Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-04-12
WIRE GLEANINGS.
Fire Destroys a Town in
West Virginia.
Five Men Drowned Crossing
Hudson River.
Several Churches Unroofed In South.
ern Ohio.

Forty-two boilermakers employed in
the shops Of the Boston & Maine Rail
road, III Concord, \. H., struck, Mon
day morning. after demanding that the
only non-umion man in the shop join
the union or be dismissed. The man
refused to comply with their request,
and the railroad company also de-
rlinrd TO dismiss the man.
Col. A. G. Cotton. J. II. Edwards and
Warren Smith. three Dominican col
lectprs will sail from New York. today.
for SInto Domingo. where they will
assume their duties at once. The New
ark which has been on duty in DOmin-
lean waters for some time past. sailed
from Monte Christi. Sunday. for Pen
sacola to engage in target practice, af-
ter which it will come north for re-
pairs.
y decree admitting to probate the will
of the late Patrick McAleor, the mil
lionIire carpenter. was ordered, Mon
day. by Chief Justice KnoWlton of the
Massachusetts supreme court, an
asl cement having been reached by the
parties concerned. The will has been
protested by three children for the
deceased who objected to the method
of distribution OF the property.
The dwelling. barn and outbuildings
owned by Edward Adams. North An
dover. MISS. were destroyed by fire.
Monday. and the two horses which
were used to draw the steamer Of the
fire department were burned to death
The horses had been kept III the
Adams barn, and the delay i'll securing
other horses seriously hampercd the
fire department. The fire started from
SPARKS from steam roller which
Adams was operating in the road near
by The loss is estimated ut $1,000.
one hundred Italians employed on
the nov line of railroad which the
Pennsylvania Railroad Co., is building
through the southern end of the coun-
ty. near Lancaster Pa, struck for high
or wages, Monday. They marched Jour
mics east of QuarryVille and COM
PEELED the men there to quit. and also
attacked Il gang of Austrians. beating
tnein severely. They also took teams
from transfers who resisted, and en-
gineers who refused to do rs ordered
were dragged from their donkey en-
gines. All operations were suspended
later in the day.
While james Malloy, a we'll known
fshermaI of BarrytoWn, n. Y, was
crossing the Hudson river at that
place. Monday night, with six Poland
eds. the boat carsized just before
reaching the shore and Malloy and
four of the Polanders were drowned.
The ether two were rescued, but one is
III Il critical condition.
The plant Of the Condor Lane Boom
& Lumber CO.. ut Horton, w. va, one
Of the largest in the state. and the en-
tire town Of Horton, consisting OF
about $50 company houses and millions
of feet CT lumber, was totally destroyed
by fire. Monday. The mills destroyed
had q capacity of 100000 feet day.
No estimate of the loss has as yet
been received.
A dispatch from Algiers says that
the report of fighting on the Moorish
frontier between the troops of the Sui
tan of Morocco and rebel forces, and
of the timely intervention in behalf OF
the Sultan by the French artillery, has
been confirmed; and the Sultan's SOL
diers are now engaged in decapitathg
their dead enemies, a premium of two
dollars a head having been offered.
1t is said that general subscribers
TO the imperial loan of Germany, which
was covered Il fold, including the Unit
ed States, Great Britain and RUSSIA
will get no allotments, as the entire
amount is covered by subscribers ask
ing to have their bonds registered as
permanent investments Of pledgins
themselves not to sell prior to October