Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-29
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The Rev. VIM. Corbn of Notre Dame,
head of the order of Holy Cross in
America, died at South Bend. Ind.
Tuesday.
The will of Charles Contoit was fled
for probate in the office of the surro-
gate at New York. Tuesday. After a
number of requests to relatives and
friends. the residue of the estate.
amounting to s1,5oO.OOO, will go to sew
eral institutions.
The Minnesota Society of the Sons
Of the American Revolution has voted
unanimously to accept the plans of
union with the Society of the Sons of
Revolution as proposed by the conven-
tons of the two national bodies at
Cincinnati, last fall
John Reed alias John Greenhalge of
New York. the alleged gold brick swind-
ler who was arrested at Clinton, was.
Tuesday. released from the East Cam
bridge Jail. bail to the amount of $500
having been furnished. He was immedi-
ately re-arrested by State Officer Bean
and was taken to South birmingham.
where charges of fraud will be preferred.
At Middletown, Conn, at 5.2S p NJ,
Tuesday. the jury in the case of Her
murder in the first degree in the kill
ing of Bertrand l.. Hotchkiss of Kill
lingworth, after being out about 3
hours. returned a verdict of not
guilty"
At the Massachusetts, General hos
pital at Boston, Tuesday morning, the
condition Of Dan DAILY; the comedian.
who was injured, Monday evening. by
a fail on the stage at the Park theatre,
was announced as very much improv-
ed. 1t will be some days before he can
leave the hospital
Former Vice President Stevenson,
who recently returned from abroad, to
render the report as g member of the
monetary commission. has accepted thu
position of Western counsel to the
North American Trust Co. with head
quarters probably in Chicago Mr..
Stevenson Will also enter the directory
of the company.
H. NJ. Cotes Of 20 Highland avenue.
Everett, Mass, who was arrested, Mon
day. on the charge of bigamy. pleaded
guilty, Tuesday. in the district court.
before Judge Pettingill. and was held
under $500 bonds for the January term
of the grand jury. He is a native of
Nova Scotia, and is said to have one
wife living in Wollaston and another
in Everett.
The annual meeting of the American
Folklore Society opened, at John
Hopkins University. Baltimore. Tues
day. with Il meeting of the council af-
ter which President Gilman of Johns
Hopkins University. delivered an adj
dress of welcome. DR.. Matthews of
Washington, D. c.. read a paper on
"Ichthyphobia.' Miss Alice Fletcher
of Washington. read one on THE Sig
nif1cance of the Scalp Lock" and Miss
Mary Miner of Baltimore on "a Folk
Tale"
Peter Ryan. wealthy but eccer-
trio citizen Of Hopkinsville, KY, who
has had a stone coffin prepared for his
burial, is dead from blood poisoning.
aged 81. Ryan had a fancy to rest in
a grave that should be perfectly Sc
cure. He had two immense stone
caskets hewn out, one for himself and
one for his wife, and kept them. on ex-.
hibition. When his wife died, few
years ago. her body was sealed up in
the stone sarcophagus which was then
sunk deep in the graveyard. His own
coffin was placed beside her grave and
will now be used.
Samuel Bookstaver Bell of Santa
Rosa. Cal, is dead, aged 80 years. He
was born in Orange county, New York
He married Miss Sophia Walworth, a
member of Chancellor WalwOrth's
family. He took up the study of law
and practiced in the courts of his state.
Subsequently he studied theology and
was ordained minister of the Presby-
terrain church. Coming to California,
DR.. Bell served in the California Legis-
lature and presided over the first Re-
publican convention in that state. He
was personal and intimate friend of
Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War
He declares it to be "the best remedy