Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-06-15
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

A call has been issued for n meeting of
the Southern hosiery manufacturers. to
| be held Mt Asheville, n. c., June H. This
will be an important meeting, ar the ques-
| ton of advancing prices win be discussed
Jacob Reich. the man who approached
| in q threatening manner. Friday, at Vien-
| ma IL carriage in which Emperor Francis
Joseph was riding. was saturday. de
clared to be insane and was sent to an
asylum.
Secretary Moody. Saturday. decided that
one of the two sailing briggs authorized by
| the last Congress for training purposes
should be built ut the Boston navy yard
The vessel will he named the Cumberland
| The other brig, the Boxer. will be built
at Portsmouth
Stockholders of the Fifth Avenue Bank
of New York. enc of the most prominent
of whom is Russell Sage, will receive a
special dividend of 100 per cent on their
holdings. in addition to the regular quar-
terly dividend of % per cent. July /. The
stock sells close to $4,000 share.
The Knickerhocker Trust Co. of New
York, filed an application, Saturday. at
Baltimore, applying for the appointment
OF co-reoeiver Of the City Trust and
Ranking Co. of Baltimore, recently sus-
pended. The New York company alleges
that 1t is a creditor to the amount Of
100000.
Charles Dearborn. a Northneld, N. II.
farmer OF g, was ronhfd OF $50 watch
TO the police. DearbOrH who had been
drinking, fell in with three other men,
Who went through him and then pushed
him off the railroad bridge into the Wnni-
pcSaukce.
Capt. James Hayes OF the schooner Adj
miral Dewey, who arrived. Saturday. at
Gloucester from q fresh halbut voyage
off the northeast coast of Newfoundland
reports falling in with great ice fields In
that locality. lie reports falling in with
the schooner Squanto which, owing to tho
ice, had caught but few fish.
DIR. cAdolph Lorenz has cancelled all his
ana will return to fttffope at once. having
been called home by cable. He was To
have stopped OF at Marion. o. next Tues
day, that it would have to lie deferred
till he returned to this country.
Sixteen strikers, alleged to have violat-
ca an injunction obtained by the Kellogg
For Il corporation to be compelled to
contract with the union to have In it's
employ only union men, he said In his
decision, us a species OF slavery, and I'M
lawful"
Three men. three boys and n woman
were killed and a number of persons were
injured at Glasgow, Saturday night, as the
Thousands of casks OF spirits exploded,
blowing down "A wall of an adjoining iiuur
mill. The victims were buried beneath the
debris. around which the blazing liquor
Strcamcd. A million gallons of whiskcy
were burned. 40
An incendary fire. the second of its Kind
in three weeks, caused the deaths Of four
children and Il man. early saturday In
tn" four-Story tenement Mt 3iI East 18th
street Mt New York. Half n dozen others
were seriously burned and many more
narrowly escaped injury. The fire was
clearly of incendiary origin, the halls Of
the building having been soaked with
Kerosene previous to APPLYING the torch,
ana oil-saturated rags wcrb also found
The body of the Latte Edward H. Everett
was crcmatcd at Mt. Auburn crclnatury
at Nashua, \. H.. Saturday. iiy n special
request Of the deceased. who was an
atheist of the most pronounced type. the
ashes are to hc sprinl<led over the lawn
about his residence Mr. Everett few
months ago, while u, member of tho New
hampshire convention to revise the state
constitution, created n sensation by his
request to have the word Deity" stricken
from the constitution.
Jack O'kccfc Of Chicago and Jimmy
Britt of San francisco, fought - rounds
to u draw, Saturday. at Butte. Mont.
Fully 10000 people saw the fight. which
was fast ana furious. Britt had u shade
the better of IL, but O'Kccfc was the fa-
voritc with the crowd. as the Frisco boy
had been accused of fouling repeatedly.
The sheriff of Butte jumped into the ring
in one round and warned Britt that " he
did not fight fair the battle could not gu
on. Abe Cohen announced four men who
challenged the winner. They are Joe
Cans, Willie Fitzgerald. Buddy Ryan and
Toby Irwin.