Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-01-13
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The Hon. Richard Red Dobcil. Cana
dian minister without portfolio. w:.s
thrown from his horse near Folkestenc
Eng, Saturday. and is dead.
Theme of the 9th Regiment. who ~
Gently killed student of Halle J,nivtr-
sity named Held in a duel. has been sell
fenced to two years and three months
Imprisonment in Il fortress.
The London papers announce that tn.
| coronation of King Edward will b. mark
ed by an international athletic tourna-
ment in London. in which the world :
champions in boxing. wrestling, fencing
and other branches of sport will compete.
Mrs Julia Krow ikowski who Il
Bridgeport, CT. Wednesday night. fired :
pistol shot at Louis kotarski. and wao
said she was sorry that the bullet had
missed him, was acquitted of thu charge
OF assault with intent 10 kill In. the cit 4
court, Saturday.
The New York Journal ana American
viii announce. Monday. that John )
Scannell of New York city. owner of Tn
Abbot, has posted Il check for San1 10
hind a match with Thomas w Lawson :
Boralma. The race is proposed 10 be til.
best } in for stake of from 5000 to
S25. ESQ
The CONSUMPTION Of beer in 1871 aver
aged % gallons per head throughout the
German empire. the average rising n IA.
varia To- Il. gallons per head The aver.
age consumption in ISIS. accord ng to the
official records, was e gallons per head
an increase in two decades of nearly ,r
per cent
Emneror Williams yacht Hohenzsl.c.n
VIII 80 to New York To- participate IN
the launching Of His Majesty's new
schooner yacht. Prince Henry of PrusSi5
VIII also he present AZ the ceremony ~
representative Of Emperor William. The
Hohenzoiern. which IS steel cruiser OF
II knots speed. is being fitted out at /.
Tor a l0-weeks cruise
The supreme court at Saratoga - y
Saturday. granted an absolute divorce to
Mrs. dp'.a Scihy. wife of KID NcCov
the pugilist Mccoy IL now III England.
The plaintiff is allowed alimony OF 500
per month. with costs of suit, and rcr
MISSION In. !" RESUME her maiden name OF
case is known as Daisy Dixon.
Mary Teresa Moffatt 20 years old. IL
missing from her home in Lowell Searan
has been made for her in various parts
OF the state. but without success. She
Harvard, Mass. where she wrote to her
brother. She is described as feet }
inches, dark featured and weighing IFS
pounds. She had been employed rs a
domestic.
Jim Mays. a negro charged with as
sauit'ng wnirr girl in the Same neigh |
borhood near Springfield. NY. Wcdics
day. was taken from Jail by mob early |
High school yarh The mob's work WIS |
done 50 quietly that citizens knew nnt.I-
ing Of the lynching until Mays body wus |
found swinging from the tree in the
morning.
Gen. Horace Porter. the United States
ambassador. presided Saturday AT (
Paris. AT the seneond meeting Of thu
American residents called 10 RI Sc u fund
10 erect statue in honor OK the late
President Mckinley. ii was decided 10 1
ssue an appeal tor subscriptions. which
will be posted in the United States con
iulates in the American hanks and u.
he other American houses
Fifteen hundred men and 100 teams
we're put to work. last week on the site I
,f the Worlds Fair al St Louis 10 con-
;truct the sluice that viii ran through
hat. part OF the grounds to BE- occupied
~ the main group Of buildings. 1'hig
'luice will be Is feet wide. Is rect dee !
nd a mile long. 1t will be heavily TIM
erred and planked and covered from, view
The construction of two miles " sews ~
vas also begun.
From hundreds OF answers to his adj
ertisement for a wife early in 1901 Hem
n Lawrence of Mount Freedom. n !
elected one letter. II was from Miss
linnie Betts of Maine. On New Year
az last they were married ~ Succasur-
hi. near Mount Freedom. He IL Il pres