Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-05-14
NEWS NUGGETS.
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North, East, south and West.

The census of South Australia shows
the poulation to be 3G2.595. an increase
during the last decade of 10 per cent.
The Marine Fire Distinguishing Co.
was Incorporated at Trenton. y. j.,
Monday. with n capital stock of $1,000
900.
John Il. Stcwell. 20 years old. n bank
er at No. 50 Devonshirc street. Boston.
dropped dead from heart disease while
waiting for 4 train at the Ashmont
railroad station. Monday morning.
The work of securing jury in the
case Of the third trial Of DR.. Kennedy
for the murder of Dolly Reynolds was
adjourned at New York. Monday. af-
ter the tenth juror had been accepted.
The strike of the marine engineers.
employees on the boats of the United
States Steel Corporation on the Great
Lakes has been declared at an end,
their demand for an increase in wages
being granted.
Count Boni de Castellane, who has
been i'll at Paris, for the last week, and
whose case is now diagnosed as the
commencement of appendicitis. shows
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remains in bed.
Carlos and Ramon Julia, respectively
postmaster and assistant postmaster at
Juana DiaZ, p. r.. have been arrested
on the charge of embeZZlement. The
amount involved is not mentioned. The
bondsmen Of the prisoners will reim-
burse the government in full.
F,N-Pres. Bernburg of the Export AS
ISOLATION of Denmark. will shortly go
on a business mission to the United
States. his special object being to en-
phasiZe the advantages of the free port
of Copenhagen as a distributing CEN
ter for Baltic and North Sea ports.
The convention of the Brotherhood
of Trainmen at Milwaukee. Monday.
finished its work on amendments to the
constitution. The grand master will be
allowed an assistant to be located at
headquarters. The assistant will be one
of the four vice grand masters and will
assist in executive matters including
the settlement of all grievances.
by direction of the secretary Of war
instructions have been cabled to Gen.
Mac Arthur to send to San Francisco
ing organizations of the regular army:
ments of Infantry: 4th reg.
of Cavalry. Goth. Goth. cd ana
3Sd companies of coast artillery.
1st. sth, 10th. 18th and 18th batteries
of field artillery.
The Italian steamer Duchessa Di
Gienova. arrived at New York. Mon
day, direct from Naples. She brough,
1881 steeragc passengers. AS there
We're two cases of smallpox on board
the steamer will be held at Quarantine
for disinfection. The patients were
transferred to the reception hospital
and LAG passengers. who had been ex-
land for observation.
Mrs. Minnie Arthur. q years old
committed suicide by jumping from a
third story window at her home on
Pitts street. Boston. Sunday night
some time during the night The po-
lice say that Mrs. Arthur was an in
veterate cigarette smoker and that she
attempted to commit suicide two years
ago by jumping in the Charles river
, Her husband is employed at the Hotel
Imperial. New York City.
Robert Ruell. for many years a we'll
known newspaper man of Rochester
N. Y. died at the Homeopathic hospital
there, Sunday, after brief illness
aged Al. Mr.. Buell. was admitted to
the bar in 1876, but shortly afterwards
became associate editor Of the old
Cleveland News and Herald. Later he
occupied a similar position on the De-
troit Free Press and in 1895 became city
editor Of the Democrat and Chronical
in this city.
The sea going tub Cuba, recently
launched at Bath. Me-, has arrived al
Philadelphia. Pa, towing the new
barges Cardenas and Matanzas. The
barges have a capacity of 1900 tons
each and will be used in the West In
dian coal trade. This innovation Is re.
garded with considerable interest In
shipping circles as the barges, IL sue,
cessful. may. it is said, prove danger