Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-12-12
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The Pope has decided that the. Spanish
policy of the Vatican shall be anti
Carlist and not neutral.
Sir Thomas Upington, premier OF
Cape Colony from 1884 to 1856. died at
Capetown, Sunday, in his 54th year.
Sir William Anderson. director gen.
eral of the Royal Ordnance factories
and part inventor of Cordite, died at
London, Sunday, in his 64th year.
Edward NJ ConkIin, who has been con-
nected with the North & judd Mfg. ca.
for upwards of 20 years, died a his home
in New Britain, Conn. Sunday. aged a.
He was a native of Hampstead, l.. l.
George Richardson. superintendent
of the Bridgeport Hydraulic Co., died,
Sunday night at $50, at his residence
in Bridgeport. Conn, aged 80. He
leaves a widow and two daughters.
Lieut.. Wark, of the Royal Artillery.
who on Thursday last was sentenced TO
death on the charge of numbering Miss
Jane Yates of Liverpool. a girl if good
family, by conspiring with her to pro-
cure an illegal operation, which result
ed in her death. has been repreved.
Rumor has it that 10 Sheffield Scientific
school freshmen have resigned from that
department of Yale, because they were
passed 10y in the elections to membership
in the secret societies. this fall. 1t tran
from the department by the faculty be-
cause of the low standing in scnool de-
partment, and this probably is the basis
for the story.
Peter Sink. a Pole aged about So years,
was arrested in kensington by Deputy
Sneriffs Cowles and Gibney. and taken 10
New Britain, Conn. on suspicion of be-
ing an incendiary. The officers announce
bugs and allege that Smk is the leader.
| is intimated that more arrests will
soon follow. as it is thought Sink can be
induced to confess.
George Taylor, the man who was
found Saturday evening about II
o'clock in the Bank of England. Lon
don, with a loaded revolver and who,
when arrested by the military guard,
| refused to give his name or to say how
| he had effected an entrance, was ex-
amined, by the medical authorities,
! Sunday at the Bow infirmary. where he
| had been removed, and by them pro-
| nounced insane.
| Three men are in the Boston hospital
as a result of an accident. at the Dart
mouth street bridge over the New
/ York, New Haven & Hartford and the
| Boston & Albany Railroads. Another
was injured but not seriously enough
| to necessitate his being taken to the
| hospital. The seriously hurt are: Mar
tin Larsen, fractured thigh: James J
Moriarity, broken right foot: David
| Lustrum, fracture of legs.
Bertha Adams. the 6-year-old child of
/. Robert Adams was drowned in the mill
pond at East Dedham. Sunday after
noon. Her younger brother Robert
nearly lost his life intrying to save
Bertha but was rescued from the wa
ter by Charles Stang, who, on seeing
the children struggling in the water
rushed to their assistance. Mr.. Stang
could only reach the boy in time, as the
girl went into deep hole.
The vest manufacturers of Boston
have demanded that their employees
shall promise not to join trade union
The lao vest makers resent the de-
mands made upon them and have
struck. The reason for the strike came
when the manufacturers, four in mum.
Der. wished to bind their EMPLOYEES
against trade unionism by means Of 8
guarantee bond. or a money dejosit
The refusal to do this was based tht
| operatives say. on the poor wages paid
The manufacturers have now declared
their shops TO be open.