Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-07-02
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought by the Wires from North. East
South and West

According to a dispatch 10 the London
Times from sydney. \. S. w. the British
cruiser Mohawk has annexed Is islands
of the Santa Cruz and Duff groups in the
Pacific.
Prosper Duchan. and Charles Cuscoi,
miners. We're killed at the Aragon
mine, Iron Mountain, Mich, Friday by
a fall of ground. Five other men were
badly hurt
At the old Saugus, Mass, track. Fri
day. Norvine won the PA pace. $500
in five heats; best time, 2.li3i. Betsey
Eelman won the 24o trot. $500, in seven
heats: best time, 2.24h, by Damont:
winners 225l2.
The entire brlckyard pant. excepting
the engine house the property Of L. l..
/ Cook at i;ridScwater Mass. was de-
stroyed by tire. cary Friday evening.
causing a loss estimated ut about SIS 00J
: partly covered by insurance. The fire
probably originated in the dryer.
Henry Whtcheld. alias Perkins. and
X. L. Brooks CcoloreD were hanged At
/ thc United States jail, at MuskoSee. J.
r, Friday, both dying game. 1t was
I the first execution in the history of the
| federal couI is in the Indian territory
4 Daring the progress of fire at the
!
/ Philadelphia, Pa. early Friday, i child
was burned to death and Flauncry fatally
! injured while trying 70 rescue other mem
bcrs Of the family. Mrs, Flanncry, who
had disappeared and WAS thought to have
| been burned 10 death. was later found
! lying in the street near the house. She
had become cra2ed by the loss of her
| child and wandered out into the street
where trolley car had struck her down.
She is thought 10 be fatally injured.
After two DAYS of rest, the chess
players at Vienna. Friday, contested
the 21st round of the International
/ tournament Schiffers beat Baird,
JanoWslzi Worsted Caro-. Schlechtcr and
1 Maroczy drew: Showalter beat Hal
/ pril'n; atinitz beat March, Walbrodt
defeated Tschigorin The games of
! Alpilin, Eruns, Tarrasch vs.. Trenchard
/ and pillshury VS.. I.irllc were drawn.
! Tho game left unfinished between Tar
1asch and Tschgorin. Friday, was con-
1 cluded. Thursday when Tarrasch won.
\ special dispatch to London. from
I In, harcSt. referring to the report from
( Vienna on June -, that Count and
/ Countess Xuanoff. said to have been re
! Sp,cIiVely chamberlain Of the Car and
! lady in waiting to the CZarina had
/ been arrested on charge of attempt
| ing to poison their majcsties. says:
| "Thc CHafina shows signs Of slow
! l,uirouin" from arsenic. which had been
/ administered daily t. her, in cups of
| coffee. by The lady in waiting. The
/ Czarina" the dispatch adds is very
/ unpopular and is frequently dubbed
| 'jhc German.
There is a remarkable lack of inter
] aflr
While the number of home entries is
up u The advance, the quality is in
faror ia anything since 1lS9. In add
ZION II this. there is almost an entire
absence Of foreign competition. Sev-
eral German crews which entered, We're
scratched Mt the last moment, so that
he foreign oarsmen that viii take part
| in the contests are practically limited
to DR.. W s. Mcdowell and Mr.. B. II.
/ Howell, the American oarsmen, ana
Dr.. SchuItz-Deinhardt of Berlin. They
are all entered for the Diamond Scuil.
Mr. Mcdowell. however, has not ar
rived.
The sale Of war tax stamps began,
! Friday morning, in the office Of thu
collector Of internal revenue, at Sos
TN. The rush for stamps was tremen-
dous. This being the day set for The
law to become operative every firm in
thc.citE liable to TAX. and there are few
~: under that head, felt that the
stamps must be had. Therefore a
clerk from nearly every commercial
house In Boston was sent to get
stamps At 10 o'clock when the sale
began there were at least 500 pers ons
in line. BY 1890 this line was long
enough to surround the post office
building. The chances Of those at the
end If the line getting near the stamp
window before the close of the business
lay seemed remote.
The national convention Of the Ancient
Order of IIibcrniauS finished its work at
Trenton, n j.. at : p. NJ. Friday. and
adjourned sine die In the election of Off
GERS. John T. Heating of Chicago. wa
chosen national president ny a vote Of l5l
! 10 ia over Edward j. SlatterN of Massa-
/ chusctts; James +. Dolan of Syracuse y
! " WAS elected vice president without op-
position: James O'Sullivan of PhilaGcl-
phia was reelected national secretary by
| :, vote of l31 to JIG for James L. Bree Of
CONNECTICUT: 2. T. Moran Of Washington
ID. C.. was elected national treasurer an
lr. @. O'Connor of Savannah, Ga. Edward
]. Slattery of South birmingham Mass.
\. j. Burns of indianapolis and Patricl
4. .O'Neil of Philadelphia, We're elected
national directors. Boston was selected
for holding the next convention, in May
1900 In the resolutions adopted, the pro
posed Anglo American alliance was con
demned as we'll as any alliance with any
European powers. sympathy was ex
pressed for the Cubans in their struggl'
for liberty, AMI the convention pledged
the loyalty and support of the member
of the organization to the government o
the nited States in the present war viii
Spain.