Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-11-20
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Al the citizens convention at Salem.
Mass. Monday night. Mayer David M.
Littie was renominated by acclama-
/ ton.
J. Minot West said to have been an
actor, committed suicide at Dorchester,
N. r.. Monday. as the result of de-
spondency. He was As years of age.
The whaling bark Alice Knowles has
arrived at San Francisco from the
Ohkatsk sea with 1900 barrels of oil
worth $4,000. and 1000 pounds of bone
valued at $1,000.
Morris Brody was arraigned in the
police court at Lawrence, Mass, Mon
day, on charge of burning his store
last August. The hearing was set for
Friday morning, bail being fixed at
$1,000.
Complete returns from elections in
Idaho, show an average plurality of
1898 for Bryan electors. Hunt (Fusion)
has plurality Of 1898 for governor,
and Glen (Fusion) for Congress. beat
Morrison by 1893.
Jamaican government secretary
with a railroad expert, will leave
Kingston, ia, on the steamer Admiral
Schley, Tuesday. for Philadelphia. for
the purpose of placing n large order for
rolling stock for the Jamaica Railroad.
A tornado did much damage at
Waelder, Texas, Sunday night. The
home of I. Il. Eabb was destroyed.
Several members of the family were
injured, three seriously, but none ia
tally. 1t is feared that much damage
was done in the rural districts.
From an high English financial au-
thority, who is closely in touch with
American railway affairs, it is learned
by a New York Herald London CORE
spondent that plans are maturing for
the absorption of the Erie and Wa
bash systems by the New York Cen
tral.
The executive committee Of the Hi
nois Valley Association met at Chica-
20, Monday. and the result Of their de-
liberation will be pressure upon CON
gress to construct q l4-foot ship canal
between Chicago and st. Louis by way
Of the drainage canal Illinois and Mis-
sisspn rivers.
Francis left Syracuse. y. Y. Monday
for Molokai. the leper colony in the
Hawaiian Islands, where they will
teach in a school TO be founded. One Of
the women, Sister Ephren. was former
~ Miss Ada Schillineer OF Syracuse.
She is TO be at the head of the school.
John and Albert -Alderice and Tobias
Bcrner. COW boys. fought duel in the
mountains near Otto. Wyo. Three
horses We're killed and the Alderice
brothers We're seriously injured. John
received ball in each arm and Albert
was shot in the stomach. The two fam
lilies have been at war for some time.
Further trouble may ensue.
The convention of the Interstate
Good Roads Association opened. Mon
day, in Central Music hall, Chicago.
The purpose of the meeting is to effect
a national organization and TO bring
influences to bear upon Congress to
secure an appropriation for the i'm
provement of highways commensurate
with the needs of the country.
Francis II. Dewey. president Of the
Worcester Consolidated Street Railway
Co.. was in the police court at Wor-
cester Mass. Monday, TO answer to q
complaint by the state police that the
ears of the company have not been
heated to the temperature required by
law. President Dewey was fined $50
and took an appeal to the superior
court.
The Philippine commission at Mon
days session at Manila. publicly dis
cussed a bill for establishing municipal
governments throughout the province
OF Renguet, LuZon. and also bill for
provincial government. Frederick W.
Atkinson, superintendent of education,
has admitted to Gen. Macarthur a bill
appropriating $l,5oo.000 gold for the
purpose Of public education.
After three days work with four tugs
the steel steamer Georgetown has been
released. While passing down the st.
Lawrence river en- route from Buffalo
TO the Atlantic ocean and New York
she ran on shoal just below Ogden
burg. n Y. The Georgetown has re-
Gently been built by the American
Transportation Co She is 265 feet
long. 40 feet beam and cost $4,000.
The fun bench of the supreme court
at Boston. Monday. heard arguments
on exceptionSi in the case Of Luigi Stor
ii. convicted of murder in the first de-
gree. The defendant killed Michele
Calucci with an AK. Nov. :. ut the
North End. BY virtue Of the verdict OF
Il jury the penalty awaiting Storti is
death r. electricity unless the supreme
court finds favorably TO him as matter
of law.
The loom fiXers in the Acushnet ana
Hathaway mills at New Bedford,
Mass. We're ordered on strike. Monday
by the president of the National Union |
in consequence Of charges that the
mill officials insist on crOWding work |
on the men. who have been asked to
handle 100 Draper looms instead of SO
as formerly. The local union, besides
having the backing of the local body. is
well fixed financially.
Withel Heinrich, the blind tenor of
Boston, was robbed of his pocket book |
containing so and a check for $40. in
New London, Conn, Monday. Heinrich |
came into town on the 3.15 train from |
Boston, and George Delap of New Lon |
don, pilOted him to the Crocker House. |
Delap was arrested a few minutes lat |
er and was bound over to the next /,
term of the superior court to answer to |