Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-05-15
NEWS NUGGETS.
brought IVY the Wires From IN.
North. East. south and West

Six hundred and fifty-two houses in
GLIDING 100 shops, have been DESTROYED
by fire at Brcst. in the province NJ
Warsaw. Russia. The loss is gjvon ot
II .00C, eco roubles
Damages in the sum of S25OO vero
awarded the earl of Yarmouth. known
as Eris Hope. Tuesday at New yor,,
in a libel suit brought by him aeainst
New York newspaper.
Dr. Winfield Schott Schley. son os
Admiral Schley, who is suffering from
blood poisoning in st. Luke's hosnitaI
New York, is improving. He is eari-
ously i'll but the surgeons having his
case in charge are encouraged to hone
for the patients recovery.
Justice Jerome has in his possession
a check endorsed by one of the man
who are supposed to be responsible for
alleged protected gambling in Now
York City. He refused to be drawn
into answers to questions that wou,d
further identify the payee.
At the first days racing of the New
market. Eng. second spring meeting
Tuesday, the Newmarket handicap of
300 sovareigns, for 3-year-ol and m
wards at mile and half was won
by Mr.. Russelrs bay fillv Semner
NiSolans. ridden by johnny" Reir.
4. l.. Chetwood. who has been con-
fidential clerk for the last Is years in
the employ of Brown Bros, bankers.
or New York. was arrested, Tuesday.
Chetwood is charged with being short
in his accounts $4,000 in one item.
and that there are other items showing
shortages.
John d. Rockefeller, the bcnefactor
of the University of Chicago, has ac-
oepted an invitation to be present at
the Founders day exercises IN connec-
ton with the decennial celebration.
June Is. The celebration will be held
from June IA to June Is. The corner
stone of eight new buildings will be
laid at this time.
Robert Il. Brown, the man with the
musical heart" whose melodious pulsa-
tons had for wears furnished him a
living and physicians subject OF
much fruitless speculation, died at the
sherman hospital at F,lgin. Ill. Mon
day, of pneumonia. A post norton
examination revealed the fact that
Browns heart was four times the
usual size
Herman j. Redfeld and James NJ.
Redfield. Tuesday. obtained a temper
airy injunction from Justice Meadam in
the supreme court at New York, re-
straining the Consolidated Stock and
Petroleum Exchange. its president.
secretary and employees from purchas-
ing or buying in, on the floor of the
Exchange. any Northern Pacific stock
for their account.
The American Federation of Musi-
clans, in convention at Denver. has Sc
lected, Buffalo. n. v. for the next an
nuai meeting. The date was not fixed
Resolutions We're adopted characterize
ing Rag time" tunes as ''unmusical
rot and pledging members of the fed
Grafton to make every effort to sup
press and to discourage the playing
and the publishing of such musical
trash tt
The federal courts has confirmed the
sale for 100000 of the Winner bridge
piers in the Missouri river at Kansas
City and the terminus of the Kansas
City and Atlantic Railway Co.. to
Theodore c. Bates of Worcester. Mass.
who represents company of Eastern
capitalists. This makes II possible for
the eastern interests to proceed with
the completion of the bridge. the con-
struction of a belt line railway and 4
new union depot.
Winfield H. Sattley, one of the most
l.1, L., b.,
West. was stricken with apoplexy on
cable car. at Chicago. Monday night,
and died shortly afterwards at the
hospital. The news of his death reach
ed his home just as guests invited to
attend his daughters birthday party
were beginning to arrive and imme-
diately they were dismissed while the
grief mother and daughter
FASTENED to the hospital. vainly hoping
that some mistake had been made. Mr..
Sattley was born in Ferrisburg. VT,
June 10, 1859.
The transfer of the stock and plant
of the Sterling Dyeing and Finishing
Co, of Sterling, to the United States
Finishing Co. of New York. is an
nounced at Danielson. Conn. The or
ganization of the Sterling Co. as
corporation will be kept distinct. but
the officers are the same as those of
the United States Finishing Co, the
former board of directors of the Sterl-
ing Co. having resigned. j. II. Wright
of New Jersey. has been elected presi-
dent, and ]. II. Smith, secretary and
treasurer The United States Finishing
Co. in addition to this latest acquisi-
ton. controls plants in Norwich. Conn.
Passaic. N. j.. and Pawtucket, r. l.
The Sterling Co.'S capital stock is $780,