Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-01-27
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The town of Perus. the inland terminus
| of the central line of the Jamaica Rail-
| road, island of Jamaica. has been almost
destroyed by fire, INVOLVING heavy losses.
| There Were no fatalities, however. The
| fire ragged unopposed owing to wan, of
| water.
! ajor Hanham played Janowski at New
| York. Thursday, in the series of games al
| the Manhattan Chess Club. Hanham got
| Il pretty good development at first our
| owing 10 a wrong knights move he lost
| ground and finally had to resign the gaIn,
| after "a moves.
The New York Mail and Express says:
| "A new trust mas just been formed TAX
| ing in all the leading manufacturers of
| pipe iron. Franklin Il. Locke of Buffalo.
is leading organizer of the new com
| pany. which will be authorized TO issue
| $50, $50. 000 worth of stock.
| The murder charge agains. John Miller.
Mrs Dickinson and Mrs. Wilson. accused
of the assassination of Daniel Wilson IN
| Suisun Valley, Cal, has been dismissed.
! there being no evidence to hold the par
| ties. The case promised highly sensational
| developments at one time.
! The robbery Of over Geo 900 from PARIS
| Bank in London. Monday. which has beel
| the sensation OF the week, took 4 dra-
matte turn. Thursday, when the chairman
| of the bank announced At a meeting of
the shareholders that $40, 90 in the big
| gcSt notes had been returned to the bank
| by post.
The funeral of Reuben J. Smith. whose
peculiar desire that his body should be
placed in Il chair in a sarcophagus. the
| construction of which he personally d.
rected some time ago. was held al Ames-
bury Mass, Thursday. Services and
other arrangements We're conducted IN
| accordance with the desire of Mr.. Smith.
The boxing bout between Peter Maher
and stockings Conroy. which was To
take place before the Palace Athletic
night, was not pulled off. for financial
reasons. The event was being run by AL
Woods. and while the first preliminary
was being pulled off the box office re-
cepts were attached for a board bill al
legged to be owed by Woods. He had col
lected the money for the advance sale
and disappeared.
All imperial decree has been publish
ed at Pekin. Diminishing Hou Tou Fen
from the directorate of the railroads on
the ground of maladmnistration ana
appointing Hsu Ching Chen, a member
of the Hung Lii Yamen, to be director OF
railroads. The German and British
ministers intend to enter a protest
against the action.
The American indoor amaeur and pro
fessional swimming record for 500 yards
Kas h,Skea Mas Thu rh ngh IA at
Leavitt of Newton. Mass. The best pre-
vious time made for 500 yards in, the
al
1894. at Philadelphia, in Sm., 3os. Holmes
time was Sm., IL 1-5s. Leavitt finished his |
10GO-yard race against time in 16n. 49s |
The previous figure was 11m., 35s., By |
Benedict at Montreal, in 1889.
The National Association Of Manu-
facturers. at Cincinnati. Thursday. select
ed Boston as the place for holding the |
next convention. The vote stood: Boston,
GERS resulted: President Thee c. Search.
Philadelphia; sec, +. p. Wilson. Cincin-
natl nat treas, G A. sehieren, New York;
connectient, Piiny jewett: Maine. 't Charles
r. Milliken: Massachusetts, George Il. |
Goppens: New Hampshire. Il. b. Pike;
Rhode Islands. Samuel NJ. Nicholson;
Vermont. Henry Fairbanks.
DR.. II. c. Dunavant, president of the
Arkansas state board of health, speak,
ing of the small pox situation, tells of
a terrible state Of affairs at Salem, in
Fulton county. DR.. Dunavant returned
from that place. Wednesday, where he
made thorough investigation. He
says that there have been at least 400
cases OF small pox in the locality within
the last two months. and number of
deaths have occurred. He found people
about the streets of the town
broken out with the disease, pock-
marked and pitted. and others falling
Ill every day. The local physicians
that the disease was not
small pox. and little effort had been
made to check its ravages| AS q re-
suit the disease has become scattered d
along the line OF the Memphis & Fort c
Scott and Gotten Belt railroads and
many nefghboring towns are now in
ected. This disease was first brought
o Fulton county about two months
go by a returned soldier. 1