Daily Kennebec Journal (Augusta, Me.)
December 25, 1897

Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.

The text was read from the page scans by machine (OCR), so it has mistakes and its columns may run together. See the pages · About this title · At the Library of Congress

Page 1

NO. 305. $1.00 per Box. r!> Packed 25 in a fancy silver and blue embossed box. For sale by all dealers. «»r sent by maxi on receipt of price. Trade aupplied by all N. E. Jobbers, or by H. TRAISER CO., Boston.! Extend Broadcast Your “Merry Christmas” by buying your presents win re .1 little money makes many presents. Elegant leather lined pocket books, good value at 25c., we sell at 17c Lots of picture books, 3c Games of fish pond (popular) 9 19c Embossed alphabet blocks, 3c “Child's delight" building blocks, 3c Dissected maps, S3e "Game of India” similar to “pareheesi," 23c Fancy wall pockets. 30c 68c, 99e i 23 Fancy pocket knives, 23o OEs 30o Great job on fancy neckwear. Hows, four-in-hand and tecks. near half price. Mittens and gloves almost without end. E. H. JENKINS, East Side. Augusta. Me declS.eoiltf THE GENUINE HAVE THIS KEY RING CHECKATTACHED oct4dMW&Snr 'Cbt Smith premier typewriter, popular Because of Merit. Che Leader in Improvements, perfect Cype Cleaner Hffixed to the Machine. Ball Bearing Carriage. Removable Swinging platens. Single Scale. Double Case. Straight Line Keyboard, €tc. ante for Jfew Hit Catalogue free. i Smith Premier typewriter Co* Syracuse, N- To O. 8. H. The First National Bank ol Augusta-Annual Meeting. Notice Is hereby Riven that the annual meeting of the shareholders of the Fii t National Bank of Augusta, will he held at the banking rooms of said bank Tuesday. January 11. 1898. at 10 clock A. M„ for the clioice of directors for the ensuing year and for the transaction of any other business which may legally u brought before said meeting. C. S. HICHBOBN, Cashier. Augusta, Dec. 17, 1807. iecl7,d2w NO CAUSE KNOWN. Suicide of 18-Years Old Geo, Seavey of Thomaston. The Saw Mills at the Village of North New Portland Keep on Pouring Their Refuse Into the Carrabasset Strernn. Rockland, Mo., Dec. 24.—George A. Seavey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Seavey of Thomaston, committed .sui cide by shooting himself in the moutli with a shot gun, about noon, today. The suicide was about IS years of age and no reason for his act is known. THEY CONTINUE TO GRIND. Commissioners Decide that Milt* Can Throw Refuse in the Carrabasset. North New Portland, Me., Dec. 24.— (Special.)—For many years the mills of this village have ground slowly hut they have ground exceeding fine, and while the sawdust and shavings from their saws and planers have flooded nto the intervales, and the low places in jthe farms along the winding Carra i asset, the mill owners have accumu lated comfortable incomes that have e n expend 'd,for the most part, in this quiet little village. As sawdust and shavings, mixed, ^toes not make very good farming land, the sturdy hus bandmen of the Carrabasset have ap pealed to the courts in an attempt to have the throwing of the refuse of the mills into the streams stopped. The case.went out to commissioners and they have decided that as the mill men have been in the habit of throwing sawdust ami shavings into the stream for the past r>0 years or more they have gained the right to do so for ail time if they choose. And the mills of New Portland will continue to grind as fine as ever, and turn out products that have made, and will make, the little village of western Somerset famous the country over. The millmen had for (ounsel the veteran lawyer, Hon. S. I Walton of Skowhegan. for many years a resident of this village, and it is said that the voice of the able attorney shook, arid the great shaggy head of the former resident shook, and the -trong arm that had feruled many a youth in this town, when the lawyer was a schoolmaster, shook, as he ap pealed to the commissioners not to destroy the value of the water course in the waters of which he had once bathed and viewed his manly limbs. o> to change for a moment, the natural bent of affairs in the village where he passed the halcyon days as master, lawyer and village orator; or rob the millmen of their only hope of reward for the labor of years, the quickest way to get rid of their sawdust and shav ings at the least expense, and he won. SOMERSET COURT. \he Grand Jury Retorts 12 Indictments. Ha ol Them Liquor Caset. Skowhegan, Deo. 24.—(Special). The grand jury for the December term of the Somerset supreme judicial court rose, to day. at 10 o'clock, having had a work ing session of three and one-half days. The indictments reported are 12. appor tioned as follows: breaking and entering, 2: larceny. 2: violation of cigarette law, 2: liquor nuisance, 6. _ SPARKS FRO* MAINE WIRES. In the Knox supreme judicial court, Savage, J.. presiding, Tuesday, Lewis C. Packard of Camden, charged with stealing, was found not guilty. The fol lowing divorces have been decreed: Carrie E. McAllister of Rockland, from John F. McAllister: Fannie B. Odiorne of Rockland from John Odiorne; Walter 15. Young of Camden, from Maude B. Young; Sydney E. Butler from Annie M. Butler. Dr. I. Rounds of South Prais, who has been critically ill the past two weeks, died, Friday. Dr. Rounds was horn in Danville, Sept. 11. 1842, and was the son of Nathaniel Rounds of Gray and Susan A. (Libby) Rounds of Po land. He married, on Oct. 14, 18.1 Lvdia A., daughter of Joseph and ^allj, F* (Thurston) Haskell of Poland. They have two children, Susie Louise and Frank Wendell. Gen J P- Ciiley, the gallant com mander of the 2d Maine Cavalry, was married at Rockland. Thursday night io Mrs Abide R. Burpee. Ret. Robeit W Vankirk officiating. The ceremony took Place at the residence of Mayo Butler, Beech street a son of the In id ar.d was private. Gen. and Mis i .v at once to housekeeping at ISt. North Main street, Rockland. Gen. Oilley, apart from his war record, is well-known throughout Eastern Maine as a pension attorney, while Mrs Ciiley a member of one of Rockland s most prominent families. In the Aroostook supreme Judicial court, Wiswell, J„ presiding, the fol lowing divorces were decreed in add, iion to those already reported. Mar> H Crocket vs. William A. Crockett: Nellie M- Bister vs. JamesA ^Lister; Myrtie E. Cassidy vs- William T. Cas sidv: Annie McLean vs. George Mc Lean Divorces decreed. J°sePh B vg caribou Water Co. Action on account* Verdict for plaintiff for $19 32. H-bward P. Todd vs. Bertha J-Keir s^eiTd Action on account. Verdict for •plaintiff for $132,r.2, Court adjourned Friday, 288 cases having been disposed of during the term. Maine Consistory, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite Masonry, held its annual rendezvous in Masonic hall, in Port WATCHES AND Newand fine goods from a dealer’s stock. Will be sold very low to pay advances. Call and examine THE COLLATERAL LOAN COMPANY, Opp. Cony House, Augusta. dec22,dtf FURS For style, quality and fit they are unexcelled. Special attention paid to alterations and repairs. All fur work in charge of a practical furrier with 19 years’ experience. Send address for illustrated cata logue. H. G. BARKER, Corner Store, G ARDINER, M AINE. DIAMONDS Buy FAIR AND WARMER Boston. Dec. 24.—Local forecast for Boston and vicinity for Saturday: Fair weather: westerly winds; warmer, Sunday. Washington Forecast. Washington, Dec. 24.—For New Eng land: Fair till Sunday; northwest to west gales, becoming southwest and diminishing; warmer. Saturday. Weather Conditions and General Forecast. Washington, Dec. 24.—The area or' high pressure has moved from Iowa to West Virginia, increasing in magni tude. The pressure continues high in the middle Plateau region. The storm has continued steady over Newfound land and the advance of high pressure in West Virginia has caused very steep gradients and northwesterly gales along the middle and north At lantic coasts. Snow has occurred in the lower Lake region and New Eng land and light rain in Texas. The tem perature has fallen in the Atlantic states and has risen in the Missouri and upper Mississippi valleys, and in the upper Lake region and has re mained nearly stationary elsewhere. Generally fair weather may he expect ed east of the Mississippi valley. land. Friday evening. There was busi ness and the presentation of the annual reports of the finance committee and of the secretary and treasurer. A special service was held in memory of the fol lowing members, who have died dur ing the year: Orren Stone Ross, Ar lington. Mass.; Andrew Jackson Ful ler, M. D., Bath: Jerome Bonaparte Fickett. Portland; Christopher Way, Portland; Arlington Beaumont Mason, Bangor; Edwin Roland Prothero. Gar diner; Joseph Abbott, Rockland; Charles Allen Price. Augusta; Wm. Burr Dole, Pomona. Cal. It appears that the famous 18-years litigation over the Spruce head bridge has not come to an end, as everybody supposed, when the law court sent down its recent rescript, but that the town of South Thomaston will now seek redress in the United states courts. Hon. C. K. Littlefield, attorney for the town, notified T. P. Pierce, who rep resents the other side, Thursday, that he would apply for a writ of error in the United States eircufc court. Tne ground to be taken by Mr. Littlefield is that the court is in error in holding in the third section of the rescript that the permission of the secretary of war to build the bridge over navigable tide waters was not necessary. Deputy Sheriffs Hurd and Leavitt’of Hollis Center, went to Clark Mills, Thursday, after William Nason, want ed in New Hampshire on the charge of burglary. It is claimed that he has been working in the saw mill under an assumed name. They found him and asked for a few minutes’ conversation with him. He directed them to the office, and said he would be right in. '^/ter the wait had become tedious they went to find him, but he had fled. They gave chase across fields, through pastures and nearly overtook him. but he escaped by fording a brook so deep that they had no inclination to follow. The officers all over York county have been notified. BABY’S SMOOTH, FAIR SKIN A Grateful Mother Writes this Letter Tells all about Her Troubles when Baby Broke out with Scrofula Sores. At the age of two month's, tny baby began to have sores break out on his right cheek. Wc used all the external ap plications that we could think or hear of, to no avail. The sores spread all over one side of his face. We consulted a physi cian and tried his medicine, and in a week the sore was gone. But to my surprise in two weeks more another scrofulous look ing sore appeared on baby’s arm. It grew worse and worse, and when be was three months old, 1 began giving him Hood’s Sarsaparilla. I also took Hood’s Sarsaparilla, and before the first bottle was finished, the sores were weliand have never returned. He is now fouryears old, but he lias never had any sign of those scrofulous sores since he was cured by Hood’s Sarsaparilla, for which I feel very grateful. My boy owes his good health and smooth, fair skin to this great med icine.” Mrs. S. S. Wrotes, Farming ton, Delaware. Get only Hood’s. arc prompt, efficient arid S rillS easy iu effect. ’.Seems. Hood’ I "V declines to talk. lodge Foitar Hu Nothing to Say Regarding Action Ot the W. C. T. U. (Bath special to Lewiston Journal.) Judge Foster was calmly opening a Boston Herald when I was ushered in to his room at the Shannon house, this noon. "It’s on the third page,” I said, and he smiled as he turned to the second day’s story in regard to himself. He glanced the head lines over and scanned the matter casually, apparent ly giving it no more heed than though it concerned the Emperor of China in stead of his own good name. Then he smiled again, as he made hi.i customary response: “I don’t think I have anything to say—at least, not at present.” Questioned further as to whether there was any foundation for the rumor that he would sue the Herald for libel, the judge said that he had not thought of any such proceeding. "Did you have any idea that this was coming?" Judge Foster studied the paper in front of him attentively for a moment and then replied slowly, as though weighing his words: "No, I can't say that I did.” as 10 any rurttier statement to tne public he was non-committal and would neither affirm nor deny that he would have anything further to say. "And about resignation?” "About what?” queried the judge, looking up quickly. "Handing in your resignation before your term expires.” "No intention of anything of the sort." "Then if you do not resign you will practically be a candidate for reap pointment?” "Certainly,” replied the judge em phatically. "I have never had any thought of changing my position in that respect." Then he, observed that it was cold today, said the Sagadahoc term was a quiet one and I said good day. The judge went on with his perusal of what people were saying about the case. Although he is probably the most talkod-of man in the State today, Jndge Foster evinces almost less in terest in the case than anyone else. He doesn’t care to discuss the subject, but he is very courteous to all who venture' to allude to the matter. To news paper men he has been uniformily pleasant and bears no ill-will on ac count of the publicity. As a matter-of-fact, the case could net have been sprung in a county who- the feeling would have been more favorable to the judge. Saga dahoc has always been partial to Judge Foster and this week's developments have not decreased his popularity among members of the bar in this county. talking on this subject a prominent lawyer said, today: "I think that Judge Foster will be re-appointed. "These charges look bad just now but it must be borne in mind that it is one thing to prefer charges and an other to prove them. I don't think the W. C. T. U. is prepared to do this. Of course, we can’t say today, what the situation will be in March. The tide is liable to set one way or the other by that time. It is likely to set Fos ter even more securely on the bench or it may leave him stranded beyond all help. I am firmly convinced that he will be reappointed.” "There is one picturesque feature in connection with this,” said another at torney. "The man whom the W. C. T. U. is now attacking has been for years their idol. Judge Foster's firmness in upholding the prohibitory law won their praise and they gloried in the terror which he inspired among the rum sellers. If they succeed in throw ing him down they will lose one of their staunchest friends.” There was a pointer perhaps in a re mark of the judge's stenographer to day. She was talking to an Andros coggin attorney in the hotel parlor. "You’re coming up to see us in April?” he asked. "Perhaps." she said with a smile. "Aren’t you sure?" "Well," she answered, “we can’t tell, March comes before April this year, you know.” CONDENSED DISPATCHES. motion for an injunction was made at New York. Friday, to stop the issue of bonds by the New York Central Railroad under $100,000,000 mortgage lo the Central Trust Co., which is in connection with the refunding scheme. The petitioner is Charles De Nufville. a stockholder of the New York and Northern Railroad. Other stockholders of the same load are associated with him in the suit. The loss by Thursday night’s fire at Cleveland, Ohw. will probably exceed $1,000,000. The list of accidents was unusually heavy, and as a result Wil liam McFeelers, who fell down the ele vator shaft, has died. Others injured were Fireman John Huhner. log brok en; Fireman T. F. Kane, internal in juries; Hoseman John Billers, badly burned; Kmma Valdoski, hurt by fall ing sign; Captain Henry Hanks, back sprained; Fireman James Richards, overcome by smoke; John K. Waffle, badly injured internally. Mr. and Mrs. Wesley McBride of Stanton, Dell., were killed and their daughter, Carrie, aged 6 years, fatally injured Wednesday at the Stanton crossing of the Philadelphia, Welming ton Baltimore Railroad, five miles below Wilmington. They were driving to the Wilmington market at the time with a load of produce and started to cross the railroad tracks just as the Washington and New York express reached the station apd it ran into the vehicle with dreadful effect. Mrs. Mc Bride was instantly Killed and her hus band hurt so badly 'that be died in a few minutes. The little girl was terri- bly Injured and will die. 1 WHO WILL HELP? An Appeal Issued by Secre tary of State Sherman. The People of Cuba Are Suffering for Necessities of Life. Will the Americin People See Them Starve Through Spain's Cruelty Washington, Deo. 24.—The following appeal to the American people has been issued: “Department of State, Washington, Dec. 24, 1897. By direc tion of the President, the public is in formed that, in deference to the ear nest desire of the government to con tribute by effective action toward the relief of the suffering people in the is land of Cuba, arrangements have been perfected by which charitable contri butions in money, or goods, can be sent to the island by the benevolent disposed people of the United States. Aloney, provisions, clothing, meai cir.es, and the lilje articles of prime necessity can lie forwarded to General Fitzhugh Lee, the consul general of the United States at Havana and articles now dutiable by law so consigned, will lie admitted into Cuba free of duty. The consul general has been instructed to receive the same and to co-operate with the local authorities and the charitable boards for the distribution of such relief among the destitute and needy people of Cuba. "The President is confident that the people of the United States, who have on many occasions in the past re sponded most generously to the cry for bread from the people stricken by famine or sore calamity, and who have beheld no less generous action on the part of foreign communities when their own countrymen have suffered from fire and Hood, will heed the appeal for aid that comes from the destitute at their own threshold, and, especially at this season of good will and rejoicing give of their abundance to this humane end. JOHN SHERMAN." UNITED STATES AND CHINA. Cabinet Considers the Situation Bui Sees No Cause to Interfere. Washington, Dec. 24.—This country’s attitude toward what appears to be an effort on the part of the Powers of Europe to dismember China, was the. principal topic of discussion at today’s meeting of the Cabinet. All the Cab inet members were present except Sec retary Alger, who is ill at his home. While no formal action was taken in the absence of specific information as to the intentions of the Powers of Eu rope, it was determined, as a member of the Cabinet expressed it, "to keep a watchful eye upon the situation as it developed in order that full protection may be given to the United States in China, as guaranteed by our treaties with that country.” No disposition was manifested to par ticipate in an extention of territory at the expense of China. Such a disposi tion would be contrary to the expressed and well understood policy of this gov ernment and is not contemplated by the administration. Maine Postal Changes. Washington. Dec. 24.—A post office has been established at Knox, Waldo county, and Ida B. Vose has been ap pointed postmaster. THE POPE S ENCYLICAL On the Manitoba School Question I* Made Public at Romo. Rome, Dec. 24.—The Pope’s encylical on the Manitoba school question is pub lished here, this evening. After recit ing the religious history o' Canada and eulcgizing its scholastic institutions. His Holiness expresses regret at the decisions taken, seven years ago, in Manitoba relative to the Catholic schools, and points out the rights of Catholics according to the federal agreement. Continuing, the Pope condemns a school system based on religious neu trality, praises the zeal the bishops have displayed on the question, re grets that the Catholics are not united, owing to the political passion and admits that the authorities have done something to diminish the in conveniences of Manitol>a school legis lation. but, His Holiness declares this to be inadequate and exhorts Catholics I to persist in claiming all their rights though they must not refuse any par tial reparation obtainable, with the view to reduce the perils of the educa tion of youth. in conclusion the Pape says that in the event of these being unobtainable. Catholicts should provide their own schools and adopt, under the guidance of their bishops, a programme of study, reconciling it with their religion and all literary and scientific progress. A Blizzard in New York State. Rochester, N. Y., Dec. 23.—A blizzard is raging in Wyoming county, 40 miles south of this city. Nearly 4 feet of snow has fallen during the last 24 hours, and the storm continues with no sign of abatement. Roads are blocked and the farmers are shut in their homes. Buffalo, N. Y., Dec. 23.—Although the snow fall in this city was light, today, engineers and firemen running on roads south and southeast of Buffalo, report much trouble with heavy drifts. Kx-Congressman John Patton of Cur wensville, Pa., died at Philadelphia, Thursday night. D'JN'S REPORT. Huvy Holiday Trade-Wool Firmer— lotton Lower—Iran Stronger. New York. Dee. 24.—R. G. Dun Co in their weekly review of trade, will Kay: The weekly reports show a remarkably large holiday trade, at many points the largest for live years. Moreover, at the season when wholesale business usually shrinks, the pressure of demands for im mediate delivery, which results from un precedented distribution to consumers, tinds many establishments at work that usually begin their yearly resting spell somewhat earlier. Instead of decreasing, the demand for products shows an unex pected increase in several important branches. Foreign trade continues satis factory. even in comparison with the re markable record of a year ago, when ex ports exceeded $117,000,000 In December. Bank failures at Philadelphia, due to individual operations, cause no disturb ance, and commercial failures for the month have been less than last year s to the same date. The outgoing flood of grain is not checked by Chicago speculation, though more corn than wheat has been moving. Wheat exports, flour Included, have been 3.6D8.321 bushels for the week, against 3. 368,805 the previous week, and 1.546,443 the year ago. while corn exports for the week wi re 4.540.828 bushels, against 1.751.740 last year. Cotton goods have still further declined I in prices of bleached, which meet active Southern competition, and the Fall River spinners insist upon a reduction of one ninth in wages, other New England mills joining. Out of 101 New England works. 45 have passed dividends. 11 at Fall River, with 15 others paying 1 per cent, for the last quarter. The fall in ‘.he price of cot ton. when mills were holding heavy stocks of goods, placed this industry in a most embarrassing position. Woolen mills have begun buying domes tic wool heavily, especially Montana and territorial wools, as if assured of large business for the season about to open. Contracts of unknown magnitude have been made, it is said, many at previous prices, but others at a moderate advance. Wool is more firm, traders having dis posed of .1,300,000 pounds territory and 1. 500.000 other domestic at Boston, and sales at three cities reached 7,808.130 pounds. Shipments of boots and shoes from the East have been 23 per cent, larger than last year, then the greatest for that month, and 37 per cent, larger than in 1802. This unprecedented movement for two months lias been almost wholly to meet urgent demands caused by sales greater than dealers anticipated, so that nearly all orders for January and later months have been met by supplementary shipments. New business for the next season is very small. Buying of leather is closely confined to necessities and prices have changed but slightly, though speculation appears in union with some large sales and one of 3000 sides sent in at 11 cents is reported. Hides at Chicago are weaker, and on calf skins one cent lower, with the decision against the duty of two cents. There is a stronger demand for iron and its products, bessemer rising to $10 and Clrey forge to $9 at Pittsburg, and the Eastern Bar Association has advanced the price to 1,1 cent for relined and 1.02% for common. Owing to possible changes in freight rates. Southern pig is offered 25 cents lower. Tin is slightly weaker, ow ing to large shipments. Failures for the week have been 292 in the t'nited States, against 2.t7 last year, and 33 in Canada, against 44 last year. Canadian trade is on the whole very good, considering the season, and as re spects holiday trade, exceptionally good. St. John reports a rather quiet week in the wholesale trade, but holiday business quite as good as usual, with fair collec tions. At Halifax retail trade has been stimulated by fair weather and collec tions are reported good. The retail holi day trade at Montreal is much better than for several years past. At Toronto, wholesale trade is quiet, but retail trade In ail lines is larger than for many years and payments are fair. At Victoria, wholesale trade is generally satisfactory for the season, with consid erable increase in activity of retail trade and payments arc good. Vancouver re ports holiday trade good and wholesale business less active, with fair collections. WANTED THE BEST. So the New York Hall ol Records People Or dered Hallowed Granite. New York. Dec. 23.—The New York Evening World says the awarding of the contract for the new Hall of Rec ords to the highest bidder by the board of estimates and apportionment has caused no end of dissatisfaction among the other and unsuccessful competi tors. as well as surprise among the public generally. Thirteen bids altogether were put in for the work, and of the number Nor cross Hros. were lowest, with $1,653,597. John Pierce was highest, with $1,997,900, yet he was given the contract, although it meant a difference of $344,303. The only explanation given by the members of the board who were will ing to talk at all was that the city wanted the best building that could be constructed and that the cost was a secondary consideration. The difference in the bids was caused by the quality of granite to be used. Pierce himself submitted three bids, calling for different kinds of granite, and the one which proposed to use the Hallowell granite was the bid selected. Other granites named were Concord. Hurricane and Mason, all of which, it is asserted by many, are equal to that of the Hallowell. So far as could be learned, the respon sibility for awarding the contract to the highest bidder rests on the shoulders of Architect John It. Thomas of 160 Broad way. He drew the plans for the building, and the bids, as well as specimens of the granite to be used, were turned over to him for examination. When the board met, Thursday, a report from the archi tect was read, recommending that Pearce he given the contract and that the Hallo well granite be used. The contract was awarded accordingly. “The real reason why Mr. Pearce se cured the contract.” Mr. Thomas said, “was because it was desired that the granite should be as nearly white as pos sible. It was at first intended that the building should be of marble, but that idea was abandoned on account of the cost. We then looked for something that would be as much like marble as we could get. and Hallowell granite was selected. 1 do not want to go on record as favoring any special grade of granite, but the plans for the Hall of Records building call for much carving and It Is necessary that the finest granite be user!. Some of the specimens submitted could not have

t 1 i I f S t c 1 s c r v

t f li l

1> t B G u t t: d ai J lr si H m fr tl tl st ki been used under any circumstances. President Jeroloman of the board of aldermen, who Is a member of the board of estimate and voted to award the con tract to Pearce, said: “We wanted a granite that would re tain Its whiteness, not something like, that used in the postofllee building, which l is turning black. We did not propose to have the Hall of Records, which is to be a magnificent structure, spoiled by In ferior materials. The contract was awarded at the lowest figure that the board considered the work could be done i satisfactorily.'*

w b> ce w ha es N‘W« NUGGETS.

BraugM b1 Nm Wirt* Iran Ntrtk, Cut, South MS Wool. A wins: of the general hospital at Kingston, Ont., was destroyed by Are, Friday morning. Though extremely diffi cult, all. the inmates were gotten out safely. Loss, $12,000. The steamship Lucania, sailing from New York, for Europe, Saturday, will take out 655,000 ounces of silver and 25, 000 Mexican dollars. The Normandie will take 160,000 ounces of silver. Miss Ida Brooks was killed and Mr. Wm. Pearoy fatally injured by being struck by the fast express train on the Cincinnati. Hamilton Dayton Rail road at Griffin's station, Ind., Friday. The Chestnut Street Trust and Saving Fund Co. of Philadelphia, which closed Its doom. Thursday, made an assignment. Friday, for the benefit of creditors, to George H. Earle, Jr., president of the Tradesman's National Bank, and Richard Cook, president of the Guarantee Trust and Safe Deposit Co. The continued case at Lynn. Mass., of Gerry Dodd, Frank Bassett and Richard Bessom, charged with com mitting an assault on Mrs. Sarah Mer rill on the night of Dec. 13, came up before Judge Berry, Friday, and the young men were discharged. A drill engine and a train of flat ears on the Central Railroad of New Jersey, collided in Communipaw, N. J., Friday. Brakeman Collins Haycock was killed. Fireman John Higgins was fatally injured and Engineer William Murtagh was so badly scalded that flesh came off with the clothing in great strips. The residence of John R. Newman, on Mapes road, Brookline, Mass., was Udlx damaged by Are, between 3 and 4 A. XT. b riday. An overheated furnace was the direct cause. The high wind assisted in the work of destruction* Tho occup&ntn ?f the house made their escape In safety. A portion of the Boston fire department was called to the assistance of the Brook* line department. The damage is estimated ut 510,000. The Missouri, Kansas Texas has announced its determination to enforce the gate system in Texas unless stopped by the higher courts. The fight has been in progress between the Railroad Co. and the courts of Texas for some time. The declaration of the company means that it will adopt gates, and no passenger can board a train without first showing his ticket. Further advices received at Lisbon, from St. Paul de Leonda, Portuguese lower Guinea, announces that the Portuguese officer who, with a number of men were killed by the natives of the Humbe plateau, is Count Almpster, a grandson of the Duke of Saldanha. The Portuguese killed and missing number 21 persons. The murderers were Herros and Ovampos, tribesmen. Fodr children named Nelbelski were suffocated by smoke in an uttic room oc cupied by the fumily. In Philadelphia, Friday morning. Their parents were both •way and the bouse caught Are from an overheated stove and before the little ones could be rescued they were rendered inconscious by smoke and all were dead ■vhen carried irom the house. The names if the children were: John, aged 7 yeurs; ’onstine. aged 5: Mary, aged 3. and Kas *ara, aged 1. The lire was quickly ex dnguished and the pecuniary loss was 'light. It was learned that Lyman Robbins of North Acton was drowned while ishing in Grass pond at Acton Center, Via.S3., Thursday afternoon. Barney futtle and Ernest Day, two young boys ‘Vho were with Robbins and who saw he accident, in their fright fled to the roods and did not return to their tomes until 8 o'clock. The absence of he three persons gave rise to the re iort that there had been a triple Irowning. Robbin's body has been re overed. Phillips Carter, the marine, who In rune last, murdered Master-at-arms Kenney on board the United States' ■attlcship Indiana at Brooklyn, was, i'riday. sentenced to imprisonment for ife. at the Clinton county state prison, barter is only 22 years old. He is the irst man to be sentenced under the lew law. enabling a federal jury to find i prisoner guilty of murder in the irst degree without indicting the death 'enalty. The Ferry Street car house of the Vest End Street Railway at Everett, ►lass., was completely destroyed by re at 3.30 A. M., Friday, together with 0 of the road's most valuable electric ars, and made the fire one of the most estructive in the history of the city, 'he building itself was a one-story and half structure the greater part being f wood and on which the loss is estf tated at about 330,600, but as the cart ere valued all the way from $1000 to 1500 each, the total loss will be nearly 150,000. Only 5 cars were dragged •om the building, and even these were ad ly' scorched. A succession of explosions at the nited States Acetylene Liquifying o., Montgomery avenue and Freemont reet, Jersey City. Friday, caused the 'ss of two lives and $20,000 damage to le works. The dead are: Thomas owler, assistant engineer; and Max rim. -It is said that the first explosion as due to the boiler bursting, and re fire spread to the various acid inks, when there was a succession of eafening reports. Nearby buildings, 1 well as the Central Railroad of New irsey trestle caught fire, but the sses were not serious in these in ances. Quite an excitement was caused at oulton, Wednesday morqing, by the >ws that three prisoners had escaped om the jail yard. It happened some ing in this way: The keeper sent e three men from the jail into the one yard to get some wood, mot lowing that the yard gate was un stened. but the men soon discovered e fact and made the best possible use their time to get out and away, tey ran across the court house yard, i Court street and from there through •een street to the B. A. station, here they were all three captured Sheriff Gray, assisted by other oA rs. They were taken back to jail and ill be severely punished, and will ve to live on prisoner’s fare in earn* t for some time to come.