Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-28
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought Ry the Wires from the North,
East, South and West.

Emigration from the west of Ireland
to America is assuming what is called
| alarming proportions" During the
| last fortnight hundreds of emigrants
| have passed through Limerick on their
| way to Cork. Two special trains from
Portarlington carried nearly 1900 emf
grants, mostly young persons of both
sexes, while other parties Of 200 or
more had gone on board the steamer.
| Royal Phelps Carroll, while returning
| Saturday afternoon, from a visit to g.
| Oliver Iselin, at the latter's New Ro-
chelle home, in a gasoline automobile.
ran down 11-year-old Felix Well, of
| No. IA East 120th street, at 125th street
| and Seventh avenue, fracturing the
| lads left thigh and internally injuring
| him. Mr.. Carroll was taken to the
West 125th street police station, where
he was locked up pending the arrival
of a bondsman. who qualified for him
| in the sum Of $500.
1T is estimated that SIS, 1000, 600 has
been added to the value Of cotton
grown in the United States since Sep
| TENDER last, as a result of the steady
advance in prices, covering a period
Of five months. The total value of the
crop this year is estimated at si0J ,000.-
| coo. on the basis of production Of TO-
| 000.0G0 bales. BY leaps and bounds the
| price of cotton has reached PA cents
| q pound in the Southern markets since
| last October, when estimates of the
growing crop We're first put forth. This
means sheer increase Of $10.2j a bale.
Millions Of worms that are eating lid
| The dense forests along the Wiskah
river, in the Grays Harbcr country.
state Of Washington. will force the
Weyerhacuscr Timber Co. to at once
cut l50,G90,000 feet OF its timber holding
This is the only region in the state at
fected by the ravages Of the worms
though Oregon has a similar district
Ten years ago the timber was as good
as any in the Northwest, but two
thirds fit is already damaged, most
Of itRhavins, been killed, and within
few years there will be little left worth
cutting.
Grin Ay1esbury, who. with his
brother. William Aylesbury, and James
Goulding was arrested in Somervillc
Mass, March go, has made confess
sion by which the theft of more than
100 horses and carriages in cities be-
tween New York and Boston and in
Aylesbury. in the Norfolk county Grim
inal court, turned states evidence
against his brother and Goulding.
Fourteen teams were stolen from
stands in front of Brooklyn City han.
II in New York City and four in New
ark N. ].
Twelve beet sugar manufacturing
plants, each with daily capacity of
500 tons of beets and costing in the lag- N
gTegate $5,000,000, win be built in diff
ferent parts of Wisconsin, next fall.
by Wisconsin and Michigan capitalists
who own and control the Menominee
Falls Beet and Sugar Co. r. j. Wag-
ner. president and general manager of
the Menominee Fells plant, who is at
the head of the syndicate. will build the
plants. He says that the sites for
eight Of the plants have been decided
upon, the places selected being Beaver
Dam. WATERFOWL, Kaukauna. Ripon,
OcOnto, Dorchester, Lacrosse and Ra-
cine
The S0th birthday anniversary of
Archbishop John Joseph Williams was
observed, Sunday, with an elaborate
religious program in the, Cathedral of
the Holy Cross at Boston. In the
morning, the archbishop celebrated his
daily mass at the chapel of the Blessed
Sacrament and at the cathedral at 10
Q CLOCK an eloquent sermon was
preached by Rev. NJ. j. Doody. chan
cellor Of the archdiocese. The visiting
clergy included TT. Rev. VIM H.
OConneI bishop of the Portland do
cese. Rev Louis S. Walsh of Salem,
Rev. I. Brosnahan ana Rev. FIR. Re-
gan OF Waltham. Mass was celebrated
by Rev. Henry A. Sullivan, rector Of y
the cathedral. @ sA
The rush to the Thunder Mountain
gold fields in Idaho has assumed
alarming proportions. In addition to
the tales of suffering by those who
oined the too early stampede come ac-
counts of large parties snowbound and
enduring untold hardships. James Kin
;ey volunteered to return and get aid
Tor party of Sc On the south fork OF
he salmon. He arrived at Warren
and a rescue party started
y with supplies. Kinsey said his party
had provisions enough to last about
TWO weeks when he left There are
more than 500 men snowbound at Sin
user, but food can now be packed that
ar on sleds. Among those woh have
Jumped from poverty to wealth through
elling Thunder Mountain claims ~ Lee
and Wayland and his l6-year-old son
Nash. Last summer they packed pro-
'isions to the Dewey mine, and cleared W
500 in 40 days. Wayland has since
old sl67. 900 worth OF claims, his last
!eal involving three for $4,000