Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-01-04
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The British steamer Frascali, Capt.
Willis, from New York, Dec. 81. for
Kinston, is ashore on little San Saliva
dor in the Bahama islands. The Fras-
cali is i'm a bad position. The wrecking
tug Premier will probably go to her
assistance.
A west bound passenger train on the
New York Central due at Auburn, N.
Y, at lbs p. NJ. Friday, collided, head
on. with an east bound freight two
miles east of Auburn. Several en-
ployes We're seriously but not fatally
injured. The accident occurred at Sem
nett station.
The rowing match at Vile Franchc.
Friday, between the gigs of the United
States cruiser Chicago and the United
States gunboat Nashville for a prize
of $1,000. distance three miles, was
won by the Chicago crew by three
lengths. The occasion was celebrated
by an afternoon party and dance on
beard the Chicago.
Judge Knowles. in the United States
court at Butte. Mont, has dissolved the
injunction which John MacGinnis, 4
minority stakeholder of the Boston &
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prevent the payment of dividends to
the Amalgamated Copper Co. and to
prevent the latter and its officials from
voting stock and controlling the affairs
of the Boston & Montana Mining Co.
The flannelette weavers of the Co
checo mills at Dover, n. H., who have
been on a strike Since Monday, return
ed to work, Friday, and to all appear
ances, the trouble there has been adj
justed. They are to work for two
weeks upon the same grade of cloth as
formerly and then will send a commit
tee for conference with Agent Fish.
The matter of wages in this work is to
be definitely settled at that time.
Grave fears are entertained as to
the fate of the two-masted schooner
+. A. Smith. which cleared from New
buryport, Mass, Monday, bound for
Boston with cargo of sand. Nothing
has been heard of the craft since she
sailed and it is believed that she en-
countered the full force of the fierce
gale of Tuesday night and probably
foundered. The Smith carried a crew
Of four men, including the captain,
Abner Brown. She was of II tons net
and was built in Newburyport in 1869.
H. r. Nswcomb. chairman of the
committee of bankers chosen to take
charge of the financial affairs of the
Everett-Moore Syndicate, at Cleve-
land. o.. stated. Friday. that kilograms
We're being received from many out-of-
town creditors approving the steps
taken and agreeing to the proposition
to give an extension of Is months on
the paper of the syndicate. He added
that the committee felt confident that
the affairs of the syndicate would be
speedily placed on a solid financial
basis and that the various constituent
properties would not suffer in the least.
An incendiary fire caused a loss of
$500 on the two-story wooden block
owned by Appleby & Williams in Fox
boro. Mass, at ? A. NJ. Friday. The
building was occupied on the first floor
by market and the second floor was
given over to a large secret society hall
in which numerous organizations held
meetings When the firemen arrived
they discovered that the blaze had been
set in hallway leading up stairs and
that there We're a number Of inflam- |
mable articles deposited there. There |
have been numerous small incendiary |
fires in that direction in the last few |
weeks and an investigation is being |
made.