Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-03-26
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| The Jack Bonner-Kid Carter 20
round contest at Louisville Ky, Mon
day night, ended in draw
| Gerry Hermann, the favorite in the
Kentucky and American Derbies, was
sold. Monday. by Charles Smith OF
tChicago, to Capt. Sam s. Brown of
! Pittsburg, for $4,000.
+ +. y. Rice, brother of VIM. Marsh
| Rice, deceased, was. Monday. at Hous-
ton. Texas, appointed permanent ad-
| miniStrator of the estate in Texas His
/ bond was fixed at 100000.
| Tenders for e2.720000 in treasury
bills We're opened at the Bank of Eng
land. London, Monday. The applica-
tons totalled e57S7 600. The average
rate of the allotments was 3ls per cent.
Charles Friedman, a tailor. who in
| an insane fit Monday. March 49, killed
his two young children at his home in
Brooklyn, died in jail Monday. Death
was due TO exhaustion. The man had
not slept since the death of his chill
| dren
The United States special service
needy. sailed from san Juan. 2. r.. for
Navassa island off the west coast of
Hayti. Monday. under orders from
Washington. No information was pro-
durable as to the object in view.
The President has appointed ex-Rep-
resentative w. \. Rodenburg of ILL
nois. member of the civil service
commission to succeed the late Mark
| I IF n
n. Y. commissioner of patents, to sue
coed Commissioner DUEL, resigned.
The announcement made at New
| York last week that J. p Morgan &
co. have purchased what is known as
the Rockefeller interests in the ships,
railroads and mines of the Northwest,
was confirmed. Monday. by Mr. Rock
efeller's representative. f. 7. Gates.
Later advices say that the British
steamer City of Venice which. as an
nounced in Il special dispatch from
Calcutta. Saturday night, grounded in
la dangerous position at Archipur
sands, II miles below Calcutta. on the
river. Moaghley. while bound from
off and returned to Calcutta.
The Lisbon police have closed the
religious establishments which were
ordered closed by ministerial decree.
Hon Charles S. May, former lieuten-
liant governor of Michigan. and an en-
inent member of the Michigan bar,
died suddenly at his home at kalama-
ZOO. Mich. Monday. of heart failure,
aged Il.
The district committee of the Dist
New York Assembly District Republic
can Club meeting. Monday night.
adopted resolutions endorsing Andrew
Carnegie as mayor of Greater New
| York A committee was also appointed
to communicate with Mr.. Carnegie
and secure his consent to become .
candidate.
The furnace employees of the Mahon-
ing and Shennango valley furnaces
| Youngstown, o.. who have recently
been organized into unions, served no
tice on the operators Monday that un-
less an increase of 10 per cent. in
wages was granted, they would go on
strike. April l. About $500 men are
employed at the furnaces.
Patrick Dolan, district president of
the United Mine Workers Association,
announced. Monday that after con-
ference lasting more than three weeks.
the operators conceded the demands
made by the miners in the new wage
scale and fair settlement for the
Pittsburg district had been affected.
The miners will take up the Beaver
and Irwin district scales this week.
The schooner Florence, from Port
Spain for Philadelphia, is now more
than a month overdue and it is feared
that the vessel has been lost with all
on board The Florence is in command
of Capt. Chandler, sailed from Port
Spain. Jan. "a. with cargo of asphalt.
Since that date she has not been
spoken. j. S. Winslow & Co.. of Port
land. Me-, are the owners of the YES
sci.
John Reardon. son of a prison turn
kew in Boston, John Connolly and Au-
gust Eichlern. who say they belong in
Baltimore, were held in $1,000 bail each
in police court at New York, Monday,
on the charge of stealing from board
ing houses The police say that there
have been many reports of robberies
of boarding houses recently and they
claim that they found stolen property
in the possession of the men arrested
The New York Herald will say. Tues
day, that operators of the anthracite
coal mines and the executive officers
OF those railroads that are largely in
terested in that industry are unani-
r,ous in their opinion that there will
he no strike ordered on April | in the
Pennsylvania coal regions. There SEEM
ed to be equal positiveness in the as
,artion that as an organization the
United Mine Workers will not be rec
osnized by the operators.