Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-03-25


Trenton. N. j., Friday. The company -
authorized to manufacture and sell
sugar and the various products OF
sugar beets. sugar cane and shrghum.
The United states minister. Mr., Will
liam l.. Merry, started from ManaEua.
Mic. for Salvador. He IL in good heaNh
Telegraphic communication with Blue
fields has been opened. Business Is
very dull, though the work Of exporting
coffee is going on. Exchange is at 2.2o
premium.
The gypsay moth bill. carrying $780,
QUO for the work, was passed ito be en-
crossed, in the Massachusetts, House,
Friday. The bill to reduce the num-
Der Of licenses in Boston to 1000 was
killed. In the Senate. 5S-hour bill for
women and minors iii mercantile es-
Adjustments was refused third read
Ing. EAr'iaf sf$r ai'- sfsa
Archbishop Bruchesi. the head of the
Roman Catholic church in Montreal.
has written to the proprietor OF Her
Matesty's theatre, stating that unless
some of the pieces contained In the
repertoire for the French opera to be
produced at the theatre are eliminated,
he will be obliged to issue a letter for
bidding the faithful to attend.
The Cincinnati Iron Foundrymen's
Association has decided to grant l0|
per cent. increase in wages to take ef-
feet, May ]. The two parties in inter-
est have agreed upon plan for the
yearly adjustment Of wages. This
| agreement extends to all the foundries
in Cincinnati. Covington and Newport
and effects about 10000 employees.
Joseph Wright colored. was hanged
| in the jail yard at Chestertown, Md,
Friday. Wright shot William New
| combe, an aged cOlored man, on the
| night of November S, 1897. killing him
almost instantly. He has since as
serted that he was drunk for the first
time in his life when he killed New
combc. The condemned man met death
| without hinching.
A dispatch from Kimberly in Griaua-
land west, South Africa. reports tie death
of the famous missionary. Rev.. John
| Mackenzie. Mr.. Mackenzie worked in the
same sphere as DR.. David Livingstone
and DR.. Moffat, the former of whom died
in 1873, and the letter 10 years later. He
preceded Mr.. Cecil i.hodes as deputy COM
missioner of Bechuana'and and fought for
the natives against the Immigrant Beers.
The German cruiser Bus. ard arrived
at Tangiers. Friday. to SUPPORT the
German school ships Charlotte and
Stosch in enforcing the demands made
by the German government for the
payment Of an indemnity to the Gei-
man victims Of Moroccan outrages. the !
Sultan delaying to act upon the agree |
ments arrived at in the mater. If the
claims are not speedily settled COM
plcations are threatened.
The executive committee of the Gar
nent Works Union of Philadelphia, |
Friday, ordered a strike Of the 5000
garment makers of that city beginning
Saturday at noon. The purpose of the |
strike is principally to secure the aboli-
ton of sub-contracting, as well as
higher wages and increased rates for
government work. About 1000 of the |
Strikers are women. 1t is expected that
the strike will effect nearly every es-
Establishment in the city.
The almost lifeless body of female |
child, evidently about three weeks old.
was found lying in the snow by the side
of the road on Morton street at Mill
bury. Mass, by Ellis Trantor, Friday. |
A storm prevailed and the clothing of
the babe was dripping from the rain |
The child was taken into a house and |
everything possible was done to revive |
it. but it died not long after it had been |
picked up. There was nothing about |
the little one to furnish the authorities |
clew on which to work.
An arrangement for settling the New |
Foundland political crisis has virtually |
been concluded. Sir James Winter. the |
premier, will retain the premiership. |
until the end of the year. which Will |
permit him to conclude his work as a |
member of the British American-Ca-
madam commission. He will then take !
the chief justiceship. Mr. Morine. for |
merly minister of finance. succeeding |
him as premier. Mr.. Morine will now
re-enter the cabinet. but only obstacles !
in the way Of a settlement is the ques-
ton of Encouragement of portfolios
consequent upon his recall.
At Sweetwater. Tex, Friday.
f. p. Woodruff. lawyer, attacked
and shot Judge John II. Cochrane,
in chambers, with revolver.
The trouble grew out of the
courts refusal to approve bill of ex- I
ceptions in Il law suit. Judge, Cochran
attempted to defend himself. and +
by-stander. named Il. =. Watts, was
shot in the hip. Watts and Judge |
Cochran are in a critical condition.
Woodruff is under arrest. Judge
Cochrane is eX-Speaker of the Texas
House and was candidate for Governor,
in 1894
In the English House of Commons. Fri !,
day, Sir Charles Howard. Vincent. Con-
servative. asked whether in view of the |
enormous increase of exports from he /
United States while the exports of the !
United Kingdom do not show such vital
ity, the government is prepared to issue |
alroyai commission or appoint a select |
committee to inquire into the cause of |
such condition. The president of the |
board of trade, Mr.. c. 7. Ritche. reptile I
that the facts and figures set forth were |
substantially correct. The causes of such
ii condition of things. he added. were gen.
orally well known and there was NJ
necessity for special inquiry into the
matter, especially as there was no rea-
son to regard the condition Of trade and
industry In Great Britain as other than
satisfactory.
The first international congress OF i
doctors connected with the life insur
ance companies win be held in Brussels I
from the 25th to the 3Oth Of next Sep