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

| Barring, MCGOWAN & co. New York,
will shin $2,500,0oo in gold to London,
| Wednesday. in anticipation Of war loan
remittances.
The New England States Veteran
! Firemen's League IN meeting at Bos-
ton. Tuesday, decided to hold the league
play at Wdltham, Aug. IS.
| The directors Of the Standard Oil 90.
Of New Jersey. have declared a divi-
| dend Of per cent, payable Sept. =.
In June, 10 per cent. was distributed,
and in March. 20 per cent.
The Besscmer Association has deter
mined to shut down its furnaces at
| Cleveland and elsewhere. Sept. ], TO re
| strict the production. to stop the down
ward tendency of prices. Thousands of
men will be thrown out of employment.
| Hon. Alfred Gilpin Jones. until lately
| head Of the firm of a. G.. jones & Co..
| West India merchants ship owners and
steamship agents at Halifax. y. s,
was sworn into Office as lieutenant gov
ernor of Nova Scotia, Tuesday. sue
ceeding Sir Malchy Daily.
The two-mile professional unpaced
bicycle record was lowered at Brock
ton. Mass, Tuesday for the Third time
within a week by John r. Dubois. who
clipped two seconds from his latest
record of Ala and placed the worlds
figures Cor the distance at AZ.
| Albert Bailey was killed by the cav
| ing in Of the earth around a ditch in
which he was at work at Franklin
| Falls. y. H. Tuesday. He was an
Enaiishman and went to Franklin.
| Falls with the Lawrence Ice Co. 10
years ago. a widow survives him.
s. $. Huntley Of Helena. Mont. Of the
| Yellowstone Park Transportation Co.
| says the forest fire which broke out,
| Friday. in the upper Geyser basin. is
| now burning on the Snake river just
| south If Shoshone lake near the gov
crnment forest reserve. but is well un-
| der control.
Lieut.. George Corvallis West. who
married Lady Randolph Churchill at
| London. has been placed temporarily
on half pay in consequence Of i'll health.
| The question as 10 whether she would
retain her title has been settled by her
| decision to be designated hereafter as
| Mrs. George CORVALLIS West
The 25-mile motor paced race be-
! tween Johnnie Nelson of Chicago VIII
| Stinson Of Cambridge, and Burns w
Pierce Of Fall River. billed for Charles
| River park. Tuesday night, was post
poned until Wednesday night. on ac-
| count of dampness which made the
| track slippery and dangerous.
Charles F. 3. Wall. graduate Of
Oxford and member Of an old we'll
known family of Thurlo. Tipperary
Ireland. committed suicide at Spring.
field. Mass. Tuesday, by taking an
| overdose of morphine. He was a vic
tim Of the morphine habit and but re-
Gently had returned from a sanitarium
at West Haven Conn.
At Saratoga. n. r.. Tuesday. G.
F'leschman Sons chestnut colt Bonni-
bert captured the Fleischman stakes
for 2-year-clds guaranteed value $4,000,
five furlongs, in a furious drive. by i
| head from Alard Scheck. with Garry
Hermann, the supposed best 2-year-
old in the West. in third position, a
length away. Time, l.0l4
The American Irish Historical So
ciety will observe the anniversary of
the battle of Rhode. Island. Aug. 20 at
Newport, II. /. Headquarters will be
a. thc hquliIeCk mouse. Inc battle of
Rhode Island was fought. Aug. 80 IT'S.
the American forces being command
ed by Gen. John Sullivan. In this bat
Tie Sullivan repulsed the British and
maintained the field.
In the regatta of the Royal Yacht
Squadron off Cowes. Isle Of Wight
Tuesday, the Meteor; owned by EN-
perez William, came in first in the
race for the Queens cup Time. 2
hours q minutes, As seconds But tn.
Satanita, which came in second in
23ol5. won the cup on time allowance
the Meteor allowing her % minutes.
The Meteor allows Lorna 50 minutes.
Lorna finished in $1,000
At South Raub, 10 miles south of
Lafayette. Ind, on the Monon road
passenger train No. 8 collided. early
tuesday. with a freight engine and ca
booSe standing on the side track
CHARLES King, the brakeman who oper-
ated the switch. is missing but whether
MS body is under the debris. or wheth
er ne is fled is not known. The freight
engineer and fireman and passenger
fireman We're killed. Four men were
seriously and seven others slightly in
jured.