Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-05-06

addressed the veterans.
Marsdcn j. Perry of Providence. who is
chiefly identified with the Union Traction
| Co, in an interview on the reported con.
| solidation of street railways in eastern
| MASSACHUSETTS Friday, said that such a
consolidation is practically completed
| having some time ago secured options of
various systems. The roads gathered TO- |
| Sether are those centering at Brockton |
the Lowell, Lawrence 4 HaverhilI the
Boston 4 Quincy. the Lynn & Boston. |
most OF the roads centerina in Salem the |
Newport 4 Fall River, owned by the
Newport Street Railway Co. the Globe
Street Railway of Fail River, and the
Taunton Street Railway.
| The Second Chamber Of the States Cen
eral adonted at The Hague, Friday. bv > |
vote of q to I. credit for the reception |
81 the delegates 10 the peace conference
| The Socialist members opposed the credit |
their leader Van kol, declaring the con, |
Terence originated with the car OF Rus |
| STA. in whose name thousands who are |
| lighting for. the welfare of tIle people are
| prosecuted, tortured or massacred Rms |
s.a, Van Kol added. continued her arma-
ment and violated the rights of Finland |
The discussion and deliberations Of the
conference would be held in secret Van
kol concluded, and he looked for no di- |
rect or Indirect fruit in the interest of |
| universal peace
Samuel Miers, the Broadway tailor. who
was witness before the Mazet commit |
| tee, al New York, and who has been
threatened with Indictment for refusing
Chairman Mazet, Friday. in which he |
enumerated four questions which he |
states he should answered, but maintains
| that all the other questions he refused tn |
answer were not proper to the inquiry |
and he persists In his refusal to answer |
| them He is ready, he says, 10 appear |
| before the committee at any time and an
swer the four questions admitted or any
ques\ons bearing upon any alleged rela-
| lions between any member of the CITY |
government and himself.
Sec of War Alger and Gen. John NJ.
Wilson, chief engineer of the United
| states army, arrived in Chicago. Fri
day, from Michigan. They made a trip
along the sanitary channel as far as
Lockport. The immense plant is nearly
completed and this inspection by the
government officials was necessary be-
lore the waters of Lake Michigan could
be turned into the big ditch Alger has
given permission to the trustees of the
canal to turn through it the waters Of
Lake Michigan when the canal is ready
for operation.
man who had given his name TO the
! purser as g. F. Tyler Of Boston. AMI VINO
was assigned to room 525 IN tho Fail
River steamboat. was missing when the
A Cambridge. Mass. dispatch saws
| George r. Tyler. whose clothing was
| found in one of the state rooms Of the
! BrlSfill1
who probably committed suicide by jump
| ing overheard while on his way TO Now
York, was well known in this city where
| he resided with his wife a sonaud d1ugh |
! ter He was formerly 4 memner Of the |
| firm Of Walter l.. Badger & Co. furn!-
| ture manufacturers. and had been i'm gen
eral circumstances, but Of late has been
despondent on account Of business
| troubles.
| 1t was author;atively stated at New
York. Friday. that Il syndicate of Eng
lish capitalists was negotiating for the
| purchase OF a number of fine cotton mills
| in and near Fall River. The English syn
dictate concerned was sald 10 be the Cot
| ton Spinners inc Yarns Association
which year or so ago purchased nearly
all the smaller English concerns and has
rapidly made money. Another report is
that the American Thread Co. is attempt
ing consolidation Of the cotton mills IF
Fall River An official of the Thread Co
is quoted as saying that If such a COM
bination is formed it will probably be
formed by the American Thread co. IN
asmuch as English capital is behind the
Thread Co, it is regarded likely that
this latest report is but the re-appearance
| of the first in Il different form.
| The will of the late Antonio Ensevio
| Terry, who died in Paris, France. Dee
| a. 1898, and who was the husband of
| Sybil Sanderson, the opera singer was
| filed for probate at New York. Friday.
The estates are in Cuba, France and
this country. To Sybil Sanderson Ter
~ is bequeathed n life interest in the
entire property. with the exception of a
few small requests. The property is
made inalienable and reverts on the
death of Mrs. Terry to the children
Provision is made that If Mrs. Terry
marries again she must forfeit all
rights in the estate. She may not sell
any OF the property for period of 90
years. If any of the legatees contest
the will they are to forfeit all rights in
the estates. The estates are said to be
worth not less than s2000.OOO.
Regarding the confession of Richard
T. Nicholson that he, and not Samuel
Kennedy. murdered Dolly" Reynolds
in a New York hotel, in May 1898. the
deputy governor of NORWOOD
Scrubbs, Eng. prison. where Nicholson
is confined, said. Friday, that he re-
sarded Nicholson as a crank. The con-
fession which has been transmitted to
the state department AT Washington,
Is the second that Nicholson has made
relative to the Reynolds woman's muir
der. Nicholson was sentenced. 3
months ago. to Is months imprison-
ment for obtaining money under false
pretenseS. Chief of Detectives Nc
Cluky Of New York, when asked. Fri
day. regarding the confession. pointed
out that the confession states that the .
woman was shot while the autopsy
showed that the woman was killed by a .
blow with bludgeon and that she was
not shot at all.
The London Outlook in this weeks
issue. publishes a special dispatch from
its Cape Town correspondents, in which
ii Is stated that Mr.. Chamberlain has
dispatched a firmly worded demand
upon the Transvaal republic that i.
must absolve its obligations to the [
Queen as the paramount power. by Sc
curing peace and order within the re-
public. This demand is supplementary
TO the demand for the cancellation of
the dynamite concession. and is taken .
to mean that the British government \
deems that the time has come to invite I
President Kruger to observe the letter
of the London convention. The colonial 7
office declares that there is no founda
ton for this statement made in the (
Outlook's dispatch and adds that there
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