Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-19
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

ID. H. Smith of AndOVer, Mass, Whlle
on his way home. Saturday night. was
held up by a highwayman and in re-
sisting robbery received deep knife
wound in the side. The injury is not.
however. considered serious.
Mrs. Booth-Tucker of the Salvation
Army. is sick at the house of the Rev.
DIR. Davis Pittsfield,. Mass. and was I'M
able to address the large union meeting,
Saturday. in the Baptist church. She is
nearly worn out by her long siege of
campaigning in New York. but report
that nervous prostration is feared is
vigorously denied.
The gunboat Machias left Canton fol
Bangkok, Siam, Saturday. in obedience
to cabled orders from Secretary Her
bert TO protect American interests"
The distance is about 1000 miles. and
the Machias should reach her destina
tion in about week.
The body of Clarence Gladding, who
was drowned while trying to reach shore
from the yacht Cocheco. which was in
distress off St. Augustine. Fla. two
weeks ago. was washed ashore. Saturday.
The body was identified by the clothing
and business cards in the pockets. The
body will be embalmed and sent to Prov
idonce. r. L., the home of the deceased.
The condition of Henry Delgado at Ha-
vana. who claims to be an American citi-
zen. and who was arrested on the charge
of being a rebel officer. is critical Del
gado Is in the San AmbrosiO hospital in
Havana. Consul-General Lee has re-
qucsted Captain General Weyler to order
that Delgado have better quarters allot-
ted 10 him. and that he be permitted tc
have the special medical attendance of
DR.. Burgess. an American physician. Del
eado is suffering from an abscess, i'll adj
diton to malaral fever
The port of St. Johns. n. F., is block
ho
IDENTIFY been driven South by northeast
gales, All ports north of there are
blocked. Several sealing steamers are
waiting at st. Johns, unable to reach
the ports whence they have sailed. 1t
win be Impossible for them to continue
fishing expeditions until a change of
wind clears the bay of ice.
John A. Evans. aged %. son of a
Well-knoWn physician of Conway, n,
H.. fell while skating at Leicester,
Mass. Saturday and died almost i'm
mcdiately of fracture of the skull and
rupture of a blood vessel The young
man was staying temporarily with a
brother in Leicester and taking music
lessons in Worcester. The remains will
be sent to Conway. Monday.
years old, who was well known in the
cloak trade. committed suicide at New
York. Saturday. by throwing himself
from an eight-story window into the
courtway in the center of the Gable bui.d-
ing. al Broadway and Houston street.
His wife Philippine. was in the building at
the time. She had a letter that would
tell him that his cause for worry was
over. She was too late, and was re-
strained with difficulty from throwing
herself from window after her husband.
A telegram from Private Secretary
Griffith, Saturday to William II. Hollis.
attorney for John Hoch. the condemned
murderer of Minnie Ingersoll, at Low
vile. n. Y, states that Gov. Black de-
clines to interfere in the carrying out
Of TIE cath sentence. Hoch brutally
murdered Miss Ingersoll year ago
last July at Martinsburg, and he will
be executed at Auburn prison, next
week.
Quite a surprise was sprung in the
United States district court at Boston.
Saturday. when w. II. Blair of illicit still
fame. retracted his plea of not guilty.
which he made when the grand jury re-
turned its indictments, last Thursday
and pleaded guilty. He was held in 5000
for sentence. Blair is liable to be brought
up at any time during the present term
to be sentenced. Thomas Dooner. who
was arrested with him at South Boston.
was let go a short while ago and held as
a witness on his own personal recogni-
Zance.
The Whitehouse department store
Lacrosse. Wis. owned by ]. C. Lany
ard Il. t. Dickens, was closed, Satur-
day under. f.na ffal mort Or for go n0n