Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-24
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cent injury Of the Prince of Wales knee.
dlscourages the fear that the prince Will
be permanently lame. Sl
George Irwin, a prize fighter. has been
shot and killed at Macon. Mo-, by Ellis
rel over small debt.
In the second of the series Of races
between East and West at Whitehead
Lake, St. Paul, Mimi, Hoodlum OF
Boston, beat Akela Of White Bear.
VIM. Sewall. a well-to-do merchant Of
his aO-year-0ld daughter and himself.
Monday night. Financial troubles was
the cause.
An unknown man was killed ~
freight train at Salisbury, Mass. Tues
day morning. In has pocket was found q
lady's open-faced gold watch and blank
warranty deed, returnable to Biddeford,
Me. The body was taken to Newbury-
port.
| A bolt of lightning entered the house OF
James Realon, near Orangedale. c. b.,
Tuesday, killed Miss Bealon. Is years OF
age. injured Mrs. Bealon. burned MRS:
| Arnold. a visitor, killed large dog and
wrecked the house.
A fire at Brockton, Mass. Tuesday
tmorning, destroyed 4 wooden structure.
81 and 80 Ames street, occupied by Charles
Oksas as grocery store and Frank A.
Bndreski as pool room. Loss. $3.50;
partly covered by insurance. 1t is thought
to have been OF incendiary origin.
Capt Alfred Bishop, a retired shipmas-
ter, aged 50. and Miss Josie Styles, aged
Is. while driving near their home at Dor
! chester, N. B., Tuesday, were struck by
the west-bound express and both killed
i and the bodies terribly mangled. The
couple were going to the station to meet
the captains daughter.
| Charles DENLY, late United States
minister to China. who has returned ia
this country after 13 years of consec-
utive service at the Chinese capitol, is
now on his way home. He approves of
the annexation of Hawaii but refused
to discuss official affairs.
Eight men were killed, possibly ten,
and five more badly injured. two fatal
ly, at the Carnegie tunnel on the Char
teirs division of the Panhandle Rail-
road, in Pennsylvania. Monday night.
The accident was due to the wall of the
tunnel caving in on a number Of work
men.
The New York City council and the
board OF aldermen met in joint session
at noon Tuesday, and adopted. the report
of the finance committee fixing the tax
rate at 2.M for 1898. The council passed a
government to provide national Gene
terry where the bodies of the soldiers who
fell in the war may be re-interred.
While the employees of the Quincy,
Mass. water department were digging
water trench at Hough's Neck, Tues
day, they Inearthed nine skeletons.
! The bones crumbled at the touch.
Medical Examiner Gilbert and num-
Dth III, hax
not Indian bones.
Mrs. Ada Botkin was arrested at
Stockton, Cal, at P. NJ, Tuesday, for
supposed connection with the sending
of box of poisoned candy to Mrs.
J John p. Dunning at Dover, Del, from
the eating of which Mrs. Dunning and
her sister, Mrs. j. Polk Deane. died
shortly afterward. No charge has as
yet been formally placed against Mrs
Botkin.
Several of the victims of the rail-.
road wreck at Sharon. Sunday nigh
are still in Boston hospitals. At tbs
City hospital all are doing we'll excep
Charles II. Frye of Revere, who is or
the dangerous list. At the Massachu
sets General Hospital, Tuesday morn.
ing, Edgar S. Bristol and James Fitz
patrick who were seriously injured, ar,
reported as comfortable.
An order issued to the managers of the
Adams Express Co. is of interest. as il
shows a new class Of express matter tha'
requires a revenue stamp. 1t follows
I'm compliance with an opinion of the
United States attorney general. just re-
ceived, agents are instructed that here
after receipts issued for money. bOnds
securities and other commercial papers
must have 1-cent stamp affixed anc
cancelled, the same as for shipments o.
goods, and rates therefore must be quoted
plus government tax. (Signed) l.. e.
Weir, president"
At the Bow street police court
Tuesday. J. w. Jago, chief officer of
the White Star Line steamer Brit
tanic, charged with mail robbery and
smuggling, was formally discharged.
He was Immediately re-arrested by the
the British authorities on a charge of
robbery within the British dominiOns.
this arrangement having been reached
by an agreement with United States
embassy, which withdrew, it's request
for lagos extradition.
Ida w. Briggs, young Swedish wo-
man. who was recently deserted by her
husband. was found not guilty on the
charge of manslaughter. in the SUI
perior court at Fifchburg, Mass. Tues
day. 1t was alleged that she strangled
her newly born infant, and Medical
Examiner Bacon testified that marks
on the child's neck were those of
fingers. The woman swore that the
child was born dead and that she was
alone at the time. The case was pitt
o. III i,,t he ovrkv-
: The body of the woman found float
ing off Nahant. Sunday morning. has
not been identified Late Tuesday af-
ternoon an autopsy will be held by
the medical examiner to determine the
true cause Of death, although he had
no belief in any murder theory.
Stories of cards of New York financial
houses found on her person are ex-
plOded by the statement of the chief
of police of Nahant that there was abb
solutely nothing about the body to
furnish any clue to identity.
Henry Smith; the 24-11our champion
Of Maryland, won a 50-mile handicap
paced bicycle race at the coliseum at
Baltimore, Tuesday night, from Wal