Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-13
8. A. Vain, the first medical missionary
to the women of the Orient.

announcing tneSe appointments. lnSpec-
tor general, Alonzo Williams. Providence,
r. J.; judge advocate general Eli Tor
rance, Minneapolis; senior aide-de-camp,
Milton A. G. Herst. Lebanon, Pa.
Four men were badly burned, one
probably fatally. Tuesday, by slip
In the Hannah Furnace of the Mahon-
ing Valley Iron Co., at Youngstown,
Ohio. The injured are: Simon Chris
tan. Jessie Franklin, both colored, Joe
Dieti, Arthur Harskin. Christian is
thought to be fatally burned.
A bakers wagon owned by Thomas Alb
bolt of South birmingham Mass, driven
by George Glove, was struck by train
on the Boston & Albany road at Turrets
on the Everett crossing, Waverly street
The horse was instantly killed, the wagon
fatally hurt. His head was crushed and
he received internal injuries. He was re-
moved to the hospital.
The Massachusetts state Democratic
executive committee held a meeting at
the headquarters at Boston, Tuesday. and
of Haverhill, to fill the vacancy on the
state ticket caused by the declination of
}. l.: Chalifoux of Lowell, to stand as the
candidate for auditor. Resolutions were
late Jeremiah 7. O'Sullivan of Lawrence,
a member of that body at his decease.
The jury in the supreme court at
Nashua. N. H., Tuesday, returned a YER
dict awarding Miss Edna E. Martin of
Hudson, damages in the sum of 500 and
her diploma in her suit against Elmer E:
French principal of the McGaw Normal
Institute OF South Merrimac. The plain
tiff sought to recover $500 for damages
which she alleges, she has sustained
through the malicious refusal of the
defendant to grant her diploma at the
time of her graduation from the McGraw
Institute.
The police have discovered evidences
of incendiarism in connection with tene-
ment house fire at Concord. N. H.. Tues
day morning. The fire broke out in the
loft of a tenement occupied by Edward
S. Carroll, but was easily subdued by the
department. CARROTS son-in-la Hiland
u. Cass, with whom he had quarreled
and who was seen to leave the loft just
before the fire broke out. has been arrest
ed by the police and will be tried.
Wednesday. He asserts his innocence.
A shepherd named Vacher has been ar
rested at Belley. department of Ain, A
miles from Lyons, France, charged with
committing a series of so-called Jack-the-
Ripper murders. He has confessed to
killing three shepherds, three girls and
two women. NaCher. the authorities an
nounce. was confined IN an asylum for
the insane. The series of murders attri-
buted to him commenced in 1895 and they
appear to have been actuated by purely
bloodthirsty instincts as the victims were
all poor people They were terribly mutt
lated after their threats had been cut and
all the women were criminally assaulted.
The s7th annual meeting of the Ameri-
can board OF commissioners for foreign
missions opened, Tuesday. at New Haven.
CT, for sessions which will continue until
Friday. inclusive. After devotional exer-
cises an address of welcome was delivered
by Prof. George p Fisher. y. D.. of Yale
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was entirely of a religious nature. The
services were held at the Hyperion thea
ire and were presided over by Rev. DR..
Storrs. Following prayer and congrega-
livered by Rev. Nehemiah Boynton of
Detroit. Mich. AT the close of the SER
mon, there was a brief service of song.
A special dispatch from Paris says it is
stated on authority in the French capitol.
that an association has been formed,
States, the object of the organization be-
ing to secure the escape from his prison
on the Isle DuSalut. off the coast of
French Guinea, of Captain Albert Drey-
rus, the French officer who was drummcd
out of the army on Jan. ;. 1895, on the
parade ground of the military school
Paris. after having been convicted by
court martial of having sold war depart
ment plans to the representatives of a
foreign government. The dispatch adds
that the members of this association are
being carefully, watched by French de-
tectives who claim to believe that the
plan of the plotters is to carry off Drey-
fus by force.
Pat Calvin, who is recognized as
one of the bonanza kings of the klon-
dixie, where he has been engaged in
mining for the past three years. in az
interview at Seattle, as to the gold re-
gons of the north, estimating their
probable output. said: There are 4Gl
claims which have been operated sufli-
GENTLY to prove their richness. There
are $50 claims already staked out bu.
not developed. BY reason of their To-
cation near other claims already shown
TO be very rich, l have no doubt will
prove equal to the other 4G1. Taking
these claims and figuring out their Gu
bic contents and making a conserve
tive estimate, | do not see why the out
put from these claims alone will fall
short of $50,000,000."
Andrew Carnegie has perfected tn
largest iron producing combination III
the world by securing the lease of the
Tilden mine in Michigan. He will OPP
crate this big producer in connection
with the Norrie, and the group of
mines which he owns in the Mesaba
range. DR.. Nelson p. Hulst, the we'll
known mining expert, has been placed
in charge of all the Carnegie mining in
terests. The series of operations
whereby the Carnegie interests have
come into control of the greatest groul,
of iron ore producing properties in
America, constitute the most import
ant movement that has taken place in
the iron trade for years. When Car
negie got his Mesaba mines there was
a good deal of interest in the matter,
but it is only since the Norrie and TIL
den deals were announced that the i'm
portance and scope of the Pittsburs
concerns projects have become ap
parent. There are several mines liz
this combination, each of which can
produce more ore than the Chaplin.
The 23d annual meeting of the National
Wholesale Druggists Association and the
Proprietary Association opened at Rich
mOnd, Va, Monday. 1t is a distinguished
looking body of about $50 members. The