Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-01
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

| An incendiary fire, Friday. destroyed 20
business houses at Livingstone, Tex,
causing loss of S135,0O0.
The Anglo Chinese commercial treaty
will be signed at Shang Hal. Saturday,
| the Chinese minister having received the
| imperial sanction to do so.
The sixth annual convention of the
| League of American Municipalities in ses-
| sion at Grand Rapids, Mich, closed. Fri
| day. Next years convention will be held
| at Baltimore.
President Palma of Cuba. at the cabi-
net meeting at Havana, Friday, read au-
| tograph letters from King George of
Greece, Emperor Francis Joseph of Aus
| tria, and DR.. Campos Sales president of
| Brazil, recognizing the republic of Cuba.
The Union Pacific Railway has applied
TO the supreme court of the United States
| the case in which the supreme court of
Colorado decided that the Postal Tele-
graph Co. could secure right of way for
| its wires along the Union Pacific Rail-
| road by condemnation.
A special board of army officers will
| meet at army Headquarters at Omaha.
Neb., department of the Missouri Mon
| day, to determine the details of the ma
neuvreS which are to be held at Fort Ri
| ley during concentration of troops there.
The King Of Italy dined at the Babeys-
berg chateau at Berlin with Emperor
| ing. Crown Prince Frederick William
Count Won Buelow, imperial chancellor,
foreign affairs Were present.
An order has been issued by the navy
| department suspending until Sept. the
routine work at the Naval War College
| at Newport, caused by the necessary alb
sence Of many of the faculty of the COL
| lege in attendance upon the army and
navy maneuvres.
mortgage for s10.OO0.090, made by the
| Bethlehem Steel Co. of Pennsylvania, was
| filed. Friday, with the county register of
i- fry- ne
| the Continental Trust Co. Of New York.
and Is TO secure an issue Of S10,000000 OF
2O-year per cent. gold bonds.
James Doel, England's Oldest actor.
died suddenly. Friday, at his residence
| in Plymouth. He was born in 1904. His
| first appearance on the stage was in
| 1920 and his last appearance took place
| 10 years ago at benefit performance.
While suffering from temporary in
| sanity, Thursday, Emma Barkardt, a
| spinster 40 years of age. attempted to
| kill her mother and her sister, Dorothy,
| and then committed suicide at their
home near Covington, Ky.
Theo Roosevelt. Jr., arrived at Chica-
go, Friday. with II. r. Mccullough, third
vice president of the Chicago & North
western. The party went at once to Mr..
| McCullough's home at Lake Forest,
where they will spend Saturday; They
| expect to leave, Sunday, for hunting
| trip in South Dakota and the Black Hills.
| Sir Edmund Barton. prime minister of
| Australia, and Sir John Forest, minister
of defences of that federation. arrived at
Washington Friday ~, night; with party
Sunday night. The party will proceed
to Canada via Niagara Falls and will sail
from Vancouver, Sept. 10, for Australia.
| The following are among the newly APP
pointed aides and their assignments made
by Commander Ell Torrance of the g. A.
| r.: Massachusetts, John Farley, Post
/ No. 2, South Boston; Vermont, H. w.
Hicks, Post No. 43, Perkinsville. Presi-
dent Roosevelt has accepted an invitation
| to review the parade at Washington dur
ing the encampment in october.
| The United States court of appeals, in
an opinion by Judge Sanborn, has denied
/ the application for writs of habeas cor
pus or other relief in the cases of Thorn
as d. Nevill and Sam c. Pedin, judges OF
/ the county court of st. Clair county, Mo-,
and sustained the right OF federal judge
to imprison judges of county courts for
contempt in refusing to carry out the
mandates of a Judgment issued by him.
H. S. Norman. the American who mys-
teriously disappeared from Paris, is be-
/ lieved to be III. S. Cavanaugh. lawyer
| of Easton, Pa, who left there, Aug. 6,
and was not again heard from by his
friends until Monday last. Cavanaugh is
now at the home of Rev. Father Stein
of Paterson, N. j. He says ne was IN
Paris but remained there only three
hours.
Mrs. c.. M. Marsh of Holland, VT, was
killed by falling from a second-story win
dow of the Kendall Hotel at st. Paul,
| Mimi, Friday. How the accident oc-
Cured is not known. Mrs. Marsh, who
was Y years old, had been there for some
weeks and was on her way home from
\ Portland, Ore. 1t is conjectured that she
went to the window to get fresh air and
| fell. Both legs were broken and her
spine was injured.
Morphine tablets were used by DR.. Ed
win K. Parker to end his life at Little
/ ton, N. H.. Friday, a servant in the house
| finding the body on a lounge. The pnysi-
clan, who was of the Homeopathic scnool,
was well known in that section. Hhis act
| is believed to have been due to mental
iderangement brought out through brood
ling over family affairs. as his wife had
| left him and gone to Boston to study FOR
/ the stage.
| Mrs. Jack Frost. wife Of a prominent
business man and politician of Black
we'll Okla. was arrested, Friday night,
charged with poisoning Mrs. Alice Combs
/ and her eldest son Ernest and with the
intent to kill the entire family of seven
lpersons. The crime was committed. Tues
day, in the absence of the Combs family.
| The house was entered and liberal
quantity of arsenic was sprinkled in the
| coffee pot Mrs. Combs and her son are
| in critical condition.
| The Niagara international tennis tour
] a r,,ant continued at Niagara on the