Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-19
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The State Bank of Toronto, at To-
sronto. Kan, closed it's doors, Satur-
day. The liabilities probably will be
$4,000. It is said only small per cent.
5of the deposits. which amount to SIS, 0c0
can be paid.
Colonel Robert. p. Jacobs oldest
member OF the Danville, Ky, bar, and
for 20 years president of the Boyle Ma
tlonal Bank. died suddenly, Saturday.
y brother, Colonel ]. w. Jacobs, u. S.
M. survives him.
The factory Of &. Rogers & Bros. at
Meriden, Conn, was closed, Saturday,
indefinitely by orders issued from the
officers of the International Silver Co.
The orGer throws $50 hands out of
work. The reason of the shutdown
was not stated
While coasting with some playmates
.on elm avenue in the Linden district
of Maiden, Mass, Saturday, Marie
Brown, {. child of years, was struck.
by an inward bound freight and fatally
injured. The girl died before medical
assistance could reach her.
Grain is as scarce as coal around
Rutland. VT, on account OF the con-
,&ested condition Of the railroad traffic.
1t is impossible. to get grain through
from the West and the dealers have
more for sale. In some places cattle
are starving because of the scarcity.
The Board of Health of Panama. CO.
lombia, has decided that the Pacific
Mail Steamship CO. steamer Aca-
puldo from San Francisco. Dec 20),
and Aculpucoa. Mexico, Jan.-4), Will not
be allowed to land passengers or cargo
ut Panama. She is now taking coal on
board and viii sail for San Francisco.
The transfer of the Sioux City &
Northern Railroad Co. property by
William Steward Tod and Robert e.
Tod of Greenwich, Conn, to the Wilmar
& Sioux Falls Railway Co. was COM
pleted. Saturday, at Sioux City, Iowa.
The consideration named is $4,000, 900.
The line ruus from Sioux City to Car
retson, S. D.
. A preliminary meeting of the New
England Partenders Association was
held in New Haven, Conn, as prelim-
mary to the convention which Will be
held Monday. A banquet was tender
ed The out-of-town guests, numbering
$50, by the local union. Delegates arc
present from New Hampshire, Rhode
Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut.
1t was learned, Saturday, at Prince
ton. n. j., that a new dormitory will
erected on the Princeton campus.
There is u movement on foot among
the classes from '92 to '97 to build a
Gothic dormito,y, each class to pay for
a CT 1trIa ,f,1rt tn, 4 1,n
class of 1902 has also announced that
it will give a dormitory to the uni
versity at the end of its ten years
as alumni.
In wreck near SSycamare, Ills, Sun
day, on The Chicago, Great Western
Galway, an engineer was killed and so
people We're seriously injured. OF these
several may, not recover. The Des
Moincs and Minneapolis special rum
ming at q high rate OF speed, struck "a
broken rail, Just as it was about to
cross q. bridge. The speed of the train
carried it across the bridge on the ties.
then the entire train pitched down 90
foot embankment, the cars turned On
their sides and We're jumbled together
in g hopeless wreck.
z One Of the great digesters in the
sulphlte mills of the Dexter Sulphite
Pulp and Paper Co. at Dexter, eight
miles from Watcrtown, n. Y. eN-
ploded, Sunday. wrecking the entire
pulp mill. The loss is placed ut
$4,000 The cause of the explosion
is a mystery. George Hunt Of Dexter,
in charge of the plant was blown fifty
feet ard instantly killed. Owing to
the scarcity of coal tie mill had been
practically closed down for#a week
Had it been runninggasy usual the loss
: of life would have. BEEN great.