Daily Kennebec journal., 1899-01-07

Melville ingalls,. both Of New York. The
Atlantic Trans p1riation Co. recently
failed. with liabilities Of about s1,~oo}J
and assets of sl,5na.e1
The Rev. Lucien Lee kinsolving war
consec rated at New York. Friday. as the
first blshop Of the Protestant Episcopal
church in Brazil. The conservation tnoy
place In st. Bartholomew churt ii. fhe
bishops who took part in the ceremonies
included McNickcs. coadjuator of Rhode
Island. Lawrence of Massachusetts. ana
the consecrator, Bishop Dudley of KEN
tucky.
Clerk George Of the superior court at
Sa.em. Mass. Friday, announced that
Clarence Murphy. who Is now serving an
interminate sentence in the state prison
70: cmbezzhng funds of the Salem Saw
ngs Bank. of which he was teller. will
bc taken to Salem. saturday morning.
pr tEa5ly on thc s.l1 train. and will be re-
sentenced by Judge Sherman, who will go
dc%n from Lawrence for that purpose.
The United States minister at pekin.
Mr.. Edward II. Conger, acting upon IN
strutcion from Washington. vigorously
protested. Thursday. against The ex;en-
sion of the French. or any other power.
exclusive concession at Shanghai. Dut
hr urged the extension OF the existing
settlements on an international pasis.
The British minister there. Sir CLAUDE
NJ. Macdonald. formally protested
against the mining and railroad reguIa-
ti0ns.
Consul General Goodnow Of Shanghai,
writes 10 "a correspondents i'll New York
strongly recommending an American
Chinese exposition in Shanghai He says
that practically all foreign trade for the
middle and G5-th of China goes through
Shanghai and an exposition there VIII
reach the trade of the Yan-TSe valley and
the north. He says that the customs re-
ports show that the imports from the
pense of imports from other nations. We
are nearer the Chinese market freights
are less, and the feeling of the Chinese is
more friendly to Americans than - any
other nationality.
News from Dawson to Seattle states
that Number of Yukon river steamers
Will be lost when the ice breaks up IN
the spring. Some were caught in very
unprotected places and can scarcely es-
cape being wrecked. The Robert Kerr.
of the Moran fleet. is stuck fast on Il par
20 miles below Circle City. The line
steamer Arnold of the Alaskan Expio-
while fast on a bar some 30 miles below
Forty Mile. A crack boat of the Empire
line, the Seattle. is reported stuck l.
miles below Circle City She is on Il bar
and ice was jammed up all around here.
The Tacoma and John c. Barr are also
last and IN a dangerous position.
William Welsh, Frank Rekote and
Wm; Devine of Portland, Ore. who ar
claim to have broken the overland rec
ord from Dawson TO Skaguay. They lett
Dawson on Dec. II. and arrived AT Ska
quay on Dec. .. Antoine Grobesits ana
Albert Bernard, two young men from
New York: met with hard luck on the
way out. They broke through the ice on
1 Ihirty-Mile river and were in the water
10Y sometime. They were finally rescued
ana cared for by the police. Grobes,ts
lost S2so0 in gold, which was tied To his
sled. He arrived at Seattle. Friday an
Solutely penniless. His partner is at
1a3gish House in the police hospital
and will lose both of his feet as we'll as
several of his fingers |
Commissioner General Peck will leave |
rhicago for the East. Sunday. to attend |
POSITION commissioners OF Massachusetts |
Il the Algonquin Club. Boston. Monday /
He will also take part in 4 /
meeting In Association hail. Boston. |
tuesday afternoon: The meeting is calie,i |
~ the Society of Sons of the Revolution
Q interest the various patriotic societies
II that state in the Lafavette monument
ina adopt measures to secure funds for
he monument. The laws of Massachu-
etts do not allow the school children to
'ther states where the school regulat tions
rohibit public donations will devise ways
o raise money. While in New England
Commissioner Peek will probably name
he director of the textile department
In the superior court at Tacoma Wash.
udge Carroll has handed down a deer
Ion which, if sustained by the supreme
ourt will invaIldate nearly $l.OO0.O0o of
OF the city of Tacoma. now
ut tanding. These are the warrants
'hich We're presented by She original ,
ayee in 1892. 1885,; and 1894 to City Treas
Did Ito warrant buyers. Judge Carroll i
Dlds that the treasurer had no authority {
resell the warrants: ehat the city =
ever authorized the transactions and /