Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-04-03
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Guiding one European. were officially re.
ported, Tuesday. at Cape Town.
The battleship kentucky was locked.
Tuesday. at Hong Kong. The Lancaste r
has arrived at Tompkinsville. The Iowa
has left Port Angeles for Bencrton.
The bill to authorize a calling of a con-
stiturional convention was killed. Tues
day, in the Tennessee House at Nashville.
the vote standing "A ayes and A. noes.
The Berlin Taegliche Rundschau re-
ports that Emperor William has said ii
the Conservatives: 81 will not sign the
tariff bill until you swallow the canal bill
and | will sign only such bill /
choose.
a general suspension of work took
place. Tuesday. in the coal fields Of In
diana and 800 men are idle as the result
of the operators and miners convention
here failing to agree on the wage scal2
for the year.
The annual meeting of the New Hamp-
shire Old Home Week Associa ton has
NJ, "Wednesday. April H. In 1899 ceebra
lions were held in A towns and in 1899 in
.6. 1t is hoped to make the total more
than 100, this year.
Robert A. Ammon. attorney for what
was known as the Gosliu syndicate. was
arrested at, New York. Tuesday. on
charges of conspiracy to dcfral I'D. made
by Finlay. Burrell Il Co, bankers and
brokers in Chicago. Later he gave bail
III Inc sum VI Fit''''-
Funeral services over the remains of
1.-THE late Roland Reed. the actor who died
/, Saturday. were held. Tuesday. at his late
residence in New York. The services
We're conducted by the Rev. FIR. HUFFMAN
of ST. Joseph's Roman Catholic church.
The body was taken to Woodlawn ccnc-
terry for interment.
At meeting of the stockholders of thu
American Beet Sugar Co. held at Jersey
City, Tuesday. the old board of directors
l ylt
ed that the amount OF sugar produces
was 33.:-1 $50 pounds, and the net proht&
$50 Ga e. The preferred stock drew diVt-
dcnds amounting to $2ia.W
Tho new judicial system Of New lamp
shire was put in operation in ItS cntirc'y
for the first time Tuesday, the initial
session of the new supreme court .tl'is'
held at the court room in the state npra-
nv building at Concord. and terms OF the
superior court being in process thcie anu
in Manchester and kccne.
Under an emergency message from GOV
OdclI the New York Assembly, Tucsday
passed the Humphrey building loan aSso
citation bill putting national building asso
Citations more directly under the control
Of the bank s1Ipcrintcn iclt ana forpiauiil
State building and loan assoclatio'is 80
orally Ia invest in second mortgages
Only six negative votes were recordel.
1t is announced by VIM. w. Flint. oii-
ciai weather observer at Concord, n. H.,
that less snow fell in that city. the past
winter, tEan mas Dctn TccoIutu s'i.
The total snow fall was sol id r,.e.
against an average of I9.o inches. lnert
were Is days of slcighinS Only a rev
miles north of that city there were o. ,s
| 100 DAVIS of sieighing and one or tHe
heaviest snow falls on record
In round numbers, $4,000 900 for the I'M
provcment of the canals, making a Da To-
canal for i50-ton barges instead OF ~ ~
ton barge canal as RECOMMENDED pf ~
governor is the plan that Will be supIii!t :
fed TO the people of New York state
The proposed canal follows the !lne OF ne
old canal and is TO be nine Ieet ~,
and the Strengthening out OF thc sha g.. !
curves at points in the canal so az u l."
ciIitate the use of the longer poa,s-
The ship built for the use OF the Ge,
man Antarctic expedition was lau'lc"e ~
ut Kicl. Tuesday, in the prcscnct W
Count Won Posadowsky-Wehn saia,s
ry of the interior, and otheT o ohi' -
Prof Won. Richthofen. brother OF 'iiS 10
retary of state for foreign affairs, u, ~ ~
half of Emperor William. chriSteHrsu on
vessel Gauss in honor OF NY ,aist -.
German mathematician ara scie'''' -
| that name.
| Presiding at Il meeting OF inc mix
IIaematite Steel Co. at LONDON. tne I'm
| of Devonshire. lord president OF ,ns 'rica n
| Gil took pessimiStic view OF N NJ satd
and other foreign competition. 1p;t; III
| that total order for rails given 70 aent
ma kerS III 1900 had not reacneI - ~ hin,
of the orders given during the pie
four years. Competition did not az "a IL
| for the whole decrease. E.ther re- :.;,,a J.,
were required or buyers were "ai7
expectation of lower prices.