Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-05-29
NEWS NUGGETS.
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South and West.

have given e1000 to the America
/ Victorian jubilee memorial fund.
BY an almost unanimous consent tn
Boston Elevated Railway bin wa
passed to be engrossed in the Massa
chusetts House, Friday. The bill wa
at once sent to the Senate.
| Fred Beeson. an employee on the ranc
| of Harry Morse at Sunol, Cal. ignorantl
used arsenic instead of baking powder II
making a batch of bread. Beeson is dead
another man is dying and several other
1 are dangerously ILL.,
| The house Of Wilson Beatty at Ry
lGate. Vt, was entered by burglars
durng Thursday night, and ransacke
about 5000 and other valuables havin
| been secured. The burglars left n
lclue.
| Burglars forced an entrance into tn,
Monticello, N. Y, post office, Thursda!
night, by prying open a rear door. Th'
safe was drilled and blow open will
| dynamite and $50 in currency anc
about $500 in stamps was taken.
| An application has been made t.
Judge Clearwater at Kingston, n Y
TO commit James Myer to an insan
| asylum. Myers delusion is that he !
| the homliest man in the world and h
threatens suicide in consequence.
benjamin Cam, a fisherman of Sid
ney. c. b.. died at the Danvers, Mass.
asylum. Friday, as the result CT in
jET'ies to his head sustained two week!
ago by falling down stairs in a Mali
street boarding house at Gloucester
| lie is survived by wife in Cap
| Breton.
The body of Charles F. E,ldridge, thC
| fisherman whose submerged boat was
found at Chatham. Mass, Thursday
morning. was found on the beach. Fri
day morning, by the life-saving patrol
Eldridge's boat was overturned by
fouling with mackerel nets which he
was inspecting, Wednesday night.
Mrs Jane Abigail Hubin and Miss
Abigail Webster Dawson Observed this
S6th anniversary OF their birth az Sa-
lem. Mass, Friday. They are the twin
daughters Of the late Captain William
Dawson, and have always lived in Sa-
len, with the exception Of brief inter
walls, in the very house where they
were born.
Company F., kentucky State Guard, 80
strong acting under the orders of Gov
crnor Bradley. left Lexington. Ky. on a
special Thursday night, for 0wingsville.
The company was ordered out by request
of Sheriff Lane of Bath county. who, il
IS reported. has information that a strong
mob of toll gate raiders. would try to take
Johnston their captured chief. from the
Cwingsville jail. Failing in this. 1t is re-
ported that the raiders will attempt to
take Johnston from the hands of the
court during his trial,
Seven hundred convcts comprising the
iute mill force at San Quentin prison.
California rebelled Thursday. at the
prison fare and refused to resume work
unless an improvement in the menu was
promised. The warden and Prison Di-
rector Wilkins investigated the food
question and pronounced the complaint to
he without cause. The prisoners still re-
fusing to work. all of the rebclhous 400
We're ordered placed in solitary confine-
ment on bread and water until they
agreed to conform to prison rules.
The Independent Telephone Exchange
of the United States did not form ma
|tional organization at Chicago. as was
Expected. Instead Of reporting the plan
of such an organization the executive
committee suggested THAT a national
convention be called wi.iiin the next 3t
|
order to give all of the 1000 independ-
ent exchanges Cf the country an OPP
l.9rtunity to be represented. TIE
members of the executive committee,
after a long discussion. decided that ii
the independent exchanges were t.
combine against the Bell Co. it would
be better to do so through an organiZa
ton embracing a wider latitude than
that which might be formed of the 100
or more persons present at the present
meeting.
A good sized crowd of college men
was present at the grounds of the Bos-
ton Shooting Association at Yelling
ton, Mass, Friday, to witness the in
tercollegiate shoot for the trophy Of
fered by the publishers of Shooting and
Fishing. Besides Harvard, Princeton
and Yale, the usual competitors, there
We're teams from Columbia and the
University of Pennsylvania. Each
team consisted of five men, each man
shooting at so birds. The result of Fri
days work now ties Yale and Prince
ton for the cup each college having
won for two years, the championship.
The score of the different colleges is as
follows, the totals showing the num-
ber of birds hit out of a possible $50:
Yale. 116; Harvard. 113: Princeton. 10:
Columbia, LOG; University of Pennsyl
vania, 104.