Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-04-20

way to England He said that the
clean up this year in the Dawson
camp would amount to $50. 900. 900 maxi
ing it the biggest output in the history
of the Klondikc
The option of $9.5OO00O upon Tho
mines and other property of the C!cv,,-
land CliffS Mining Co. to the United
states Steel corporation has been de-
ciarcd off. The Cleveland Cliffs Iron
co. and Corrigan. Mckinley & Co.. are
the largest Independent operators in the
Lake Superior district.
Joel G. Goldenberg, head of Golden
berg Bros. q CO., lace importers
dropped dead from heart failure. at
New York, Friday night, while waiting
for Il Grand street car. Mr.. Golden
berg was worth $2,oOO.Ooo. 1t is under-
stood that he left will giving the bulk
of his estate to charity.
The Ballston Daily News printing
house and plant, at BailSton, n. ".
Cole & Burnham, p oprictors, was COM
pletcly destroyed by fire early Friday
Tho Weekly Democrat, Il county OIL
cial paper. was Issued from the News
Office. All files of the papers were d.
stroycd. The loss is estimated a $15,-
900.
A dispatch from st. Petersburg 10
the Berlin Lokal AnZcigcr says the
students of the great Kaluga seminary
near Moscow. INDUCED in scriou3 ex-
cesscs which eliminated in the shoot
ing at the bishop of Kaluga and tho
rector of the seminary, neither Of
whom were hit. Fifteen students were
arrested.
At meeting of the Irish Cattle
Traders Association in Dublin. Ire.
| thursday, the secretary Of the island
! said that he had ascertained on good
authority, that the war office had de-
cidcd that in future troops stationed in
Ireland should be supplied with Irish
meat only instead Of foreign, thus re
moving substantial Irish grievance.
The annual meeting of the American
Social Science Society which began at
! Washington, Monday came 20 an end,
Friday night. Oscar &; Straus of Now
York city. was chosen president. Scy-
cral papers We're presented on topics
coming under the depart Of social
economy presided over by +. =. San
born OF Concord. Mass, the chairman.
Eight hundred cigarmakcrs. every
factory ia Montreal. being represented.
Quit work, Friday. The men ask for
uniformity Of price in the different fac
tories for the same kind of work and
say they intend stalking out until their
demands are granted. The manufac-
turcrs say their demands are impos-
siblc ana meeting them would mean
ruin to the trade.
; Tho tube mill miners in the Myers
dale region at Elk Lick. Pa. have re-
: turned to work after nine weeks idle
ness. They struck because of alleged
discrimination against union mon. bat
as all but two Of the dozen DISCHARGED
have been rcinstatcd, they consider
they have won victory. Tho men az
the mines Of the Smokclcss Coal Go. ut
Berlin. Pa. are still out.
w. II. Thomas & Son. Wholesale
liquor dealers. Of Louisville. Ky. have
flied bankruptcy petition i'll the
United States court a Louisville. Tho
owe S50o.o ana no assets are listed.
Tho firm made an assignment in 1894
and the affairs Of that assignment have
not vet been wound up. Tho firms So
cured Indebtedness is $30i952; unse-
cured, S1.5.oS7. The nlemb rs Of the fiji IN
also file individual petitions.
The Boston &, Maine Railway station
at North Derby, VT, caught fire from
the chimney, Friday, and was de-
sjroycd. y tenement in the same build
ing was occupied by A. Lucas and
family. They lost all their effects. The
fire spread rapidly TO Il shed of the
Standard Granite Co, destroying $500
worth of monuments. Several res
licences in the vicinity were badly dam
aged. The total loss is $4,000.
Honest Tom" Sampson. detective.
army veteran and life saver, died Fri
day, at Mount Vernon, y. y. Capt.
Sampson had Is medals for mcritorious
service, 4 number of them for saving
life, one being awarded to him by Con
gress. He aided in the arrest of Mrs.
sSurratt. Miss Fitzpatrick. Edward
Payne and DR.. Samuel Cox. wha were
charged with being implicated in the
plot to assassinate President Lincoln.
Mrs j. c. ST. John of New York who
is sick with smallpox at the residence
of her father. Oliver ID. Woodruff at
Southington Conn. still refuses to have
medical attendance. but a trained
nurse. who volunteered her services 20
the health officer. is now in charge Of
the sick woman. She says that Mrs. st.
John passed comfortable night and
that she will probably recover. but
that. Friday morning. the disease APP
pcared to be at its height.
The Utah Coal and Coke Co. a New
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