Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-03-24
NEWS NUGGETS
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captain a. i. Mdn3n Is 10 nave the
honorary degree of doctor of laws con-
ferred upon him. April So by McGill Uni
versity, says a Montreal dispatch 10 the
New York Tribune.
The cable steamers Faraday and Mac
kay Bennett laid the shore end of Il new
Atlantic cable at Canso, \. S. Friday,
and the Faraday proceeded to sea, reel
ing out the cable as she went. The line
will touch at the Azores.
Champion Pugilist j. J. Jeffries, who is
in San Francisco says that unless he re-
ceives contrary instructions from his
manager, Billy Brady, he will start for
Chicago. Sunday night. to prepare for
his three men in one night fight.
The James Nckum saw mill, six miles
southwest of Muucie, Ind, was destroyed
by an explosion, Friday evening. Three
men are dead. one more will die and
three others were injured. The explosion
resulted from the water pump becoming
broken when the boiler had on a full head
of steam.
Incendiarism continues in Barbados.
There We're nine plantation fires during
the weeks which ended. March II. The
steady decline in the revenue Of Barba-
does is causing uneasiness among the au-
thorities The decline is attributable to
the purchasing power of the people hay
ing fallen.
All was quiet at the Dominion Iron and
Steel Cos. works at Sydney, n. $, Fri
day. Chief Of Police Beckham is doing
we'll in the hospital and is not in any
head. One side Of his body is black from
the way he was wounded with picks and
ShoNels. lie will be around again in Il
few days
The overturning of barge containing
delegation Of Grand Army veterans to
the funeral of Col G. T. Batcheldcr, at
Peabody, Mass. Friday. brought painful
ilesh wounds to eight Of them and broken
bones to two others, while Post Com
mander John c. Mcdonald was badly in
ternally hurt. \ defective axle was the
cause of the mishap.
The Galleries de In Charlie, at Paris. in
tended as a permanent building for hold
ing charity haZdarS is now completed
ana Will be opened, Mry /. Two hundred
charitable institutions have already an
nounced that they intend to hold sales,
inns year The structure was built by
Comtesse Boni de Castelane, whose gen.
9tous idea was prompted by the Charity
Bazaar FIVE.
The report of former City Chamberlain
FRANK +. Bundy of Elmira. \. Y. dated
ren. ., stated that the city was solvent
anu had a balance to its credit OF $500.
lHStead the common council committee
OF investigations finds that the city is in
uept between $4,000 and 100000 because
81 overdrafts. This is outside of Bundy's
heaNy shortage ana has caused as great
surprise as did the news Of his detalca-
ton
Dispatches from Surinam. Dutch Cut
ana received at Kingston, Jam, Friday,
cay ne feeling Of the Dutch there is
mat the British subjects in prison have
peen 50 brutality treated that they re
Gently reVolted and shot one of the keep
ers. The British residents OF Surinam
aree said to be suffering from the same
grievances As complained Of by the Out
landers Of South Africa.
The New Bedford, Mass, Loom Fix
ers Union. Friday night. elected Paul
watson permanent secretary of the
union and adopted a standard list and
copies of which were sent to the man
u1acturers. Mr.. Watson is prominent
IN labor circles and a member of the
executive council of the National Loom
Fixers Union.
Adolph Bowler and Thomas Con
ping, two Fall River men. formerly
residents of Canada, Friday received
silver medals in recognition of tbeir
services in the suppression of the
remain raid in Canada in 1870 Eopvier
in captain and Coping a sergeant
Prov,a battalion formed in Rawson
service - OF Quebec, which did good
me Queen at that time