Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-08-09
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Returns of the Creek election are sufll-
cient to show the ratification of the trea-
ty with the government by 1900 or more
is decisive The Cherokee council viii
meet at Tahlquah, Monday, to canvas the
vote.
The Dennis schooner w. s. Jordan Is
ashore on Hedge. Fence shoal in Vineyard
sound. She grounded, Thursday night. on
her way from Windsor, N. S., for New
York with a cargo of plaster. She re-
manned tight through the night and Capt.
Thomas, her commander, expected to float
her on Fridays tide.
The Catholic Total Abstinence Union
adjourned at Dubuque. Iowa, Friday, to
meet next year in Pittsburg. Pa, Aug. 6
and T. All the old officers were re-elect-
ed save that Rev. j. w. STANLEY, Hart
ford, CT, was chosen president. A ca
ing the apostolic blessings.
The Washington state supreme court
has handed down an important decision
in the test case as to the permanent in
crease of the membership of the cour.
md as to whether there exists vacancy
in the Office of lieutenant governor or gov
ernor as result of the death of Gov.
Rogers The judges are unanimous in
the opinion that Mcbride fills the vacau
cy until the end of the term. On the
question of an increase from five to seven
IN the membership Of the court ma jority
holds that only one judge will be elected
at the next general election to be held in
November.
Magistrate Hammer in. the police court
at New York, Friday. dismissed the sum-
mons against Andrew f. Power. a pro-
moter Of New York City and treasurer Of
the New England Manufacturers Asso-
citation, and denied the application for a
warrant asked for by Leavitt J. Hunt,
attorney for Governor Charles ID. KIM
ball of Rhode Island. and Louis B. Cur
n W n IN mt
Mr.. Power had not accounted for funds
IF the New England Manufacturers AS
ISOLATION to the amount of $4,000. After
the evidence was all in. Magistrate Flam-
mer said the only cause for any COM
plant, so far as he could see, was that
the capital and assets of the association
were not quite what Power had stated
them to be.
j. H. Twatchman of New York, whose
tame as landscape painter embraces
both America and Europe. died at Addi
son Gilbert hospital at Gloucester, Fri
day, aged 4S. Mr.. Twatchman had been
receiving treatment at the hospital for
several days on account of a severe at
tack of dysentery complicated with other
diseases. He has been among the annual
visitors at Gloucester for number of
Harbor View hotel His family are in
France. Mr.. Twatchman had received
many donors as an artist He was one of
the 10 who some years ago seeded from
formed the association of 10 American
painters. In his numerous visits to the
coast ne not only had painted much but
had conducted a school for artists.
The schooner Henry P Ravens, Capt
Walton. which sailed from New York. last
Tuesday, for Little Egg harbor in search
of cargo, returned to port, Friday morn
ing, for repairs, having been in collision
off Squall. N. j.. with the schooner Will
liam Collins. The Havens was beating
down the coast and was standing in for
the beach about II o'clock Wednesday
night. Aug. s, when she was run into by
deep laden threemasted schooner. The
foremost fell by the board as the jiS-
boom snapped off at the bowsprit and car
rled away the main topmast and part of
the mainmast head. The strange schooner
was hooked fast and soon fell alongside.
Everything was in confusion and required
the efforts of both crews all night to clear
the wreckage. The strange schooner wa
found to be the VIM. Collins Capt Dut-
ton, from Virginia, with piling. The Col
Inns had the end of her jibboom carried
away and the figurehead and other bow
woodwork damaged Her port was sorhe
what damaged.
An agreement between organized labor
and boot and shoe firm. deemed to b.
one of great Importance to the boot and
shoe workers. of whom there are several
thousand at Marlboro, Mass, was reach
ed, Friday. A paper was signed removing
the boycott placed about three years ago
on the product of the shoe factories of
the Rice & Hutchins Co. Among provis-
ions in the agreement. the Rice & Hutch
ms concern will recognize the Information
al Boot and Shoe Workers Union. which
is the second party to the settlement
brought about. Friday. 1t is further stip-
ulated that no discrimination shall Dc
made against any member of the union
Moreover. the difficulties which may arise
between the company and its employees
are to be settled by referring the same
to arbitration. The company has facto-
RES IN Marlboro. establishments in War
rem and Braintree. Mass, and at Kenne-
bunk, Ne. all of whose employees will be
more or less affected by the new order
OF things. The placing of the concern on
the unfair list was the result of the
strike which started in November 1895