Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-11-14
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Miss Louise Hoge of Evanston. III.
who has been i'll at Washington for all
most month and who has been under
treatment by Christian Science healer
died, Wednesday.
The wrestling match at Rochester, N.
Y, between James Parr, heavyweight
champion of England. and Alois Gonthier
who holds the same title in Canada, was
won by the former, Wednesday night two
falls out of three.
Two Hungarian carpenters John varro,
% years old, and Joseph Hassel q wer,
found dead in bed Wednesday, in
Brooklyn. N. Y. house. They were kill
ed by gas which was escaping from an
open jet. .t-
Minister Squiers at Havana has report
ed to the state department the quantity
of sugar exported and on hand. Sept 30.
1867. His figures show a total of 51319
bags on hand and i,Al. 597 bags exported
this year.
William Duffy was burned to death and
Martin Kane and William Haywood of
Agawam, Mass. were badly injured in
Wednesday morning. A lighted lantern
left on hot stove is said to be the cause
of the accident.
John X. Messersmith. the cotton broker.
who was convicted at Baltimore last
June, of having fraudulently obtained SIS
600 from the Merchants National Bank
was sentenced, Wednesday, by Judge
Richie in criminal court, to two years
IN the pen1lentlary.
Messrs. Edward w. and Clarence H.
Clark of Philadelphia, have subscribed
$1W,10 to found professorship In As
syriology at the University of Pennsylva-
mia. The trustees of the university have
accepted the gift and have named the
chair THE Clark Professorship of As
syriology."
The Burnside shaft. which employs 200
men and boys at Shamokin. Pa, was dls-
covered on fire, Wednesday. large
g.. Ill.
exunsuish the flames. All of the. miners
got out safely. The mine Is owned by the
Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron
Co.
Friends Of the family of Samuel L.
Clemens MARK Twain said at New York.
Wednesday, that reports of Mrs. Glenn
ems illness had been somewhat eXagger-
ated. She has been i'll for several months
but her condition. which has not been
critical at any time. has shown improve
ment recently.
When the trial of Col. Ed. Butler. in
acted on a charge of attempted bribery
Mo-, DR.. Albert Merrill members of the
st. Louis Board of Health, was put on
the stand by the state. Witness testified
that Butler had come to his house in Sep
TENDER. 1901. previous to the approval OF
the garbage act by the Board of Health.
and offered him $2i0O to secure its pas
sage.
Germany had agreed to the American
proposal to submit the question whether
the Chinese indemnity is payable in gold
OF silver to The Hague tribunal. provided
that only that feature of the protocol be
included in the arbitration. The chi
nese government has notified the foreign
ministers that textiles imported into the
interior hereafter by foreigners must pay
likin duty of 81. per cent. the same
as charged in the case OF Chinese I'M
porters.
The recent depreciation in the price OF
ell trny- ie Mt mi Tod af somewhat
to the appointment by Colonial Secretary
Chamberlain. Nov. 5. of committee TO
report on the expediency OF estapiisnins
a gold standard in the Straits settle
ments and neghboring Malay states Inc
success attending the action of the lndia
council in fixing the value OF the rupee Ia
India caused a movement In the Eastern
trading countries in favor OF currencies
based OF gold.
The San Francisco Chronicle says there
is no longer any doubt that the object
of the schooner Louisa d., about reany
to sail for the South, is to attempt to re-. re.
cover part of the treasure lost IN loc1
by the burning of the Pacific Mail steam
er Golden Gate. Off Manzanillo. on the
Mexican coast The wreck Of the eoiden
Gate caused the loss of 200 lives ana
property valued at 81, 10000. Much OF the
amount was in the form of bullion ana
was never recovered.
As the first speaker, wednesday night:
before the Unitarian Club at Boston. ana
replyinc to the question How Shall uni
tarianism Reach the People?" Rev. Or.
Edward Everett Hale said that the Iauit
was that the denomination started VIII
the kideglove. patent she habit. and with
tIptop doctors of divinity of the second
degree in whose discourses no WORD less
than three syllables long was admitte1.
He advocated that clergymep talk to the
people just as men do when .ney go on
the stump; he would have religion
preached which would appeal alike to the
scrub women and to the chief justice.