Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-07-31
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

A general strike among the fish
/ handlers at st. Johns, n. F., IL expect
ed, Tuesday. The men ask for 81 a day
| instead Of so cents, which arey are now
| receiving.
A cablegram received at Boston,
Monday, announces the arrival of the
Enterprise at Havre. France, Mon
day. All on board are we'll Many Of
the cadets will visit the Exposition at
Paris.
Counsel for John l.. Sullivan appear
ed before Magistrate Mayo at New
York Monday. and said as Sullivans
championship belt had been returned
70 him, suit against the concern which
had held it would be dismissed.
Three forgers, among them a woman.
who swindled the North American
Trust Co. out Of $4,000, last week.
were arrested at Havana, Monday
night. Counterfeit American money
was found in the possession of those
arrested.
The mill Of the INDEPENDENT Joliet
Wire Co. at Poliet.' ILL.,, resumed opera
tons. Monday. after a long period of
idleness. reorganization was recent
ly effected by the minority stockhold-
ers. who broke in the doors Of the mills
and ousted the old officials.
Reports Of United States shipping
commissioners for the year ending June
30, 1900 rendered to the bureau of nav
igation show 1882 shipments. dis
charges and re-shipments of seamen on
American vessels at those offices com
no rod Wit 60, h. q
cal year. Boston and Port Townsend
show considerable increases.
The trustees Of the Lowell. Mass.
Textile school, Monday. received let
ter from Frederick Tanning Aver of
New York. formerly of Lowell. an
nouncing his intention of contributing
S35 600 toward the erection of a textile
school building. upon the condition that
the main building be designated by
'Southwick Hall" in memory of his
grandfather.
1t was learned at New York, Mon
day, that the German cable from Coney
Island TO the Azores win be laid dur
ing the month Of August The Ameri-
can end of the cable will be operated
by the Commercial Gable Co. and the
iNi 'iII ny lIlt btElIdn leIpST3Dn
administration. The owner of the new
cable is the German Atlantic Co. of
Cologne, Germany.
The following is the constitution of
the new cabinet. officially gazetted at
Caracas, Venezuela. Monday: Minis
ter of the interior Cabrera Malo: min
lister of war, Gen. J. Pulido; minister
Of foreign affairs. Eduardo Blanco:
minister of finance TeIlo Mendoza:
minister of public works. Senior
Otanez; minister of commerce. Senior
Ayala; minister of public instruction.
Felix Quintero.
Thomas Mulligan. alias Lyons. who
murdered a tramp at Ludlow Lagoon.
KY. June s. was at Covington, Ky,
Monday. sentenced to Imprisonment for
life. Mullgan smiled when sentenced
ard refused to allow his counsel to
will be taken to the Frankfort peniten-
tiary. Tuesday. and his relatives will
return to Massachusetts, Wallace
Bishop. who killed Officer McQuarrey
while escaping with Mulligan and who
was implicated in the trouble at Lud-
low, will be hanged at Covington
Aug. 50.
Marshal O'Sullivan. accompanied by
Inspectors Sheehen. Joseph Praltz.
Max Espich. Grace Holden and Mrs
Sargent of Lawrence. Mass. Went TO
Dover, n. H.. Monday and identified
the five men contained in the Dover
jail on charge Of murder as the bur
glars who blew open the safe in the
Cold Springs Brewery in Lawrence.
July 2 Espich and Praltz were the
Waterman and fireman at the brewery !
ana they were tied hand at foot by |
the burglars and locked in an empty |
freight car The burglars called at |
Mrs. Sargents house. on the afternoon
preceding the burglary. and demanded
food