Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-05-03

IL t'cNSIl, on account or ner great
works of charity.
Cyrus c. Caskcll of Dorchester. was
killed by car. Thursday, on Harrison
avenue. near East Newton street, Bos-
ton. Mr.. Caswell was a driver Of
milk wagon and as he drove his team
around the corner of East Newton
street into Harrison avenue he was
struck by an electric coal car Of the
I:oston Elevated Railway Co. thrown
from his seat and run over, the for
ward wheels Of the car passing over
his head and crushing his skull.
Amos Sterling. colored. was, Thurs
| DAY, ut Philadelphia, convicted of muir
! der in the first degree for the killing of
10y Wilson White. the young Univer-
| sity Of Pennsylvania professor. Prof.
| White was beaten to death with an
| iron bar on street in West Philadel-
/ phia. May 10 last, and afterwards
! robbed. Two other negroes. Henry
Ivory and Charles Perry. are under
| sentence Of death of completely in the
/ murder.
| The California supreme court has
! -evcrscd it's decision recently given in
! mo-r trust clause invalid. The dccis-
/ ion means that the heirs. Mrs. Herman
! Oei,ichs. Mrs. W. X. Vanderbilt Jr..
and Charles l.. Fair will divide the es-
tate. The will Of James J. Fair left
his estate of S15, 600, 900 in trust. the
| proceeds 10 90 to his children. but the
! capital to be kept out Of their hands.
! The heirs combined TO break this trust
! clause.
John II. Cummins, who shot and
killed John ]. Reynolds in Worcester.
/ Mass. Wednesday afternoon. was,
! Thursday. held without bail in the
Central district court on the charge
of murder. \ hearing will be held,
May G. Cummins was wounded in the
melee but the injury is slight. The gov
eminent will claim premedated malice
as Cummins purchased the revolver in
tie morning and spent the rest Of the
day, it is alleged. searching for his
| victim whom he met and killed.
An important transfer of mill prop
erty in Cumberland and Lincoln. T.. H.
is announced. Thursday. the cotton
mills Of the Albion Co. situated on
both sides of the Blackstone river. III
the towns named. Were transferred
| to the SamoSet Corporation. which Is
composed principally of Fall River
men. These mills have been owned
and operated for many years by ex-
l.. S. Senator Jonathan Chace and his
brother James II. Each will retain ar
| interest in the new corporation but
will not take the active part in the
past.
H. T. Reed and r. r. Dyer arrived
ct Port Townsend, Wash, from the
north, Wednesday. on the steamer Vic
| tora. having left Nome. Feb. 1. max
ing the trip up the river. 1000 miles. in
dog slads in - days. The travellers re-
port that about 200 men who joined
stampedes during the winter to scenes
of reported strikes are missing. and
| some bodies have been found frozen.
They report rich strikes in the kink-
sock country and also in the Blue stone
district. Gold Pan and Adlers creek in
the latter district has yielded SO cents
to the pan.
| The secretary of the French Nation
al Federation of Miners, in ali inter-
view at Paris Thursday, declared that
the recent referendum in France logi-
Cally implies n general strike among
the miners. but as number OF the i'm
portant mining centres did not vote.
last Sunday. complementary refer
endum has been fixed for next Sunday
and there is no doubt the miners will
favor a strike as did the ma ority.
| last Sunday. The council of the Ma
tional Federation of Miners will meet
at st. Etienne. next Sunday, and adopt
refinite resolutions.
| The plan by which the Manitoba gov
eminent hopes to control passenger
and freight rates within the province
has been ratified by the Dominion
Railway Co. The provincial govern
ment will lease that portion of the
Northern Pacific lying within the
province for Il term of 800 years. 1t
| will be Immediately turned over to
Mackenzie & Mann at Toronto for
Management. the government fixing all
! freight rates and reducing passenger
| .ates to Q cents a mile. In return the
government guarantees the interest on
| 60 year bonds at per cent.