Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-02
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought by the Wires From the
North. East. South aud West.

The loss from the fire at Fukui, near
the northwest coast of the island OF
Honshiu. Japan, where 1000 houses were
destroyed, is estimated at 1000, 900 yen.
The case of Mrs. Mabel Fenton
Haines, who has been on trial at Nj.
Holly, N j.. since last Tuesday,
charged with the murder of her 2-year
old daughter, Gwendolin, will go to the
jury, Wednesday.
News has reached Johnstown, Pa,
that a man named Philip Mitchell and
his five children were burned to death.
Tuesday night, in their. home IN Pros
ser Hollow, a secluded settlement about
three miles from there. Mrs. Mitchell
was carried to neighbora house very
seriously burned
The Manchurian convention, themain
conditions of which We're recently
agreed upon by Paul LesAAr, Russia's
minister to China, and, Prince Ching.
president of the Chinese foreign Office,
permits China to maiftain whatever
force she thinks neecssafy In Manchu-
rio after the evacuati9n of the terri
tory.
In cablegram ~ the Colonial
Bureau, Berlin, 4chlechter, the
botanist, declares he hs9b discovered an
abundance of rubber ara gutta percha
trees in German New Gu1ana. BY this
discovery he wins the 100 mark prize
offered by the Colonial Society for the
first person to such trees in the Ger
man colonies. R
Argentina has decided upon the ac
quisition of two new arfnOred war YES
ment to those of Chilli, and orders for
their construction have begun. The
government has resolved always to
maintain the naval and military su-
premacy of Argentina in South Amer
lea. 1t mas also declared that it will
not increase taxation.
At an early hour, Tuesday, the small
town of Newport, in Giles county, Vir-
ginia was practically destroyed by fire.
Every store in the place was burned.
Two hotels and the best residences in
the town were levellcd to the ground.
The cause of the fire is unknown. The
loss is estimated to be over 100000 with
very little insurance. The town is five
miles from a railroad and the facilities
for fighting fire are limited.
rived at st. Johns, n. F.. Monday
night. with a cargo of 10000 seals The
sealer Iceland is storm bound at Bona
vista She Is SO heavily laden with
seals that she fears to continue her vOy-
age to st. Johns. The Virginia is be-
lievcd to be in the fog off the coast.
The other sealing vessels are slowly
hunting the seal herds. There is a flu
rious gale on the north Atlantic.
The Rome GiOrnaie D'Italia published
an interview with Count Won Bueow,
Tuesday, in which the German imperial
chancellor declares that a Franco-Ital-
ian raprochement could in no way af-
feet the triple alliance. Count Won Bue-
low said that his Venice interview with
Signor Prinetti, the Italian minister of
foreign affairs, had not changed the re-
lations between Italy and Germany be-
cause those powers would never lose the
spirit of reciprocal confidence.
The question of whether or not MEM
bers of a labor union have the right to
decline to work with non-union men
and to order al strike to have such right
respected, was determined in the af-
firmative by the court of appeals. at
Albany. N. Y, Monday, in a decision
handed down in the case of the Ma
tionaI Protective Association of Steam
Filters and Helpers and Chas McQuad
appellant, against James M. Cumming
and Patrick ]. Duff. as treasurer of the
Enterprise Association implicated with
others.