Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-09
NEWS NUGGETS.


bama, sailed at San francisco, Tues
day, on the steamer Australia for
Honolulu.
The directors of the Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fe Railroad Co. have decided
to pay per cent. interest on the adj
justment bond for the year ending
June 30 last.
The Society of the Army of West Vir-
gnia met at Columbus. Ohio, Wednesday,
Gen. w. II. Powell of Illinois, In the
chair. Gov. Bushnell and Mayor Black
welcomed the veterans.
A circular from the Dominion customs
department to collectors states that in
the future all teams and carriages en-
gagged in the transportation business may
come into Canada free of duty, upon re-
porting on their return within 30 days.
1t is officially denied that the Spanish
premier, Gen. Ascarraga, has written to
the leaders of the political parties saying
that the government at Havana would
intervention of that country in the af-
fairs of Cuba.
Joes Ventre, the French anarchist.
who recently arrived at the City Of
Mexico from Spain, will be expelled
from the country as a pernicious for
eigner under the federal constitution.
ly a suspect.
The Colorado Midland Railroad now in
the hands of a receiver, was sold at auc-
ton at Colorado City, Col. Wednesday,
under order of the court. There was but
one bidder, Chairman Olcott of the re-
organization committee. representing the
bondholders. The property was sold to
him for 1926. goo.
The confession Of murder in Roches-
ter, N. Y, by Harry +. Leadley, the
bicyclist who died at Bancroft, Mich,
Tuesday, has been shown to be a pure
fabrication. Leadley was a cigarette
fiend and his strange statements be-
fore his death were doubtlers the raw
ings of a mind diseased from that
habit. The body of the young man will
be buried there.
After the close of the session of the
Letter Carriers convention at San
Francisco, Tuesday night. caucus Of
second class delegates was held and
resolutions asking for reforms in the
service were adopted. They will be pre-
scented to the convention by the follow
ing committee: b. J. Curtis, chairman
Lynn, Mass; Mr.. Jefferies of New
Hampshire: Charles Aidel, Canton,
Ohio; ]. Charles McElroy of Bridge
port, Ohio.
In the final of the half-mile scratch
bicycle race for professionals held at
Seattle, Wash. Tuesday night. under
electric lights, five Of the best riders on
the coast fell and were seriously IN
jured. John Stever of Portland, sus-
tanned serious injuries about the head
and body. Zeigler. the Californian.
was badly bruised and Hardy Down
ing of San Jose, Cal, and George Craw-
ford of Seattle. No serious results are
expected to follow.
Owing to the lack of accord among
the members of the court martial at
Madrid. who tried Barril. the anarchist
who. Friday last, attempted to assas-
sinate the assistant chief of police at
Barcelona. the captain general has de-
clined to accept the sentence of death
imposed upon the prisoner and his case
will be presented to the supreme mil
itary tribunal with the probability that
the original sentence imposed upon
him, 40 years Imprisonment. will he
maintained. n
The Chabot observatory of Oakland,
Cal, has decided to send a special ex-
petition to India to observe the total
eclipse of the sun. 1t will be headed
by Astronomer Buckhalter, whose ex-
penses will be paid by William Pear
son of San Francisco. Mr.. George c.
Pardee will provide a new lens for the
use of the observers. The expedition
will be entirely distinct from that to be
sent out by the Lick observatory, the
funds for which We're provided by the
late Mr.. Croker.
Hon. Henry H. Fay, postmaster of
Newport, r. l., for four years under
President Benjamin Harrison, and
Lieut.. Governor of the state from 1880
to 1882, and prominent citizen of New
port and of the state, died, Wednesday,
after long illness. He was dele
gate to the Republican national con-
vention which nominate Abraham Lin
coin in 1864. and was many years iden-
tilted with that party. For many years
he was prominent in educational work
in New York. He wasl62 years old.
Word has reached Lander. Wis, of
double killing which occurred in Big
Horn county, $50 miles north of Raw
Inns. Henry Morse, a cowboy in the
employ of the Pitchfork Castle Co..
went to the roundup camp and or
dered Bob Jackson, the cook, to pre-
pare supper Jackson did not move
fast enough and Morse shot him
through the body, killing him instant
ly. Then he fired two shots at a cow
boy named West, and before he could
fire third time, West shot him
through the heart.
Miss Sally Chapman, living at 1872
First street. Macon, Ga, with her half
brother, J. c. Mc1nvale, was assaulted
in her bedroom by an unknown man,
between and A. NJ. Wednesday,
Miss Chapman is a handsome young
woman about 20 years of age. She was
sleeping in the same room with g.
years-old girl. She was aroused from
a sound sleep by feeling hand on her
throat and saw dim form bending
over her. She tried to scream but her
assailant closed his hand on her throat
and chOked her. He afterwards
escaped through the window There is
not the slightest clue to the assailant.
This is the second assault Of a like
nature in the last two weeks in that