Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-04-05

th- House ana was dragged to the Sen
ate chamber. where he was forced to
deliver the missing bill To the clerk.
Each House passed an antitrust bill.
but The two houses failed to agree upon
j measure.
4 remarka bic escape Of d handcuffe !
prisoner took place in the Federal
building at Boston. Tuesday afternoon.
when Stellario De Marco, one OF the
alleged counterfeiters and a man
weighing 200 pounds although practi-
cally under the eye Of two officers,
slipped his letters and disappeared.
At late hour. tonight. the officers had
not succeeded in recovering their man.
Emil Westhouse was arrested at New
York. early Tuesday. on suspicion. in
connection with the shooting of Samuel
q. HaIler the ticket seller OF the Wild
West show, who was wounded. Sun
day. by VIM. H. Holland Montreal
pool room keeper. Little is known
about Westhouse Halter is in a seri-
Gus state and it II doubtful if he will
recover. Holland has not been ar
rested.
Counsel for John II. Chance. convicted
OF the nluIhtl Ut I drug y itIk y ndtit'~
Russell. filed ut Boston. Tuesday. the eX-
ceptionS taken al the trial. There are
many minor exceptions. but the ones in
which the greatest reliance is placed arr
that the ruling bf the court that the
commonwealth was entitled To examine
Mrs. Wigley in regard to her testimony
before the grand jury was erroneous. AM
to the ruling admitting the confession, 80
called Of Chance to the police. The de-
fence contends that this confession was
not voluntary but was induced by offers
made the police.
Mrs. George, on trial for murder. was
brought INTO court ut Canton. ohio.
Tuesday accompanied by ner 11-year-old
son Newton ana Mrs. Siddinger, her
friend. She was StNliShiY dressed. Tn
first day OF The trial closed with seven
men occupying seats in the jury box.
Aside from the work on the jury Tues
day was occupied in disposing Of formal
itics ana technical points raised which
uccasioned some argument by counsel.
Judge Isaac NJ Taylor is presiding. The
attendance was large. About l25 Wit
nesses have been subpocned and the list
is being constantly increased.
VIM. X. Vanderbilt. Jr.. ana Miss Wiz
Sinia Fair We're married at the home OF
the brides sister. Mrs. Oelrichs, New
York at noon Tuesday. il The presence
OF about $50 guests. by Father T. f. Muir
ply of the Church of The Sacred Heart,
Dobbs Ferry. Miss Mary Baldwin Toll
free was bridesmaid. J. +. Kellogg at
tended the groom. VIM. X. Vanderbilt.
81. ana Harold NanderDit were inc only
relatives Of the groom present. After i
wedding breakfast the couple left for
Idle Hour, Oakdale, L. l.. where they
viii spend weeks, then going to New
port. In the autumn they will go to
Europe
The Paris Figaro, Tuesday. published
another instalment of 10 columns of
The evidence given in the Dreyfus case
before the court of cessation. including
the testimony of Gen. Roget and eX
Ministers Dovelle and Poincare. Gen
RoSetS evidence was the most inter
estlng. He expressed the conviction
that reasonable acts prior to 1892 could
De ascribed to Dreyfus and mentioned
the rough draft Of a report found at the
residence of a foreign attache, in which
me name of Dreyfus was written out.
The recent visit of Vice President
Snaughnessy of the Canadian Pacific,