Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-01-30
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Eddie Connolly and Jack Daily fought
20 rounds to a draw at Buffalo \. Y
Monday night.
The Spanish steamer Vale has foun-
dered off the coast. near Bilbao, Spain
y of the crew being drowned.
Judge kolhrat Of the United States
district court at Chicago, Monday. rem
dered a decision declaring the Illinois
antitrust law unconstitutional.
When the House met a Frankfort
Ky, Monday, many members We're alb
sent and 50 many paired that no at
tempt was made to transact business
and the House adjourned.
Jerry. the 7-year-old son Of Louis NJ.
Richardson of Comic. n. H.. was 50
badly hurt in a belt in the plate room
Of the Comic Mfg. Co.. Monday noon,
that he died a few hours later.
John Jackson. a detective of the Mis-
souri, Kansas & Texas Railroad from
Sedala, was fatally shot through the
head at Holden. Mo. Monday. while
attempting to arrest a gang of suspect
ed train robbers.
NJ. E. Ingalls,, Monday. announced
HIS icSIs1 ildtloll dS lltNIttHl 81 1Ht
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad 60. 10
take effect, Feb. l. He will be succeed
ed by George w. Stevens, the general
manager of the road.
\ boiler explosion occurred in the
steel department of the Sligo Furnaces
If Singer. Nimick & co. on the South
side. PitsburS, Pa. Monday afternoon.
Eleven Workmcn were seriously injured.
several Of whom may die.
l.. A. Brais. doing a gentleman's fur
nishing business under the name Of
Glover. BraiS & Co. at Montreal. has
assigned at the request of Foster
Porter 4 Co., London, Eng. who are
creditors to the extent of $1,000 The
total liabilities amount to Sli4.666.
Judge Lynde Harrison, one of the
executors of the will of the late Henry
Is. Plant. filed the inventory of his es-
tate with the appraisal in the probate
court, at New Haven, Conn, Monday.
1t amounts to $685., 546 and includes all
of his estate except the real estate
which belonged to him in Florida, and
which is not subject to appraisal and
inventory except in the courts of that
state.
The directors of the American Steel
and Wire Co.. at Chicago. Monday. de-
clared a dividend of per cent. on the
common stock payable in four quarter
~ payments. April >. July ,. Oct. >.
1900. and Jan. ,. 1901. The statement
issued showed that the company had
made a net profit of s12 162.53O in 1899.
The stockholders will meet in Chicago,
Feb 10, when action will be taken on
the proposition to retire $4,000 900 of the
$40 000. coo preferred issue of the COM
pany.
The steel department of Phillips.
Nimick & Cos. rolling mill at Pittsburg
Pa. was wrecked, Monday. and a dozen
men We're injured, by an explosion of a
battery of four large boilers. The loss
to the plant will be enormous. All the
injured men We're quickly removed
from the ruins. Five We're mutilated
almost beyond recognition. One man
died and more deaths may result A
rescuing party began searching the
wreckage. which it is supposed entombs
other wOrkmen.
Walter J. Scheele the New York
chemist. who says he took. Friday
night. a dose of cyanide of mercury
and bromo settler larger than that
which killed Mrs Kate j. Adams. for
whose death Roland B. MOlineux is on
trial. is sick in bed at Woodbridge. n
j.. and his physician in the village and
others from Railway. called in consul
tatiOn. declare that he is suffering from
mercural poisoning. Sheele says he
expects to be out In a few days when
his system throws off the poison.