Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-10-25

opened for business. Thursday I've"
was no run on it by depositors II 10
now known that only $2OOOO in soc,,,,
ties are missing. but Cashier NIor,;s.
sureties is sufficient and tho h.,l, l..
perfectly solvent.
The Anarchist propaganda in favor
of a general strike is proving frni,fu,
i'm Spain. Leading Anarchists os.nrt
that committees throughout tho would
representing 5000, 900 workers ara onI,,
awaiting the signal to inaagurata tho
universal strike proposed by the Ger
man workmen and approved nv the
American and European committees
The schooner Ida Fowler. laden with
cocoanuts. ran into the wreck of the
sunken schooner Lavina Camnben in
Delaware bay, Thursday, and sank.
All the crew except Steward r. 4.
Evans were taken off safely. Evans
went below to get his clothing and the
schooner capsized. drowning him. The
Fowler is owned by c. S. Crowe,l Of
Philadelphia.
The Grand Lodge. Order of Railway
Clerks of America has adjourned at St.
Louis. Buffalo was selected as the
place for the convention next Septem
Der. The following officers were
elected: President, J. Hugh Fayman.
Kansas City; vice president. NJ. r.
oGorman, Buffalo,: secretary. Il. Z.
Fisher. Sedalio Mo-; treasurer. Louis
Jack. Kansas City.
According to the New York Journal
of Commerce local glucose dealers are
OF the opinion that the cut in prica
Ill Chicago to 81 per hundred pound
means an interesting contest between
also generally believed that the Glu-
cose Sugar refining Co. or the
independent companies are about TO
attempt to supply the demands, both
of this country and Europe.
Rear Admiral E.ndicott. chief of the
bureau Of yards and docks. has been
informed by the Maryland Steel Co
mat the big floating dry dock built by
that company. which is on it's Wav
down to the naval station ut Algicrs
La. was reported several hundred
miles off Savannah, Ga. Oct. 81. in
good condition. At this rate of prog
ross the dock should now be off the
southern coast of Florida and about
10 enter the gulf
The Norwegian ship Tythenus. Capt.
Tholsen. was destroyed by fire At sen
while on voyage from Fleetwood
which port she left. Aug s. to Val
raraiso. The crew of the burned YES
sci We're landed at Buenos Ayres.
Thursday. by the American bark James
II. Hamlen, capt. Rcdick from Bos-
ton Tho Tythenus was an iron ship
Of no tons net, built in West Hartle-
pool in 1862. and was owned by H. Has
lam Of Mess. She was last spoken,
Sept. 10.
Twelve of the men employed in the
shoe factory Of Albion Bartlett. sos
Washington street. Lynn. Mass. max
ing Goodyear machine turns. came out
on strike. Thursday. over a dispute in
a new price list that was introduced on
Thursday by Agent Donovan of the
Haverhill Shoe Workers Protective
Union. with which the Lynn bra ICh is
affiliated. The new list called for an
increase of one-fourth of cent and on
some grades Of one-half a cent per pair
for the work.
After hearing all the evidence Police
Judge Snediker of Dayton. o.. decided
to hold Mrs. Mary Belle Witwer. charg-
ed with the murder of her sister. Mrs.
Anna G. Pugh. for trial without bail.
The defence made a motion to dismiss.
asserting that the state had failed to
show n crime had been committed and
that not enough evidence had been
presented to warrant the prisoner be-
ing held. The judge would not enter
tain the motion and the defence offered
no witnesses. Mrs. Witwer was un-
moved by the announcement.
Much interest is being taken in New
York fruit circles at the moment in
the receipt of oranges from Porto Rico
and in the prospects of an increase in
he trade in the Porto Rican product in
competition with the fruit grown in
Florida and California. says the New
York Journal of Commerce. During the
past fortnight between 1000 and 5000
packages of oranges have arrived in
this market from Porto Rico. These are
the first shipments reaching this port
since the establishment of free trade
relations between the United States
and Porto Rico They have nearly all
been sold at auction at prices below
the normal figures for California fruit
early in the season.