Daily Kennebec journal., 1901-06-17
NEWS NUGGETS.
brought by the Wires From the
North, East. South and West.

The chocolate factory of Randall
Brothers on West 30th street. New
York, was destroyed by fire, early
Sunday. Loss, $3.50, 900. The factory en-
ployed $50 hands.
Sixteen young girls who attended Il
sociable at ST. Patricks Catholic Ca
thedral at Clinton. Ia, are lying un-
conscious from ice cream poisoning. 1t
is believed several of them will die.
Vice President Roosevelt was present
at the field day of the lst Brigade, n.
Y n. c., at New York, Saturday.
and during the afternoon reviewed all
the troops taking part in the sham
battle and military program.
The infant daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Andrew Nolan of Plainfield. \. j., was
a constant sufferer from her birth. a
red spot appeared on the child's thigh.
They poulticed it. and soon a needle
protruded from the flesh. Since its re-
moval the child has been relieved of
pain.
Secretary Root has at last been en-
abled to put into practice his long
cherished scheme for raising the stan
dard of admission to West Point. The
secretary, Saturday, issued an order
which will go into effect on May | next.
adding English literature, algebra and
plane trigonometry.
l.. D. Strong of Texarkana. Tex. has
given his 7-year-old son up as a victim
of kidnappers. The boy was put on n
railroad train at Waco on June /. to
be sent home, o distance of 80 miles.
Fri hna ,I
from him since. The state authorities
are searching for the boy.
The corrected time of the new bat
tleship Illinois, making allowance for
tidal varat tions. is 17.45, or slightly bet
ter than the unofficial time first given.
This conclusion was made known to
the navy. department at Washington.
Saturday. by Admiral Evans, presi
dent of the trial board.
John c. Woolley. Prohibition candi-
date for President in 1900, started from
Chicago, Sunday night. on a trip
around the world for the purpose of
collecting data on the liquor traffic and
conditions in the countries visited pre-:
paratory to issuing book on the re-
suits of the Prohibition movement.
The stationary firemen at HOlyoke.
Saturday. formally accepted the sched-
ule of hours and wages as accepted by
the conference committees, and all the
paper mills viii start, Monday morn
ing. An aggressive campaign in con-
nection with the textile mills is now
planned by the Firemen's Association.
President Eliot of Harvard University
has invited 100 Cuban teachers to at
tend the summer school there. One
hundred attendants for the Cuban ex-
hibit at the Pan-American Exposition
at Buffalo sailed from Havana, Sat
urday. for New York, on the steamer
MORO Castle. The police band of go
pieces left by the same steamer.
A fraud order was issued by the post
office department, Saturday, against
Capt. w. Rand. 10 fremont street.
Boston. who has been advertising an
oriental lucky stone. No more mail will
be delivered to Capt. Rand. and the
mail that Is now in the Boston post
once for him will be stamped "fraudu-
lent, and returned to the sender.
A peculiar town meeting was held at
Fairfield. Conn.,, Saturday. to consider
the question of exterminating mosoui-
toes from that section. At the meeting
1t was decided to raise $500 Immediate
~ 1or the purpose. most of which was
pledged at the meeting. 1t is the pur-
pose Oh residents to engage man who