Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-12-09
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The government commission at Copen-
hagen appointed to investigate the Danish
West Indies question will sail for the is
lands. Jan. 4, and will return in April.
A fire that originated in McPhee &
McGnnity's planning mill at Denver. Col.
early Sunday. destroyed property valued
at sl2o.0G0 Falling floors carried down
four firemen, but they were rescued with
slight injuries.
Messrs. Cridler. Ives and Kohlsaat are
meeting with much uragemeht i'm en-
listing the official participa ton of Italy
in the St. Louis Exposition. Foreign
Minister Prinetti is showing keen inter
est. and Mr.. Cridler will have an audi.
ence with King Victor Emmanuel.
At "A meeting at Ithaca n. Y, Saturday,
of the 10 Cornell players who. by virtue
or Pennsylvania games are entitled to
wear the Varsity &C" Sanford E. Hunt
of Chatham, n. j.. was elected captain
of the football team for next year. Hunt
has played at right guard for two years
and is a senior.
Mrs. Sarah Aabbie, a years old. was
probably fatally burned. Saturday. while
thawing out frozen water pipes at her
which she applied to the pipes set fire to
her clothing and she was terribly burned
about the head and body before the
flames were extinguished. Mrs. Bell
who came to the rescue, was burned
about the hands and face but not serious
ly. Mrs. Abbie has been married about
three months.
The German steamer Albano. Capt.
fudenhcld, IL days out from Hamburg
| for New York with a general cargo and
30 passengers. arrived at st. Johns. y.
| F.. Sunday. short of coal. The steamer
met with hurricane weather in the At
lantic and the passengers suffered great
ly. A furious gale swept the New Found
| land coast. Sunday. and a number of Ves-
| sells were drived ashore. Full reports re-
Sarding the extent of the disasters have
| not yet arrived. The gale. accompanied
| by binding snow. is still raging.
| 4 passenger who registered as w. c.
| Carey OF Maiden. Mass. was found to be
missing when the Fall River Line steam
| er Priscilla arrived at New York, Sun
day. In the stateroom which he had oc-
| cupied was found a suit of fashionably
| cut clothing, a gold watch and small
amount of money in silver change. me
| floor was Uttered with scraps of paper
| apparently torn up for the purpose of de-
| stroying all evidence that might lead Ia
| the identification of the occupant of the
room. No one connected with the boat
| was able to recall the appearance of the
missing man.
| Mayor r. r. Wright. Jr.. and II alder
men were sentenced. Saturday. at Den
Ger. Col, by Judge Mullins of the district
tempt of court in disregarding the in
junction issued by Judge Mullins to re.
| strain the enactment of an ordinance
granting franchise to the Denver City
| Tramway Co. in the form in which i;
was presented. The II aldermen who vot-
ed for the ordinance in the face of tn.
injunction are w. b. Tebbetts. president
of the board; John d. Ross. Andrew
liam Gafan. James Parish. George W
Weiek. F. A. Bailey. d. S. Gray and
Pinkney Waiick. Mayor Wright signed
the ordinance. though the act was spec,
officially forbidden by the court. The may.
or and aldermen will appeal on lega1
points and remain at liberty under BOMBS