Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-04-26
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

German steamer which has arriv
ed at La Guayra. Venezuela. reports
that the Colombian rcVolutionists are
masters at Carthagena. the most i'm
portant Colombian harbor.
Little Bertha Drum. u years Of age.
daughter IF Charles Drum ~ 90 Green
wood street. Springfield. Mass. probably
will die from effects Of too much skip
ping the ropc. She Is afflicted with spinal
meningitis and shows symptoms of par
alysiS.
The strike Of the weavers and spinners
in the Lowell branch of the BigelnW car
pet 60. is at an end ana the mill will re
sumo operations Monday morning. The
settlement was brought about, Wcdncs-
DAY. when The strikers voted 20 rvscinl
the rule limiting the amount Of work per
operator which was the cause of the
trouble.
The Southwestern express on the
Pennsylvania road ran down a party
of three ut South Fork. Pa. Wednes-
day, killing Joseph Drtargen and Mary
Potcskie his niece, years old, ana
fatally injured Detargcn's daughter
Lizzie aged 3.
Three persons were killed ana three IN
jurcd in a lire, Wednesday morning. IN i
siN-StnrY tenement house. - Forsyth
street, New York city. The three dead
were the children Of Simon Licbowitz.
who lived in the top story. I.iehowitz
himself, another of his children ami
Michael RluschhIum were somewhat
burned: The damage tp the building was
about $1,000.
The report from TicnTsin, dated April
hld been mISSacrcd by members Of the
Chinese secret society known as the
'B"Ntrs. Is quite erroneous. Som"
"EuXrIs" attacked Il village occupied by
I,F n ~ ft. 4 -
of. one vtllaScr was wounded. The
Chinese report that ~ "HoXcrs' were
killed or wounded. which Is doubtless an
cNlGGyr1tinu.
wrong doing. Time. | am convinced. will
right cVerythiuE." Ob" Rim III. Carter.
once captain in tie United States corps
of engineers. said this at New York.
Wednesday night. rs the train started
with him ana an armed guard which j.
To escort him tu the military prison at
Fort Lcavenworth. kansas, where ne viii
serve ont what remains of his sentence Of
nVe years imprisonment for cmDtZzlc-
mCut.
The elected members Of the Jamaican
legislature conferred at Kingston, ia.
Tuesday, and decided to refrain from tax
ing part in The proceedings of the council
during the present session ana commit
tee was appointed 10 collect funds for the
purpose oil sending delegates to England
to lay the case before Parliament. The
Jamaicans were somewhat startled.
Wednesday,. by the publication of a state
ment in the Telegraph apparently show
ing the bankrupt condition ~ the island,
the productive assets. it is claimed. being
4 little over E2,Ooo."0 ana the liabilities
over C5Gu,WQ.
\ movement is afoot among the Man
chester. Eng Conservatives to nomi-
nate Winston Spencer Churchill. the
war correspondent. former lieutenant
of Hussars ana eldest son Of Lady
Randolph Churchill formerly Miss
Jennie jerome Of New York;. for Par
lament. To succeed the Duke Of Argyll.
who. as the Marquis of Lornc, repre-
scented South Manchester in the House
of Commons until the recent death of
his father.
The question Of closer union of the sew
cral parts Of the British empire was dis
cussed ut meeting Of the Halifax, \. s.
Board Of Trade, Wednesday. rcsOlu-
tion Of the Montreal Board Of Trade
favoring the colonies contributing direct
~ to the support of the British army ana
navy in return for British customs duty
on imports from countries outside the
empire was sent to the Halifax board for
concurrence. The Halifax board declined
to concur but adopted an original resolu-
ton favorinG the appointment of Il COM
mission composed Of British and colonial
statesmen to consider the, question Of
formulate 4 scheme for the promotion Of
nter-imperill trade within the empire.
The striking weavers of the Lorraine
Mills at a general meeting at Paw
tucket, Il. l., Wednesday, unanimously
voted to reject the proposition for set
tlement which was offered to their
executive committee by Treasurer
James Il. McColl at a conference held
with him, in the morning. This prop
osition was that the weavers return to
work and that they operate Is sets of
looms, six in the cotton and nine in
the Worsted department under the
four-loom system. the looms to be
operated for one year in order to DEM
onstrate the truth or error of Mr.. Nc
Coils contention that it is possible to
make 81 so to 81 a week more in this
way than with the three-loom system
in use previous to the strike.