Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-07

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All the business houses in Medora, Ill.
including the bank were burned. Wednes.
day. The loss is 100000.
Chief Shenaders. of the Oneida In
| dams. died at Seymour, Ill, Wednes-
day, at the age of SO.
Col. William L. Brown of New York
has written letter to John C. Sheehan
resigning as member of the Tammany
Hall executive committee.
Captain Payne Whitney of the Yale
University crew. has announced that the
permanent coach of the Yale crew the
coming season will be Bob Cook. This
was decided upon at meeting of the
Yale Aquatic advisors held in New York
tuesday night. Mr.. Cook will take charge
| 1t begins training.
Major Moses p. Handy, the special
United States commissioner to the
Paris exposition of 1900, has secured %
per cent. additional space for the
| American exhibits, making the space of
the United States equal to that of the
| other big nations of the world.
Chicago is destined to have cheap
beer for a time and a beer fight thrown
| into the bargain. a war of extermina-
ton was threatened by the beer trust
on the rebellious brewers who remain
outside the breastWorkS. 1t is reported
| unofficialy that an immediate cut in
price from $3.50 to 81 will be made, and
| that the prices will be scaled down to
| 50 if need be before the fight is finished.
| AT Wednesdays session of the Ameri-
can Society of Municipal Improvement,
| at Nashville, Tenn, the following Of
| ficers We're elected: President. Harri-
son Van Dyke, Newark, N. j.; first vice
| president. l.. w. Rundlet. st. Paul l.;
| second vice president. F. H. Heating,
| Toronto third vice president, A. b.
| Thompson, Peoria; secretary, d. L.
Fulton, Allegheny, Pa: treasurer, John
| L. Kennedy. Nashville. Washington
| was selected as the next place of meet
| ing.
| Inquiry at the state department at
| Washington confirms the announcement
| from the British foreign Office in London
| that the British government has refused
| to take part in any sealing conference in
| which Russian and Japanese delegates
participate. Beyond this confirma ton the
officials of the department decline to dis
| cuss the question, as correspondence is
still in progress on the subject. John W.
| Foster. ex-secretary of state. who is in
| charge of the interests of the United
| States in the Behring sea seal fisheries
| that there would be two conferences. one
| between the United States and Great
Britain and the other between the United
States, Russia and Japan, declined to dis
| cuss this point at this time
At Wednesdays session of the ad-
| journed meeting of the National Coun-
Gil. Knights of Columbus, at New
Haven, CT. some radical changes in
the councils constitution were voted.
1t was voted to refuse membership, ac-
tive or associate, to all liquor dealers,
and to ask all liquor dealers now mem
bers, to resign. This takes effect next
| March. The council also recommends
| the taking of active steps looking to-
| ward the extension of the order south
Of Mason and Dixon's line, where at
present the order has no existence. The
| council adjourned to meet next March.
The news came over the wire to Bos-
| ton, Tuesday night, that there was 20
| be another -Fitzsimmons fight.
1t came to Corbett's manager Mr. w.
A. Brady, as he sat in a box at the Bos-
ton Museum, in the shape of a dispatch
from his representative in New York.
| The dispatch announced that Cham
pion Bob" Fitzsimmons had sent his
representative to the office of Mr.. Bra
dy to make arrangements for another
fight with Corbett. Fitzsimmons &C
cepts Corbett's challenge to fight an
other battle for the heavy weight
championship, the one condition being
that Fitzsimmons be guaranteed the
sum of $4,000, win or lose. for his ap-
pearance and participation in the con-
test Two big clubs have already bid
for the match, but no arrangements, up
! to this time, have been made.