Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-01-10
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a resolution was adopted, Wednes-
day, by the Missouri House of Repre-
scntatives memorialiZing Congress tc
allow the Filipinos to establish a gov
eminent of their own.
DR.. w. Z. Swan of the Kansas State
Board of Health reports 267 cases OF
smallpox in the state. The type of the
disease is more severe than it was last
winter the doctor says, land l think
there will be a large number of fatali-
ties
In consequence of fresh and severe
epidemic of the plague, Prince Alex
ander Potrovitch has been dispatched
from st. Petersburg, to the southeast
ern governments of Russia with I'M
limited powers to combat the cut
break.
VIM. y. Rudd. formerly quartermas-
ter general in the staff of Gov. Bulke-
ley of Connecticut. died. Wednesday.
at his residence in Lakeville, CT, aged
62 years. He was n Son-inlaw of eX-
Gov. Holly. and was president and
treasurer of the Holly Manufacturing
Co. of Lakeville.
The second day of the strike on the
United Traction Cos. system at Read
ing, Pa. due to the discharge of nearly
a dozen union employees. opened,
Wednesday, with not car running.
Since $50 p. NJ. Tuesday. no street cars
over the traction system have been
moved in Reading or in the suburbs.
Two men were fatally hurt and a
number of others more or less severely
injured by an explosion which occurr-
ed. Wednesday. in the works Of the
Standard Oil Co. in Brooklyn. The
men were engaged IN repairing one of
the boilers in which the oil is refined
when the explosion took place inside
the vast iron receptacle.
Mayor A. A. Ames of Minneapolis,
who has incurred the hatred of expo
licemen and detectives by making prac-
tically clean sweep of the police de-
partment announces that he is armed
and ready for conflict. The mayor says
he has received warnings from several
aldermen who are his personal friends
that his life is in danger.
Owing to the heavy northeasterly
gale which was blowing outside, the
Dominion Liner New England and the
Cunarder Ultonia We're compelled to
proceed without communicating with
the shore when they arrived off the
harbor Of Queenstown at IL L. NJ.
Wednesday. Both vessels are bound
from Boston to Liverpool.
Former Councilman Harry +. Lehar
Of Cambridge, under Indictment for il
legal naturalization before Judge Low
ell in the United States district court
at Boston, Wednesday, pleaded guilty
to two counts. Lehan was almost in q
state of collapse while in court. Judge
Lowell imposed n sentence Of one yeai
in the house of correction. East Cam
bridge.
Robert Lawrence, a young dentist of
Denver. Col. shot himself in the head.
Tuesday. dying instantly. The doctor
suicide is attributed to dependency
and despair over the condition of his
wife. Mrs. Lawrence had enjoyed good
health previous to being vaccinated on
the thigh. about year ago. The vac
cine virus, it is said. produced atrophy
and paralysis followed.
a brisk fire started on the property
lcgc at Kingston. r. l., Wednesday. and
caused loss Of $500. The large wood
Ell stable near the college was destroyed
and tie carriage house and cattle barn
were only saved after a severe fight on
the part of the students and employees.
The y horses in the stable We're res
cued. There is no insurance.
The will of PAMELA Howard. filed Ger
probate at New York. Tuesday. in the
surrogate office of Kings county. New
York. leaves $4,000 in realty, besides
personal property, the value of whiCf.
was not stated. The estate is left to the
children of the testratriX and the chill
dren of her dead son. Louis T.. How
ard. The income from $4,000 for life is
given to Julia w. Soule of Portland,
Me.
Immediately after the audience had
been dismissed from the Academy OF
Music at Allentown, Pa, where the
Maud Hillman Co. had just concluded
a performance, Wednesday night, fire
was discovered on the gallery stairs
and before the flames were eXtinguish-
ed the entire building, was destroyed
The building was valued at $4,000 and
the loss is estimated at $4,000; fully
insured.
The Green County Bank Of Para
gould Ark. has closed its doors and
posted the following notice: "Owin to
a shortage this bank has temporarily
suspended. a receiver will be appoint
ed and depositors paid in full" 1t is
admitted there is a shortage of $34 600
but Cashier w. II. Ritter claims that
no IRREGULARITIES can be ascertained
and that there has been no misuse OF
the banks funds.
An epidemic of the grip. more mark
cd than any felt there since 1890 and
1891 now prevails among all classes of
New York city. There We're sc fatal
cases of grip in the single week end
ing Jan. :. and but % fatal cases in all
Of December. 1889. The increase in the
number Of fatal cases of pneumonia