Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-09-13
NEWS NUGGETS
Brought Ey the Wires From the North
East, South and West.

a nephew OF Gen. DeWet, the BoeT
commander arrived at Berlin recently,
to be treated by Prof. Bergman for
q gunshot wound. 1t was enormously
printed at Berlin that Gen. DeWet him
self had a bullet removed from his
body.
Frank Holmes Of birmingham. start
ed from Dover, Eng. at $50 a. NJ Fri
day. in an attempt to swim the Eng
lish channel, but he abandoned the tasl:
after being in the water two hours.
| This was Holmes second trial to swim
| tho channel.
| the st. Petersburg Official Gazette
! publishes a rescript, from the Gar ac-
| ceding to the desire of Baron De Staal
| 70 retire from the Russian ambassador
| ship in London. on the ground Of inn
| paired health. and appointing him q
member Of the council of the empire.
Tho body OF a young woman, who. it
| is believed was murdered, was found
on pier 30. East river, New York, Fri
day. She had been beaten and choked
until heT face was almost black. The
| police have found no clue to her iden-
tity or any trace of her murderer. She
was about . years old.
Tho Pacific Steam Navigation Co.'S.
| line Of steamers connecting Valparaiso
with san Francisco has been discon-
tiuued. The Chronicle says that a Ca
| blegram received from Liverpool, the
headquarters OF the company, contains
| the bare announcement that on Sept.
10. the northern terminus of the line
would be Panama.
| Friday morning, a Lakeside trolley
| car bound for Syracuse. n. Y, ran in
to Il double-deck trolley car on the
! trestle over the New York Central
| freight tracks. The car was going uu
the ircline. Both We're badly smashed
| Mrs Morrow Of Baldwinsville, a pas
senger on the douDle-dec was the
only one seriously hurt.
Weiss & Nichols, wool manufactur-
ecs of New York, have purchased the
| Hrguenot mills at oxford. Mass. The
| property is said to be valued in the
ncig1bor mood Of 10000. II comprises
sig tracts Of land. two mills and a
| number of tenements for the mill
opera lives. The mills We're last oc-
cupiel by the Glen Woolen Co, but
| nave been idle for some time.
Charles Francis Sidney Colotnb has
| been arrested at Chicago on a charge
of having embezzled $5o00 from the
firm az yvooley & CO.. wholesale woolen
merchants, Chicago. Colomb's father,
| former cashier Of the Union National
| Bank of New orleans killed himself
| I'VE ears ago rather than face i'm
! prisonment fox e1nbe1zling large
amount OF money Colamb attributes
| his downfall to the race tracks He has
young wife ana child.
Rev. Joseph McQuaide, pastor Of the
| church OF the Holy Redecmer at san
Francisco. IN y lecture on the Phil
ippinc islands pronounced the so-called
.sEiarll christ brought to this country
On the transport Bufford. fraud.
-sTha real Black Christ Of the Phil
| iDpinos." he said. lis nothing more than
| i beautiful block of dark wood fashion,
ed hv a sculptor to resemble the face Of
Christ. 1t is looked upon merely as
such. and is not even specially VEN
| Grated
AT \ meeting of the New Orleans
unjo,, of the International Brotherhood
of Electrical Workers, Thursday, it
was decided to attempt to carry the
strike of the telephone linemen TO ev-
erv CITY in the South in which the
Cumberland Telephone and Telegraph
Co. operates. A session of the Inter-
national officers of the Telephone Line
mems Union has been called to meet
At Washington. Sent II. and it is ex-
peo.ed that the future policy OF the
New orleans strike wiIl then be
passed on
Passengers on the steamer Humboldt.
inst ar,,-ived it Seattle. Wash, report
that earthquake shocks occurred, Aug.