Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-12
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Mr. Seegcr United States consul gener.
aid at Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. telegraphs
the department of state that reports
which nave gone forth have greatly cxag
seratCI the damage by frost to the coffee
crop of Brazil He thinks the next har-
Vest viii be very large.
With the sanction Of President r. H.
General Manager Julius <ruttschnitt has
appointed A. +. RoOmc of New Orleans.
superintendent Of all telegraph lines of
The company Mr.. RoOme will have his
headquarters in San Francisco.
Twenty-seven weavers Of No. 3 Har-
graves mill. Fall River Mass. are on
strike They claim that they are asked
to weave samples, which work is exdCting
and is not paid iUr according 10 the time
required. A device added to the looms,
they say also makes their work harder.
They conferred with Supt Hamilton. but
not being satisfied ut the outcome OF the.
conference. they left
The ship VIM. P Frye left San Francis
60. this week. for New York with the
following cargo: 1903 barrels wine. 9776
| pigs load, 300 cedar logs, 1l9 sacks bones.
l23 barrels aspaaltnm, 200 cases canned
fruit Die sacks brewing barley. As pack
ages dutimOnN, l2 bales WOOL 1SS sacks
bone black. i2i sacks copper cement. Is
packages brandy. 40 boxes scrap tin.
Capt SimmonGs Of the Port Clyde fish
ing slnop Fredonia- had am unusual cN-
periene 4. Tuesday, while returning from
he fishing grounds undei fair wind He
was in a reclining position and steering
with his feet when he fell asleep and
was not awakened until the si0op be-
came wrecked on Cunning rocks. lie was
rescued BY \ crew from the life saving
station
Private telegramc received at Washing
ton. Wednesday night and Thursday an
nouncc that Alexander r. Shepherd, who
IVES vice president Of the board of public
works Of the District of Columbia during
the territorial government Of the district
governor Of The district. is very seriously
Batopilas, Mexico. Mrs. Shepherd and
Dir. and Mrs. Merchant, the latter Il
dauehter OF the former governor. left.
Thursday, for BaropohS. Later advices
indicate that ex-Guv Shepherd is suffer-
ing from appendicitis
The historic Kentucky Association race
course at Lexington, ky., has been sold
by Charles Green Of St Louis. to J. J.
Douglass of Kentucky. and the old trot-
ting track at Louisville, Oakley track at
Cincinnati and Lexington track VIII be
turned into 4 circuit for running IA ces
It is the purpose Of the lew owners to
hold spring and .all meetings each year
opening in Lexington next spring. In.-
meuse sale paddoeaIS viii be constructed
at the local track. whore an effort will
be made to dispose OF the annual crop of
yea Rings and save the cost Of shipment
10 New Yorl, and back each season. Thu
work Of repairing the track viii begin
next week.
At a meeting Of the Liverpool Cotton
Association the following resolution was
adopted: ron anI after the first Of Oc-
tober next. trading il spot and futures
Americana cotton ~ liverpool VIII be IN
hunJredths Of a penny Per pound instead
of sixty fourths and on the date the dis
count If u per cent. heretofore allowed,
viii he abolished. This important change
In terms vii lresiIlt in a lowering of quo
tations by 4-6iff5-gl yer pound or e-lWpd
7-lGn per pound. being the equivalent Of
the discount no longer given. tile net val
ne thrs remaining unaltered. ON the
same date the weight nf American cotton
contracts for fuf ares viii be altered from
s. 200 hounds to 4SeJ pounds.
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