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

Government receipts. Saturday: From
( internal revenue. $1l9299l; customs, 1892
~; miscellaneous, S36,65l. expenditures,
81. 100000.
The big steam yacht ATLANTA. built for
| the late JAY Gould and owned since his
death by George J. Gould. has been sold
/ to the government of the United States
of Colombia and Will be converted into a
gunboat.
Forty milk retailers ana farmers held
meeting at Boston. Saturday afternoon.
and voted TO substitute wine measure for
beer measure in the sale of milk. The
difference means a saving of about cent
per quart to the milkmen.
Angel y. Trujillo, who conducts stamp
business under the name of the Universal
Stamp Co. in Nassau street, New York,
was held in $500 bail for the grand jury,
by United States Commissioner Shields,
saturday, on the charge of washing in
tcrnal revenue stamps.
Sumner II. Roberts. Is years old, died at
> Saturday morning. at the Somervllle,
Mass, hospital. as a result of burns and
other injuries received when the oil tank
exploded in East Somerville, Thursday
evening, July Il. Roberts was the sixth
man to die from injuries thus received.
While swimming in the Pawtuxet river
near Natick, X. l., village, SATURDAY
afternoon. CASTOR Duroy, a boy oil
years. was drowned. He ventured our
into the current and was carried beyohu
his depth, his companions looking help
lcssly on. The body was recovered about
an hour later. This was the second
drowning in the PawtuXet within week.
The census returns for two boroughs OF
Greater New York-Manhattan and me
EronX-show that they have p9puiation
Of Zoo. coo AT this rate the population VI
Greater New York will be about 5W,Vyo'
The figures are in round numbers oiiy
The exact count has not yet been male
in Washington hut ii Will be hnisheu ~
Il few weeks. One hundred years ago ING
population was about 5000.
There viii be no peaches or prunes e1-
ported from around Los Angeles, Cdl,,,
this year, according 10 the statements o.
dcciduous fruit growers. President a. r
Sprague Of the Southern California pe
ciduous Fruit Exchange, says: nele
will be very little dried fruit IN TINS o See
ton this year. except that when COMES
from the North. There Will be no snip
mcnts Of peaches or prunes
The Chicago police officials are invest
eating mystery at the stock !al nr,
which they think is another Luetgeit
have been found in rendering ,ann
owned BY one nf the packing mousse hrni9
nt the yards. Several men recently III Nv. w
employ Of the company have dlsappeaIeu,
and the police are searching Tor ineih ~
see if any light can be shed on the M
ferrous find. Ii Is theory OF the poIILe
that the victim was pushed INTO the iain
The Pawtucket, X. l., police are p ,he
zled to ascertain the whereabouts OF ON
friends of strange woman VINO ha ,.i,bo,It
found wandering about mere, Wi ,iiua
covering for head and feet, and VINO si are
her name AZ Ella Wells: Her stories i
ara one Of her statements Z
that she, was an inmate Of the sta s,r.e ago.
sane asylum at Taunton seven year, year, IN.
she has been committed TO inc sta'e the
sane asylum ut Cranston, ana III riny
meantime the authorities are endei'o'n"e
To learn something OF her triehds'
AZ Detroit. saturday. Lasso won the IN
finished 227 race in five heats; Q.nttv
F.lanora second: best time, Zlo,2 Ike
q. won the unfinished Normandie tinne
IN FIVE heats; Riley r.. second best n1ih
2o... by Riley r.; winners nes.' Hotel
Sidney Pointer won the Wayne 51IM
stakes in three straight; best time, III
Grace onward won the s,,, Mreh ban, time,
consoiatioh p Cbamber
IGlL Pussy Willow won the InSJ2
II Commerce Consultations; best ,iiie' PAR
~ George a.: winners best, ZIfa, tlI..
lima won the 2.l2 trot; best tiiie'
The forest fire which has been ,hreat-
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