Daily Kennebec journal., 1899-05-12
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

In the 10O-hour cycling contest at
| Roubaix, France. Charles w. Miller OF
| Chicago, won first prize. He covered
| 225S kilometres.
Secretary of State Hughes at Dover
Del, Thursday, issued a certificate OF
| incorporation to the Federal Sewer
Pipe Co. of Akron. Ohio The capital
stock of the company is placed at s25.-
| 900 600
The board of review of the National
TrottlnS Association concluded its g.
days session at Chicago. Thursday.
| and adjourned. Decisions were rem
dered in 100 cases affecting trotting
clubs and fair organizations in all part
of the country. The next meeting of
the board will be held in December in
New York.
Joseph Frye. Boston West End
negro. was shot. and it is feared, ia
tally wounded by Milton Davis. an
other negro, as the result Of jealousy.
Frye was taken to the Massachusetts
General hospital, where his name ap-
pears on the dangerous list. Davis was
arrested Frye is % years of age and
Davis is So.
The Southern Cotton Spinnners AS
Sociation met at Charlotte n. c., Thurs
day. Mr.. ID. A. Tompkins of Charlotte
presided. About 40 members are in at
tendance. representing nearly 800 mills
Fifty new members were elected The
members present come from all sections
of the South. A number of commission
men are also in attendance.
severely horsewhipped John A. Harts-
horn, a well-known stable keeper on
Pleasant street, Woburn, Mass, Thurs
day. After the incident the woman
went to her fathers office. She stated
that her action was prompted by in
suits to which she had been subject by
the stable keeper during the past year
Celeste McKenney, IS years of age,
the wife of Harrison c. McKenney. a
lawyer, committed suicide at her home,
li1 Niagara street, Providence, r. l.,
some time Thursday afternoon. She
sat down in a bath tub fun of water
and shot herself behind the right ear
with a revolver. She had been i'll with
a seemingly incurable disease for some
time.
llt DdptIS III liic case Oh Hairy Cor
nish against Roland e. Molineux. ar
gued at New York. Wednesday before
Justice Jerome were sent. Thursday, to
the indictment bureau of the district
office. In the course of
events they will again go before the
grand jury probably reaching that body
by Tuesday or Wednesday of next
week.
The Pope, Thursday. handed to Mon
signor Marini bull declaring a univer-
sal jubilee in the year 1900 The bull
was afterwards promulgated according
to custom, in the vestibule of St Peters.
where MOnSignor Delleouilla read ii
aloud in the presence of the prelates
and an enormous audience. The bull
was then affixed to the doors of the
Baslica.
The Union house, formerly Perkins
hotel at Lyme, \. H., was burned,
Thursday. The fire originated near the
chimney and spread so rapidly that
there was not time enough to save all
the furniture. Part of the building was
occupied by the Grange as a hall and
the furniture in this was destroyed The
total loss is about $4,000: insurance.
about sl7O0.
Three men who We're playing cards in
a freight car at Baltimore, Thursday,
set it on fire and one of them, Clarence
kekner of that city. was burned to
death. VIM. Alders. a fugitive from
the House of Correction, was badly
burned. The flames spread to the cot
ton warehouse of the Mount Vernon
Cotton Duck Mills. destroying the build
ing and causing $4,000 damage.
The 9th annual national convention
of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity was
called together. Thursday, in New York
City. over 100 members of the frater-
nifty were present, representing % col |
leges and universities in the United |
States and Canada. The Columbia Col /,
lege Chapter gave a reception to the |