Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-01-06
NEWS NUGGETS.


/ DII1cldl announcement WIS lildue Ill
New York, Saturday. at the Office OF
the Crude Rubber Co. that a receiver
had been appointed for the company.
Tn the case of Patrick Craven. ac-
/ cused of attempting to vote illegally al
| the recent Boston city Democratic eau
Gus in ward is, the jury reported a dis
agreement, Saturday, before Judge
| Lawton. The case was in trial two
days.
Joseph Blabon not only succeeds Da-
RUS Mills as chief of the traffic de-
partment of the Great Northern Rail-
way, with a vice presidents title, but
also has been elected president of the
Northern Steamboat Co, and president
of the Great Northern Express Co,
two offices which Mr.. Miller also filled.
At a mass meeting of citizens at Den
yer Col, Sunday, committee of safety
was organized as a protection against
criminals with which the city has been
infested for the past year or so. The
streets are patrolled at night by citi-
Zens and any person who may fail to
give a satisfactory reason for being on
the streets will be arrested.
A wrong signal at Nineveh tower,
Friday night, caused a fast Pennsyl-
vania Railroad mail and express train
east-bound to run into freight ahead
near Johnstown, Pa, and a few min
utes later a west-bound freight
crashed into the wreck, causing the
death Of four persons and the serious
injury of at least five others.
The First National Bank of Glass
port. Pa. was robbed, Friday night
of $4,000. The burglars got into the
cellar. dug hole in the vault and dy-
namited the safe. The bank moved
from its temporary quarters into its
new brick building, Wednesday. The
wall through which the robbers gained
an entrance to the vault is &c inches
thick. Nitro glycerine was used. The
directors made good the loss.
The Sunday and excise laws were
more strictly enforced in Greater New
York. Sunday. than has been the Gus
tom. though there was no order from
police headquarters bearing directly
on the subject and this was by no
means dry Sunday. II was more
like the Brooklyn Sunday that OBJ
tanned when Col. Partridge. the new
police commissioner. was commissioner
Of police in that city before consolida- |
ton.
Anton Chaves, his wife and 2-year- |
old boy Joseph and Miss Mary Devida. |
aged is. We're asphyxiated. early Sum |
day morning. at their home, IS New |
Park avenue. Hartford, CT. A tenant !
in the house discovered the Odor of gas |
and traced it to the floor above. Mr.. |
and Mrs. Chaves We're found dead ard |
before a physician arrived at the house |
the little boy and Miss Devida died. |
The gas had been escaping from de- |
fective meter in the cellar.
Edmund Peck. aged so. a retired |
Methodist clergyman. and his daughter. |
Mary Peck, aged S5. were burned TO
death early Saturday in n fire which |
destroyed their handsome homestead |
on the Bethany turnpike at Bethany, |
Conn. Charles Peck of Waterbury, a |
son of Edmund, was seriously injured |
by jumping from the roof. The origin |
of the fire is mystery. Mr.. Peck was |
active in the Methodist ministry for |
many years, but retired 20 years ago.
On account Of the almost total fail
urc of grass and the high price of food |
stuffs in San Antonio, Texas, section.
over 100 head of horses and mich cows
have been killed in San Antonio dur
ing the past 60 days to prevent them
from dying from starvation. their
ow ners, who are of the poorer class,
being unable to buy feed for the ami
mails. There has been q drouth in that |
section for IL months or more and
there is no present prospect for an inn
provement.
Perry Belmonts campaign in the 9TH /
New York congressional district
wound up, Saturday night. with a
torchlight parade and addresses by the
candidate and by former Comptroller
Bird s. Coler. With all other Demo-
cratic contestants out of the race. by
court decree or voluntary withdrawal,
Mr.. Belmont's managers said that his
election was assured. Joseph F.
who for time claimed the
sent letter to Mr.. Bel
mont favoring his candidacy.
Gustave Randolph. % years Of age.
married and living at "a Worthington
street, Springfield, a cook, committed
suicide by hanging himself by his belt
in the detention room in the police
station, Saturday evening. Randolph
was arrested on suspicion of having
stolen a fur boa he was trying to sell
in a secondhand clothing store. RAN
iloIph was out Of work and respondent.
The boa he was trying to sell was the
property Of his wife, which he had
taken while she was out doing house
work.
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