Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-03-07
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Goodman of Boston, and Gus Bezenah
of Cincinnati went six vicious rounds 10
draw.
4 An engagement of federal troops and
ten warAine Mayas. commanded by CHEZ
Leon, is reported near Maridia. Yucatan
in which the rebels lost so killed and $50
/ wounded. The encounter took place ON
the road to Guatemala near Santa Cruz
and Peten.
BY order Of the county court at Rut-
! land. VT, Alexander key of Wells. was,
Thursday, committed to the WATERFOWL
| hospital for the insane. key murdered
/ his wife about a week ago Experts who
! hrve examined the man decided that lie
was irresponsible for his act.
| Sixteen of the crew of the Gloucester
| fishing schooner Reliance, which was
| wrecked on the Nova Scotia coast, last
| Sunday, nine miles east of Lockport. ar
| err Boston from Yarmouth. The men
| were forwarded by the United States con-
| sui
The Cleveland. o.. Plain Dealer says:
| Terms have been agreed upon for the
| consolidation of the Cleveland Electric
| Railway Co. and Cleveland City Railway
| Co., the two roads to be under the presi-
dency of Senator NJ II. Hanna. The con-
| solidated company will include every
street car line in the city
The 18th round Of the international
| chess masters tournament, now in pro-
| gress at Monte Carlo. was played. Thurs
| day, according TO rOunu OF the Berger
| schedule. An adjournment was made at
| | Z. NJ, when Wolf had beaten Marshall,
Scheve had defeated Mortimer, and Pills
| bury and Marco had drawn.
| Fire has broken out in the cedar brakes
| near Marble Falls, Texas, and great
| tracts of valuable timber are being con-
sumed. Everything is as dry finder
| and there seems to be no way of check
ing the fire until it burns itself out. Few
people live in the path of the fire and
4 they have had ample warning.
! President Vreeland of the Metropolitan
Street Railway Co. of New York Thurs
| day night, caused to be posted in the
/ buildings of the system in Manhattan 4
| notice TO all employees, announcing the
/ establishment of a pension system for
i the superannuated employees Of the COM
| pany, to take effect July !. or before.
| Seven persons were almost suffocated
| by smoke, Thursday, in fire which gut
| ted a dwelling at the junction of Eddy
/ and Dyer streets at Providence. The
| damage was slight, but only be heroic
work did the tiremen succeed in bringing
| the seven occupants out of the building.
1 all unconscious as result of the smoke.
| All will recover.
1 Word was received at Buffalo, ~ Y,
/ Thursday, that the two sons of John q.
| Miburn, the well-known lawyer and pres
| ident of the Pan American Exposition,
/ had been selected to row i'm the oxford
/ boat in the Varsity race between OXFORD
and Cambridge, March %. George Mil
| burn Win row No. D ana DeVerauX Mil
| burn will row No. 2.
| General Manager Johnson of the street
| railway company ut Norfolk, Va, ad
| dressed a letter, Wednesday night, to the
1 committee of the Central Labor Union,
stating that he would meet that body
4 and the committee of the strikers and
| Offering to take back the strikers If they
1 would work with the non-union men. The
| strikers refused to accept the condition.
| mortgage for So, 900 900 given by the
1 DAFT n. pail a1y fed
1 for record, Thursday, in the office of the
i county clerk at Clarksburg. w. Va. 1t
was in favor of the Union Trust Co. of
| New York. The purpose of the mortgage
! is to liquidate all outstanding mortgages
| previously given on all lines operated by
| the Baltimore & Ohio in Pennsylvania,
Ohio and West Virginia.
/ James Coleman, employed in one of the
| mills of the American Brass Co. at An
SONIA CT, met a horrible DEATH Thurs
day. by falling into a vat of boiling wa
| ter He was quickly pulled out but his
| injuries were so severe that he fell in a
| swoon and remained unconscious until his
/ death. His father was witness Of the
| accident Coleman had just been married
| and had been an employee of the mill
but a week.
The Mormon missionary propaganda at
/ Copenhagen has become so active that
they are distributing literature even with
| in the Danish churches, urging young
| girls to attend Mormon meetings. Sta
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| ish emigrants to the United States be-
| come Mormon. The clergy, in connec-
| ton with the government, are continu-
| ing their plans to put an end TO the
| proselytzng.
Benz. F. Stevens, the photographer.
| died. Wednesday, at his residence, the
| Sheaves, Surbiton. Surrey, Eng. after an
| illness which had lasted several years.
Mr. Stevens was born at Barnet, VT, in
| 1893. and first came to London in 1860.
| For many years Mr.. Stevens had been
| prominently known and respected
throughout Europe as United states dis
| patch agent in London and purchasing
agent for American libraries.
| Charles F. Smith, with a number of
| aliases who gives his name as Brockton,
| was arrested in pawn shop at Boston,
Thursday. while trying to dispose OF some
| property alleged to have been stolen. He
| was identified by Thomas Barry of Bos-
| ton. as a man wanted there on Is differ
ent counts of larceny by false pretences.
| If convicted on any of these counts II is
said he will be subject TO the habitual
| criminal act, which means a 25-years SEN
| tence.
A correspondent of the London Daily
j News, wiring from Copenhagen, says au-
| thentic reports have reached there from
| St Petersburg saying that the reyolu-
| uionary movement is spreading in all di-
| rections and assuming serious proper
! tions. The unrest has reached many
! parts of Siberia. The governor OF Tomsk
| has issued an order prohibiting meetings
| Of citizens in the towns. and villages
| throughout the province Troubles are
| reported at many places in Siberia
After spending "a hours in the Great
/ Northern bath mouse at Chicago, j. X
| Davidson. western manager for the Phil
| adelphia Watch and Case Co. and promi-
nent in Chicago jewelry trade circles. was
| found unconscious by attendants and
! soon afterward died. post mortem ex-
animation revealed a serious fracture Of
the skull Whether he fell on the marble
floor or was struck has not yet been de-
| termined by the police, though David
sons friends do not suspect that he was
the victim Of foul play.
! The German Society OF German Me-
chanical Engineers Influenced by the re-
/ cent experiments In electrical rapid tram
| sit in Berlin, has offered first. second
and third prizes Of 500, 700 and 200 marks
! respectively, for the best design for
steam locomotive with single car car
rving 100 passengers and their baggage,
| 10 run IS miles an. hour on straight and
| level track The intention Is TO develop
1 a system Of service between the large
! German cities at rate of speed much
above the one at present used.
The British Government Is about to
appoint committee to arrange for re-
planting the woodlands in Scotland.