Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-12-18

eHOrL 10 reach an agreement OIL prices,
which have been demoralized for sew
eral months. Twenty million dollars Of
capitalization and about $12.O0O,O0O in
annual output is represented at the
meeting. The session may last several
days.
According to advioes received at Vic
| toria, b. c., Tuesday night, by the
steamer Rice Jun Maru, from the
Orient. the steamer Genefe of the Shell
line. Capt. Walker, which was loading
petroleum at Palembang for Singapore,
was blown up and hopeIessly wrecked.
Walker and several others were killed
as a result of the disaster. The engi-
neer was also reported dead.
| FrOf. Alexander Graham Bell passed
through Montreal, Tuesday. en- route to
Washington from his summer home on
Cape Breton island. Prof. Bell stated
| that during the past summer he had
made experiments with kites which he
expected would prove the solution of
the flying machine problem. He says
he will make the details public before
some scientific body in the near future.
i The stockholders ow the Louisville &
Nashville Railroad at their postponed
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elected board of 13 directors. August
Belmont is among those retained. The
Atlantic Coast Line is well represented
on the board. The directors will meet
in New York, next Friday, to organize.
Six Of the old directors, including Mil
ton II. Smith, president of the Louis
Vile & Nashville. were retained.
| AS the result of joining the Maurice
Grau Opera Company and leaving the
Royal Court theatre at Dresden, Georg
Antilles, the German tenor. has been ex-
PEELED by the King of Saxony from the
Order of Albrecht. The King also has
| withdrawn from him his appointment
as royal court singer. Mr. Antilles
| considers his treatment unjust, and
| says that he may possibly become an
| American citizen in consequence of it.
sOutherly wind storm with heavy
| rain began, Tuesday morning, and last
ed until Wednesday noon. The steam
/ er Halifax, which was to have left
Halifax, n. S., for Boston, Wednesday
| morning, was delayed some hours by
| it. The schooner Carl Richards from
New York arrived during the night af-
| ter rough trip of IL days. Her cargo
| shifted and everything movable on the
| deck, including her boat was carried
away. The schooner Valkyrie from
Bay of Islands, Newfoundland, for
| Gloucester, with a cargo of herring put
| in for shelter.
Observation-Disclosures Stratton of San
| Francisco. has stated that under in
structiOns received from Commissioner
| of immigration Sargent he will refuse
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crew now on board the steamer Arab
to the Danish steamer Stanley Dollar,
| formerly the transport Egbert. Mr..
Stratton also will deny all applications
for such transfer, including that ex-
| pected soon from China to form the
crew of the new steamer Siberia. Ii
will be precedent and all the parties
interested have been notified of the po-
sition the collector has taken.
special to the Chicago Tribune
from Des Moines, Iowa, says: 1.-THE
strike of the telephone operators of Des
Moines. which had been in progress
about six months, was settled, Tuesday
night, by representatives of the COM
pany and of the trade and labor as
sembly. The telephone girls are to be
paid wages Is per cent. in excess OF the |
union scale and all of the girls who |
struck are to be taken back to work. /
The company further agrees not to IN |
any way discriminate against the strik-
ers. The injunction suit to restrain the
representatives of union labor from
boycotting the company is to be dis
missed
For hunting. chasing and killing d
deer" in violation of the state game
laws, John r. Connors Of Maplewood,
was. Wednesday, fined 500 by Judge
pettingill in the police court at Maiden,
Mass, and in default of payment was
held, to be sentenced later to serve
time. Game Warden Burney alleged
that on Thursday last. Connors shot
and killed a deer near his home Ill
Maplewood, and prepared its flesh for
sale. While attempting to sell the deer
meat to some dealers in Maiden square,
police officers detected him and notified
Warden Burney of Lynn. The warden
came to Maiden and identified the skin,
as that of an animal he had liberated
in Lynn two weeks ago.
Dissatisfaction among the members
of the Chicopee Textile Worker Union
as to the wages paid at the leading
Dwight Mfg Co., has resulted in the II
calling to Chicopee Representatives of
the United Textile Workers of America. II
Pres. James Tansey of Fall River, and
Matthew Hart of New Bedford, will go
10 Chicopee to investigate the griev-
ances of the local union and to bring II
about. if possible. more satisfactory ar
engagements. What the local union
wants is an increase of 10 per cent in
wages. The union officials set up the Il
claim that the wages paid by the
Dwight Co. are lower than those paid
by other cotton mills, working along
similar lines in Lowell. Fall River, New
Bedford and other places.
Advices just received from Honolulu
show that investigation proves that
food stufs shipped to Honolulu from
Japan and China via San Francisco are
responsible for the case of plague re-
Gently appearing there, says a special
to the Chicago Chronicle from San |
Francisco. number of Japanese on