Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-10-10
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| 0V0tu auu WoSys
The mill and yards OF the Annicol
Lumber Co.. at Annicon 80 miles soutl
Saturday. Loss, $4,000
| The body of an unknown man wa,
| found ON the Boston Il Maine railroad OF
| the outskirts OF Lawrence, Mass, by thu
| police, sunday night. The case Is beinf
! investigated.
Letters from Balmoral refer to the
unsatisfactory state Of the health OF
Queen Victoria. Her Majesty, 1t ap-
pears is troubled with languor and
| drowsiness.
The Kentucky court of appeals has
dtendered decision holding constitu-
tional the Kentucky statute requiring
railroads to provide separate coaches
for negroes.
Jeremiah Mccarthy was killed by an
engine on the Fitchburg Railroad al
Keene, N. Fl. while going home on the
track, early Sunday morning. He was q
years old and at one time was a we'll
known bicycle racer.
The latest news OF Dreyfus Is that
the government has arranged for his
return to France in a merchant vessel
He will be lodged in Mont Valerien
fort, outside Of Paris.
M. Phaulow. the Norwegian artist. ar
rived at New York, Sunday on the steam
err La Champagne. NJ. Phaulow will re-
main in New York, for a few days, and
Will then go to Pfttsburg as the guest of
Andrew Carnegie. He will officiate as a
judge in an art exhibition in that city.
Persons in charge of the Day Street
Kindergarten for the Blind at Boston.
called at Undertaken Tinkham's Howard
identified the body of the woman found
I'm the Charles river, Monday as Hattie
Conley. a cook. The body will be buried
by friends.
Dr. Edgar F. Townsend the ocu.ist of
Taunton, who shot himself. Friday, died
Saturday. DR.. Townsend had been sum-
moned to appear in court at Boston to
answer TO a charge CT perjury in an al
legged fraudulent bail case and falling to
appear, was declared defaulted. He and
his physicians claimed the shooting was
accidental.
After being out all night, the jury in
the case Of A. q. Widber, ex-treasurer
OF San Francisco and county. charged
with embeZZling 1922 from the public
treasury. returned a verdict of gull
~" He will be sentenced, next Sat
urday.
Eli Shaw was released from prison at
Philadelphia. Saturday, after an in
Nssi WI dltOii VI IL lew LdfS over al ear.
when he received his second
verdict of acquittal of murder. Sew
eral months ago he was declared not
guilty of the murder of his grand
mother, and a jury announced that he
was innocent of the charge of killing
his mother. Both women We're shot to
death on the night of Oct. 5. 1897.
AT the second days racing at the
Kempton park. Eng, October meeting.
Saturday, Sir J. Blundell Naples
three-year-old bay colt Constitution
wonthe Waldegrave nursery handicap.
The Lorillard- Beresford stables three
year-old bay gelding Bayard II, ridden
by Tod Sloane, finished second. The
Duke of Yorlss stakes of $4,000 was won
by Col Paget's brown filly Sirenia.
Mr.. w. Clarke's four-year- chestnut
colt Mount Prospect, ridden by Tod
Sloane. finished second. Mr.. D. Sey-
mour's four-year-old chestnut filly
Lady Fisher, ridden by Tod Sloane,
won the Stanley plate of $500. The
kempton park plate was won by Mr..
J. H. Musker's two-year-old bay filly
Schoolgirl, ridden by Tod Sloane.
Francisco Chiodi has been placed un-
der arrest at Providence, r. l., on sus-
pio.on of being connected with the pois-
onlng of the ChoiH family, who live
in the italian quarter of the city. CHI
Cdi formerly boarded with Choili but,
this last week, left on account of some
trouble with Mrs. Choili. That night
at supper Choili found that the coffee
and beans had a peculiar sour taste
and he reported to the police that he
suspected Chiodi of attempting to pois-
on his family. 1t is said that Chiodo
ACKNOWLEDGED the crime in the neigh
horhood. The coffee has been placed in
the hands of the city chemist who has
found evidence that poison was admin
stersd though his analysis is not COM
plete as yet.
A double-headed Fremont, Elkhorn
& Missouri Valley freight train ran in
to the rear end of an Omaha passenger
train in the yards. three blocks north
of Locust street, at Omaha, Saturday,
and the last car of the passenger train,
the DINING car, "Delmonico," was split
almost in two lengthwise. Harry
Jones. waiter, was killed: Otto
IIomedale. conductor of the DINING
car. was scalded and injured about the
body and will die; and ]. Westerheid
of Omaha. NJ. W. Brandt. engineer of
the freight engine, Frank S. Peck, fire.
man of the freight engine, Otto Par
sons. waiter in the Dining room car
and - Madden, fireman of the freight
engine. We're seriously injured. Par
sons will probably die. The accident
was due to the inability of the engineer,
Mike Smith. Of the head engine of the
F, freight. to stop his train. The track
where the accident occurred is a down
SIade.
| An English paper says that the hat
| of a certain short-sighted master at
Elton blew off one day. and as he
| started in pursuit black hen dashed
cut of the gateway. The schoolmaster
saw the hen. and thought it was his
Tat. and all Elton was electrified by the