Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-05-09
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Eighteen cases of smallpox have
broken out at the state institution for
the deaf, dumb and blind at Berkeley,
Gal.
The project to combine all the indie
pendent vessel owners on the Great
Lakes has been abandoned for this
year at least.
Sixteen hundred employees of the
Reading Iron Cos. tubs mill at Read
ing, Pa. are on strike for n restora-
ton OF wages to last falls schedule.
The tract: meet at Providence, II. l..
Wednesday, between Brown and
Dartmouth. resulted in the score of
76i4 to ISL points in favor of the latter.
W. Z. Spier. formerly treasurer Of the
International Paper Co.. died at his
residence in New York. Wednesday. lie
was the owner of the trotting stallion
Directum.
John c. Mersereau. salesman. who
lived in Brooklyn. n. ". in a fit Of in
sanity tried to murder his wife and
sistcr-in-law. Thursday. and then kill
cd himself by inhaling gas.
Wallace Ethcridge. Wednesday, shot
and killed Carlyle ID. Ship in n sa-
loon at Norfolk, Va, where both had
been drinking. 1t is said that the
trouble was over woman. Etheridge
was arrested.
The secretary of the treasury.
Wednesday. bought 900 short TER
per cent. bonds at SILICA. Secretary
Gage late Wednesday afternoon, pur-
chased $4,000 short term 4 per cent.
bonds at $liS.G5.
Hon. Charles Foster of Fostoria.
Ohio. eX-secretary of the treasury, has
made application in the United States
court at Toledo, as a voluntary bank
rupt. His debts are set down at STAT
600 and there are no assets.
The strike Of the Lumber Surveyors
Association at st. John. n. T.. for an
increased scale of wages was aba ndOn-
cd and the surveyors decided to work
at the cid rate. They have been out Il
month. They claim Ill the members of
their organization did not adhere to
the strike agreement
1t is officially announced by the Nj
a~ara Falls Power Co. that it Will at
once proceed with the development of
the power of the Horseshoe falls under
the charter of the CANADIAN Power Co.
which it controls. The contract has
been le; to A. c. Douglass. The present
plan Of the company is to develop $4,000
horse power.
August Crane: was giving magic
lantern exhibition at Ludington,
Mich. Wednesday night, when the
gasolene tank exploded. demolishinE
the interior of the school house and
blowing out the windows. Cramer was
fatally injured by flying pieces of n
stove. VIM Hanas was struck by the
stove and may die. Many persons were
badly injured.
The Westminster county grand jury
sitting at White Plains, n. Y, Wednes
Gay. found indictments against Fran
cesca Spinello and her uncle. GiOvO
ruttacavello, for attempted murder in
having buried alive an infant Of which
they were the parents. The crime was
committed at Hastings on the Hudson.
April %. The child died Of exhaustion
in an institution to which 1t was sent.
The German ReichstaE, Wednesday.
by n vote Of 1876 to 40. decided to pay
members attendance fees and railroad
fares The vote was preceded by a
lively debate. during the course Of
which Herr Singer. Socialist, referred
to an expression credited to the En-
peror: What, pay the fellows now
saving they must show that the Reich
etop consisted of fellows who would
not be inundated. Count Won Posa-
the secretary OF the