Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-07-23

rid Manchester, y. H., Of every sem
blance of smallpox one additional case
has been found. Ii was that Of a child
of . years. son OF Louis Dumas Of IS
Clark avenue. There are now three pa
tents in the pest house.
The last Of the series Of three motor
paced races between Jimmy Michael
and Floyd Mcfarland took place. Sat
urday. on the Woodside park track.
Philadelphia. and was won by Michael
in slim. 4112s., the distance being 20
miles. This breaks the 20-mle record
of 3lm.. 80 lbs. made by Harry Elkes
on Burkley oval, oct. ~. 1899.
News reaches Nashville. Tenn. from
Hamburg, Hardin county. of the
drowning near there of three young
women. Misses Cora and Ruby Town
send ana Pearl Flack. They We're
wading in Owl creek when one of them
stepped from a shelving rock into deep
water. The others responded to her
cries. and as none could swim the three
met their fate together.
Near the Confederate Soldiers Home
at the Hermitage. Nashville, Tenn.
Alex Donelson, one of the best-knOwn
men in Davidson county, was a.ssaSs-
mated by some unknown party. Donel-
son was en- route home and was GO
ing through lane When he was shot
and killed. Persons, at the Soldiers
Home heard the shots and going to the
lane found Donelson's dead body.
In a collision, Saturday. outside Bel
fast Tough. Ire, between the local pas
senger steamers DrOmedary and Ali
gator, five passengers We're killed and
upwards of 80 more or less seriously
injured. in many cases the amputa-
ton of legs being necessary. There
We're 600 passengers on board the two
vessels and terrible scenes followed the
collision. 1t is feared that some others
have been drowned
Henry G. Fry, president Of the Ma
tional Glass Co, announces that one
of the results following the conven-
ton of the officials and salesmen of
that company at Chautauqua Will be
the removal of five of the company's
plants from Indiana to the Pittsburg
district. The plants to be removed are
now at SummitVille, Greentown, Dun
kirk. Marion and Albany. Indiana
They will bring to that section over
10000 workmen.
Saturday was the last day of the
Central New York trotting meeting at
Rochester, n. Y. The heat winners
We're: 2.27 class, pacing: purse 800;
three heats-Maud F., CHI. M, w. II.
Colville, Three Bridges. n. j., Won all
three. Time-2.21A, 2.22k, 2.22k 2.29
class. trotting; purse $500; four heats
Nellie b., b. M, NJ A. Blackman, Berk-
shire, took first, second and fourth
heats. Sunolo took third Time
2.231a, 2.25A. 2.25A. 225h.
The body of Charles II. Hine,
horseman of Milford, n. H., was found
floating in the sound near bridgeport.
Conn. Saturday, decomposed and mu-
tilated. 1t was evident that the re-
mains had been in the water for some
time. for very little of the flesh re-
manned. The victim may have met
with foul play, and the authorities are
working on that theory. He was last
seen alive on May 2, when he boarded
q sound steamer at New London. in
charge of a fine stallion consigned to
DR.. c. +. Latimer Of Brooklyn.
A fierce fire in the big skating rink
building off Main street, Wakefield,
Mass, Saturday morning. badly fright
ened the occupants of more than q
score of the buildings in that vicinity
UP to o'clock, when the fire had been
burning an hour, it was thought that