Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-26
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Secretary Root has postponed his de-
parturc from Havana until Saturday
evening.
The British third-class cruiser Bellona
lett the Clydc. Friday, in search for the
Allan Line steamer Huronian.
The steamer Sunrise, Capt Frank SEQ
veil, Of the Red River Line, was burned
to the waters edge at her wharf 1T New
Orleans just before daylight. Friday The
passengers and crew were saved.
The correspondent Of the Vienna Neue
Frcie Iresse at ST. Petersburg teIegrapns
that general strike of wUrkmen mas
been announced To commence, May /. The
men demand 10 hons labor per day.
Rear Admiral Lord Charles Beresford
Conservative. has been elected without
House % Commons representing Wool
wien. made vacant by the retirement OF
Col Edwin Hughes, Conservative.
The Chicago Chronicle Saturday, VIII
say: Action may be started soon 10
prove mat a number Of railroads Operat-
ing out I'll Chicago are Violating the re-
cent United States court inJmCJiOn5
tOrDidcgng the making of secret rates.
Farmer" Burns Of Iowa. Friday night,
won tat wrestling ma;cn with NJ. j.
DwYer of New Haven, in the latter city,
for purse of 500. Burns threw DWyer
in q minutes ia the first fail. Dwyer s.
cured the second IN 40 minutes and Burns
took the third fall in Il minutes.
Myron r. Herrck Of Cleveland, Ohio,
treasurer of the Mckinley Memorial AS
ISOLATION, has just received Il remittance
of nearly S11nO from Gov. Hunt OF Porto
Rico. Nearly 5000 of the inhabitants of
the island are registered as contributors.
Their offerings were limited TO ~ GEMS
each.
The strike Of the Iincm,n Of the Mon
treal Light, Heat ana Power co. ana
l-acninc rapids Hydraulic and Land Co
ended. Friday night, III defeat for the
men Trey went out demanding recog-
milton of their union and increase of 10
per cent in their pay. Neither demand
Is granted.
y committee of the striking employees Of
the American Bridge Co. at Youngstown,
ohio. informed General Manager Hunter
| Friday, that the strike had been declared
off. The former employees Will be rein
stated excepting those whose places have
been niled. ana the entire plant Will re-
sumo operations. Monday.
Under decision handed down by JUS
tice brown OF the supreme court at ST.
PAUL Friday, the practice of repeating
messages by telegraph companies, WHERE
the party to whom the message is di-
rected has gone to another point, is d
pure gratuity, and failure to do so does
not entitle the party to damages for nom
delivery.
The Appellate division of the New York
supreme court decided Friday, that
theatre owner might refuse to accept any
ticket not sold by himself The decision
was made in suit brought by w. H. Col
lister d ticket SPECTATOR, to restrain d
theatre owner from interfering with the
plaintiffs business of selling tickets in
front Of the theatre.
The State Mutual Life Annuity Co. of
Illinois, was placed in the hands of a re-
ceiver, Friday. Attorney Beerly, repre-
sentng the creditors, charged the CON-
pany with being another get rich quick
concern, and alleges that the stockholders
have lost thousands of dollars. The COM
pany purports to have issued policies IL
the amount OF $2,00J,OOO.
The schooner Cactus, formerly hailing
from Bath. Me-. which sailed from Key
West Fla, on the I'D inst, for Jackson
vile, returned, Friday, leaking badly and
later sank in the harbor. The Cactus was
| marshaFs sale for $500 to satisfy salvage
| claims against her. She made temporary
repairs there and had started for Jack
| sonvlIe to finish repairing.
| From Geneva the correspondent of the
| London Daily Mail sends a dispatch in
which he says u sensation has been cauS-
ed there by the faiiure of one of the old
est banks in the country, the Basler
Credit Gesechaft. The manager and the
cashier of the bank have been arrested
| 1t is reported that Ct 100000 of the bank 8
funds have been lost By wild speculation
| at Paris and that thousands of people
| have been ruined.
Edwin p. Damon, ex-president of the
National Aids Association Of the Grand
| Army of the Republic, an aid on the na-
tional stats of the order under Command
ers GARRISON and Corbin and prominent in
G.. A. r. circles, died at Lynn, Friday.
aged IS years. He was a musician and
had played in nearly all the prominent
bands of the state and was in the band
Of the warship that accompanied Gen.
Grant on his tour around the world.
Three hundred ana fiftv tin can workers
enDloved i'm tvn shons in BOSTON contrnli-
ed by the American Tin Can Co., will go
out on strike, Saturday, in consequence
of a refusal of their employers to grant
their demands for 9-hour work-day. 10
per cent advance in wages and time and
a half pay for all overtime. 1t is stated
there that the strike VIII probably be
followed by similar action on the part OF
the employers OF the company at other
points.
Replying to an inquiry as to whether
the Cuban and Spanish flags would be
entwined during the coming festivities at
tending the inauguration of the Cuban
has sent telegram from Bayamo to La
Union Espamoia rep,eseh =, Jpd n,