Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-04-25
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The Weland Canal was opened for
traffic, mt noon Monday.
Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue
Fordham seized 100000 cigars at Charles
TIN. ;. III. Monday. The boxes which
carried illegal stamps We're from me
Jacobs factory ~ Lancaster, Pa.
Charles Peterson, 80 years old. married
ana liNlng on Dana street. Cambridge
Mass, irll from q window Of a house on
Pleasant street, Arlington. Monday. ana
died. an hour later. from a fractured
skull.
The Saranac worsted mills at Black
stone. Mass, have been soiv to the Amer
ican Wooden 90. for price reported 10
De Slbh,VW. The concern EMPLOYS about
500 hands when running in fun and is one
Of the largest plants OF its kind in thar
vicinity.
The several thousand miners who have
Deti, ldIe IN central PENNSYLVANIA for two
weeks will resume work, Tuesday orders
nav nS been issued to that effect BY
President Wilson of the miners organize
ton Work will he resumed pending the
outcome OF Joint conference 10 he held
Thursday. I-'
Henry A. Townsend, a weIl-known law
Yer. died at Philadelphia, Monday. aged
~ years. Mr.. Townsend was the father
q Arthur Lawrence Townsend. who was
recently promoted from minister TO Port
usal 70 a similar posi- in Belgium. to fill
the vacancy caused by the transfer "
Beliamy Storer TO Madrid.
SPECIAL 10 New Orleans from Ham
mond. Ia. says: M Maxwell a saw mil
village in Livingston county a crowd OF
white men attacked the negro quarters
kliiing one negro and wounding two
others. The balance Of the negroes Were
notified to leave. Sam McCorrell Charles
Stewart, Garfield kinchen and Virgil Arr
twhltes) nave been arrested pending an
investigation.
!. Archbishop Carr of Melbourne. Austria
liza, is the guest of Cardinal Gibbons at
Baltimore, for a few days. His grace is
on his way home from Rome where he
mas been TO pay his lad limina visit. In
bishop Carr said: His Holiness is of
course, very thin and spare and in some
RESPECTS shows his advanced age; bur
considering how great that age is. he is
well preserved. was particularly struck
by the strength of his voice
Attorney j. j. Grant occupied the whole
DAY, Monday, in opening the arguments
ioh behaif OF the state in the trial of Mrs.
court room was filled as 1t has not been
at any other stage of the proceedings.
Mrs. George sat with downcast eyes dur
ing most of the proceedings. She seemed
more anected by Mr.. Grants summing
up of the case than by any other incident
Of the trial During the day attorneys
for each side presented the requests as
. the charge Of the judge.
Byron c. Davis, a corporation lawyer
and president of the Copper King of Arr
iona Mining Co. died. Monday night. at
his home in Lynn y. y. Two months
ago. Mr.. Davis went To Oklahoma for his
health and came home two weeks ago
very much debiitated. but soon after
ward seemed to improve rapidly. His re-
coVery, however. was merely temporary
MIR. Davis was born Nov. H. 1859. al
Bradford. Me- He was educated at BOW
doin College in that State. He Went 70
Kansas when IS years old and studied
Jaw, being admitted when he was q. He
returned 10 New York in 1880 and was adj
nltted to the New York bar.