Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-12-22
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Spike" Sullivan knocked out Mar
tin Flaherty in the 10Th round Of their
fight at Troy. n. ", Thursday night
Charlie Golf knocked out Jeffrey
Thorne in the second round at the Her
culrs A. g., brooklyn, Thursday night.
Time. 80 seconds.
VIM. Marshall of Hudson. y. H.. died.
Thursday. presumably from poisoning,
caused by drinking whskcy which had
been contaminated.
Samuel Goldbcrger. a New York
Tammany Hall election district cap
tain. who was convicted Of coloniziu.;
i'll the recent election. was sentenced.
Thursday. to two gears Imprisonment
in Sing Sing.
4 colorcd barber. Joshur r. Jones
who with a woman giving her name as
Ida Jones and claiming 20 BE- his Wife
has lived IN the rear of his shop al ~
Village street Boston. was shot in the
breast Ivy the woman. Thursday after
noon. after she had been driven from
the house.
James DpWing. aged g.. empluyedby
the Dillon Machine Co.. AT Lawrence"
Mass. fell through a hatchWay of the
Merrimack paper mill. Thursiay even
ing. ana sustained injuries that rr-
suited in his death two hours later. II"
leaves q wife and two children and r.
sided nj i3a Garden street
The san Francisco call says: ID. J.
Tubin. a Wcll-known sporting man Of
this city, who has offered $4,000 III bail
Of a syndicate to secure the Jrffrcs-
Corbctt fight for this city, has secured
m option ~ CO days in which 70 make
a satisfactory deposit. If the contest
occurs here it may be held by daylight
in the open air
Ferdinand LemieuX. local manager
IF the dcfunct Vile Marie Bank, was
1t Montreal, Thursday. found guilty Of
preparing ana sending Ia the govern
mont false statements as To the bank
condition ana was sentenced to three
years in the penitentiary. The presi-
dent Of the banl. is in Jail and two of
the directors are held to be tried.
4 telegram received at Philadelphia
from Santa Barbara, Cal. announced
the death al that place. Thursday. Of
DIR. Edward II. Williams. widely known
as a member of Rurnham. Williams &
Co. owners of the Baldwin Locomo-
tive Works Of Philadelphia Mr.. Will
liams was - years of age and was born
ut Woodstock VT.
Charles II. Sheldon Of Manchester,
Mass. died while going from Salem
to Beverly, Mass. on a train. Thurs
day forenoon. When the train reach
ed Beverly the remains We're removed
10 the rooms of a local undertaken.
from which place they will be taken t.
Manchester. Death was due to heart
disease. Mr.. Sheldon was 50 years old.
The Argus Of Melbourne, Victoria.
publishes a forecast of the wheat har-
vest of that country, in which il says
that The average yield is 9.31 bushels
per acre and that the cXportable sur
plus is 13.000,000 bushels. In 1898. the
product of wheat per acre in Victoria
was 6.3S bushels; in 1897. 4.49 bushels:
in 1896. 4.01 bushels: in 1895. SIS bush
els and in 1894. 10.3S bushels.
The death of Samuel Brown. known
as Black Sam. aged So years, has oc-
CURED at his home near Stevensville
n. Y. He was a slave and was pur-
chased by Barlow Weed and taken To
that county from Connecticut. in
1872. After he was given his freedom
he became Industrious and earned Il
small fortune. He delighted in fine
horses and ut the time of his death
had some of the best in the country.
The Baltimore immigration authori-
ties are making special efforts to keep
contract laborers out of the country
and. last week. 80 which had come on
the steamer Munchen. We're returned 10
Germany. ON the Hanover. which ar
rived. Monday, We're 100 men. who had
no money and who, are bound for Ohio
1t is suspected they are contract labor
crS and they are detained at the immi-
grafton house at Locust Point, pending
an investigation.
\ dispatch from Paris announces
the death Of Mrs. Walden PeIl. aged IS
years. She was n member of the Well
known Ellery family of Rhode Island
and was born in New Orleans. for
which city she was christened Orleans
Redwood Ellcry. For % years she was
a leader Of society in New York At
ter the death of her husband in 1862. |
she removed to Newport. For 80 years |
she had lived in Paris. where her home |
was center for American society