Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-01

cuSed Of having explosives n his posses
sion. was held. Monday. in s5c bail for
4 trlaI by Magistrate Teller in the York
| vile court. New York city.
! Fire destroyed the palatiaI residence of
\ MIS-. Mary Hayes Chinewith at Edenvale.
( cal. Sunday. Loss. Sl1J 600: insured SIS :
\ nm. 4 second fire destroyed the fruit
I warehouse of j. Ii. lnderrcid,n K 90. Of
! chicago, causing loss of $1,000, insur-
/ ance. s.. 600.
/ Tho ice houses owned by the Hartford
! lce To.. and situated about three miles
north Of Mcriden. Conn. were completely
.3oo tons Of ice. The ice was worth about
81 PEI ton. The loss. including buntings,
I machinery, etc. is about $4,000.
the. Peary relief steamer Diana passed
| oul the straits of Belle Isle on her way
| north. last Tuesday. She signalled Off
! Hajelc Harbor, Labrador, 'All we'll"
judging from the reports coming from
northern Labrador the Diana will meet
Greenland coast and this will probably
considerably delay her return.
+. NJ; Arthur. grand chief of the
brotherh9od Of Locomotive Engineers.
ana r. r. Sargent, grand chief Of the
brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen.
nave mad conference at Montreal with
the chairmen Of the engineers and fire
men grievance committee. y satisfac-
tory adjustment Of the matter in dispute
with the Grand Trunk hallway was az
RANGED. The new scale viii probably be
c4NSA4 bt4t Ill q lew udN
Fire at Joliet. ILL.,, Sunday night. de
stroved the great fan room Of the CON
Nerter in the Federal Steel cos. plant.
The destruction Of the fan room which
supplied the air for the plant VIII ncces-
state the closing OF the mills for two or
three weeks and 300 men viii meanwhile
be idle. The loss Oh the building and ma
chnery is Sl0.1oo. but the loss to the com
rany will he many times this amount on
account ~ delay In getting out the work.
Lewis Patterson and Michael Mcdonald
We're successfully e,ccJr0cutcd at Sing
Sing prison. Monday. Patterson dying at
So \. NJ. and Mcdonald - minutes later.
Lewis Pullerson. Il negro porter, ~ years
Of age. on March Il, 1895. killed his COM
mon law wife. Kate Smith. white wo-
man. in their apartments in New York.
BY strangulation. for being uniaithful TO
~ him. Michael Mcdonald, a beef carrier
employed in the Eastman COS. slaughter
house in New York, May t. 1898. shot AMI
killed stephen Titus. the head timekeepor
at EaStman's. for refusing to pay a bill
without being approved
Thomas +. O'Brien. the New York pc
ilceman who stole gold watch and
chain ana two charms from the dead
body of capt. George Il. Rhoads of the
th Regiment, pleaded guilty. Monday.
before Judge Blanchard. OBricn was in
dcted for larceny in the first degree, but
was allowed 70 plead guilty to grand lar
manded until Tuesday for sentence. He
cannot be given more than five years IN
and killed by an electric car at lS5d
street. the evening Of June 10 Whlle
transferring the body to the hospital in
an ambulance O'Bren robbed it.
The village of Upper Lake. n, H.. was
almost entirely wiped out by fire in u few
hours. sunday morning.. Save TWO hotels.
the Opera house. Catholic church and
few Struggling tenement houses on the
outskirts. not single block nor house re-
mains. Not a business establishment Of
any kind escaped. Inc buildings were all
Of wood ana there being no fire protec-
ion, insurance rates We're well night pro
hibitive far the poorer class were
Thus hundreds are left home
eSS and destitute. Hundreds sought shell
ter in the only remaining church and al
the Opera house, where steps are being
taken to feed and care for them. The
ire started in King & Pages store and
with q strong wind the flames swept
only to abate when nothing re-
NAMED to feed them. The loss Is esti-
mated at from S15O,0oo to s200,oo0