Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-11-14
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Thirty thousand dollars worth 81
diamonds We're stolen, Monday. from
the store Of Sigler Bros. at No. 81.
Euciul avenue, Cleveland. Ohio
C-uw-Fou. at the entrance Of Ton,
ting lake. china, was formally opened
,o foreign trade Monday. This is th'
first port opened in. the anti-provinc'
NJ Hgnagn.
Chalns Gon. middleweight cham.
aion of thy Pacific coast. Knocked ou
Morris CMuldNon's Cyclone). in three
-lunGs at the h5nhattan A. e. in Troy
n. ri. Monday night
There IS excitemenT>I in the London
TIL market which after ti1t>gradual de-
line "A the past few MONTHS reached
TO, Monday. There We're free, offer
ncs with hut few buyers.
Mrs Jennie Murray was arraigned az
'oncord, y H.. Monday. charged with
assault with intent to kill on Thomas
Moran, whom she shot in the neck
Sunday night. The case was continued
Until Wednesday. To await the result Of
No-4n's injuries. He j. reported as
Icins wen ana the Indications are that
he swim recover. Mrs. Murray is held
n $1,000 bonds
Dr. James Morrison. the aged Bal
-imore physician. who was brutally
beaten by two men and robbed Of near
y Sl399 in money and valuables at his
home. 1880 Myrtle avenue. on the even
ng of NOV. >. died of his injuries,
Monday John Schmeltzing. who took
DR.. Morrison home from a nearby re-
sort on the evening Of the robbery. has
1een arrested, but is out On bail.
The official count Of the ballots cast
1t last Tuesdays election gives COL
John Walter Smith, Democratic can
over Lloyd LoWndes, Rep, the present
incumbent Of the office. COL Smith
carried Baltimore city by S101. and the
counties gave him 1920 plurality Can
lidates for other state Offices did not
run more than q few hundred votes b.
hind the leader on the Democratic
ticket.
The middle boiler az a battery OIL
,hree in the steam power plant of the
Pycott Manufacturing COS. Hamlet
mill az Woonsocket. r. J.. exploded. at
$40 \. NJ. Monday, killing Night
Waterman Frank Ruge and badly in
jurinS the day fireman. The three
boilers ana the boiler house We're de-
stroyed and much glass in the vicinity
was broken. The damage will amout
to $4,000.
the last steps for rapid transit in
New York City preparatory to adver-
Using for bids We're made. Monday.
when the rapid transit commission an
proved the amended form of contract
rs approved hy Corporation Counsel
John Whalen. The amended contract
provides for the reduction Of the con
tractors bond from s14.OOO. 600 to S.
100000 with the additional deposit of |
81 100000 in cash.
Hugh $. Walsh and VIM. FickIer
We're arrested at New York. Monday
pn the charge Of selling and having in |
their possession washed revenue
stamps. These stamps We're of the de-
of s.. So and 81. The arrest
was made in connection with a recon-
made by revenue agents
who are operating in New Jersey. #
vas stated that several persons We're
arrested there. The men arrested ~
New York We're held in $500 each nv
Commissioner Shields.
VIM. Smith. aged S.. committed eli
'ide, Monday. by throwing himself
leadiong into an unused well on his
Premises at Fountain street. Norwich
'onn. The well was about Is feet deem
nd contained six feet of water. Smith
Became deransed. year ago. and was
emoNed TO the Insane ASYLUM ar
but returned home. last
iarch, apparently cured. He has been
ctlng somewhat strangely for the mast
eW weeks and arrangements were be-
ng made for his return to Middletown {
te leaves a son and daughter.
Inc British steamer Volta, from tha
'efman Cameroons. West Africa :
'hlch arrived at Liverpool. Monday
sports that German punitive expedi- ,
ION IN the Cameroons recently chas
sed tribe Of rebellious cannjbaIs ,
no had beseiged several trading STA /
ohs at and near kribi. The Germans
hased the natives into the bush. kin :
- -oo- It IS reported. according IN III
4ptaln OF the Volta. that numbers of
lt siam We're decapitated. their haaa.
eng STUCK on poles in the inter;on
owns to strike terror To the inhap
ants. Niiido-