Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-10-16

ing II bomb beneath his chair the de-
tectivc force on duty at the House has
! been increased.
Sir +. A. Swettenham. governor OF the
. Straits settlements. has sailed from
Singapore on government yacht. His
destination is said to be Kelantan. The
mission is secret. Kelantan, the CAPT.
tai of the state Of kelantan, is situ-
ated on the Malay peninsula and ac-
knowledges the sovereignty Of Siam.
The body of man about G. years old.
with the head severed. was found,
Wednesday, at Springfield ~ j., in an
open lot On the Baltusrol mountain.
The Derby hat which was found near
the body was mashed in on one side
and had hole in it. which looked as
If it might have been made with n
knife.
The demurrer filed by attorneys for
the defence to the indictment charging
Col. Butler. the millionaire politician
of st. Louis, with attempted bribery
in connection with the passage of a
garbage bill, was Overruled, Wednes-
day, by Judge Hockaday at Columbia.
Mo. The cases will accordingly come
to trial.
Portions Of the wreck of the five
nlasted schooner Arthur Seitz. which
went ashore on Mutton Chop shoal,
last spring, broke adrift during the
northeast gale, Sunday. and is now
adrift in Muskegat channel. AS one
fragment is 200 feet long it makes
bad obstruction and would be more so
if ii drifts into the way of traffic over
the shoals.
1t is declared in government circles
at Constantinople that the Bulgarian
revolutionary bands have everywhere
been defeated and that after a sharp
engagement in the Krezna defile be-
tween force of Turkish troops and
insurgents the Bulgarians We're dis
lodged and dispersed. The Porte de-
clares that the Bulgarian government
has finally decided to suppress the Ma
cedonian committee.
The United States geological survey
expedition. headed by F. c. Schrador
of the Copper River region, has re-
turned to Seattle from the Santa Ana.
The seasons work which began in May
extended over a vast territory known
as the headwaters of the Copper, Ia
mana and Nebesna rivers. A sub-ex-
petition worked in the heart of the
Copper River valley. Mr.. Schrador
says the years work was most salts
factory.
A man supposed to be ]. II. Murphy.
a machinist. employed at the Cook Lo-
comQtive Works at Paterson, n. j..
was struck by a train and killed on the
Newark branch of the Erie r. r. near
Athena, Tuesday. His body is now in
F5ufford and Venderworris mOrgue in
Paterson. The man was about 80 years
old. Letters found on him indicate
that he formerly resided in Baltimore
and that he had a brother in Provi-
dence, f. /.
Information has reached Yokohama
that d box containing $4,000 in bank
notes and gold has been stolen from
the strong room of the China and Ma
Mia steamer Zaziro on her last trip
from Hong Kong to Manila. The con-
signment was signed for by one of the
ships officers and prior to the vessels
arrival at Manila the strong room was
opened only once and that was to ad-
init ii consignment of opium sent on
board at the last moment.
The post Office department has di-
rected that when the address of per-
sons in the civil. military or naval
service Of the United States is
changed as the result of official orders
their mall of the second third and
fourth classes can be forwarded like
,etter mail, without additional charge,
If such persons notify the postmaster
At the forwarding office of such orders
and show the branch or department
Of tire government in which they are
seTvins.
The great packers combine will be
launched. Dec. /. if the money market
is easy. says the Chicago Chronicle.
Kuhn. Loeb & Co.. the New York
bankers. will head the underwriting
svndicate. Wherever there are agen-
lies of several packers in d city or
.own they will be abolished and only
one general agency will be established.
Among the firms in the combine are
Armour q Co. Swift 4 Co.. Nelson
Morris G Co, Schwartschild & SulZ-
berger. ana others.
Great damage was done to various
ports and the Mexican and Centrai
American coast by earthquake ana
tidal wave. Sept. % and "A. capt. Won
Fiegen of the German steamer Dende-
rah. now at San Francisco. SAYS he was
unable at some of the ports to make
landing owing to destruction OF the
piers. Al Saiina Cruz on Tehuantepac,
he says the loss was greatest and that
launches ana lighters We're carried m
land over 100 feet. At Ocos, Guatemala.
the entire pier. AZ least 1000 feet IN
length. was wrecked. The damage to
the port and city will amount to mil
lions. The earthquake and tidal wave
were felt as far UP the coast as MAN.
zanillo.
Pres. Palma of Cuba has denied In
emphatic terms reports that the Gu
bans are displaying ingratitude toward
the United States or that they are now
indifferent to the outcome of the reel
procity question, says New YORK
Tribune dispatch from Havana. I'VE
have always been grateful to the Unit
ed States" ne is quoted as having said.
and this feeling of the Cubans VIII
never change. 1t is also our desire to
have the closest commercial and politi-
cal relations. principally commercial.
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