Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-08-07
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

President Lobct gave a dinner Mon
| day evening, at the Elysec palace
Paris, in honor of the Shah of Persia,
| Mrs. Carrie y. Walker, supreme com
mander OF the Ladies Of the Macca-
bees. died, Monday, at her residence in
| Detroit.
Samuel G. Decoursed Of Philadelphia
was, Monday, elected president OF the
American Railway CO., to succeed A
A. Mcleod. resigned.
The marine railway in the Bealky
shipyard. Fall River. Mass, owned by
Edward +. Lucan, was burned, tonight.
Loss. $4,000 to $4,000; fully insured.
Judge +. J. Tenny of Claremont, n.
H., Monday appointed Hon. James o.
Lyford of Concord. guardian of Charles
H. Hoyt, at the request of the latter.
Acting Secretary of State Adee at
Washington has received a dispatch
from Secretary Hay to the effect that
there is no truth in the rumor of his
serious Illness.
The Berlin Lipsic Tageblatt says the
foreign office has promised the Protes-
! tant League to make representations
TO the Austrian government against the
expulsion of Protestant clergymen from
Austria.
What was to have been a 20-round
go at the Olympic A. c. at Buffalo.
Monday night, between Joe Leonard
and Bonnie" O'Brien, both of that
city, was won by the former in the
18th round.
In a collision, Monday. between a
passenger and a freight train of the
St. Louis Southwestern Cotton BelD
Railroad at Aurich, 40 miles north of
Pine Bluff, Ark. five men were killed
and two seriously injured.
The naphtha launch Gladys, owned
by c. l.. Alvord Of New York. was de-
stroyed by fire at Stonington, Conn,
at p NJ. Monday. There was no one
on board. The Gladys was - feet long.
The loss is $1,000; insured.
Clark L. Pierce, general superin-
tendent of the Rutland Railroad and
the Ogdensburg & Lake Champaign,
died at Rutland. Monday. He was 20
years old and began his railroad ca
reer as a clerk and rose RAPIDLY.
Col Frank o. Lowden Of Chicago,
vas tiShtu ny Noiiptio VI AhI N<ut
rency Dawes. Monday. whether he
would consider an offer of the posi-
ton of first assistant postmaster gen.
eral, vacated by Perry Heath. CoL
Lowden declined.
A dispatch has been received at the
japanese legation at Washington from
the japanese foreign office announcing
that the government of Japan had
prohibited for the present all emigra-
ton of Japanese laborers to the United
States and Canada.
The government crop bulletin issued
at Winnipeg. Man, Monday. places the
total what yield in Manitoba. at 1l.000.-
900 bushels, 34S, S19 acres of wheat hav-
ing been completely destroyed by
winds. drought, etc. The yield of
wheat is estimated at u. bushels per
acre
William Clark of Newark, N. j.,
president of the William Clark Thread
Co, died suddenly at his summer home
at Watch Hill. r. L., Monday morning.
of heart failure. which followed Sc
we're attack of indigestion. lie was
well known on both sides of the At
lantic.
While bathing from a boat in Flax
pond. Lynn, Mass, Monday evening.
with Minor Ballard and Charles
Blakely, Edward Martee dove deep and
did not come UP. The police We're noti-
fled and dragged the pond but with
out finding the body. He was 10 years
old and a grocery clerk.
AS an outcome OF the recent fiascos
in which Jimmy Michael and his man.
ager figured on race tracks in Rhode
Island and Connecticut, it is claimed
that there is a strong probability OF a
cycling revolt from the n. c. A. if no
attempt is made to punish riders who
fail to keep their engagements.
All the union stevedores in Baltimore,
numbering about $500. went on u strike.
Monday, because the steamship agents
refused to agree to employ no more
non-union men. A large number of
non-union men are at work. There
have been no attempts on the part of
the strikers to interfere with them.
Countess Enica Roswadowski, wife Of