Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-04-01
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Harris "A. Sawyer. prominent shoe
day He was So years old.
Britannia beat Ailsn. of Nice, Tues
day, In a race for prize presented by
the President Of the Royal Italian
Yacht Club.
4 The British brig Aeronaut, from Santa
abandoned at sea. Her crew shave ar
1 rived at Barbados.
The Dominion government has decided
| to send ~ more mounted policemen to the
Yoken gold fields. They will leave the
| Northwest In a couple Of weeks.
| Joseph Hank. aged 70, and his wife
! Annie, aged 63. were found dead In their
home at Philadelphia. Monday. 1t Is sup
posed their deaths were due to natural
causes
Willie Heoneick, IL years old, fell into
a kettle OF boiling maple sap, at the
camp Of II. J. Paply. at Middlesex. VT,
Monday. and was 80 badly scalded that
he Is likely to die.
| Information has been received at Lon
don Of the arrival at the Barbadoes
Islands OF the captain and crew Of the
| cy, from Santa Fe. Dec. 81 for Hamburg.
| which was abandoned at sea.
The nude body OF Mrs John w. Miller,
| a farmers wife. at Black Lick. Ohio. was
found. Tuesday. She had been assaulted
and murdered, Monday, by tramp en-
ploye. in the temporary absence OF her
| husband. The tramp escaped.
The British steamer Michigan, Captain
Stubs. from Boston, March -. for Liver
ports that, March 10, in lat. 49, long "a.
she passed steamer with "A Roman can
die burning, towing an oil-tank steamer.
A grand concert In behalf of the Maron-
lite Mission was given, Tuesday night, at
concert was given under the auspices of
Archbishop Corrigan. who was present
with a number of prominent clergymen
and laity.
According TO tne official list published
at Bombay, Tuesday. the total number of
deaths in that city for the week ending
last Friday. was I'LL. OF these 455 were
due to the bubonic plague. The number
OF fatal cases at Karachi during the week
ending March rs. was ls6.
The favorable adjustment of the gram
lite cutters strike at the quarry of Frank
Beattie. at Leetes Island. CT, which was
expected would result from the meeting.
Tuesday. Of REPRESENTATIVES OF the strik-
ers and the New England Manufacturers
Association. Is still matter OF uncer-
tainty.
An official dispatch from Manila. capt.
tai of the Philippine Islands. announces
that In an engagement which has just
taken place between the Spanish troops
and the insurgent forces. 30 insurgents
were killed and 1919 surrendered. Three
thousand families from the insurgents
camp have reached Manila.
IL is learned that Eastern capitalists
have bonded the immense copper mines
n short distance from Yerrington, some
20 miles from Carson; New. and are TO
build a mill and smelters at once. The
opening of the copper industry in Nevada
promises to extend further. as there are
several fine mines in the state.
Steamer Lord Cough. Crombie. at ST.
4. E..tl f.r
Leith and Aberdeen. was to have sailes.
Tuesday evening, but the seamen. fire.
mcn and stokers refused duty and left
her. claiming that she was unseaworthy.
a port warden's survey was held and
crew of men at once commenced making
some repairs.
Richard Gallagher Perry Abbott and
Isador Currier. pleaded guilty in the su-
preme court, at Laconia, n. H.. Tuesday.
to breaking and entering the cottages at
The Weirs and at Lake Massapesic.
They were sentenced to eight years each
in state prison. six years of which sen,
tence is on a mittimus subject to the call
of the city solicitor.
The training table of the Yale fresh
zen crew candidates will start,
Wednesday. at the Cafe Francois. New
Haven. The Yale base ball team will
also begin strict training, Wednesday,
as the season will open. Saturday, in a
game with Johns Hopkins.
After % rounds of hard fighting between
KID Mcfarland of New York. at the
Broadway Athletic Club. New. York,
Tuesday night. the referee decided the
bout a draw. Each of them has met |
Champion Lavigne. and it was said that |
If either won. he would be matched with |
the worlds lightweight champion.
Congressman Charles G. Conn of |
Eikhart. Ind. formerly at the head of |
tie Washington News Co. of Washing |
ton. d. c., was acquitted of criminal |
libel. Tuesday. by Justice Bradley on
an indictment sworn out by District |
Commissioner Truesdell.
The Berlin Kreuzz Zeitung says that |
the secretary of the navy. Vice Admiral |
Won Hoffman. whose reported resignation
granted a prolonged sick leave" The
withdrawal of the admiral from public
life. If true is undoubtedly due to his fail
ure to induce the Reichstag to adopt the
naval plans drawn up at the Emperor'S
Inspector McManan has arrived at
Mass, from the United
States engineers office at Newport. and
will proceed to destroy spars and other
distractions to navigation recently re-
ported in that vicinity. The United
States lighthouse steamer Myrtle is
setting all buoys which are customary
10 be put down in that vicinity each
spring.
The Manitoba government has been Off
rialiy informed of the arrival in New
y ork of Monsignor Merry Delval. the
Papal ablegate sent by His Holiness from
Rome to investigate the Catholic paro-
,hial school question. Archbishop LANCE
vim. the head of the Roman Catholic
church in Manitoba. left Winnipeg sew {
aTal days ago to lay his side of the case ,
before the ablegate. Premier Greenway
will leave for the East. this week. and
the position of Manitoba in respect to {
Catholic schools will then be fully set I
orth to the Popes representative.
BY the will of John Churchill, who :,
lied a week ago at Louisville, KY,
eaving an estate valued at $3.50, 1000, {
ccl. NJ. Lewis Clark, through its pro- :
,ation in the county court, Monday
became owner of as acres of land in
south Louisville. The tract is worth
bout 100000 and embraces the beau l
iful race course, Churchill Downs,
where Col. Clark has ofiiciated for so
many years as presiding judge.
The body of the man found in the s
woods near Rouses Point, Malone, N.
T.. proves to be that of Alexander Clark.