Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-09
NEWS NUGGETS.
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South and West.

The post office department has au-
thorized establishment of the pneu-
matte tube service previously in opera
ton in New York and Brooklyn.
A general order was issued. Monday,
from the headquarters of the Union
Veterans Union calling the 18th naval
encampment in Washington, Oct. 3, 10
and II next.
The steamer Furnessia which arrived
at New York, Monday. from Glasgow.
reports huge wave boarded her and
injured Robert Chambers, seaman, so
severely that he died, Sept. 6, and was
buried at sea.
Walter Commins of Guilford, an en-
ploye of the Laconia Car Co. in the
freight department, at Laconia, N. r.,
was caught in the shafting while adj
iusting a belt to a pulley, Monday, and
was instantly killed. He was "a years
of age.
The American five-masted schooner
Nathaniel Palmer arrived at New
York. Monday, with a cargo of 24o0
tons of coke. 1t is stated that one local
company has contracted for $4,000 tons
of coke from Sydney, c. B., to be de-
livered at New York.
A special from Santiago, Tex, says:
TT is reported that .at Mapimi, Mex.
by the breaking forth of arsenic
springs in the mountains near the city.
the reservoirs have been impregnated
with arsenic and 80 people are dead
with over a hundred seriously ill.
The Lancaster, Eng, coal trade is
rapidly improving in consequence OF
purchases for the United States. 1t is
said that orders aggregating hundreds
of thousands of tons have been placed
in south Lancashire colliery for ship
ment to various ports of the United
States.
| Bitten by dog in Ireland over eo
years ago, Michael Readon, River
street. Brockton, never felt any Ill Ell
fects from the wound until last Week.
Now the scar about his left ankle mas
swollen badly, is discolored, ana the
man, who is about 10 years of age, IS
scarcely able to hobble.
| Charles w. Zimmerman, who shot
and killed his wife at the West Emu.
Boston, Sunday. will not be arralgned
| in the municipal court until Monday.
| The medical examiner has not yet
| reached the autopsy on the body OF
Mrs. Zimmerman and the police there
fore were not prepared to take the
murderer into court this morning.
| The innovation of a professional
whistler. Sunday night, attracted TO
the yosper service of the South Con-
| eregational church at Chicago a crowd
that filled every seat and overflowed
| into the yestibule. Carriages stopped
on the boulevard and passers waited
outside the doors. Three numbers were
rendered, Rubensteins Voices From
the Wood" "Passens The Loving
1 Voice Of Jesus and THE Holy City.
Two Italian strikers, Frank Portray
and Sistino Van Costello of Wilkes
barre. Pa. left home, Monday, to go on
a hunting trip AS they approached
the Harry f. Colliery they We're held
up by the pickets. who mistook them
for armed non-union men going 70
work. The pickets at once attacked
| the Italians. Van Costello was shot IN
| the leg and his brains beaten out with
stones and clubs His companion was
knocked down, his gun was taken from
him and his assailants beat him Sc
that his life is despaired OF. Sheriff
Jacobs and a large number of deputies
| went to the scene. The friends OF the
Italians have sworn vengeance ana
threaten to kill the men who commit
ted the assault.