Trenton. n. j.. Friday. These COM
panies are formed by the Whitney
Elkins- Widener syndicate to operate
automobiles in the different states
Each firm has an authorized capital of
100000. except the one formed for the
District of Columbia. which has an au
thol lied capital of Sc 0o0,0
A terrible drowning accident occur
red at Second Chamcook lake, St. An
drews. n. B.. Friday. Three young
men from St. Andrews. Herbert Will
hanson, eldest son of Thomas Will
hanson; Thomas Mallock and Summer
Mallock. sons of Wheeler Mallock, were
fishing from boat when it upset. Will
hanson and Thomas Mallock We're
drowned. Sumner was saved.
Capt. James P. Roche of the Har-
track athletic team. received, Friday.
a. challenge from oxford and Cam
bridge for 4 track athletic meeting to
be held in London about the middle OF
July, between teams representing OK
80 "a anu NsttHiti iuSS VII pllt manu-
ana Harvard and Yale on the other.
The Harvard track authorities are very
hopeful of being able to accept.
IA the superior court in Newbury-
porf. Mass. Friday morning. John
Finn of SALEM. pleaded guilty to break
ing and entering. He was sentenced
10 years in the house of correction.
Joseph =. Giles of Lawrence, was fined
$50 for selling impure milk. f. NJ.
Sweeney of Lynn, pleaded guilty to
breaking and entering. and was sent
70 the house of correction for years.
\ movement is on foot to establish
4 mammoth plant at Groveland. Mass.
fol the manufacture of beet sugar.
The company proposes TO build a fac
tory at an available site on the Merri-
mac river to cost $500 600 and equip it
with machinery costing an equal
amount, il ii can secure the promise
Of IN adequate supply OF beets from
| he farms within radius of 100 miles
| In The superior court at Newbury-
port. Mass. Friday. Judge Bishop
1 granted an injunction against the
strikers of the Rockport Granite Co.
restraining them from violence, intimi-
uatlon, threats, or any attempt to
| ceeHce any person in the employ OF the
Granite Co. The strikers also We're en-
joined from trespassing on the proper
" or the company or from going in
TO the vicinity of the company's works.
Ii is learned that the Columbia. the
new cup defender NOW in course of
construction at the Herreshoff works
at bristol " will he Io,,
at dusk on the evening of June 8. Ten
OF the members of the crew of the new
cup defender Columbia will leave Deer
Isle. Me-, Saturday. for New Rochelle.
n. ", where they will put the Column
bla S tender in commission and prepare
her for work in connection with the
trials and races during the summer.
| Mail advices received at Tacoma
| wash. by the Oriental liner Victoria
| say: Nearly all the Toxic journals give
| publicity to rumOr to the effect tina;
China has approached the Japanese gov
eminent with request for aid to gel
| Germany out of Shan Tun. The following
dispatch has been received by local Man
darins from Chinanfu, the provincial cap
ltai of Shan Tun: "A large force of Ger
mans went about 10 days ago to the vii.
!aEe OF kuOchiachuang. in the I.ansh ir
nils near kiao Chou. and forcibly evict-
ea the nina bitants. When this had beer
| thc bci iildilS set IRE 10 a part OF
the village and left the pace Anotha,
tlorcc OF Germans is now at Jih Choa de-
| manding the person of one Hsuh Lin Use
VINO Is charged with having grievously
ihsuied Roman Catholic priest"
Ihe American Agricultural Chemical
Co., which is the combination of vari-
Gus fertilizer manufacturing concerns
mas indicated the contamination of its
plans by issuing a prospectus in which
Ii Is stated that the authorized issue
OF capital stock is $40, 100000 divided
into $20.000,000 per cent. cumulative
preferred stock and 500, OO0, 900 common.
The present issue will be limited 10
s34.0OO.0O0 divided in 10000 800 shares
on preferred and the same amount nj
common leaving $6O0O.OOO in the treas
ury. The new company is combina
tion OF % of the strongest concerns en-
gagged in the manufacture of fertilizers
II Counsel for the New York publishers
VINO are charged by Rudyard Kiplinp
with infringement of copyright. have re.
ceived copy of the long expected
complaint and the author sets forth
ms grievances against various publisb-
erS, Tor having as he claims rar,o