Daily Kennebec journal., 1901-06-17
has been doin- sir.:lar work in New

Jersey.
Little Harry SeGGwiels, agcl I. ccn of
Albert Scdgwick. a florist of Toronto.
being reprimaIccG by his mother for
misbeha, ior procured his fathers re-
volver and seeking out his 13-year-oid
sister. Olive. compelled her to place his
hand holding the revolver to his own
head. He then pulled the trigger. the
bullet entering lis brain back of the
left ear.
Mounted on Bicycle and with mad
dog pursuing her. Mrs. James Tuly, q
sister-in-law of judge Tuiy of the err
cult court. rode a desperate race AT
Chicago. In her terror she ran INTO q
heavy express w?gon. The vehioic
crushed her wheel and she fell beneath
the wreckage. The dog sprang upon hef
but pedo strians Grove il down the
street before ii had injured her
| All shop men. car Inspectors and
cleaners along the entire Lehigh VAL
ley Railroad system. c600 in numpe'.
f, have had their wages increased from
l. to 90 per cent. dating from May L.
The boiler makers who We're employed
| in the Easton, Pa, shops and VINO
struck about month ago are st:il out.
When they were paid OF they. too.
learned that their pay had been raised.
In order to make a test case Police
Captain Mclaughlin of Yonkers. sun
| day, arrested two local base ball play
ers. When the arrest took place the
ball players began to play golf over the
grounds There was playing but no
arrests were made. The two players
were released on bail. About 200 men
offered themselves as bondsmen. The
players will have q hearing, Monday
morning.
| The postmaster general has been
notified of the arrest and trial OF
Boniface Manalao Y Reyes, native
mail clerk in the CaVite post office in
the Philippine islands. He was caught
in the act of robbing the mails. and
over 400 articles of miscellaneous ma
ture which had been taken from letters
and packages We're found in his room
He was sentenced to two Years i'm
prisonment and to pay fine Of $1,000.
Chas. F. Herreshof Jrs.. Nevada
started Saturday. off Rothesay. Firth
of Clyde. in match race. for IL specia
S6is miles long. 4 brisk breeze wa:
blowing. The Tutty outsailei tn,
Nevada on every point. After 4 hope
less stern chase. the Nevada lowered
her topsails and left the Tutty to finisi
alone. Emperor Williams Meteor beat
the Karad by seven minutes, Satur-
day, over i1-mile course.
Three Boston men who arrived at
Rochester, y. y. three days ego, have
worked clever swindle on the lncr-
chant tailors of that city and have dis
appeared. Their system was to secur,
large orders for thread at the rate 81
IS per pound. representing that cacf
spool contained between 100 ana l3G
yards of thread. When the thread wa!
reeled off the merchants discovered
that the thread contained on e1cl
spool was not over 500 yards.
An ordinance proposing TIL" reEula
tion of woman suffrage was introduced
Saturday. in the constitutional con
vention at Montgomery, Ala. The reso
luton. which caused considerable de
bate. provides that all women who arr
permitted to vote must he over 20 year
of age, must be able to read ana, write
and her husband must pay s. in take
or must have earned $500 the year pre-
| cedng. or if single. the woman mus
pay g. in taxes or have earned $500 th'
year preceding. Divorced women. ex
cepting those granted = decree en- tn,
ground of adultery, cannct vote.
Frank Marchetti of PaWtucket K. |.
arrived at New York. Saturday nigh
on the steamship Umbria. accompanied
by his son Thomas. years of age. :
detective met them on the arrival o
the vessel to guard the boy Mr.. Mar
chetti was afraid that some one Nigh
try to kidnap the child. Marchetti an,
his wife quarreled in September, 1900
The boy was taken to Philadelphia b,
his mother and afterward to Newport
Finally the child was located in BroX
burn. Scotland. where his mother wa
living with her sister. The father wen
over and after a fight in the courts Sc
cured possession Of the child. He i
taking him home.
Miss Nina Louise Almral! Of Brook
lyn. Smith College senior, who had ;
leading part in the Shakespearian play
The Tanning of the Shrcw," played
Saturday night, under particularly sa'
circumstances. Her young sister died
Friday night, in Brooklyn. as the re
suit of an accident, having been rul
over by heavy express wagon
knowledge of this afiiiction was KEEP
from her by her classmates. but sh'
was told the sad news after the elias
play. Her parents, who We're presen
to witness the play. returned home up
on the plea that the father had an i'm
pOrtant engagement to fill Miss AL
rnirall took the part of Petruchio.
| A severe Snrain Will uSuallY IiSahl