Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-03-09
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| CaUhHitt anu AlISa at dyereS, sunday
by 80 seconds, Satanita, second; Ailsa
third
Eben Blatchford OF Rockport, Mass
one of the most prominent men in tina
section, died suddenly, Friday evening, a
the age Of IT,
At the indoor bicycle races. Saturday
in Mechanics Pavilion, San francisco
O. 0. Oxen of San Jose, rode an iinpace
quarter in 20 3 B, breaking the world
record.
The lighthouse establishment third dis
trict, notifies mariners that the light n
Corner Stake light station, Newark BAY
+, n. j.. extinguished on March /, was re
lighted, March &.
The memorial tablet to Bcniami,
Franklin at Paris, Sunday, was dedicated
1t was erected on the site of the villa a
Passy, where Franklin made his frs
lightning conductor.
Thieves entered the residence Of Gen
George :, Field at No. 452 Delswar,
Avenue, Buffalo, Friday night aud stol,
jewelry and money to the value Of be
tween $4,000 and $1,000.
| The directors of the Charter Oak Drlv
ing Park Association decided at a meet
ing ut Hartford, CT, Saturday evening
to sell all its property at auction, April 4
and wind up its affairs
| Queen Victoria will start for Cimles in
| the south OF France on Monday She will
! be accompanied by Princess Christian
| Princess Beatrice the widow of the lat,
| Prince Henry Of Battcnberg, will join tht
! Queen at Nice.
Rear Admiral Henry Wake L. s. n,
| (retired) died at Brooklyn, n. Y, sunday
lie had been suffering since Tuesday,
with severe attack Of the grip, and the
Immediate cause Of death was heart fail
IRE. He was IS years old.
Patrick Spillane, employed mt the Col
chester mill in Winooski, Vt, was run
over and Killed by Central Vermont
passenger train Saturday, while crossing
the bridge near Athletic park, at Burling
ton, Vt. He leaves widow and dauyll
ter.
The body of n 70-years old man, chopped
10 pieces and lU-days Old child with its
skull crushed was found In a barrel IN nu
alley at Chicago, Sunday. by IA rag picker
The bodies were badly decomposed, and
probably had heen dead two weeks The
physician thinks it a case OF murder.
During a fight at Philadelphia, Satur-
day night, at Esd and Lombard streets,
George Qneen (colored) stabbed and killed
John O Brien, fatally cut Joseph Sweeney
and quite seriously wounded Thomas
Rcany and Chas. Fisher. All Queens
victims We're white mon He claimed
they insulted him, and they claim he was
drunk and the assault was unprovoked.
BY an incendiary fire, three cars con
tanning oil, lumber and sugar were burned
in the Boston * Albany freight yards.
Cottage Farm, Mass, Sunday Some of
the sugar was taken out. but was prac-
tically ruined by water. Several coal cars
were damaged. Loss, estimated at $40, 600,
supposed to be nearly full insured. The
owners of the freight are not known.
James j, Corbett. the puglist, was ar
rested ut Chicago, Saturday, on Il warrant
sworn out by Sarah Johnson, n colored
woman, who alleged that she was elected
from the Great Northern hotel by the ex
champion, when she called with an al
tachment for money due her for a dress
delivered to the present Mrs. Corbctt. two
y st'sH hfp' ~ iAit ipiltc Station tit case
was settled by Corbett's paying the bill
and costs. He claims ii was q case of
blackmail.
undismayed by the failure of several
expeditions sent from this country to aid
their struggling compatriots, the Cubans
residing in the United States are said to
have fitted out and dispatched another
vessel to Cuba. 1t is reported that this
vessel left Philadelphia, Thursday. 1t
took no munitions eff war aboard at that
port but it is said that arms and am
munition were transferred to her after
she had got to sea and beyond the three
mile limit
The report of the commissioners an.
pointed by the supreme court to de-
termine whether or not the underground
railroad decided upon for New York city
by the rapid transit commission should
be built, was given out. Saturday. The
commission decides that the road can and
should be built, and approve the finding
Of the rapid transit commissioners. The
commissioners who rendered the decision
are Frederic r. Coudert, Geo. Sherman
and VIM. H. Gilshcnen.
AT Lancaster. near Buffalo, n. Y,
Saturday night. BENZ Rush Davenport.
the author and lecturer delivered an
address, having for its object the organi-
lation of society for the protection of
women and girls from the insults and
aunoyanccs of that class of men who
make business of RIGHTEOUSNESS. The
name suggested for the order is 1.-The
knights Of the Nineteenth Century. A
mass meeting will be held in Buffalo mt
an early day to continue the movement.
which it is hoped will in time spread all
over the country.
The tug Kate Jones had her mainmast
and smokestack carried away, Sunday,
while going up by No 8 buoy, with the
four masted schooner Sarah C. Ropes. in
Boston harbor. The tug was ahead of
the schooner when it slackened speed to
allow the crew of the schooner to take in
the hawser The tug drifted across the
schooner bow, its engines having caught
on the center, rendering it helpless. Had
1t not been for the mate of the Ropes
checking her Roadway by letting the an
chor gothic schooner would probably have
cut the tug in two
AS the Phillips divorce case terminated
in the circuit court at Kansas City tho
spectators were astonished TO hear Judge
\" y. Henry reprove the defendant BALD