Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-03-26

Word was received at Boston Satur-
day. that the schooner Augusta e. Her
rick, built at Gloucester, in 1877 and
sold few years ago to parties in Tam
pa, Fla. has been totally wrecked on
the coast of Honduras while on a pas-
sage from Port Tampa. The crew wa
saved. There was no insurance on the
vessel
Nathan Greene. IS. of Randolph. VI
committed suicide, Friday, by cutting
his throat with a jackknife at the home
of his brother-in-law, Edward Davis
on Fish hill. He was missed by the
family in the afternoon and was found
in room over the Woodshed He was
discharged from the Insane ASYLUM at
Waterbury about three months ago.
The United States auxiliary cruiser
Prairie sailed from Rouen, France. for
the United States, Sunday morning.
An immense crowd gathered along tbe
quays to bid the vessel farewell and
hearty cheers were given. Commander
Morris Mckenzie hoistcd the tri-color
and saluted it with u guns, in accord
ance with orders cabled from Wash
ington.
Through the breaking down Of the
first floor in the factory building at
2l3 and 215 East Forty-fourth street
New York, which was DESTROYED by
fire, early Saturday morning. three
firemen were killed and two injured
The men were precipitated into the
basement in which there was about six
feet of water, and We're pinned under
the debris.
1t was learned at Norwich, Conn,
Saturday. that Mrs. n. Byron Vars,
"a, wife of q Well-knoWn citizen of Kit
temaug. died, late Friday night. as a
result Of a quantity of poison taken by
mistake. Friday afternoon, Mrs. Vars,
feeling somewhat indisposed, visited
the family medicine closet in search of
a means Of relief. About an hour later
symptoms Of poisoning developed and
death resulted several hours later.
Fitzsimmons and kid" Mccoy were
matched at New York, Saturday, to
meet on July 4 next. Both men posted
$500 forfeit with the understanding
that they are to double this when
articles are signed with the club which
gets the match. The club has not yet
been decided upon. but April 6 has been
set as the time for receiving bids. The
men have agreed to box p rounds At
catchweights for the best purse Of
fercd.
The New Hampshire bank commits
sioners have just filed with the clerk
of court for Cheshire county petitions
praying for the appointment of as
clio f., h.
ings Bank and the Keene Five Cents
Savings Bank Of Keene, y. H.. in or
der that the affairs may he wound up
in the same manner as the defunct
Cheshire Provident Institution. The
petitions will be heard at the approach
ing April term of court.
Gen. Horace Porter. the United
States ambassador to France, accom-
panied by his daughter ana the Ameri-
can consul at Rome. arrived at HaVre
Saturday. and visited the United States
auxiliary cruiser Prairie. in the after
noon. The crew paraded on her deck
and a salute of ~ guns was fired. The
Chamber Of Commerce gave banquet
in the evening to the officers Of tn
Prairie. Gen. Porter. Commissioner
Peck and Assistant Commissioner
Woodward of the United States expo
sition board were among the guest of
honor.
4 bill which will have stupendous
consequence. if adopted was introduc-
"a in the French Parliament. last week,
by Former Premier Brisspn. 1t pro-
vide for the secularization of proper
ties unauthorized for religious consre-
cations and their conversion into a
pension fund for working people. In
the preamble VI. Brisson points out
that these congregations possessed in
1850 lands and other property worth
$50 000, 900 francs. 1t Is considered
hardly likely that Parliament will
adopt such Il measure IF wholesale con-
tisCation Of private property.
a cablcgram received from Nassau,
Saturday. stated that the derelict
schooner Yale had driftCd into EIeu-
thera. Bahamas. and is no longer a
menace To navigation. The Yale was
abandoned. oct. 81. in a watcr-loEcci
condition while on passage from
Savannah for Washington with a cargo
Of lumber ana has since been drifting
about the ocean. 4 dangerous ohstruc-
ton tn shipping. She has been re-
ported in different positions several
times. Her crew was saved at the time
Of the wreck ana landed at New York
~ the schooner Jose Olavcrri.
Augustus f. Batchclder, a we'll
known citizen Of Rochester. y. H. was
taken to Dover. y. H., Saturday. by
City Marshal Charles Allen, and in
generated in the county Jail. Batchcl-
der was arraigncd before the Eoches-
ter police court on a complaint charg-
ing him with aggravated assault upon
his wife with n butcher knife. He
pleaded guilty and was held in bonds
of $1,000 for the grand jury of the Sep
tcmber term of the supreme court. 1t
appeared from the evidence that Bat
cheldcr has been drinking hard Of late
and that a quarrel between him and
his wife resulted in the alleged assault.
A contract for $1,000 tons of steel
rails, sufficient to relay 2S5 mile of road
has been placed by the New York Cen
trail with the Carnegie Steel 90. The
contract guarantees these rails for five
years, but they are expected to last
twice that time. They are to be laid
on the main line of the road as soon
as they can be manufactured. and it
is planned to put them all in this year.
The laying Of these rails is only part
Of the improvements which this line