Daily Kennebec journal., 1899-05-12

VISITORS. IN the afternoon. Executive
sessions will continue for two days.
The number of the striking Italian
| laborers on the Jerome park reservoir
| and aqueduct work at New York, which
! dwindled, Tuesday. grew larger, Thurs
! day, body of Isl men leaving work
| and joining the strikers, bringing their
number up to about 100. The strikers
made an attempt to get at the workers
| to induce them TO quit, but the police
| charged with drawn clubs and the Ital-
ians scattered.
At the closing session of the New
| England Eclectic Medical Association
at Hartford. CT, officers We're elected.
Thursday evening. as follows: Presi-
| dent, DR.. Frederick w. Abbott; vice
presidents. Drs. w. +. TemDleton.
Manchester, n. H.: H. J. Potter. Ben
ninSton. Vt; f. NJ Ripley, Unionville.
Ct: secretary, DR.. w. c. Hatch, New
Sharon, Me-: treasurer, DR.. H. N
Waite, Johnson, Vt.
The annual session of the Southern
Baptist convention will begin at Louis
vile, Friday. The matter of greatest
interest to Baptists all over the coun-
try. was taken up. Thursday, by the
board of trustees of the Southern Zap
tist Theological Seminary. This is the
Whitsitt heresy case which is to be
finally settled when the trustees pass
on the resignation of DR.. W. II. Whit
slit. professor of the seminary.
The Grand Chapter of Massachusetts,
Order of the Eastern Star, opened its
2-days' convention at Worcester, Mass,
Thursday Spyaptnan nf tho GRAND oui
GERS and SO chapters were represented.
The grand officers of Maine. Vermont,
and Connecticut Chapters were present.
Routine business consumed Thursdays
sessions. and. in the evening, a recep-
ton was given in honor of Mrs. Ewing
the head of the order in the United
States
Destructive forest fires are raging in
Canaan and Neril, Vt. on tracts where
Il. c. Goodhue has been getting out
pulp wood for the International Paper
Co. Thousands of cords of the wood
ready for renoval are threatened with
destruction and a wide territory al
ready has been burned over. A large
crew of men have been fighting fire,
day and night. for the past two days.
The loss. will reach thousands of dol
lars. The origin of the fire is unknown.
Dartmouth won the fourth annual de-
bate with Williams. Thursday night at
Hanover, n. H.. having the afiirnat live
side of the question Resolved. That the
Present Tendencies of Labor Unions in
Great Britain and the United States Are
Detrimental to Industry and Dangerous
to Individual Liberty The affirmative
speakers were Hawiey Barnard Chase OF
Newport, N H., NeIson Pierce Brown of
MI Mars1 s11..tT NJ
The negative debaters We're Theodore
Merrill Shipherd OF Soutnold, n. Y. A lon
20 Edwin Branch Of Maiden. Mass, AMI
Fred Wilder Cross of South RaSaIston,
Mass. ia
Joseph Harvey at Howard City, |
Mich, Wednesday night killed his wife.
his uncle, Robert Pierson. and his
grandmother He also wounded his 3
baby and his father-in!aw, |
John Logenslayer and finally shot him
self, inhicting a wound which is ex-
pected to prove fatal. Harvey himself
informed the sheriff of the
at Persons house. He was
then arrested for numbering his wife.
He has nothing to say about the TRACE
dies at his own home. There are strong
of lynching.
The Boston police are investigating
the mysterious death of an unidentified
man who was found lying on the side
walk at the South Enid in an uncon-
scious condition, at daybreak, Thurs
day. There was big bruise on the
head. The man died in the police am
bulance while being taken to station I.
were found in the pockets 70
show his identity. The name IF. A.
Nugent'' was written in ink on the