Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-01-23
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North, East, South and West.


co City has passed a resolution declaring
ii to be Impossible to accede to the re
, quest Of New Orleans that the city be the
| seat OF the interna tional bureau OF Amer
lean republics.
Joseph f. ArmItage. theatrical trans
fer. of Lynn. Mass. refused to accept the
Team Drivers Union schedule, Thursday
and his driver went on strike. Mr.. Arm
itage refused to arbitrate and took to the
wagon himself.
The local Louisville. Col, union of the
United Mine Workers of America has
passed resolution demanding the dis
| charge by Feb. !, 1902 of all non union
miners and laborers employed in the coal
mines of northern Colorado. About 40 per
cent. of the employers of the mines in
he district are non-union men.
The intervention of NJ. Paul Deschane
president of the French Chamber of Dep
uties. has averted the projected duel be
tween NJ. D'Estournelles de C0nstan;
iIe), growing out OF Tuesdays incident il
the House, both of the parties to the dis
Eute having repu1iated any intention t.
insult the other
The schooner Cactus of Bath. Me-. from
Philadelphia Nov. 80 for Key West, Fla
with a cargo of coal. arrived there, Wed
| nesday, in tow of the tug Childs the
Cactus, as before reported, was stranded
early last December on the Coffin Patch
es. She was subsequently, foated anG
good condition. Part Of her cargo was
saved.
The first freight to arrive in Dawson
over the ice from White Horse this year
comprises heavy sleighload drawn by
four horses for the United States ARM
at Font Egbert and Eagle. 1t is material
for the Valdes-Eagle mail route. There
IS to be temporary wire between Eagle
and Valdes completed by the last of Feb.
iuary and to finish the permanent line
next August.
The stockholders of the Detroit United
Railway at Detroit, Mich, have author
lied the issue OF a new blanket mortgage
Tor $23OOU,U0 secured by bonds in thai
sum; The bond issue is to take the plac.
OF the proposed issue of So, 000, 600 which
the Everett-Moo people tried to float
last fall and their failure to sell which
securities brought on their financial eni-
barrasSment.
Prince Henry will take with him to tie
United States a bronze cannon as q pres
ent from the Kaiser to the Central Union
of &c rman-American vete rams who fought
ir the wars of 1866 and 1870. cables the
Berlin correspondent of the New York
the French. 1t is destined for Philadel-
phia. where the Prince will probably
make speech in presenting it to the
veterans
The relatives of Michael J. Connolly of
Hyde Park Mass, who are accused OF
having Kidnapped the man when he was
dying at his horne recently and holding
Elm against his will at a house in Med
ford. in default of bail We're taken to the
Norfolk county house of correction
THURSDAY. after a hearing in the district
court. The defendants are Mark ConnOl-
ly. brother of Michael. Mary Frye. a sis
ter. and Anthony Frye. her husband and
Darby Ready, a nephew
A detachment of Hussars had to be
called upon at Lnmberg. Galicia. Austria
Tuesday night. to dsperse a Polish dem
onstration before the Russian consulate
The outbreak was started by a number of
students who assembled on the cemetery
tic place wreaths on the graves of the
Polish victims of the rising in 1868. The.
crowd was quickly augmented and a mob
of people marched through the streets
singing national songs. They broke down
sian consulate and advanced on the
building, when they were dispersed by a
charge of the cay airy.
Early Wednesday evening" an ARRAY oc-
Cured at Belleville. Texas. which result
ed in three mems death, the fatal wound
| ing of one and the slight wounding of
three others. Walter Pennington under
indictment for the murder of j. Odom. i
brother of Milan OdOm and half broth
er of Raymond " hite, was being tried in
the district court. The hostile parties met
at the railroad station where many per-
| sons were gathered. The first person
wounded was Walter Pennington. He
opened fire ami the shooting became gen
| eral. The two Dipperts had no chance to
get under cover Henry dropped deal
where he stood Antone's wound it is
believed with not prove dangerous. Have
vath was shot while trying to get out Of
range. White and Odom were instantly
killed. Walter Pennington lies in a dy-
| ing condition. His father. E,lihu Penning-
| ton, was struck only once