Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-10-06
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The Republicans of the Cape sena-
to,i,l district, Thursday. re-nomi-
mated Senator Walter o. Luscombe OF
Falmouth by reclamation
The colonial government has receiV-
Cd instructions from London that the
Queensland contingents for south Atrl-
RI must be dispatched before oct 81
II IS asserted at Mafeking on reliable
authority that the burgers nave nee"
strictly enioined not to cross the west
ern frontier or to interfere win ciNi'
ians, but to resist the passage Of arm
I'd force.
Forty men employed at Cramps al
Philadelphia representing various
trades. Thursday joined the striking
enploves. The strikers held meetings
and received reports, stating that there
&c NOT over 500 men at work and near
" 1900 on strike.
pisbon Fischer of Chicago. At St. Pau
Thirgdav opened the 2itn quadrennidi
convention Of the Evangelical Associa
lion religious organization Nhlch mas
been in existence for alnost century.
The. meeting was largely taken up with
addresses and The naming OF standing
committees one al IN" principal autS
lions to come bgfpre the conference Will
be the 'obleh ~ hiiaSi"iiaiS Win 80
China.
According 10 a dispatch from Raa
Jbutil on the Gulf Of Alden. the Indo-
British troops were recently landed on
The Somali coast ana fought, near Eer-
bera on a bay Of the Gulf of Alden. with
the forces Of an Arab Mu!lah, named
Sheik Mohammed Saleh, who has been
proclaimed Mahdi by ths 1interland Mus
aulrnans. who are iuStgatinS an uprising
nf the SOmalis against the Abyssnians.
During the fighting z SpmaIis were killed.
The clyde Line steamer Cherokee.
which went ashore. last month. on
Eaushon island and was fioated. five
days ago. left Vineyard Haven. Thurs
day. for New York in tow of the tug
Taurus. The leak on the steamers
bottom has been almost stopped So
that one wrecking pump keeps her cas-
lily free Of water.
The factory of the Derby Comb 90.
on Water street. Derby Conn, was en-
tireIy destroyed by fire, early Thursday
night. causing a loss of UPWARDS OF
$4,000. Seventy five hands are thrown
out of employment. The fire was
caused ! ythe -carelessneSs Of one 81
the emp ,lyes, who dropped a lighted
paper on the floor.
The second days session of IN" an
nual convention of the Massachusetts
w. c. r. e. was opened at Worcester,
Mass, Thursday morning, with the
usual devotional exercises. The reSu-
lar programme for the morning was
carried out with the exception Of the
address by Mrs. Mary II. Hunt. Mrs.
Hunts paper was read in the after
noon.
The body Of IA female child. thought
to be about five months Of age, was
found in the Dodgeville pond near At
tleboro Mass. Thursday and an au-
topsy conducted. late in the afternoon,
shows that the death was due to Vlo-
lence The child was undoubtedly
strangled and then thrown int" the
pond There is not the slightest cleW
20 those implicated in the murder.
The. steamship Leona Of the Mallory
Line, arrived at her pier in New york
on, fire from Galveston, Thursday, and
later sank She is lying at present AT
an angle of 80 degrees. There were
several iiremen in the forward hold at
the tine the ship sank. but il is
thought that all escaped. It is said the
cotton III the hold was discovered to
be on FIRE three days ago ana tn
matches were then nailed down.
Harvard won the championship in
the 18th annual intercollegiate tennis
tournament concluded at New Haven.
Thursday. on the courts of the New
Haven Lawn club. In tn" final match
of fhe Individual championship Dwight
Davis Of Harvard, defeated Hnlrumb
Ward of Harvard. 6-3; 10. In the
doubles Hackett and Allen of Yale,
were defeated by Ward and Davis. 81.
6-3, 10 6-3 the Yale men securing hut
one set.
In the superior court at Lawrence,
Mass. TurSdly morning. John ttuigley
Of Lynn. was placed on trial for man
slaughter. ,luiglcy is charged with
killing Samuel I'lamer, On july : last,
ON the nigh: in question ii is alleged
that rlamcr and man named Mont
gomery met Quial"y ard companion
on tue East Sagus road. A quarrel an
sued in which Fltmrr received a blow
from IHiElry which caused his death.
The case went to the jury late in the
Afternoon and 10 verhict had been re-
ported at adjournment.