Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-08-04
ger of the Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co.


most instantly killed at his place OF
business. Saturday. by negro, name
unknown, also employed by the COM
pany. The negro claims that Cotton
struck him, knocked him to the hoor
and fell on the knife he had drawn.
The negro is in the county jail
A 2ca-miIe nonstop endurance con-
test over the go-Libertyville-
Waukeegan auto course was run. sat
| urday, under the auspices OF the Chlca-
go Automobile Club, and resulted sat
| isfactoriy. OF 29 starters ID compiet-
ed the distance within hours and 10
minutes of the starting time. FRANK
" Nudd, who was first to start IN the
run. finished in hours and 10 minutes.
| Prof Waldeyer. at the last sitting of
| the Prussian Academy of Science, sub
mitted measurements OF the Skull oi
the philosopher Leibnitz, which was
discovered recently in repairing a
church at Hanover The cranial cavity
measures 1923 cubic centimetres, indi-
| eating brain weighing 1857 grammes,
which is unusually small. The contour
| of the skull shows that Leibnitz was OF
| Slavic origin.
Orange. n. J., celebrated the 101st an
niversary of her birth, Sunday. Miss
| FiIlyer is the daughter of the late Rev.
| DR. Hi!lyer. Her father was pastor of
the First Presbyterian church, of
Orange. of which she has been MEM
| Der for 10 years. The aged woman re-
tains all her faculties, but owing to an
accident few years ago is compelled
| to use crutches.
| The navy department, Saturday, re-
ceived word that the repairs to the
battleship Oregon, which are being
made at Puget sound, will be complet-
ed early next month. After this fam
Gus battleship ran aground in the China
seas a year ago she was patched up
and brought home, and since that time
has been undergoing repairs and quite
extensive alterations. The repairs
have cost about 100000.
Bobby Walthour of Atlanta, Ca,
continued in his winning streak, Sat
urday, in the 20-mile motor paced race
at Manhattan Beach by riding the dis
tance in the record time of 2S minutes
IL 3-5 seconds. Riding the first mile in
one minute. rs seconds, and lowering
the best previous track record, his own,
of minute. 90 1-5 seconds, he clipped
seconds off each succeeding mile,
eventually eclipsing his work of July
26 by 10 40 seconds.
Ambassador Porter has cabled the
state department that Prince Chen, the
| Chinese envoy to the coronation, with
his suite, sailed, Saturday, from Cher
hourg on the st. Paul for New York.
H. h.
Minister WI, who will escort him to
| Oyster Bay, where he will be given IL
| dinner by President Roosevelt. spec
ial car furnished by the state depart
ment will take him to Washington,
| where he will be entertained by the
Chinese legation.
Saturdays statement of the treasury
balances in the general fund, exclusive
of the $50, 900 gold reserve in the
division of redemption, shows: Avail
able cash balance, $205012, ,559; gold,
| s99 9S2, 2S4; silvef, $26, 751 ,921; United
States notes, $9144,3S7; treasury notes
of 1890, s132,15 national bank notes,
81, ,6S3, 225. Total receipts: This day,
| 1851 ,29S; this month, SABA 113; this
year, $53,619,S04 Total expenditures:
This day. S1,62O,OOO; this month, $4,600,-
600; this year, SCI, ,413,567. Deposits in
national banks, $126, 2.005.
]. C. Bozeman, who claims to be the
original of the famous cartoon of Uncle
SAM is under arrest at Guthrie, Okla,
for forgery He is 75 years old. and,
when costumed as Uncle Sam, the re-
Semblance is exact. He dresses thus
frequently and always creates a sensa
ion. ,Nft hi 1or NO 70
claims TO have dressed thus and given
Harper Bros Publishing Company the
idea for the Uncle Sam cartoon which
thev are credited with originating. He
is charged with forgery of school war;
rants to the amount of $500.
Eros. one of the small planets or as
teroids of the solar system, was re-
discovered at 3.15 A. NJ. Saturday, by
Prof. G.. j. Lying, who was operating
the telescope in Chamberlain Observa
tory at University Park, Denver, Col.
Eros was first discovered from an i'm
preston on a Photographic plate, eX-
posed by Witt at Berlin, 1899. In Oc
tober. 1900, the planet came close
enough to the earth so that it could be
observed optically and was visible for
observation until June of last year,
when it again became invisible.
The state of New Jersey, Tuesday,
will file claim with the United States
court of claims at Trenton, n. J.,
against the federal government for ST.
III 900 This represents interest claim
ed to be due on account of SO, 900 war
bonds that were issued by the state on
the Civil War account. The state was
reimbursed by the national government
so far as the principal was concerned
but never as to the interest. 1t is not
known how much of the claim the fed
eral government will allow. The state
of Pennsylvania some time ago receiv-
ed large amount from the United
States on a similar claim.
According to the diagnosis by mem
bers of the Providence Board of Health
and physicians allied with the Rhode
Island Hospital, it develops that a pa
tient. whose name has not been given
out, is at large somewhere in Provi-
dence suffering with leprosy. The an
nouncement caused no little excitement
when it became generally known that
the patient suffering from the dreaded
disease had been allowed to take his
departure from the institution, and
that I'D to a late hour Saturday he had