Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-03-07
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

James II. Carpenter, inventor of ;he
Carpenter ProjvetiIe died AT Reading.
Pa. sunday night. of pneumonia.
aged a.
John Peck. = wears old. unmarried.
while riding at Newton Highlands sun
duN. was thrown from his carriage IN a
collision with an Electric car ana n-
@tAntly Killed.
YIN. n. Linnrtp, respected cjtizcn Of
Stau@htpn. Mass committed suicide at
MS home, sunday. by taking acpnte. Mr..
Lnitirld hld been Respondent from con-
liurod in health.
The WachuSctts Boat club of Worccs-
tor Mass has voiced IL enter Edward II.
Ten Eyrk for the SECOND time in the Hem
ley Royal regatta. where h will compete
for The diamond souls of which he is tn
send James ~ Ten Eyck, the young
MANS father. as coach ana trainer
one Of the most exciting fires the Pitts
burg. Pa. department has eyer been
called upon 10 fight occurred AZ GA Web
~tcr avenue, sunday, when one woman.
Mrs. ID. EnrleilS. was SuitOratcd ana i've
other people 50 badly burned that three
may die. Three families were penned in
u ramshac.lc building ana IN" stairs
leading 70 their apartment eaten away by
the flames.
War has been practically declared he
states are busiY preparing forW war. Troops
are sent from San jose every day. and
fighting may begin at any moment Gems.
Guardid and Plaza are now at the front
with about 1000 infantry. and Col. Antil-
Ion with artillery. Gen. Plaza has fought
in E.Suador, Salvador and Nicaragua, ana
Con. Antillon is the chief of the artillery
in active service
II was announced at New Haven.
Saturday. that Herbert A. smith. IN
structor in English at Yale. viii retire
at the end of the present school year.
and that Frank Herbert Chase will he
appointed to succeed him. The retire
lnent of M. Smith is stated 10 be due
to a disagreement between him and
other members of the faculty.
A committee of the Business Mems
League of Philadelphia. which several
weeks ago adopted a resolution request
ing John Wanamaker to allow the use of
his name rs the anti-Quay candidate for
Governor. had conference with Mr..
Wanamaker. Saturday. Upon the conclu-
sion of the conference. Mrs. Elias Deemer,
Il member of the committee. stated that
MIR. Wauamaker would give his definite
reply to the league ON Monday or Tues
Gay.
The semi-consternation which was
created at the time of Prince Henrys
visit to London when the German war
ships Deutschland and Gefion suddenly
doomed out of the fog without having
previously been sighted. has aroused
the authorities TO a sense of the neceS-
sity of taking additional precautions.
and they are now erecting quicll-f firing
guns and searchlights.
Since the holdup in the store of Peter
r. Rourke at Cambridge. Mass, Satur
day evening, the police have been ac-
lively at work on the case. and. Sunday
arrested John CrOnin. 10 years Old. who
lives on Pioneer Ave. on suspicion.
Later Thomas Oakley gave himself up
after hearing. as he claimed. the police
were after him. MIR. Rourke thought
he identified one of the men by his
voice.
Michael Gallery and William Topc, were
drowned off Spar Island. Fan River. sun
day by the capSiZing Of their row boat.
Two boats We're returning from Mount
Hope, and one of them contained four
men. In this one Topc lost his stretcher
overheard and in reaching for it over
turned the craft. The men yelel for help
but those in the other boat thought il
was in fooing. Finally they saw the
boat floating bottom up and rowed to the
craft in time to rescue two of the men
whe We're brothers named Acton Gallery
and TOpe had disappeared. The Acton
brothers and Gallery were fellow work.
men ana TODo was ii StucCO worker