Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-03-24

invested, proportionately, than in other
recent iron and steel combines The pro-
motors announce that organization will
ably be effected within the next two
weeks. TIE capital proposed Is $4,000, 0OO
and 30 Western mills. large and small tit
and unfit, are included in the plan. Chi
cage and Cleveland are both discussed as
permanent headquarters,
Col Camuel r. Colt of the L. S. Rub
Der Co.. announced that the factory OF
the National India Rubber Co. at Bris
tol, will shut down. Friday, March 81,
for two weeks. The Alice Rubber mill
at Woonsockct and the Millville Rubber
boot mill al Melville, Mass. have closed
for several weeks. 1t is thought they
Will be operated again early in April
Col. Colt says that the outlook for the
next few months is very promising.
Mrs. Augusta Schmidt, who is serv-
ing 10 years sentence in the Indiana
Woman's prison. has been paroled by
Gov. Mount and refuses to accept her
freedom. She is in the prison for the
alleged murder of Oscar Walton in 1894,
and says she will not leave the insti-
tuition until the judge and jury which
tried her acknowledge to GOV. Mount
that she is innocent and that they We're
in error when they passed Judgment
upon her.
Articles of Incorporation were fled
with The secretary Of state ut Trenton,
N. j., Thursday, of the New England
Electric Vehicle and Transportation
Co. with capital of s25 ,000,000. The
company is authorized to manufacture
appliances for operating vehicles and to
manufacture and operate vehicles
themselves. The incorporatorS are:
James e. Hayes, Camden, and Arthur
Phillips and Augustus Treadwell, Jr.,
of New York.
The engineer of the Jones & Laugilin
Steel Cos. steel mills at Pittsburg. Pa.
have been notified that their wages
would be advanced 10 per cent April
is. A representative Of the firm states
that on the same day there will be a
general advance in all the departments
affecting fully 5000 men. The same Of
fetal announced that the company con-
templates the erection of number Of
new mills. but would not state what
class Of mills they would be.
The Nudge Shoe Co of Boston and
East Rochester. N. H.. has suspended
operations in it's factory at the latter
place. for an indefinite period. About
$50 hands are out of employment The
concern is in the hands OF the assignee
and is under attachment of $4,000
pending a suit brought for personal in
iuries by John LeaVitt of Old Orchard
Me Until this attachment is lifted the
assignee cannot do anything towards
eifecting a settlement with creditors.
Rev VIM. Fl. Tubb will soon visit
The ieper settlement on the island Of
Molokai. as the agent of the San Fran
cisco Improvement Club and with the
endorsement of Senator Dryer. the
author of the concurrent resolution
adopted by the recent Legislature 20
convert Molokai into national leper
settlement He Will remain among the
iepers for four months and win work
in connection with a committee to be
appointed by President Mckinley to in
vestigate the matter.
John l.. sullivan has been chosen TO
referee the Mccoy Choynski fight. Fri
day night. at the Mechanics Pavilion,
San Francisco. The advance sale Of
seats amount 10 $4,000. The betting
which opened al 10 to five. is now 70
u six in favor of Mccoy. The two
fighters have selected the men who are
to go behind them in the ring. Mccoy
will have his brother Homer, JACK
Steiner and Frank Pursell. Choyn
skis handlers will he Ed Creamy,
Charlie Wilson and Tommy Murphy.
Itis announced by w r. Blaine. presi-
dent of the Victor Telephone Mfg. Co.
Sc Of of no,
telephone combination. which is to- DO
come the opponent of the Bell CO.. that
the new company controls 20 indepen-
dent telephone manufacturing COM
nanies. and that the union of the vari-
Gus interests is practically complete
The new company is organized for tho
purpose OF supplying telephone appa-
ratus, doing construction and entering
the various branches of the service.
in the English House of Commons.
Thursday. Mr.. James Francis Hogan,
anti Parnelite, asked whether Il mo-
dus vivcnd had been arrived At in the
matter of the Alaskan boundary, and
whether Information had reached the
foreign office concerning collisions ~ is
ing out of the dispute In reply. the
parliamentary secretary of the foreign
office. the TT. Hon. VIM St. John Bro
dick, said proposals for d moduS viVendi
had been made by the United States
government and are now under con-
;;idcration. The government had no
news of Il collision.
a dispatch from Antofagasta. Chill,
says that Gen. Caceres. former Presi
dent of Peru. who recently arrived at
africa, where he threatened to attempt
to overthrow the Peruvian govrnment
at the first opportunity, left Antofa-
gasta, Thursday, by steamer bound
north. He would have no chance of
success. however. in the event of an
endeavor to make trouble for the gov
ernment. Revolutionary movements
are reported in the provinces of Col
quechaoa and Cochabam5a. Bolivia |
1t is also announced that Gen. Pando
win soon attack the Unionists.
All but one of the gang of Italian |
coGnterfeiters arrested at Boston and |
Lynn, last week, have been indicted by |
the United States grand jury. The |
man against whom no bill was found |
as Brossi. OF the others all but Sal
vatOre Mastrapavola stand indicted on |
from one to four counts. alleging the |
passing. having in passing and sell |
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