Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-09-13
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the province of Niscaya.
Alarming rumors that the Pope is i'll
are current at Rome. but they are de-
clared to be without foundation.
An insane merchant of Berlin. named
Bordasch has been arrested at hotel in
Iepsig. for threatening to Kill the King
of SaXony.
DIR. Fuchs. president of the Austrian
Chamber has invited the leaders of the
different parties to conference with the
view of terminating the parliamentary
crisis.
The German third class cruiser Wacht.
while participating in IN the o anIuian
her boilers four persons being killed ahd
four others injured.
The new car trust the American Car
and Foundry Co., capitalized at soo,-
900. 900. filed articles of incorporation at
Lansing. Mich. Tuesday.
The programme of Grand Circuit
races at Narragansett Pier for Tues
day. was postponed. owing to the heavy
rain fall of Monday night.
A west bound Panhandle passenger
train, Tuesday, ran down and killed
Mrs. Harrison McVety and children at
a crossing east of Logansport. Ind
At Rochester n. H., Fannie Rice
won the 240 trot, $500: best time, 2.21A.
Hazel won the 2.33 trot or pace, $500. in
five heats: best time 2.234. by Billie
r.; winners best 2.23s4.
Another severe storm along the l.abra H
dor coast has driven huge ice foes on the
land and crushed several vessels vita
their cargoes. agGregating nearly 1900
ouintals of goldfish The crews escaped
with their lives by making their way over
the ice but the vessels We're completely
destroyed
A new cabinet has been formed at
Caracas. Venezuela. With Senior Cal
cano as foreign minister. President
Andrade has left to take command of
the troops operating against Gen. Cas-
tro, the revolutionary leader.
Four men were killed and six injured
in a head-on collision which took place
on the Rock Island Road at South
Amana, Iowa. Tuesday. The trains
were extra freights and it is said the
accident was due to misunderStand-
ing Of orders. The dead: Webb Smith.
Tom Quinn. A. Fl. Poison and VIM.
Floyd.
Lord Mimic. the governor general of ca
NADIA. in reply to the Chicago delegation
who waited upon him at quebec. Tues
d ay.to invite him to attend the chicago
festival in October. asked for few days
in which to consider whether his othtr
engagements would permit him 10 accept.
The premier. Sir Wilfrid Laurier. accept
ed the invitation for himself and wife.
The premier was also handed invitations
for the members of his cabinet. which i"
promised 10 at once have delivered.
Assignee w. F. Mason of the Cocheco
Savings Bank. Dover. \. H. Tuesday.
commenced the payment of 20 per
cent dividend. to the depositors in that
institution, as ordered by the supreme
court The Cocheo Savings Bank failed
several months ago at the time of the
sudden departure of Assistant Cashier
Harry Hough of the National Bank.
who also was treasurer of the former
institution.
An Armenian journal reports that
Turkey absolutely refuses to permit
the Aremnians who emigrated to the
Caucasus at the time Kurdish atroci-
ties in Aremenia. to return to their
home The Turkish consul at Batoum
refuses passports even to Aremenians
having commercial relations with Turk
seaports and at the same time Turkey
refuses to permit Armenians living in
Turkey to emigrate to Russia.
Paul Roehrcht, a wealthy jeweler,
whose residence and place of business
was New York City. was shot and
killed at his summer place at North
Plainfield \. j.. Tuesday. by Mrs.
Peter Fingerhuth. The shooting was
the result on an attempt TO eject the
Fingerhuth family from a residence
owned by Roehricht. Mrs. Fingerhuth
and her husband have been arrested
and son has been held as witness.
The collision in Boston harbor. Aug.
-, between the steamers Mayfiower
and Yarmouth has developed law
suit. Papers were filed, Tuesday, in
the clerks office of the United States
district court at Boston. The Nantas
ket Beach Steamboat Co. is the libel
liant and the steamer Yarmouth is lib
clee. Damages are fixed al 500 600
Capt Brown OF the MaytioWer. COM
mitted suicide. Saturday. an indirect
result of the collision.
The Perots. il is understood. are.
while at Halifax. n $. in the care Of
l.. &. and +. G.. Wainwright. two we'll
known citizens of Halifax. whom the
grandfather of Gladys met in Bermuda.
several years ago. Mr.. Perot was to
be seen, Tuesday. driving about the
-
men mentioned. He has taken passage
for himself and Gladys on the steamer
Prince George. leaving Yarmouth.
Wednesday night. for Boston.
Gen. VIM. T. Draper, ambassador
from this country to italy was inter-
viewed. Tuesday night. relative to a
published report which had quoted him
as saying while on visit to Boston.
Sunday. that he would be a candidate
for the Vice Presidency nomination.
Mr.. Draper says that he neither made
any such statement. nor was in BoS
ton. Sunday: in fact, he had not been
in that city but once since his return
from Italy. Mr.. Draper further says
that he holds no such views as he is
purported to have expressed and he
cannot understand how he happened to
be quoted in such language.
John r Rust. a distinguished civil en-
gineer. whose name is associated win
the building Of MANY important American
railways, died. Tuesday. at his home IN
Brooklyn. Of a complication Of diseases.
following an attack of grip. He was born
in lS2S at Wolfboro. y. II. Mr.. Rust was
ono OF those who laid oul the Lake Shore
ana the Chicago, Milwaukee Il 81. Paul
lines. w nile at work on the many cNteu-
slons of the St. Paul lines he freuuenily
had 10 dispute the right Of way with war.
like Indians. Among his engineering