Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-04-16
NEWS NUGGETS.
drought ny the Wires From the
North. East. south and West.

Robbers who entered the post ,Jdice
at Washington, Ind. Sunday night. Sc
cured $500 in stamps and a little over
$500 in money. They overlooked $1,000 4
in stamps.
The Memphis. Tenn, police, Monday,
arrested j. T.. Burton, who is believed
TO be lied Hosele." an alleged hotel
thief. wanted in Chicago. st. Louis,
Cincinnati and other cities.
Capt. Nneciand of the schooner John
&. Smith of Belfast, Me-, from Bruins
wick for New York. which arrived at
the Delaware breakwater, Sunday
night. reports that Peter Peterson
dropped dead. An inquest win be held
after which the schooner will proceed
| to New York.
1t is reported at Wichita, Kan, on
reliable authority that Secretary VIM
| Jenkins of Oklahoma territory has
been selected as territorial governor by
! President Mckinley to succeed Gov
| Barnes. The appointment OF Mr.
jenkins, it is said, will be made, Tues
| day.
Rev. f. j. Oliver, pastor of the Evan
gelical church at Peru, Ind. aged "a.
and unmarried. was instantly killed
| Monday. He was returning from a Wis
it and to save time jumped from a
| Wabash train at crossing. A passan-
ger train on another track struck him.
cutting him in twain.
| At n meeting Of the ship owners at
| Genoa. Monday, it was decided that
| the owners preferred to lay. up their
vessels rather than yield to the de-
| mandS of the strikers. As cabled from
| Gcnoa, Sunday night, the dock labor
| crs of that port at a meeting, Sunday,
decided upon general strike.
\ southbound freight train on the
Ohio River Railroad ran through n
temporary trestle near Point Pleasant.
| W. Va, Monday. The engine and five
ears went through and We're destroyed.
] Engineer John Pcnnock OF ParkersburE
| manned on his engine and was killed.
Several trainmcn were slightly injured.
DR.. Earth. editor Of the Nation, while
| discussing at Berlin, Monday. the Wall
| street boom. said he disagreed with the
| pessimistic utterances af the German
press on the subject. declaring that ne
| regarded the boom as the result OF
| solid business achievements. like in
creased railroad earnings and railroad
consolidation.
There is not much prospect that the
West Branch drive will get start this
year much earlier than usual. John
Ross. who returned on Monday. from n
trip to the head of Mooshead. told a
Bangor Commercial reporter that the
SNOW and ice had not melted on Moose
head and that the West Branch was
still solidly frozen.
a special telegram. to the Col,m''ra
Ohio. Dispatch from GallipoliS, Ohio
says: 4 fast south bound train went
through a temporary trestle. Monday
afternoon, at Point Pleasant, W. "a,
four miles above here. Many persons
are reported to have been injured.
Point Pleasant is on the Ohio liver
and the Kanawha and Michigan river.
The strikers OF the operatives of the
Ipswich hosiery mills at Ipswich.
Mass. which was begun about three
weeks age. was settled, Monday. the
operatives voting for a return TO Y ork
whenever the mana cement is ready
for them under conditions named in
an agreement formulated by the strik-
ers' committee. the selectmen of the
town and the state board of arbitTa-
ton.
Advices from Chihuahua. Mex, re-
port dynamite explosion at Minaoa.
Mexico. $50 miles from Chihuahua. iii
the heart of the mining district. Mon
dav Three men We're killed, one is dE-
ing and 10 others We're seriously injur-
ed, some of them fatally. The acct
dent occurred in the ware house of II.
r. Lawrence, dealer in mine and rail
. way supplies Great damage was done
to the building and contents.
Until after the Russian Easter
SAYS the Odessa correspondent of the
London Daily Express, the towns OF
Odessa Kieff Eharkof. EliZabethe-
grad, Ekstcrinoslay and Nickolaien,
will be held virtually in state of
siege. All public buildings are oc-
occupied by troops. The streets are
patrollcd by Cossacks. and assem-
bIages are forbidden. These conditions
result from Il fear OF the renewal oil
the student riots
Daniel G. French, the designer Of the
Garfield Memorial in Fairmont Park.
Philadelphia. the Richard NJ. Hunt
memorial in Central Park. n. T., ana
| many ttH'1 VII =
| commission from the LaWton Monu-
ment Association 10 construct ne
mortal to Gen. Henry w. LaW-on.
who was killed in the Philippines.
About coo has already been sub
scrihcd and the association believes
$4,000 additional can be obtained.
1t was with on intense sigh of relief
that the consignee of the cargo of the
first crop of molasses from Ponce, r.
r.. welcomed the arrival at Boston,
Monday. of the Portland schooner
Charles ]. willard, Capt. York. This
vessel had been out 81 days on the pas
sage. while the o. u. Haskell. capt.
Pickering which also reached Boston
| at the same time from that port, was
| only 81 DAYS The combined cargoeS
of the vessels are SPA hogsheads,
Duncheons and 81 tierces.
"The Sherifian court will proceed
to Fez toward the end of May" says q
dispatch to the London Daily Chrcni-
Gle from Tancicrs, land the French op-
erations will then cease on account OF
the heat. The best Informed opinion
saws that the Sultan is too letharSic TO
make fight against French designs.
II is believed that France is about to
undertake q giants task and that she
viii have n giant reward. There is TO