Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-04-14
NEWS NUGGETS
Brought by tie Wires from the North. East
South end West.

George w. HUI the wealthy Arizona
mine Inc owner VINO was arrested. last Tues
day. on a charge of perjury. in Rhoda
Island in connection with a divorce clsr.
was committee, in $1,000 bail by Mlgis-
tratc Brtnn Friday At New York
The United States transport Summer
arrived at Gibraltar, Friday. ana will
sail for Malta. March 81, bound for
Manila. She carries 73S enlisted men,
60 commissioned officers and four
nurses for the hospital in Manila
John =. Rockefeller is said to have de
cidvd to spend nearly $JnU 900 in ,mArgin.s
his manor house at lockwood. his country
home near rncantico Hills il West chvs-
ter county. New York. ana in laying out
a park ana purchasing adjoining farms.
50 that his estate viii be The largest ana
finest private domain in the country.
The attorney for 'Tallow Dick"
Cuombs charged with complicity in the
Gocbcl murder began to argue on the de
murrcr he filed Ia the response of the
commonwealth To- the writ of hahoaS cor
pus before Judge Cuntrili at Frankfort,
KY. Friday. but the court replied that a
demurrer Was not the proper procedure
ANA gave thc attorney until Saturday ~
tile an answer.
1t was stated in Baltimore railroad
circles, Friday, that the baltimore &
Ohio Railroad 60. would. in July. begin
the operation of the Baltimore * Ohio
Southwestern. 1t is understood that
that jurisdiction of the Baltimore x
ohio officials will BE- extended over the
absorbed road.
Mrs. Marie Clcr, A. Years If age, Il
French woman ana teacher of Ian
guagcG. committed suicid" by inhaling
gas in her room on tn" top floor of 2cG
West 18th street. New York city Fri
day. She engaged the room on sun
day. ana since then was very dcspond-
ent. apparently worrying over a 10
ycar-old daughter.
A man who gives the name Of Gustav
IIubbI is under detention at NHugatuck.
Conn. nominllly charged with breach OF
the peace. but according 10 The opinion of
Deputy Sheriff Booth of WallingfOrd.
who occasioncd the arrest, the man is the
much wanted Mueller. who murdered tho
Newton family at Erookheld, Mass. Jan
4 I>tN. The chief Of police Of NaugatuCk
does not entertain the slightest belief that
IIubba ANA Mueller are identical, but
nevertheless the Massachusetts authori-
ties have been notified.
SiNty-fivc girl weaVcrs employed in
Wilson'S wooden mill AT Trenton. y. J.,
are on strike as protest against the
foreman. f.. L. Gincyll. The latter dis
charged one of the girls because. as he
said the cloth she was weaving was too
light ON examination it was found to he
heavier than the rules required and the
pirI was rcinStated. All the WCaNcrS then
Informed Mr.. Wilson that unless he dis
charged the foreman thoY would not re
turn 10 work ana the strike is still on.
Gincyll comes from Providence ana is Il
new man.
The Marshall Field building in course
of erection at Clark and Adams streets,
| chicago where a strike is i'll progress.
was Friday. completely surrounded 10y
| noIiremcn and special officers The Off
rers have had orders to Keep the crowds
moving and any tendency to lOitcr near
| the building was liable to result in disas-
| tnr 10 the curious one Twenty-Five nom
nnion men slept in the building, Thursday
! night. on cots provided by the con-
| tr3ctors. and the police reported that
| hout as many more entered the builulng,
| FRIDAY and went to work.
| The San Francisco Call says: Thou
| e,nds of Chinese are passing the barriers
| II mo custom house and not only are be-
~ landed. but are being made native
| Nm citizens Of California, each with a
| rote and qualifications 70 participate in
| M political affairs Of this city and state.
| ~ is asserted that during the past 81
| Months over 10,0r Chinese have been
| imuded and of these at lease 100 month
| 80 been admitted on the ground that
| ,bev were born in this state, which fact
| ling admitted entities them to the rights
| ~ Citizenship. Charges are made that
| Me influx of Orientals is only made pos
| sihe BY fraudulent evasions Of the re
| striction act
fire which may result in the death