Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-01-07

mlnding the first division naval mill
va o. Connecticut, has sprung srr-
prise by resigning. In explanatio,
Lieut.. hutchinson states that memhe,,
q the company had frequently WORKED
/ against him and had endeayored N
prevent MIN from putting into effect
ideas which he regarded as essential
10 the welfare Of the organization
blaze which fire department an
Gals state was probably Of incendiar,
| origin, was discovered by Patrolrnan
Thomas Fody, about A. NJ. Saturday
az the rear Of d shed on the Wendau
estate, Third street, Dover. Y. H Tn.
names had eaten through u high board
fence and reached the roof Of the shed
adjoining Capt. Michael Quinlan's res-
ldence when the department arrived.
The damage was small
A syndicate Of Nova Scotia. st. Iob,
and Upper Canadian capitalists win
Wednesday, close the purchase of the
knight lumber property, consisting ~
$4,000 acres in New Brunswick and win
vest il in the Lancaster Pulp and
Paper Co. Of New Brunswick and build
a sulphite mill and paper mill at Mus
quash, Charlotte county. The pur
chase price is 100000. The syndicate
also has an option on the Clinch prop
erty, 1000 acres adjoining.
It has just leaked out at st. John. n
r., that during the past two months
the mails have been robbed at None
ton, n. 3. one bag stolen contained
intercolonial checks to the sum Of
1900 which however, needed endorse
ment before the money could be col
lected. AT Shediac nearby, a bag con-
tanning registered letters was stolen.
, Moncton police are assisting the postal
authorities in the case and suspect To-
cal parties. No arrests yet.
Fire damaged property in Charles
town, Mass. Saturday afternoon. ia
the extent Of $4,000 and caused a
fright second to none since the incen-
diary fires Of a year ago. when there
were four Of great magnitude in three
days in the same district. The prop
erty destroyed was shed 10. part Of
shed and part Of shed S. of the Bos-
ton & Maine on Rutherford avenue.
about 40 cars and the contents of both
sheds and cars. The sheds We're filled
with hay, grain and lumber, and in
shed there was considerable guam
tity of merchandise.
The New Foundland government has
not been Informed Of any progress to-
ward the settlement of the French
shore controversy by the British and
French governments. Officials at st.
johns take it for granted that pour
parlers have been opened by the
French for n renewal of the modus
yivendi: but the British government
cannot agree to such q proposal with
out the sanction of Newfoundland. All
classes in the colony are opposed to
such an arrangement ana the action Of
the colony viii depend upon the conces-
sions which the imperial authorities
suggest.
The mystery Of the disappearance Of
Robert Callender. who left his fathers
home in Providence. r. L.. Monday af-
terno0n. was solved, Sunday. by the
finding of his body in a meadow on the
crest of a hill just over the boundary
line Of that city ana the town Of Grams
ton. He had shot himself in the roof
of the mouth, sending n 45-calibre bull
let upwards through his head and
probably producing instant death. The
fact that Robert Calender was in
Respondent state due 10 the strain of
several weeks Of suffering from ins0m-
nia. caused his self destruction to
lie anticipated.