Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-06-28
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought by the Wires From the
North. East. south and West.

North, East south and West.
Maxey Long, the champion Splinter,
has sailed from New York. for Eng
land on the steamship St Louis. Long
will compete in the English champion
ship games and defend his title at 100
yards which he Won on his last visit.
making a worlds record of As sec
onds for the distance.
One of the landmarks of Maiden.
Mass. was destroyed by fire. early
Thursday. when George +. Cox's last
factory was burned and a loss of s35.-
| 100 resulted. The property was partly
insured. a lot of valuable machinery
was destroyed and n number of work
men will be temporarily idle The fac
tory will probably be rebuilt at Maple
wood.
Americans are taking all the avail
able hotel space in Quebec and Montre-
al for the visit of the Duke and Ouch
ess of Cornwall and York. a special to
the New York Times from Montreal
says: ''AS soon as the date of their
visit was announced the hotel manag-
ers began to get letters of inquiry from
nearly all have been booked by them.
The cessation of active hostilities in
| the Philippines has determined the
government to cease the purchase of
horses for use by the army in these
| islands. The announcement was made
| that no more purchases would be made
| at Seattle. Wash. accompanied by the
statement that the transports Kintuck
| nr tIa ,tv,,a
ships under charter to the govern
ment. will be released on their arrival
here in few weeks.
Louisa NJ Stead OF Brooklyn. will
sail. Saturday. for Siberia, where she
| Will become the bride of Rev. David T..
Carson. \ friend Is to accompany her
on her voyage of nearly 5000 miles.
Both girls are graduates of the Mis-
| siCnary Training Institute in Brook
Ign. Miss Stead is the step-daughter of
the Rev Robert WoodhouSe. now a
missionary in Matabela land. She has
been model student at the institute
for more than two years and ii was
there that she met Mr.. Carson.
One man dead. one missing and two
| dangerously injured. constitute the
casualties resulting from the burning
of the Central hotel at Kerne. cal.
Thursday. The fire is supposed to
have originated from the explosion of
n lamp. After the flames We're sub
dued the body of George Clark was
found. I. c. Burnger. who had re-
Gently returned from the Philippines.
is missing and probably persisted in
the flames Ed Tibbetts. n fireman
had his skull crushed. John p.
Thornton was badly burned about the
body.
The fire which started at Preble,
Ind. Tuesday night. by lightning
striking n tank of the Standard Oil
Co. containing $4,000 barrels of oil is
still burning. Three hundred men from
Decatur. Huntington. Montpelier and
Lima, O.. are fighting the flames and
making efforts To save five other tanks
that contain over 30O, 900 barrels of oil.
Joe KintZ and V. d. LewtOn of Lima.
O., We're loading a cannon to shoot the
] burning tank when it exploded and
they were fatally burned. The loss to
the Standard Oil alone will reach $780,
900. Many of the inhabitants have
been terribly burned.
Inc United states STdHu jury III
Helena. Mont, has made its final re-
port. returning 102 indictments. They
are almost all against land lockers, in
the Missouri land district and charg-
ing perjury in swearing that they filed
upon lands for personal use. whereas
they transferred them soon after Sc
curing title The land comprises about
$1,000 acres and We're bought by K. NJ.
Cobban who afterwards sold them to
Senator W. A. Clark. The persons in
dicted include school teachers, ranch
ers. servant girls and i'm fact all
classes of people. 1t is for the re-
coyery of these lands that proceedings
were recently instituted by the gov
crnment against Senator Clark.
The comptroller of the treasury. q
Washington dispatch to the New York
Tribune says, was called upon by AS
sistant Sec. Spalding to render an
opinion as to the power of the secre-
tary of the treasury to settle the
claims of merchants who paid duties
under protest on Porto Rican goods
importcd into the United States be-
tween the date of the ratification OF
the Paris treaty and the passage of the
Foraker act Under the supreme
courts recent decisions, Duryea & Co.
have made claims for refund of duties
noid between the dates named. The
. conptrollcr is now examining the evil
dcnca in this particular case to deter
mine if possible. what procedure the
t,eoeurv will follow in paying all simi-
lar claims.
Dolly Tester, dowager or the scape-
, roca Marcnis of Ai'ashnry. was mar