Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-05-19
NEWS NUGGETS.
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South and West

A dispatch from Dinowie, near Ra
Portage, Mass. says three miners were
killed. Wednesday night, by prema.
ture explosion of dynamite while sink.
ing shaft at Gold rock.
The following race meets have beer
sanctioned by the L. A. W. racina
board, University of Maine A. A.
Orono, Me-, May 81; Herbert A. Chase
Haverhill, Mass, May 30.
Joe Jackson, colored, was hanged al
Charlotte, n. c., Thursday, for rape
committed on a young white girl. las,
September. He made a speech protest
ing innocence and sang a hymn in a
clear strong voice.
At the meeting of the board of trus.
tees Of Amherst College at Springfield
Mass, Thursday, the members failed
to name a president for the institution
1t was said that the choice will be
made the last of June.
Michael Collins, for 30 years owner
and manager Of the CollinsviIle Wooden
mills, at Lowell, Mass, has retired and
Il. #. Gilman, the superintendent, sue
ceeds him. The mill was recently
bought by the American Wooden Co.
The Worcester Spy, Friday, will say
that Norman E. Ream, the Chicago
multi-mllionaire financier and rail-
road magnate, has purchased 100 acres
of land in Thompson, Conn. He will
build a magnificent villa, to cost $780,
900.
A cablegram from Miss Agnes Stack,
London, Eng, to the officers of the
National w. c. T. L. at Chicago, re-
cefNed, Thursday, announces the re-
election of Lady Henry Somerset to the
presidency of the British Woman's
Temperance Association.
The inquest upon the remains Of the
Earl of STAFFORD. who was killed by
the Cambridge express train, Tuesday
evening, at Potters Bar. Hertfordshirc
Eng, while returning from WrenthaII
Park, his country seat, resulted, Thurs
day, in a verdict of death by misad-
venture"
Fire from an unknown cause. early
Thursday morning. destroyed the car
riage repository or Clark W. Newell
and the wheelwright and blacksmith
shop Of E. l.. Dresser at Uxbridge.
Mass The loss is estimated from $4,000
to $4,000 and is partially covered by
Insurance.
Zachariah L. Bicknell died at his
home at Weymouth, Mass. Thursday.
after a long Illness. aged 20 years He
had been Well-known Free Mason
and at the time of his death was grand
standard bearer of the Grand Com
mandery. knights Templars Of Massa-
chusetts and Rhode Island.
The counsel for Col. Picquart, now
prisoner on the charge of having COM
to Naitre Leblois data TAX
en- from Esterhazy's dossier. commune
eating information drawn from the
Dreyfus dOssier forgery and the use
Of the forged documents, Thursday. at
Paris. formally requested the public
prosecutor to professionally release his
client.
The annual business meeting of the
general synod Of the Reformed Presby-
terian church was held at New York,
The retiring moderator.
Rev. j. H. Kendall of Tarentum. Pa,
presided There We're 40 clergymen
present from various states Rev.
Alex Savage was elected moderator.
The annual reports were read and re-
ferred.
Sir George Albert De Hochepied Lar
pcnt, colonel Of the SSth Connaught
Rangers and commander of the Bed
fordshire regimental district, shot him
self at Bedford, Eng, Thursday. His
widow was formerly a Mrs. Camden
Labert, daughter of William Arm
strong Of Toronto, Canada. He was
born in 1916 and succeeded his father
in 1861.
In the divorce division of the high
court Of justice at London. Thursday,
he Right Hon. Sir Francis Henry
June, president of the probate, divorce
and admiralty division, granted a di-
.Orce to Mr.. John Blupdell Leigh be-
,ause of the adultery of his wife, Lady
Rose Leigh, a daughter of the Marquis
IF Abergavenny, with the young Earl
If Cottenham.
A combination of three of the larg-
st manufacturers of lamp chimneys in
he world and controlling absolutely |
he output of the United States, has !
)ecn practically completed at Pitts |
DurG, Pa. The George A. Macbeth Glass !
70. and the Thomas Evans Glass Co.
rave been merged into the Macbeth |
Evans Glass co. and the Libbey Glass |