Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-01-24
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Mrs. Bridget Fox, LoweIs oldest resi-.
dent. is dead. She had attained the re
| markable age of 105 years and | month
and she passed peacefully away at 3 +
NJ, Monday, at her home, 1870 Lake View
avenue. Deceased was born in Ireland.
Business was resumed at the Calu
| met wooden mill. UXbridge, Mass, Mon
| day, after Il shut down of somesweeks
The Hecla mill is also preparing tC
start up.
James A. Clifford of New Bedford
| was found dead in bed at the Castle
Square hotel at Boston. Monday. Mr.
Clifford registered at the hotel, Sun
day night.
A dispatch from Miami, Fla. says: The
richly dressed body of young woman
probably that of one of the party ,lost IN
the wreck of the naphtha launch Pau
Jones, was found by Capt Rickardn Sun
day, at Boca Ratone. The Gulf stream,
swings in close to the shore ut that point.
Janowski played and won the first
of series of IA games against the
strongest experts of the Manhattan
Club at New York. Monday night. Ex-
Champion Lewis Schmidt was his OPP
ponent.
AlonZo V. Linde for half a century
prominent citizen and lawyer of emil.
rose. Mass. died, Monday. aged x
years He accumulated a large amount
of property; was a leading Democrat
and until recently active as a lawyer.
A fire broke out, Sunday evening. in
5000 bales of cotton lying on the wharf
at Genoa, which had been discharged
from tha Rritish 81, p1 y,Dra
tain Voss. from Galveston, Dec. %.
Two thousand bales We're almost com
pletely destroyed.
Although the health of King Oscar
continued to improve, his physicians
have ordered him to take a complete
rest Therefore His Majesty has en-
trusted the government Professionally
to the crown prince. Prince Custom,
and has gone to Saltoja-Baden.
A jury in the Staples will contest at
Saltwater Mimi, has returned a verdict
for the contestee, f. S. Bronson, and the
will was set aside on the ground thar
Isaac Staples was of unsound mind when
the will was made. Oct. 10, 1891. The case
has been one of the hardest fought legal
battles in the history of the state and the
trial just concluded has taken 30 days
The estate, valued at 81 800 600. will now
be divided according to law. unless the
verdict is set aside by the supreme court
Appeal Is contemplated.
A race against time from Seattle TO
Dawson for purse of $4,000 began at
midnight. Sunday night. when Richard
Butler, wealthy klondiker. started for
Dawson, on the steamer City of Seat
tie. Joe Barrett. another wealthy
Klondiker, bet Butler $4,000 he could not
make the trip from Seattle to Dawson
in % days or less and $1,000 that he
could not make it in less than 20 days.
Rear Admiral Lord Charles Beresford
Of the British navy. who has been making
tour of Chinese ports in the interests of
the Associated Chambers of Commerce of
Great Britain and who is on his way
home by way of Japan and the United
States, speaking at Toxic, Saturday. be-
fore the japanese Oriental Association.
repeated his wish to see an alliance be-
and Great Britain to protect their trade
interests in China. and condemned any
policy based upon spheres of influence
that country could take.
The Republican Club of Massachu-
sets held its annual meeting at Bos-
ton, Monday, and after listening to the
report of the executive committee on
the events of the past year. elected the
following officers: President, Hon.
Elhu =. Hayes of Lynn: secretary.
Augustus p. Gardiner of Hamilton;
treasurer, Z. Lithgow Bevens of Ham
ilton Is vice presidents. also an
executive committee.
John DAILY, the Irish political prisoner,
who was released from Portland
prison in 1896, after having been SEN
fenced to penal servitude for life IN
,,,1in ,l,1
to blow W. the House of Commons
while in session. by throwing dynamite
bombs from the strangers gallery, has
been elected mayor at Limerick by a
luminous vote. under the new irish
local government act.
Mrs. Anna 4. GeoI ge was taken into
court, at Canon. Ohio, Monday, foi
arraignment on the indictment for the
murder of George y. SaXton, the broth
er-in-law OF President Mckinley. At
torneys John c. Welty and James 5.
Sterling. her counsel, objected to ar
raignment at this time. claiming there
were features of the indictment they
wanted to investigate before allowing
their client to recognize it by pleading
TO it. A continuance was granted, no
udle ueiilS set.
Engineer Martin Mcdonald of the
Boston fire department was killed while
on the way to a fire. Monday forenoon
by being thrown from his engine and
falling under the wheels of heavily
loaded truck. Engine 10, with which
Nc Donald was connected was respond
ing to an alarm from box 21S at the
corner of Palmer and Washington
streets. Mcdonald stood on the fire
board behind and as the engine swerv-
ed in crossing the street. he was thrown
off and run over before the driver OF
the coal team could stop his horses.
Rev. Edward II. Budd who was
thought to have been lost on the Paul
Jones. below New Orleans. is alive. The
vessel was detained in Pass a Louter
so long by foggy weather. thar MIR.
Budd grew impatient and left the party,
returning to New Orleans DR.. Bued
has been professor of Greek at the. 81,
Mary seminary, at Knoxville. H.. where
the three young women We're his pupils.
Mr.. Jones, the owner of the yacht. has
carefully examined all the wreckace
found and has come to the concluslon
that the explosion theory is correct.
The largest business transaction mad,
i'll the South in 10 years has just been an