Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-05-13
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| thor, is dead at Paris. aged 81 years.
Coy. Roosevelt at Albany. \. y
| signed the bill of Mr.. Sabine amendin;
the S-hour law so as TO make ii riai,
in enforcement.
| Charles Stearns, a retired cottoi
| planter ana a well-known abolitionist
| Is dead at Hyde Park. Mass He wa.
80 years Of age. \ widow. a son anc
Two daughters survive him.
The machine shops and foundry o,
the Mountain copper 90. at keswick
Cal. together with the machinery. two
locomotives and number of box cars
were destroyed by fire, Thursday night
Loss, $4,000
Judge Lowell of the United States
court at Boston. Friday. denied a mo-
ton for new trial for Guiseppi De
SaiVo. the Italian. convicted of coun-
terfeiting operations in connection with
A gang recently captured there. sever
al Of members of which are now serv-
ing sentences in state prison
George Hinkley. a barber employed
in the Plankington House shop, shot
Miss Bertha Kruger and then killed
The ira gedy is the result of a love af-
fair. A corset steel reflected the first
bullet and the girl escapd with moth
ing more serious than a flesh wound
In West Lynn. Mass, Friday after
noon. while Edward A. Dwyer of Lynn.
VAS engaged in painting a house the
ladder upon which he was standing
slipped and he was thrown to the
ground. His skull was fractured and
he died, Friday evening. at the hospi-
tai He was 90 years of age and had
a family.
y consolidation of six of the eight
street railway companies in Seattle
Wash. has been effected. c. A. Stone
and l.. J. Webster, representing Bos-
ton capitalists. are at the head Of the
new organization which will be incor-
porated either in New Jersey of New
York. The capital stock of the com
pany will be $1,000. 900 The company
will ask for a 44-year franchise of the
city council
The arrest Of three men at St Louis.
who admit that they handled some of
the alleged fraudulent papers. develops
what appears to be a gigantic swim
die in school warrants. in which the
names of the president and clerk of
school district No. >. st. Clair. ILL.,. op-
posite st. Louis were repeatedly forg-
ed. The sum of the alleged fraudulent
transactions will aggregate 100000 and
may reach $50, 600.
The first OF fleet Of vessels to carry
ore TO Deseronto, Canada. arrived at
Ashland. Wis. Friday. The distance
Is 1le0 miles. The Canadian govern
ment gives a bonus of 10 cents ton
the first year 30 the second and 80 the
the third for the manufactured pjg
iron, and this has. stimulated the pur-
chase of American ore A large
amount will go to Canada. this year
although none has been shipped from
Ashland in - years.
Bishop Potter gave out the following
formal notice at New York, Friday:
The Rev. DIR. Briggs and the Rev.
Charles H. Snedecker will be ordained
on the day officially appointed by the
bishop of New York. May A. at the
Pro-Cathedral. Stanton street, New
York" This ends for the present
the controversy which has been carried
on with unwonted bitterness for the
past few weeks between high church
and broad church Episcopalians in
New York City.
Another conference of railroad Off
Gals with the interstate commerce
commissioners began at Washington,
Friday. The subject this time was the
rate situation in the South About %
roads were represented. covering the
territory south of the Ohio and west of
the Mississippi. There have been. com
plants of determinations in some cases
in favor of the larger cities and towns.
a discrimination practiced it is alleged
by many of the roads, as indicated by
the published tariffs.
The equestrian statue Of Major-Gen-
eral John +. Hartranft, in Capitol
park. Harrisburg, Pa, was unveiled
with impressive ceremonies, Friday, in
the presence of a large concourse Of
people These exercises were follow
ed by a parade in which the survivors
of the 3rd Division Of the 9Th Army
Corps. commanded by Gen. Hartranft
in the Civil War had the right Of line.
The procession also included the 9Th
Regiment Of immunes from Camp
Meade, provisional brigade of the