Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-01-15
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

1t is announced at Houston. Texas, by
Passenger Traffic Manager Morse that
the Southern Pacific is preparing to send
over the North and East from 600 to 100
immigrant agents whose business will ne
to induce homeSeekers to go to Louisiana
and Texas. The road is to guard the
homeseekers against land spectators.
4. For the first time in more than 80 years
Chicagos night schools are closed in the
usual term period. 1t is a serious ques-
ton also if the day schools can be kept
open during the regular 10 months, owing
to the low condition of the citys fl
nances. The average attendance at the
night schools has been All and 200 teach
ers have been employed in the 20 schools
planned to be open. The cost would have
approXimated $4,000.
At 10 P. NJ. Tuesday, Mayor Bryan of
Roanoke, Va, requested Lieut.. Hanson,
commanding the Roanoke Blues military
company, to hold his men in readiness to
protect Joe Higginbotham, who is locked
up in the Roanoke Jail on the charge OF
having assaulted Mrs. Ralph Weber and
then cutting her throat at Lynchburg.
Saturday. Rumors were current that an
attempt would be made, Tuesday, to
lynch Higginbotham The Roanoke
Blues were assembled at their armory.
The opposition to the playing of Uncle
Toms Cabin which was begun by the
Lexington, Ky. Chapter of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy, who rc-
quested the manager of the Lexington
Opera house not to allow the dramatiza-
ton of Mrs. Stoves book to be present
ed there, has been continued by the Al
bert Sidney Johnston Chapter of Louis
vile. Today, that organization began a
movement to petition the Kentucky Leg
islature to prohibit the presentation of
the play in Kentucky. A committee was
appointed to draw up the petition and to
draft resolutions indorsing the Lexing
ton chapters action.
At the opening of court at New York,
Justice Truax announced that the jury.
in the divorce case Of Francis j. Cakes
against his wife had disagreed, although
locked up until 1870 Friday night. Mrs.
Cakes, in sealskin cloak and picture
hat looked disappointed Neither Mr..
Cakes nor Mario Del Sol. the handsome
Cuban opera singer, named by him as the
Hummel, counsel for Mrs. Cakes, imme
diately moved for new trial. Monday
next The motion was granted. Mrs.
Oakes, it will be remembered, is the
daughter of a Maine farmer. A palatial
summer home was built of Mr.. Cakes
near Sullivan, Me-, soon after his mar
r.age.
William E. Ennis, Brooklyn police
man, shot and killed his wife and fatally
wounded her mother, Mrs. German at
Mrs. Germans home. early Tuesday. En-
mis- was arrested several hours later. The
policeman had separated from his wife
and had refused to support her. She had
him arrested and a police magistrate is
sued an order about month ago, that
he pay her SO week. He went to the
house and when admittance was refused
him he drew a revolver and, putting his
shoulder to the door. burst it in. He ran
up stairs to his wife's bedroom and fred
one shot at her. She fell with bullet
in her heart. Her mother, who had heard
the uproar ran to Mrs Ennis room. The
policeman fired one shot at her. She fell
to the floor mortally wounded. Ennis
then left the house declaring that he
would kill himself.