Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-10-17
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navy WAS neld, Saturday, and won nv the
freshman crew. - .e
Quoted a wholesale grocery estahlishr on, !,
IN Boston, died at his home in Scituate
Saturday - ~
. The Rome 1talie said. Saturday.
France has concluded TREATY. with
Abyssinia against England in the Fas-
hoda affair.
The funeral over the remains If
Quen Louise of Denmark took Mace
at T. M, Saturday, in the Cathedral
of Roskilde at Copenhagen.
George ". Barrows, about 40 years old.
committed suicide at New Bedford SAT,
urday night, by shooting himself through
the temple.
Fire, Sunday. destroyed three-storv
brick building on North avenue Plain.
field, N. j.. entailing a loss of about sG1 :
900. The building was occupied by MINI
Der of families.
The imperial yacht Hohenzollern. hav
ing on board the Emperor and Empress
or Germany and their suites put into the
harbor of Zante, Saturday, owing 10 the
fact that strong sirocco was blowing.
The Pekin correspondent of the Lon
don Daily Cronicle says there is a ru-
NOR in circulation in that city that n
plot is on foot for massacre Of the
Europeans.
Martin Flaherty, the Lowell, Mass.
feather-weight pugilist, is out with a
challenge to meet any man in the
world from 126 to 100 pounds, Tommy
White of Chicago, preferred.
Joseph York. grand instructor of the
l. Q. 0. F., in Massachusetts, died of
heart 6igol pt n ~
Mass, Sunday, aged 60 years He is
survived by widow and daughter.
Special dispatches to London from
from Paris say the sole Consequence of
the abortive attempt at a military
coup d'etat will be the early displace-
ment of several officers of high rank
Charles T. Ralston, who forged the
names of ex-Mayor A. c. Houghton and
r. T. Swift to a note for $3.50, surren-
dered to the police at North Adams, Sat
urday, was taken into court pleaded
guilty and was held for the grand jury in
$1,000 bail. In default of sureties he went
to Jail.
"a; 4 mile in 2.1oz by a 2-year-old pacing
my was the sensation of Saturdays
racing at Lexington, KY. This time es-
tablished a new race record for PAGERS 2
years old, and outside of Directly's trip
against time in 2.0TA it is the fastest me
every paced by 2-year-oid The Young
miss who holds this honor is Ecstasy. a
daughter of the New England stallion
Baron Wilkes.
Rain and the consequent wet track
prevented a resumption of the trotting
card at Combination Park. Saturday.
and the meeting was declared eff. In
the postponed race the moneys were
awarded according to the standing in
the unfinished summary, Whitney TAX
ing first money.
Window glass plants throughout the
United States failed to start the seasons
operations. at II O'Clock Friday night.
guished, and 1900 workers, who have
been looking forward to a general re-
sumption on Oct. 10, are forced to remain
idle. The strike Is for an advance in the
wages OF the cutters and fiatteners but
IS really the result of a fight between the
knights of Labor and the American Feu-
Grafton of Labor.
All the horses in training belonging
to James Galway, together with a
few thoroughbreds from the stable of
J. X. Wadsworth, were sold at Morris
Park, Saturday The star of the sale
was Ethelbert, Milton Young, F. v.
Alexandra, Jimmy Mccormick, Sydney
Paget and A. j. Joyner were the prin-
cipal bidders for the colt, which was
finally secured by the latter for SILL
Co.,
The body of an unknown man was
found, Saturday. in the woods on
Dewey street extension, Worcester.
1t was probably a case of suicide, as
a revolver with one empty chamber
was held in the mans right hand. The
body of another supposed suicide also
awaits identification. 1t was found in
PatchS reservoir, near Paxton, last
evening. Attached to the body, around
the neck. was heavy stone.
Advices from Fee confirm the report
of serious disturbances in Tablet, one
of the great subdivisions of the en-
pire, used as place of Punishment for
political offenders. Many other from
tier tribes. favorable to France, are
Well supplied with arms and ammuni-
ton, and French agents are suspected
of melting the rebellion, in order to
enable them to join the Ain-Sefraes
Senegal railway by way of Tablet
The 44th convention of the Interna-
tional Typographical Union, at SYRIA
cuse. N. Y. ended, Saturday. A num-
Der of committee reports We're disposed
OF. A resolution was offered that the
officers of the organization take the
necessary steps to unionize the stereo-
type rooms of Chicago newspapers,
made nonunion by the suspension Of
publication in July. The motion was
overwhelmingly defeated. 1t was vot-
ed that the officers be instructed to or
ganiZe these offices when it was pos
sibie to do so.
A Dominion City dispatch to the
Winnipeg, Mann, Free Press says a
cold blooded butchery took place in the
Galician settlement, east of there
some time within the last "a hours. A
Galician man and his four children
We're found dead in their house by a
neighbor. The wife is missing and is
suspected to be guilty of the crime
The weapon used was an AK The
mans head was nearly severed f}om
his body and the children's bodies were
more or less mutilated. 1t is under
stood the man and woman had fire.
quently quarrelled. The names of the
family could not be learned.
Miss Beatrix Hoyt of the Shinne-
cock Hill Golf Club cleverly defended
her title of champion woman golfer
of America in the tournament which