Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-23
CONDENSED DISPATCHES,

y band Of 30 BulgarianS recently cross
ca the frontier and penetrated 10 the vii
layet of kossuvo Rodmelia after a fignt
with Turkish troops. Details of the af-
fair are lacking.
The Amalgamated Association conven .
ton at Wheeling, W. Va, Tuesday reach
ed the committee stage and for several
days there will be little interest on the
floor OF the convention.
James Elisha, the negro charged with
having murdered his wife, last week, was
arraigned, Tuesday, in the municipal
court at Boston. Probable cause was
found and he was held for the grand iurv
without bail. The witnesses, two in num-
Der, Were held in $50 each.
Amer Ben Ali better known as
'Frencny, who has served nearly II
years of a life sentence in states prison
for the murder of Caroline Brown also
called "Old Shak .sIleare." in New York
City, and who was pardoned. last Wed
nesday. by Governor Odell has been re-
leased from the state hospital for insane
convictS at DannemOra.
The tomb at Philadelphia in which the
body of Bishop John n. Neumann was
placed. ~ years ago. was opened Tues
day, by Il special ecclesiastical court the
proceeding being one of the final acts pre-
liminary 20 the Qualification of the Drel-
ate. The disbursement was to identify
the remains of the bishop. The evidence
collected by the ecclesiastical court VIII
be forwarded to Rome.
The address of the bishops of the Unit
ed States to the Pope on the occasion of
his jubilee, was published, Tuesday even
ing in the OSServatore Romano the Off
cial organ Of the Vatican. The Pope is
replying in u letter in which he thanks
the bishops and praises the work they
have done and are doing in free Ameri-
ca in behalf of religion and charity, es-
pecially by means of schools and other
institutions.
Chinese officials. Monday raided
house at. Canton. and captured six men
who were known to have been sent to
Canton tor the purpose of spreading. the
rebel propa ganda and for the purchase
of arms and supplies. The prisoners car
ried orders from kwok, the rebel leader
commanding the assassination of the
Manchu officials If Canton. Five hun
dred armed braves left Canton, Monday,
for WI Chow.
supposed to be that of VIM. Miller ot
North Shields. Eng, who was quarter
master of the British steamship st. Irene,
was taken from the water at Cunard
missed from the steamship on Feb. 10 and
it is supposed that he accidentally fell
overheard. The police will communicate
through the captain of the steamship to
the quartermaster'S relatives.
In the United States circuit court of
appeals at Boston. Tuesday, Judges Colt,
Putnam and Aldrlch began to hear argu-
ments on a motion to overrule the decis-
ion of Judge Brown of the circuit court,
whereby he had found for the plaintiffs
| in the case of the National Telephone
Manufacturing Co. ana other VS.. the
American Bell Telephone Co. The hear
| ing will probably last eight of ten days
Judge Brown held that the Berliner pa
| tent, which the Bell Go. alleges the Ma
| tional Co. had infringed, was invalid. The
telephone company appealed.
A special to the Denver (Col.) Republi-
| can from Los Angeles, Cal, says: The
| first official confirmation of the plans for
| western extension of the Chicago, Rock
1 Island & Pacific Railroad was given
| Tuesday, by r. S. Cable chairman of the
| board of directors of the company. who
| passed through Los Angeles to his home
| Mr. Gable says that a westward extern
| sion from Denver will be the first under
| taking OF the company. A line through
| to the coast, he says, will not be under
taken, because present joint traffic agree
ments with the Southern Pacific are so
satisfactory that there is no need of an
| other road.
The court procedure in the case of Miss
Jane fToppan, the nurse accused of pois-
oning the Davis family at Chatham, was
| tentatively agreed upon at a long confer
| ence between Attorney General Parker
and District Attorney Holmes of Barn
stable county and Judge Fred NJ. Bixby
, of Brockton. counsel for the accused, 1T
Boston, Tuesday 1t was decided that
within short time Miss TOppan will be
taken into court al Barnstable, and evil
| dence given concerning the crimes with
which she is charged and about her moral
, and mental condition. The proceedings
will be brief and WILL it is believed, re-
suit in her being committed to an insane
asylum.