Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-11-19
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought by Wire From the North
East, South and West.

During the open season just passed.
III deer were killed in Vermont, an
increase of q over last year.
The Czarewich. Grand Duke Michael,
brother of the Car, started from CO.
penhagen for Russia, Saturday.
An election was held in Dawson CO.
incident with the general election IN
the United States. Bryan received 1904
votes out Of 1887. He therefore gets a
$500 souvenir nugget.
William J. Bryan denies that he is
going to New York to defend persons
charged with violation Of the election
law, for which it was alleged that he
had accepted a $4,000 retainer.
Major VIM. J. Turner 9Th Infantry,
appeared before a. retiring board in
Washington, Friday. He had been un-
der orders for Manila, but that assign
ment has been revoked and he will go
upon the retired list.
Lampson p. Sherman of Des Moines,
Ia, brother of the late John Sherman,
has suffered a stroke of paralysis from
which he may not recover He is over
so years old and the stroke, his physi-
clans say, has rendered him perma-
nently blind.
Miss Edith Booth. % years old, an
actress, formerly attached to Marie
Burroughs company. died in a hospital
! at New York, Sunday, from the effects
of an accident which she met with last
Sunday. Miss Booth was thrown from
| a carriage in Central park.
The 3-year-old daughter of Walter
| E. Wheeler of Leominster. VT, was
burned to death late Friday night. in
| the absence of the family. The acct
dent occurred at the town farm and
was caused by the child's clothes ig-
hitting from a match. When her par
ents returned she was dead.
| The four-masted schooner Henry
Lippett. for whose safety considerable
anxiety was felt, was towed into the
/ lower Boston harbor at midnight, Sat
| urday night, by the tugboat James
Woolley Her mainsail and jib We're
| carried away during the recent gale
but other wise she is in good condition.
Omer Bouchard, 20, residing at the
corner of Beacon and Merrimac streets.
Manchester, y. H.. met with terrible
misfortune. Saturday, in attempting
TO broad freight train at Hooksett.
| He slipped and his right leg was run
| over and crushed below the knee. He
was taken to Manchester and received
surgical aid at the Elliot hospital.
Lord Salisbury presided at London,
| Saturday, at the first meeting of the
reconstructed British cabinet. which
NJ In
seph Chamberlain, secretary of state
for the colonies, was the only absentee.
| The object of the meeting was TO ar
range the business of the coming brief
winter session of Parliament.
James Dunlap, the leader of several
| bands of bank burglars. one OF which
| robbed the Northampton, Mass. bank
| of 81 900, 900, confessed, Saturday, at
| Watseka. Ill, TO looting Patc's Bank
at Wellington. H.. on March % last.
| He has been in Watseka ever since
last April, when he was captured in
! Chicago. Judge Hilscher sentenced him
to 20 years imprisonment. the extreme
limit for robbery.
| John Welch. in the county court at
| Syracuse, y. Y. Saturday. was SEN
| fenced to eight years and three months
| at hard labor in Auburn prison for
| stealing 10 cents. Welch was charged
| with having entered the house of
| Charles Consone at ll3 East Kennedy
street. Il few weeks ago. and stealing
the money just "a hours after he had
| been released from Auburn prison,
where he had served one year and
| three months on n similar charge.
Another rural free delivery route,
| making five in all. has been ordered by