Daily Kennebec journal., 1901-05-02
NEWS NUGGETS.
brought by the Wires From the
North. East, South and West

5. II. Murray. millionaire patent med
icine manufacturer. died at his home
at Toledo. Ohio. Tuesday night.
The New York Yacht Club has char
tered the Pilgrim OF the FAN River
Line. for use as the clubs steamer dur
ing the races for the Americas cup.
Hartford Theological Seminary made
public, Wednesday. the fact that the
donor of ST 900 to the Charles NJ. Lam
son fund for missions. which was COM
pleted. March l, was ID. Willis James
If New York.
y woman supposed to be Christiana
Donnsley Of Torrington, Conn. COM
mitted suicide in the Continental Ho-
tel at Newark. n. j.. Wednesday. by
drinking carbolic acid. The woman was
about 80 years old.
AS a result Of the machinery manu-
facturers' combination. the Edwin T.
Ais Co. of Milwaukee. Wis, one Of its
members. will enlarge its plant within
the next year and a half. expcnding in
the neighborhood Of $500 000 and ON
ploying between 5000 and 5000 more
men.
The Canadian cup challenger will be
launched about the middle of Nav.
Roughly she will be 80 feet over all. 80
feet water line. . feet beam and will
draw feet. Her sail area will be about
1900 feet. 7 he only fear her owners have
is that her sail plan will send her over
the measurement.
At 2 meeting of the British Empire
7 aner,,n np1np "Wednesday voc
dis, losea that the Colonial office had
been in correspondence with the gov
eminent Of Canada in regard 10 in
Guiding Canada in the title Of King
Edward. The result of the negotiations
will + OF he made known until the CORE
spondenoe is published.
Representatives of the International
Power Co. practically admit that the
Cooke Locomotive Works at Pater-
son. n. J.. have been acquired. to-
:;cther with the steam engine plant of
the same company. 1t was said at Pat
er.on. \. j.. Wednesday. that the In
tofnational Power Co had also aCquir-
ed the Old Manchester. n. II, Locomo-
tive Works.
Augustus W. Maddox so years of
asa, was run over and instantly killed.
Wedne sday. by n train on the New
York. New Haven & Hartford Rail-
road ut Attleboro. Mass. Mr.. Maddox
had been in the habit of taking long
walks. and although the engineer blew
his whistle several times he paid no
attention to it. y large family survives
him.
A special to the Chicago Tribune
from Adrian. Mich. says: Two masked
mon entered the residence of Mrs. Ruth
Ayers at Springville. where she lived
alone, bound and gagged her and ran
sac kcd the house. They obtained about
$4,000 in gold and currency. She was as
scssed at $4,000 and it is known that she
always kept q large amount of money
about the house. There is no clue to the
robbers.
Cne wear stands between King Alfonso
and his full -fedged title Of King of
Spain. All the Madrid papers print long
and optimistic articles in which they
express rejoicing at the thought that
year from Wednesday Spain will once
more have a King, able and empower
ed to attend independently to the af-
fairs of the Kingdom. The administra-
ton of the Queen Regent is much
commended. especially by the Impair
ciai.
The two Moloneys Of the University
of Chicago, four Michigan men and
eight lst Regiment athletes Will repre-
sent the West in the athletic contests
at Buffalo this summer They Will COM
pete under 1st Regiment Athletic Club
orders in the open meets. Since the
intercollegiate meet at the Buffalo EN-
position is to be held June l. the date
when all Western athletes will be COM
peting in Chicago. this team VIII be
the only one to represent the western
colleges in the East this summer.