Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-01-18

place Ior the next annual meeting and
the date June, 1902.
1t is announced by the Society ar
American Artists at New York. that an
annual prize of $500 has been Instituted
by Andrew Carnegie, and win be
awarded by the jury for the most meri
torious Oil painting in the exhibition
by an American artist, portraits only
excepted. the picture to be the proDertv
of the artist. The same artists may
not receive the prize in two successive
years and not more than twice in all.
The passengers of the steamer Lake
ontario, which arrived at Halifax, n.
>, Thursday evening, from Liverpool.
We're closely inspected by the United
states immigration commissioners. The
ZIONIST lac e-makerS We're not discover
ed, The steamer landed 40 stccrage
passengers and will land 200 at st.
John. n. b., for United States points.
She Will sail at daylight, Friday. Good
weather was experienced on the At
lantic.
The body of Captain George f. Cod
frey of the 22d Regiment. L. S. A., ar
rived at New York. Wednesday night.
from the Philippines. His mother, with
|
home. Captain Godfrey was in Cen
eral Skaters Santiago expedition and
was the first man to land at Siboney.
! He was killed in battle at San Miguel
in the Philippines on June 3. His body
viii be taken to West Point and buried
in the military cemetery.
Three men visited the Manhattan
Trust Co, at Boston, Wednesday. and
presented a check for $500 made out in
due form and apparently genuine. The
amount called for was paid and the
strangers disappeared. Soon after
! wards, however, it was found the
check was forged and in course of this
investigation it appeared that a check
| for $500 presented by the same men,
| Wednesday, was also cashed was bo-
gus The police are at work on the
case but they have very meagre des-
| cription of the men implicated.
Sixty North Carolina mill owensr said
to represent over 100 cotton mills. met
at Greensboro, n. G., Wednesday. and
considered the questions Of reduction
of hours and child labor. An agreement
and petition was signed by 40 of those
in attendance that a weeks work shall
not exceed &C hours; no child less than
Il years old shall work in a cotton mill
during q school term. provided this
does not apply to children of widows
or physically disabled parents and
that 10 years shall be the lowest limit
at which children may be worked. "
John Barrs of Paulding county. Ohio.
is under arrest charged with. terribly
beating his one-and- a-half-year old
nd ,1last,,
n sitting posture on a red-hot stove
The tot was frishtfully burned. and it's
condition is pronounced critical Bar
ris denies that he placed the child on
the stove. but acknowledges that great
black welts on its body were caused by
whippings administered by him. be-
cause the baby failed to make know
its wants. He justifies the whipping
by a claim that the infant refused to
promise not to repeat the act.
At Il special meeting Of the directors
of the EIie Telegraph K Telephone Co.
at Boston, Thursday, the new manage
ment. representing the Bankers Syndi-
cate, took charge OF the company's af
fairs. The changes are acknowledged
to be in accord with the plans that the
new mana cement of the corporation
have arranged and are part of n
broad scheme which will, ii is believed.
ultimately result in the absorption of
this great property by the American
60. Mr.. Glidden has been connected
with the Erie Co. nearly is years, be
ing one of its organiZe,s in 1883.
The cutters strike at the shoe fac
tory Of Morse & Logan at Lynn. Mass.
ordered by the local assembly. X. Of H..
Wednesday evening, took place Thurs
day. when the IS cutters walked out in
a body and with their kits. The strike
was caused by the firm refusing an
increase Of piece work prices provided
in a new price list Introduced by Mas
ter Workman Armstrong of the local
Union $685. Knights OF Labor An in
crease of one cent q pair was asked
for cutting a high cut golf shoe. max
ing the price 6 cents, which was re
fused by the firm. An increase of half
4 cent n pair was also asked for cut
ding russell and colored shoes, which
was also refused.
AS a result of complete tie-up Of
the coal mines of Colorado. due to the
strike of the miners which began sew
eral years ago in the Northern coal
fields and gradually extended to all
the other districts of Colorado as we'll
as New Mexico. Colorado is on the
| verge Of a coal famine. Mining has
been seriously affected and manufac-
turing industries are threatened with n
Stoppage of business due to inability to
secure fuel with which to operate the
machinery. The situation is so serious
that an investigation by n joint com
mittee of the Legislature will be made
Both miners and operators declare that
they will fight to finish and neither
shows signs of weakness.
a special to the Chicago Tribune
from COrDin. KY. says: AS result
of the riot here. Wednesday night, two
persons We're killed, one mortally
wounded. three or four others wounded
and a building wrecked by dynamite.
At noon, Wednesday. James Shotwell
was shot and mortally wounded by
Itolla White. who had become angered
with ShOtwel on being refused to
longer keep company with Shotwell s
daughter. White at once went to the
store of his brother. where he surren-
dered to a deputy sheriff. kilograms
were sent to Judge Morrow and posse
was ordered to the scene from the
county seat. In the meantime White