Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-11-25
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

A fireman was killed and several pas
sengers were badly injured in the wreck
of south bound Southern Railway pas
senger train at Spartanburg, S. c., early
Monday.
J. c. Tomlinson, guard on the Columbia
football team, Monday developed a case
of blood poisoning in his arm and in con-
sequence will be unable to play again
this season.
King Victor has signa4zed the birth
of the Princess Mafalda, who was born
Nov. 10. by giving $40 600 to the founding
hospita! and $4,000 to the free hospl-
tails of Rome.
Walter N. Mills. father of Luther Laf-
wholesale dry goods merchant of Chica-
go is dead. He was born in Canton, CT,
in 1921, and went to Chicago in 1S49.
Attorney General Davies. in an opinion
submitted to Gov. Odell at Albany. N. Y.
in the Potter case. holds that the state
has no power to proceed against the
Schenectady Painters Union for expell-
ing Potter because of his membership in
the National Guard.
The disciplinary council of the Rouma-
MAN bar has published a decision that
only Roumanian citizens may hereafter
practice law or act as clerks of lawyers.
The decision is aimed directly at the
Jews, who form the majority of the law
yers and law clerks.
Marie Catalina. last of the famous Ser
.,
San BernadinO, Cal. She was 107 years
of age. having been born q years after
the first settlement of that valley by the
F'ranciscans. The tribe has dwindled
away to 81 government pensioners.
Two men who registered at the wy
oming: at Chicago. last Friday. as F. H.
and f. B. Fuller of Minneapolis were
arrested. Sunday evening. 1t is said they
stamp robbery. Whether they were i'm
plicated in the $4,000 Chicago post Office
robbery of last year is not known
Railroad authorities. Monday, estimated
the loss from the fire which broke out
during the night in the freight shed of
Railroad at Taunton, Mass. at from $iO,-
600 to $4,000. The greater part of thi.:
loss is upon the freight cars and con-
tents which were burned with the sheds.
left Quebec for Glasgow. Monday, has re-
turned to that port after striking ground
in the channel below the island of Or
leans. The ship is very much down at
considerable water. She has gone into
Louise Basin. The vessel will probably
not be able to go to sea again, this sea-
son.
Geo. W. Marston. president of the San
Diego & Eastern Railway, who has re-
turned to San Diego. Cal, from New
York where he went in the interest of the
construction of that road from San Diego
to Yuma and thence to a trans-continefi-
tai connection in Arizona. says active
preparations are making to build. The
line proposed will have connections, ne
says, to enable it to get it's share of
trans-continental business.
The gunbOat Ranger which has arrived
at San Francisco from Panama will go
to the Mare Island navy yard for re-
pairs. The officers witnessed some Of the
effects of the eruption of Santa Maria
In the gulf of Tehuantepec the Ranger
was for two days in a thick atmosphere
and pumice stone and ashes covered the
surface of the sea in all directions TIE
shore for miles distant from Santa Ma
ria was covered with white ashes
The Maritime department of the Brit
ish Board of Trade has transmitted to
the acting consul at Boston valuable
gold watch and chain, awarded by the
President of the United States to Can't.
Il. Dalton of the British steamer Bor-
derer in recognition of his services in res
cuing the shipwrecked crew of the Amer
lean bark Kathleen of New Bedford,
March Is. 1902 Inasmuch as the Borderer
only sailed from Boston, short time
ago. the presentation will have to be de-
ferred until she comes back to port,
James Ross. president; Cornelius
Shields. general manager. and B. F. Pear
son. director of the Dominion Coal Co
were In Boston, Monday in connection
with the coal contract between that com
pany and the New England Gas & COX.
Co, which was broken by the Dominion
VIII be arranged whereby the New Eng
land Gas a. Coke Co. will continue to re-
ceive coal from the Dominion Coal CO
and the question Of a new contract and
damages will be a subject of future CON
sideratiOn.