Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-05-12
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

In ROT tina, broke out %; the Harrow.
Eng. race course Thursday. over the H.
cision of the starter. the English pug.list
Jcm Smith was attacked by The mob AMI
other persons were Injured ana the races
were stopped ~ the police
Isaac Lander, IA months nld. sln VA
Bernard Lander NJ No ~ Iiarbor Stree
Killed. Thursday. by one of Chase x
Sons ice teams He was paying ln the
yard and ran out in front OF tne heavy
team jus; as the horses starteu.
The Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton ana
the Hooking Nahcy Roads have broken
the records in handling IRON ore N To-
iedo ohio. Ten thousand tons have been
handled To- hc past ilve days ana ans off
cIIiS % these roads state that the sum
mcr business VIII by Jhe greatest I'M
record
L. Pope Barrett, a prosperous farmer ~
Peabody. Mass, committed suicide by
hanging. some time during "Wednesday
night. His body was found suspended
from a beam IN the barn. by HIS wife. early
Thursday. He made an unsuccessful a.
tempt TO TAX" his lie abudt week ago.
known His wife and ;wo daughters sur
Vlye.
4 farm house owned ana occupied by
Charles 4. kenn!sUn on Pleasant street.
FramlnEham, Mass. was destroyed br
tire. Thursday morning All the live stock
III the barn with the exception M a COW
was saved The property was formerly
a milk farm ana the buildings covered
about three-quarters .of an acre Toe
cause Of the ire j. uukrJwn. The loss is
S'Tp; insured for $500
All the wclvcrs in the COchcco mills at
Dove. y. IL, who have been out on
strike. voted. Thursday. 90 return TO
work. MONDAY. the action being taken
after a conference between their repre-
sentatives ana Agent Fish Of the mill. Al
the conference Agent Fish submitted a
letter from tho company saying that ths
right was reserved ~ hiring M uIscharS-
ING anyone the company saw iii.
The large tanncTy building lit Milford
y. H.. of \. }. Foster Of Boston, ana oc-
cupied by j. T. Murray x co. of Woburn
Mass was DESTROYED By lire. Thursday
Irht. with a loss of SIS. 100. The building
was 10 feet in length and three stories in
height. and the firm had large number
of skins in process of manufacture II =
understood that there was little insurance
on the building, but the MuTrays were
fully covered.
Tho question Of admitting to member
ship in the catholic Knights Of America,
defeated. Wednesday, BY a vote "a "a ~
lSl. was taken w for reconsideration at
Thursdays session Of the biennial coun-
oil Of that order, at Kansas CITY, Mo. By
an almost unanimous vote the amend
ment was referred to the law committee.
1t now seems to be the general opinion
that the amendment will be slightly
changed and will then -" adopted.
The bodies of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Tncknall were found in rooms over
Xephs' State street news room nj Auburn,
\. u, Thursday. The man was dead
without marx upon him. lie was known
as "Onc-armed Tincknall." The woman
was unconscious, the side Of her head
battered in. the brain protrudinS. she
cannot live. II is supposed that her hus-
band tried to kill her with Il hammer ana
then committed suicide by poison.
The strike of the spnners at the wooden
mills of the Mil!ers River Manufacturing
Co. at AthOl Mass, which had been on
for three days, was settled. Wednesday,
and the entire force returned To work.
The strike was caused by change in
wages, brought about by the abolition of
the piece work system. The management
general wage revision that will be salts
factory 10 the help. will 50 into effect
about June 30.
The annual meeting OF the managing
committee of the American League OF
Classical Studies in Rome was held in
Havemeycr han, Columbia College Now
York, Thursday. The following officers
We're elected: Chairman. Prof. Minton
Warren, Johns Hopkins University: sec
rotary. Prof. l.. T. Merrill, Wesleyan
University; additional members Of the OK
ecutive committee. Prof. f. w KELSEY.
University Of Michigan. Prof. a. +. West,
Princeton. Prof, Tracey Peck. Yale. ANA
Prof. Alfred Gudemann. University Of
Rome for five years, Prof. Richard Nor
ner, Western Reserve. for this year: T..
w. Kelsey. University of Michigan. from
1900 to 1901; + +. Abbott. Chicago EGiVcr-
sty, from 1901 to 1862